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Former Santa Clara University President Dies
SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) _ Paul Leo Locatelli, the chancellor and former president of Santa Clara University, has died at age 71. University officials say Locatelli was surrounded by family and friends...
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Yankees' Owner Steinbrenner Dies
NEW YORK (AP) _ George Steinbrenner, who rebuilt the New York Yankees into a sports empire with a mix of bluster and big bucks that polarized fans all across America, died Tuesday. He had just...
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Veteran Character Actor Harold Gould Dies At 86
LOS ANGELES (CBS 5 / AP) – Veteran character actor Harold Gould, who played Valerie Harper’s father on television’s “Rhoda” and the con man Kid Twist in the 1973 movie “The Sting,” has died. He was 86....
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1950s Pop Singer Eddie Fisher Dies
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Eddie Fisher, whose huge fame as a pop singer was overshadowed by scandals ending his marriages to Debbie Reynolds and Elizabeth Taylor, has died. He was 85. His daughter, Tricia...
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Raiders Hall Of Fame QB George Blanda Dies At 83
OAKLAND (AP) — George Blanda, who played longer than anyone in pro football history and racked up the most points in a career that spanned four decades, mostly with the Chicago Bears and Oakland...
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‘Titanic’ Co-Star Gloria Stuart Dies At 100
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Gloria Stuart, the 1930s Hollywood beauty who gave up acting for 30 years and later became the oldest Academy Award acting nominee as the spunky survivor in “Titanic,” has died. She...
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Arthur Penn, Director Of ‘Bonnie And Clyde,’ Dies
NEW YORK (AP) — “Bonnie and Clyde” wasn’t a movie that director Arthur Penn wanted to make, but when he finally agreed to, he made sure that the violence provoked by the lawbreaking couple from the...
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Actor Tony Curtis Dies
LAS VEGAS (AP) — From dressing in drag to posing nude for his 80th birthday, Tony Curtis truly was a defiant one. He overcame early typecasting as a lightweight pretty boy to become a serious actor in...
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‘A-Team,’‘Rockford Files’ Producer Stephen J. Cannell Dies
PASADENA (AP) — Stephen J. Cannell, the voracious writer-producer of dozens of series that included TV favorites “The Rockford Files,” “The A-Team” and “The Commish,” has died at age 69. Cannell passed...
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Creator Of TV Cartoon Rocky And Bullwinkle Dies In Carmel
CARMEL (AP) — Pioneering TV cartoon artist Alexander Anderson Jr. – who created Rocky the flying squirrel, Bullwinkle the moose and Dudley Do-Right the Canadian mountie – has died at age 90. Anderson’s...
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Former Athletics Manager Chuck Tanner Dies At 82
NEW CASTLE, Pennsylvania (AP) — Chuck Tanner, the relentlessly upbeat manager who led the “We Are Family” Pittsburgh Pirates in 1979 to one of the greatest comebacks in World Series history, died...
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Former Stanford Baseball Assistant Alhouse Dies
STANFORD (AP) ― Bill Alhouse, a longtime assistant baseball coach at Stanford and a member of the college baseball coaches’ Hall of Fame, has died. He was 85. Stanford said Wednesday that Alhouse died...
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Actress Elizabeth Taylor Dies At 79
Actress Elizabeth Taylor has died at the age of 79. She had recently been hospitalized in Los Angeles, where she was being treated for symptoms of congestive heart failure.
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Former California Treasurer Matt Fong Dies
SACRAMENTO (CBS / AP) — Former California state treasurer Matt Fong, a Republican who lost a challenge to Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer, died Wednesday after a four-year battle with cancer. He was 57....
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Analysis: Al Davis Helped Make The NFL Great
By Mike Freeman, CBS Sports NFL Insider OAKLAND (CBS Sports) — The first time I met Al Davis was the early 1990s. I had just started covering the NFL and asked for an interview. He had refused for...
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With Davis Gone, What’s Next For Raiders?
By Clark Judge, CBS Sports OAKLAND (CBS Sports) — Now the question: Who succeeds Al Davis? That’s been a lingering for years, or at least while Davis’ health has declined. The obvious successor is his...
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NFL Loses Good Football Man With Davis’ Death
By Pete Prisco, CBS Sports OAKLAND (CBS Sports) — I was getting on a plane when I saw the news: Oakland Raiders owner Al Davis was dead. I didn’t know Davis very well, only dealing with him...
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Reaction From Around NFL To Al Davis’ Death
OAKLAND (CBS Sports) — Reaction from around the NFL to Saturday’s death of Oakland Raiders owner Al Davis at the age of 82: Seahawks coach Pete Carroll offered the following condolences via Twitter...
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NFL Commisioner Calls Raiders’ Davis ‘True Legend’
OAKLAND (CBS / AP) — NFL commissioner Roger Goodell considers longtime Oakland Raiders owner and Hall of Famer Al Davis a “true legend” of the game. The 82-year-old Davis died at his home in Oakland on...
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Raider Nation Mourns Loss Of Al Davis
ALAMEDA (CBS SF) — Fans dressed in Oakland Raiders jerseys quickly made their way to team headquarters in Alameda on Saturday, where a black flag with the team logo flew at half-staff and a makeshift...
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