Quote:Former college, Colts coach Howard Schnellenberger (March 16, 1934 – March 27, 2021) dies at 87


Coaching great Howard Schnellenberger has died at the age of 87, Florida Atlantic University announced on Saturday.

Forever Grateful.
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— #WinningInParadise (@FAUAthletics) March 27, 2021

Schnellenberger held head coaching positions with the Baltimore Colts and in college for the University of Miami, University of Oklahoma, University of Louisville, and Florida Atlantic University. He won a national championship with Miami in 1983.

Schnellenberger was an assistant coach at the college and pro levels, starting his NFL coaching career with the Los Angeles Rams before joining Don Shula in Miami in 1970. He was the offensive coordinator for the Dolphins during the undefeated, Super Bowl-winning 1972 season. Schnellenberger had two stops with the Dolphins sandwiched between a short stint with the Colts as head coach that ended three games into his second season after going 4-13.

He is also recruited Joe Namath to Alabama for Bear Bryant in 1961.

Schnellenberger succeeded John Sandusky as head coach of the Baltimore Colts on Feb. 14, 1973. The Colts went 4–10–0 in his one full season but managed to upset the defending Super Bowl champion Dolphins towards the end of the 1973 season. He was fired three games into the next season.

The highlight of Schnellenberger’s career was turning a dormant Hurricanes program that averaged just more than four wins a year from 1970-78 under six different coaches into a national power, leading the school to its first national championship in 1983, five years after he arrived. I remember Miami after the Hurricanes beat the Cornhuskers in the 1984 Orange Bowl 31-30. “No one at the university wanted much to do with the football program when we got there, so we did a lot of things there were innovative and different,” Schnellenberger once said. He was an amazing Coach.

In 1979, Schnellenberger moved a bit south, leaving Shula’s staff to become head coach at the University of Miami, and changed the perception of college football in Coral Gables forever.

Schnellenberger’s first signature win at Miami came in his first season when the Hurricanes, led by quarterback Kelly, upset Penn State on the road. After going 5-6 that season, the program took off. The 1983 season started with a loss at Florida and ended with 11 consecutive wins and the hallmark victory of Schnellenberger’s career, a 31-30 victory over No. 1 Nebraska in the Orange Bowl, that vaulted UM from No. 5 entering the game to national champions.

Bobby Bowden once said Schnellenberger would tell people he patterned his program after the way Bowden built the Florida State Seminoles. But “then he beat us and won the national championship,” Bowden said. “I always thought he showed us the way.”

Schnellenberger played with Paul Hornung, played for Bear Bryant, worked for Don Shula, recruited Joe Namath and coached Bob Griese, Mark Richt, Vinny Testeverde, and Jim Kelly. He spent 47 years as a coach, a career that includes 13 years in the NFL, 17 games as a head coach of the Colts and seven seasons as a Dolphins assistant under Shula. What followed was 27 years as a college head coach, where he compiled a 158-151-3 record and is credited for building Miami, Louisville and FAU from various stages.

The Miami Hurricanes honored Schnellenberger through their football Twitter account:

"Without him, there is no Miami Football. Howard Schnellenberger leaves behind a legacy more impactful than he’ll ever know."

Quote:Earl Simmons, the rapper better known as DMX, died on Friday at White Plains Hospital in White Plains, New York, one week after suffering a heart attack. He was 50 years old.

“We are deeply saddened to announce today that our loved one, DMX, birth name of Earl Simmons, passed away at 50 years old at White Plains Hospital with his family by his side after being placed on life support for the past few days,” his family said in a statement. “Earl was a warrior who fought till the very end. He loved his family with all of his heart and we cherish the times we spent with him. Earl’s music inspired countless fans across the world and his iconic legacy will live on forever. We appreciate all of the love and support during this incredibly difficult time. Please respect our privacy as we grieve the loss of our brother, father, uncle and the man the world knew as DMX. We will share information about his memorial service once details are finalized.”

(04-14-2021 08:44 AM)Redwingtom Wrote:  Bernie Madoff has reportedly died, in federal prison.

That's unfortunate.

Quote:"Crazy Love" is a 1979 hit single for the country rock group Poco introduced on the 1978 album Legend; written by founding group member Rusty Young, "Crazy Love" was the first single by Poco to reach the Top 40 and remained the group's biggest hit with especial impact as an Adult Contemporary hit being ranked by Billboard Magazine as the #1 Adult Contemporary hit for the year 1979.

In 2012, Young would thus recall his writing "Crazy Love": "I was living in Los Angeles, working on my house one day," said Young. "I was paneling a wall and looking out over the valley in L.A. and the chorus came into my head. I always had a guitar close at hand. It took about thirty minutes to write that song, because it was all there. It was kind of a gift." Young added that the "'Ooh, ooh, Ahhhh haaa' part" of the chorus was a stopgap he intended to replace with formal lyrics but the musicians who first backed Young on the song told him: "Don't do that, that's the way it's supposed to be."

In a July 17, 2011, broadcast of the Original 70s Soundtrack on urockradio.net, Young would say of his writing "Crazy Love": "for the first big hit - the only really huge hit Poco had - [to be] a song that I wrote and sang is pretty ironic" - "When the band started all I did was [play] steel guitar and banjo and dobro and that kind of stuff: I was the instrumentalist in the band - I didn't sing and I didn't write....But I've always said that with the band what happened is that as people have left the band it's left room for others to grow. I had great teachers: Richie Furay; Neil [Young] and Stephen Stills [of Buffalo Springfield] were around in the beginning [and] I could listen to them writing songs, working on songs and how they did it. Jimmy [Messina] taught me really a lot about the whole recording process and writing poems. I just had these great teachers that I was around."

Quote:Jack Minker (July 4, 1927 – April 9, 2021) was a leading authority in artificial intelligence, deductive databases, logic programming and non-monotonic reasoning. He was also an internationally recognized leader in the field of human rights of computer scientists. He was an Emeritus Professor in the University of Maryland Department of Computer Science, which is part of the College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences.

Minker was born on the fourth of July, 1927 in Brooklyn, New York. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Brooklyn College in 1949, Master of Arts degree from the University of Wisconsin in 1950, and PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in 1959.

Minker started his career in industry in 1951, working at the Bell Aircraft Corporation, RCA, and the Auerbach Corporation. He joined the University of Maryland in 1967, becoming Professor of Computer Science in 1971 and the first chair of the department in 1974. He became Professor Emeritus in 1998.

Minker was one of the founders of the area of deductive databases and disjunctive logic programming. He has made important contributions to semantic query optimization and to cooperative and informative answers for deductive databases. He has also developed a theoretical basis for disjunctive databases and disjunctive logic programs, developing the Generalized Closed World Assumption (GCWA).

Minker has over 150 refereed publications and has edited or co-edited five books on deductive databases, logic programming, and the use of logic in artificial intelligence. He was Founding Editor-in-Chief of the journal Theory and Practice of Logic Programming.

Minker has been Vice-Chairman of the Committee of Concerned Scientists since 1973, and Vice-Chairman of the Committee on Scientific Freedom and Human Rights (CSFHR) of the Association for Computing Machinery from 1980 to 1989. He led the struggle for the release of Anatoly Shcharansky and Alexander Lerner from the Communists of the Soviet Union. He also campaigned on behalf of Andrei Sakharov and his wife, Yelena Bonner. His memoir, Scientific Freedom & Human Rights: Scientists of Conscience During the Cold War, was published in 2012 by IEEE Computer Society Press. His former doctoral students include Terry Gaasterland.

(04-19-2021 10:29 PM)JRsec Wrote:  Former Vice President Walter Mondale passed away today at the age of 93. He was a Democrat from Minnesota and a man from an era when parties did work together across the aisles. RIP Vice President Mondale. He had lost his wife Joan in 2014.

(04-19-2021 10:29 PM)JRsec Wrote:  Former Vice President Walter Mondale passed away today at the age of 93. He was a Democrat from Minnesota and a man from an era when parties did work together across the aisles. RIP Vice President Mondale. He had lost his wife Joan in 2014.