Four-time Iditarod champion Susan Butcher, 51, has died of cancer.
She battled leukemia for a year and a half.
Her website is here.
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There are sadder tales in cycling than what happened to Floyd Landis.
At least he's still alive to turn his life around, assuming the charges are true:
Marco Pantani, who won the race in 1998, died in a hotel in the Italian coastal town of Rimini in 2004. He had overdosed on cocaine in a room that contained a large stash of drugs and crazed notes that suggested suicide.
Pantani, a wildly colorful figure who once wore a blond wig during a race, had been implicated in doping more than once after his 1998 Tour win. He was under investigation for much of the last four years of his life, and organizers booted him from the 1999 Giro d'Italia because of a failed blood test. The notes in his hotel room reportedly railed against the officials who had investigated him.
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Pantani's name would be listed alongside other Tour de France champions who had killed themselves. ... Poor Rene Pottier, who won in 1906 and hanged himself from his bike hook in his garage a year later. The handsome Luis Ocana, who won in 1973 and shot himself in 1994. Elegant Hugo Koblet, who won in 1951 and intentionally drove his car into a pear tree in 1961. Not to mention sad-eyed Thierry Claveyrolt, who won the king-of-the-mountains competition in 1990 (but not the Tour itself) and shot himself in 1999.
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Louann Brizendine (doesn't the last name sound like a drug) continues to peddle her bullshit theory that men's and women's brains are so different, they explain all the differences in the world between them.
She has a book to peddle and money to make, after all.
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Today marks the 40th anniversary of a hydroplane racing tragedy.
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Just how does heat kill a person? This is an interesting article, by the way.
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Another 40th anniversary can be noted on this blog.
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Hot August Nights ends today:
Osmond and Bank, longtime friends, posed for photos with fans at $5 apiece and donated the proceeds to U.S. troops in Iraq.
The two attend about a dozen signing shows a year and have been coming to Hot August Nights for a half-dozen.
"This is the one we enjoy the most," said Bank, who played Clarence "Lumpy" Rutherford on "Leave It to Beaver."
"We can be ourselves and sit and talk to people. There's no pressure to buy anything."
Osmond, who played Eddie Haskell on "Leave It To Beaver," bought a 1965 Buick Electra Coupe during last year's Hot August Nights. He brings his own classic cars to the show when he can.
"I enjoy it here," he said. "These are great cars."
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No doubt Nancy Grace will be hot on the trail of this case of a woman facing murder charges after she allegedly killed her husband by dousing him with hot cooking oil.
Earlier story is here:
Police believe Edna May Sanders turned on the stove Friday in her Diamondhead home and heated about two quarts of household cooking oil, waited until the grease reached a simmer and her husband was in a sound sleep and then poured it on him, covering his head, face, chest and arms.
"When we got there he was in bad shape; his entire hand, the skin came off, and it looked like a glove," Fayard said.
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