Gene Upshaw RIP

A friend at a wire service tells me it's trying to confirm the death of NFLPA head Gene Upshaw.

Anyone else hear anything?

Mods, if this proves to be wrong, please strike.

 

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Birmingham station has a story up. Pancreatic cancer? Had no idea he was sick.

http://www.960werc.com/cc-common/news/sections/sportsarticle.html?feed=104670&article=4127682

 

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didn't know either ... too bad.

 

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Apparently, no one did. This story from SIX HOURS AGO said he was unavailable for comment.

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/football/nfl/2008-08-19-rookie-cap_N.htm

If true, RIP. Not a fan at all of his NFLPA stewardship (as noted a day or two ago), but what an awful way to go. I saw my wife's aunt go from fine at Thanksgiving to dead by Easter a few years ago from from pancreatic cancer. Sounds like Gene might have gone even quicker.

 

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Wikipedia has it up, but not cited. Which means nothing other than someone else read the Birmingham story, but it's amazingly fast for 2 in the morning.

 

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saw it in my great grandmother. very painful, so pretty much have to be morphined up. and very, very fast. fastest cancer, as I understand. so if it is caught late, not much time for goodbyes, unfortunately.

 

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Nothing on ESPN or Yahoo, or CNN...

 

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Nothing on the AP wire either.

 

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I've said it before: I don't wish cancer on ANYBODY. Hope this isn't true or, if it is, hope he's out of pain quickly.

 

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seems to be showing up now on a search ... mostly message boards, one of them saying fox sports radio is reporting it ... so would guess is it's legit.

 

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The question is, though, is it all based off of that one report BYH posted.

I mean, I'd guess it's legit too, but everyone jumped the gun with the congresswoman yesterday.

 

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I thought about that too...didn't want to do that at any point, especially tonight/today. But this friend's not some whacko who found a link on a message board, either.