Mel Turpin Commits Suicide
Mel Turpin, former NBA player and All-American Kentucky center, committed suicide Thursday, authorities said. He was 49. Police and the coroner were called to his North Lexington house Thursday afternoon on a personal injury call. They found Melvin Turpin dead. Coroner Gary Ginn says that Melvin Turpin commits suicide, but would not say how. He also would not say whether Mel Turpin left behind a suicide note.
Neighbor Amanda McFadden said Turpin always seemed happy.
“He never looked upset. He kept a smile on his face, just a good person,” she said.
The 6-foot-11 Turpin, dubbed “The Big Dipper,” was an All-Southeastern Conference player for the Wildcats from 1980-84. He led Kentucky to the SEC championship in 1984.
The center helped lead the Wildcats to three consecutive regular-season SEC titles. He averaged a career-high 15.2 points per game in 1983-84 and shot 74.5 percent from the field.
Mel Turpin was the sixth player selected in the 1984 NBA draft that included Michael Jordan, Hakeem Olajuwon and Charles Barkley, but never had the NBA success of those future stars.
Mel Turpin was picked by the Washington Bullets, then traded to the Cleveland Cavaliers. His best season was 1985-86 when he averaged 13.7 points and 7.0 rebounds per game, but he was out of the league four years later.
Terms: Mel Turpin Suicide, Mel Turpin Commits Suicide.
Category: Sports News | Published on July 9, 2010
Liverpool Street Station Fire
Liverpool Street station was evacuated and closed after the fire started in one of its restaurants shortly after 10.00pm. Eyewitness Nicola McCafferty said: “We were told there was an emergency and all the alarms went off. Everyone ran up the escalator and there was black smoke everywhere and flames coming out of what looked like the Wetherspoons pub or the hotel attached to the station. read more…
Category: Breaking News | Published on July 8, 2010
Duck Boat Accident
A survivor of Wednesday’s duck boat accident in Philadelphia calls her 10 minutes or so floating in the Delaware River “harrowing” and “surreal.” Sixty-seven-year-old Sandy Cohen of Durham, N.C., decided to take a tour while her husband, a doctor, attended a meeting. She says it was first just an inconvenience when smoke started to roll out of the boat’s engine as it entered the water. read more…
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Emmy Nominations 2010 list
Nominations for the 62nd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards took place this morning at the Leonard H. Goldenson Theatre in North Hollywood, California. “Community” star Joel McHale and “Modern Family” actress (and 2010 Emmy nominee) Sofía Vergara were on hand to announce the major nominations. The HBO mini-series “The Pacific” led the nominations with 24, followed by the FOX hit “Glee” with 19 nods and AMC’s “Mad Men,” with 17 nominations.
Read details of 62nd Annual Primetime Emmy Nominations 2010 list below:
-BEST COMEDY SERIES
“Curb Your Enthusiasm”
“Glee”
“Modern Family”
“Nurse Jackie”
“The Office”
“30 Rock”
-BEST COMEDY ACTOR
Jim Parsons (“The Big Bang Theory”)
Larry David (“Curb Your Enthusiasm”)
Matthew Morrison (“Glee”)
Tony Shalhoub (“Monk”)
Steve Carell (“The Office”)
Alec Baldwin (“30 Rock”)
-BEST COMEDY ACTRESS
Lea Michele (“Glee”)
Julia Louis-Dreyfus (“The New Adventures Of Old Christine”)
Edie Falco (“Nurse Jackie”)
Amy Poehler (“Parks and Recreation”)
Tina Fey (“30 Rock”)
Toni Collette (“United States of Tara”)
-BEST SUPPORTING COMEDY ACTOR
Chris Colfer (“Glee”)
Neil Patrick Harris (“How I Met Your Mother”)
Jesse Tyler Ferguson (“Modern Family”)
Eric Stonestreet (“Modern Family”)
Ty Burrell (“Modern Family”)
Jon Cryer (“Two And A Half Men”)
-BEST SUPPORTING COMEDY ACTRESS
Jane Lynch (“Glee”)
Julie Bowen (“Modern Family”)
Sofia Vergara (“Modern Family”)
Kristen Wiig (“Saturday Night Live”)
Jane Krakowski (“30 Rock”)
Holland Taylor (“Two And A Half Men”)
-BEST DRAMA SERIES
“Breaking Bad”
“Dexter”
“The Good Wife”
“Lost”
“Mad Men”
“True Blood”
-BEST DRAMA ACTOR
Bryan Cranston (“Breaking Bad”)
Michael C. Hall (“Dexter”)
Kyle Chandler (“Friday Night Lights”)
Hugh Laurie (“House”)
Matthew Fox (“Lost”)
Jon Hamm (“Mad Men”)
-BEST DRAMA ACTRESS
Kyra Sedgwick (“The Closer”)
Glenn Close (“Damages”)
Connie Britton (“Friday Night Lights”)
Julianna Margulies (“The Good Wife”)
Mariska Hargitay (“Law & Order: Special Victims Unit”)
January Jones (“Mad Men”)
-BEST SUPPORTING DRAMA ACTOR
Aaron Paul (“Breaking Bad”)
Martin Short (“Damages”)
Terry O’Quinn (“Lost”)
Michael Emerson (“Lost”)
John Slattery (“Mad Men”)
Andre Braugher (“Men Of A Certain Age”)
-BEST SUPPORTING DRAMA ACTRESS
Sharon Gless (“Burn Notice”)
Rose Byrne (“Damages”)
Archie Panjabi (“The Good Wife”)
Christine Baranski (“The Good Wife”)
Christina Hendricks (“Mad Men”)
Elisabeth Moss (“Mad Men”)
-BEST TV MOVIES
“Endgame” (“Masterpiece,” PBS)
“Georgia O’Keefe” (Lifetime)
“Moonshot” (History)
“The Special Relationship” (HBO)
“Temple Grandin”(HBO)
“You Don’t Know Jack” (HBO)
-BEST MINISERIES
“The Pacific” (HBO)
“Return To Cranford” (PBS)
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Fan Falls From Upper Deck
Fan Falls From Upper Deck at Rangers Ballpark — A fan reaching out from the upper deck for a foul ball at Rangers Ballpark fell to the section below and was injured in the fifth inning of the Texas Rangers-Cleveland Indians game tonight. The game was delayed for more than 15 minutes as emergency crews attended to the fallen spectator. Both fans and ballplayers appeared to be shaken by the accident. “It just rattled everybody,” Fox Sports Southwest sportscaster Josh Lewin said on air.
The Rangers’ Nelson Cruz fouled the ball into the upper deck club level along the first-base line. A witness said the ball sailed above the fan in section 235. He reached out to catch it as it caromed back toward the field, went over the railing, tried to catch himself on the lower suite level and flipped backward onto the seats about 30 feet below.
Fox Sports Southwest, which was broadcasting the game, reported that the fan had been taken to John Peter Smith Hospital.
Rangers executive vice president/communications John Blake later said that the spectator was stabilized, “able to move all his extremities and was responsive to paramedics.”
Four other fans were injured and were being treated at the stadium, Rangers officials said.
Terms: Fan Falls From Upper Deck, Fan Falls From Upper Deck at Rangers Ballpark.
Category: Sports News | Published on July 7, 2010
