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Sam Zell dies at 81

I’m pretty sure I’ve said mean things about this man over his years as a NASCAR driver, but this comes completely out of left field.

Some deaths leave a hole. This one leaves a crater. Family says country singer Tom T. Hall, who composed “Harper Valley P.T.A.,” has died at 85 – KTSM 9 News One of the greatest songwriters of all time. Pour one out and raise it to old dogs, children and watermelon wine. Probably should be...

Forty-eight. Holy ship. Vaughn McClure, a member of ESPN's NFL coverage team since 2013, died this week at his home near Atlanta. He was 48. McClure joined ESPN to cover the NFL, and he settled in on the Atlanta Falconsbeat as part of NFL Nation. He covered the team during its run to Super...

Today already sucks, and it ain’t even noon yet. Got a lot of the credit for the foundation of reggae, yet probably still didn’t get enough of the credit compared to Marley. Toots Hibbert, one of the fathers of reggae music, whose vocals imbued the genre’s sound with an exhortatory power drawn...