Quote:Name a college coach in any sport from any era.

None of them ever won consistently at the highest level like John McDonnell.

McDonnell turned the University of Arkansas men’s cross country and track and field teams into the biggest winners of all time. He led the Razorbacks to 40 national championships — 19 in indoor track and field, 11 in cross country and 10 in outdoor track and field — between 1984 and 2006.

He also coached the Razorbacks to 84 Southwest Conference and SEC titles during his 36-year tenure from 1972-2008.

“People will look at his numbers years from now and go, ‘No way, no way,’” Arizona State Coach Greg Kraft said in 2008 when McDonnell announced his retirement. “His numbers are so staggering.”

It’s the most national titles won by any coach at the Division I level, according to the NCAA.

Pat Henry at Texas A&M is second with 36 national championships in men’s and women’s track and field at LSU and the Aggies, with the most recent in 2017.

“In my opinion, John is the best that’s ever been,” Henry said in 2008. “There’s no question about it when you look at his accomplishments.

“There have been some great coaches in the last 100 years, but there’s no ifs, ands or buts that John’s the finest coach who’s ever been in the NCAA.”

Quote:Ann Russell Miller (October 30, 1928 – June 5, 2021) was a San Francisco socialite who left her wealth behind to become a nun, known as sister Mary Joseph of the Trinity. More than 30 years ago, Miller took vows of silence and poverty to become Sister Mary Joseph at a Carmelite monastery in Des Plaines, Illinois. Some wondered how long she’d last in an environment where sacred song was more common than speech, but Miller — a mother of 10 and grandmother to 28 — devoted the last long chapter of her life, from 1989 to 2021, to the convent. She died there Saturday (June 5) after a series of strokes at the age of 92.

Quote:"For people like me, there’s a lot of ‘I know you! I know you! What have I seen you in?’" Beatty remarked without rancor in 1992.

Quote:Frank Bonner, who played Herb Tarlek on the sitcom “WKRP in Cincinnati,” has died. He was 79.

Bonner passed away “peacefully” Wednesday amid a battle with Lewy body dementia.

As Herb on “WKRP” in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Bonner was the quintessential salesman in a gaudy plaid suit and white loafers, despite struggling as a radio station sales manager who consistently failed to reel in the big accounts.

The actor turned to directing in a few episodes of “WKRP” and later reprised the role in the early ’90s spinoff “The New WKRP in Cincinnati.”
Frank Bonner, Loni Anderson in a typically saucy scene from "WKRP in Cincinnati."

Quote:“Ten years of cocaine around the clock,” he told The Post in 2001.

Quote:Born in 1925, Mary grew up in Warsaw, Poland, and came of age during the Holocaust. As a teenager and young adult, she survived internment at Nazi concentration camps, Starachowice, Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen.

After being liberated in 1945, Mary and Morris Weinrib married and moved to Canada, where they raised their family. Morris passed away suddenly in 1965, but Mary lived to see their three children grow and have success.

Quote:Andy Williams, former drummer for the rock band christian Casting Crowns, died from injuries sustained after a motorcycle accident on his way to church, his band confirmed.

Casting Crowns confirmed Williams’ death in a Facebook post shared on July 9, 2021, which read: “Early this morning, around 1:00 AM, Andy Williams met with Jesus. He fought for his life, but the injuries he suffered were serious. You prayed with us that Andy would be healed. You prayed with us for Andy to wake up. You prayed with us that God would do a miracle. While we regret that Andy is not here with us, and that we were unable to witness the miracle we long for here on Earth, all of our prayers were answered. “

The post was first shared on Facebook by Williams Local Church, Grace Chapel in Fairview, Tennessee.

According to the CBN, Williams was seriously injured after the June 27, 2021 motorcycle accident on his way to church.

He suffered “severe trauma to his body and brain, according to the site, adding that he was hit by another vehicle and had his leg amputated above the knee after the tragedy.

However, sadly, the injuries turned out to be too serious.