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Doug Moe, RIP

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On February 17, 2026
If you watched basketball in the 80s, no coach was like Doug Moe. In an era of big personalities as coaches--Pat Riley, Jack Ramsay, Chuck Daly--Moe was one of a kind. His super fast paced offense led by Alex English, Dan Issel, and Kiki Vandeweghe...
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James Ransone, RIP

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On December 22, 2025
The second season of The Wire is incredibly underrated. People who loved the first season were perplexed--why was this season about white people? Even worse, unions? Where's the gangstas???? This massively missed the point David Simon was making in The Wire. Meanwhile, in public discussions...

Arnett

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On December 17, 2025

Peter Arnett sure seemed to matter in journalism in the 90s. Had basically forgotten that name, but thinking back to the first Gulf War and watching it on CNN and.

Joe Ely, RIP

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On December 15, 2025

Word from his family is that the great Joe Ely has died. He had Lewy's body dementia and Parkinson's, so it wasn't totally surprising, but it's still an enormous loss.

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H. Rap Brown

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On November 23, 2025
The historiography of the Black Panthers at first was very critical of them. This was largely written by middle class people who valorized the mainline civil rights movement and thought the Panthers ruined it all. That was too simplistic. That was followed by a generation...
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Leo Gerard, RIP

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On September 29, 2025
The long-time president of the United Steelworkers of America has died. What made Gerard a special union leader was his ability to shift his union away from the declining steel industry and into all sorts of other workplaces in order to keep the USW alive....
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