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The Dead Pool
DIR By: Brindfan
Date: July 23, 2011, 12:26 pm
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Time to bring it back.....
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Re: The Dead Pool
DIR By: Brindfan
Date: July 23, 2011, 12:27 pm
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Amy Winehouse - Dead at 27.....
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Re: The Dead Pool
DIR By: Icer
Date: July 25, 2011, 12:01 pm
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In other news, the sun rose in the East today.
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Re: The Dead Pool
DIR By: Grundy
Date: July 26, 2011, 10:04 pm
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umm, interesting ..
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Re: The Dead Pool
DIR By: Icer
Date: July 27, 2011, 2:54 pm
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c'mon, grundy - THINK.....
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Re: The Dead Pool
DIR By: Icer
Date: September 7, 2011, 10:54 am
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OK, this sucks:
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Re: The Dead Pool
DIR By: Brindfan
Date: September 7, 2011, 11:11 am
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Yep.....
Russian jet carrying hockey team crashes, 43 dead
LYNN BERRY
From Associated Press
September 07, 2011 11:23 AM EDT
TUNOSHNA, Russia (AP) — A Russian jet carrying a top ice hockey
team crashed into a river bank while taking off Wednesday,
killing at least 43 people and leaving two others critically
injured, officials said. It was one of the worst crashes ever
involving a sports team.
The Russian Emergency Situations Ministry said the Yak-42 plane
crashed in sunny weather immediately after leaving an airport
near the western city of Yaroslavl, on the Volga River about 150
miles (240 kilometers) northeast of Moscow.
It said the plane was carrying the Lokomotiv ice hockey team
from Yaroslavl to Minsk, the capital of Belarus, where it was to
play Thursday against Dinamo Minsk in the opening game of the
season of the Kontinental Hockey League. It was carrying 45
people, including 37 passengers and eight crew, and two people
survived, officials said.
It wasn't immediately clear which players were on board the
Yak-42. Officials said player Alexander Galimov survived the
crash along with a crewmember.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin immediately sent the nation's
transport minister to the site, 10 miles (15 kilometers) east of
Yaroslavl.
The plane that crashed was relatively new, built in 1993, and
belonged to a small Yak Service company.
Swarms of police and rescue crews rushed to Tunoshna, a
picturesque village with a blue-domed church on the banks of the
Volga River. One of the plane's engines could be seen poking out
of the river and a flotilla of boats combed the water for
bodies. Russian rescue workers struggled to heft the bodies of
large, strong athletes in stretchers up the muddy, steep
riverbank.
One resident, Irina Pryakhova, saw the plane going down, hearing
a loud bang and then seeing a plume of smoke.
"It was wobbling in flight, it was clear that something was
wrong," she said. "I saw them pulling bodies to the shore, some
still in their seats with seatbelts on."
Lokomotiv Yaroslavl is a leading force in Russian hockey and
came third in the KHL last year. The team's coach is Canadian
Brad McCrimmon, who took over in May. He was most recently an
assistant coach with the Detroit Red Wings, and played 18 years
in the NHL for Boston, Philadelphia, Detroit, Hartford and
Phoenix.
The Russian team also featured several top European players and
former NHL stars, including Slovakian forward and national team
captain Pavol Demitra, who played in the NHL for the St. Louis
Blues and Vancouver Canucks.
Other top names include forward Josef Vasicek of the Czech
Republic, Czech defenseman Karel Rachunek, Russian defensemen
Ruslan Salei and Karlis Skrastins, and Swedish goalie Stefan
Liv.
The KHL is an international club league that pits together teams
from Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Latvia and Slovakia. Lokomotiv
was a three-time Russian League champion in 1997, 2002-2003. It
took bronze last season.
A cup match between hockey teams Salavat Yulaev and Atlant in
the central Russian city of Ufa was called off midway after news
of the crash was announced by Konintental Hockey League head
Alexander Medvedev. Russian television broadcast images of an
empty arena in Ufa as grief-stricken fans abandoned the stadium.
"We will do our best to ensure that hockey in Yaroslavl does not
die, and that it continues to live for the people that were on
that plane," said Russian Ice Hockey Federation President
Vladislav Tretyak.
President Dmitry Medvedev has announced plans to take aging
Soviet-built planes out of service starting next year. The
short- and medium-range Yak-42 has been in service since 1980
and about 100 are still working for Russian carriers.
In June, another Russian passenger jet crashed in the
northwestern city of Petrozavodsk, killing 47 people. The crash
of that Tu-134 plane has been blamed on pilot error.
In other plane crashes involving sports teams, 30 members of the
Uruguayan rugby club Old Christians were killed in a crash in
the Andes in 1972.
The entire 18-member U.S. figure skating team died in a crash on
their way to the 1961 world championships in Brussels.
In 1949, the Torino soccer team lost 18 players near Turin,
while the Munich air crash of 1958 cost eight Manchester United
players their lives.
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