Too bad women in this country don't have the same protests, especially in states like California.
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Obituary: Basketball great Elgin Baylor, 86, has died. He died of natural causes surrounding by his family.
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Baylor was born in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 16, 1934. Named after his father's favorite watch, an "Elgin'' timepiece, Baylor became infatuated with his sport even before he could afford a basketball, instead learning to shoot with a tennis ball.
Baylor played at Seattle University from 1956 to 1958, averaging 31.3 points a game and leading the team to its only Final Four appearance in 1958, when the team lost to coach Adolph Rupp's Kentucky Wildcats in the title game. Baylor was named Most Outstanding Player.
After the season, the Minneapolis Lakers, who were near bankruptcy after a steep fall from their first championship era, picked Baylor first in the 1958 NBA draft. Baylor immediately saved the Lakers with his scoring and style.
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Another obit: Actor George Segal, 87, whose long career included an Oscar nomination, has died.
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His wife Sonia announced his death, saying, “The family is devastated to announce that this morning George Segal passed away due to complications from bypass surgery.”
Segal’s longtime manager Abe Hoch said, “I am saddened by the fact that my close friend and client of many years has passed away. I will miss his warmth, humor, camaraderie and friendship. He was a wonderful human.”
Some of the top directors of the 1960s and ’70s, including Robert Altman, Mike Nichols, Paul Mazursky and Sidney Lumet cast Segal for his gently humorous everyman quality, and he often played an unlucky-in-love professional or a writer who gets in over his head.
He was also a musician of note.
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