Barbaro euthanized

Celebrity horse Barbaro finally succumbed to the pain and deteriation of his health after breaking a leg in the Preakness last year. His handlers at Penn's New Bolton Center decided today to euthanize the colt just a couple months shy of his 4th birthday.

This could be the highest scoring death in deadpool history (if participants will allow Barbaro as a celebrity regardless of his equine DNA) for me. Here are the numbers:

(125-3)*1.0 CC+ 40 pt solo= 161

Thoroughbred Times: Barbaro euthanized

Deadspin: Goodnight, Sweet Prince

DEATHSCORE: Art Buchwald dead at 81

Brian G opens up the scoring for 2007 with First Blood on Art Buchwald, and a solo hit...overall a very nice start to his third season in the Mortfolio Dead Pool.

WASHINGTON (AP) - By DARLENE SUPERVILLE - Columnist Art Buchwald, whose wry political and social satire made him a pillar of the nation's capital for more than four decades and earned him a Pulitzer Prize, has died, his son said Thursday.

Buchwald, 81, had refused dialysis treatments for his failing kidneys last year and was expected to die within weeks of moving to a hospice on Feb. 7. But he lived to return home and even write a book about his experiences.

SCORING - 117
(125-81)*1.6=44*1.6=67
Solo hit bonus of 40, First Blood bonus of 10.

Brian G 2007 Roster

a copy/paste from BG...

Vince - here is my submission for 2007 - I know that we have until Jan 5th - but if I get a score in the interim - this is not like the pre-season it still counts right ?? - (-:

2.0 Jack Kevorkian
1.9 Omar Abdel-Rahman " the blind shiek "
1.8 Ariel Sharon
1.7 Fidel Castro
1.6 Art Buchwald (right)
1.5 J.D. Salinger
1.4 Kirk Douglas
1.3 Boris Yeltsin
1.2 Robert Mugabe
1.1 Arnold Palmer
1.0 Joe Paterno
1.0 Robert Byrd - senator
1.0 Margaret Thatcher
1.0 Robert Downey
1.0 Nancy Reagan ( no offense to your Aunt )

Vince R 2007 Roster

Ariel Sharon - 2.0
Don Ho - 1.9 (Hawaiian Singer, right)
Billy Graham - 1.8
Malcolm Glazer - 1.7
Roy Scheider - 1.6
Suzanne Pleshette - 1.5
Fidel Castro - 1.4
Farrah Fawcett - 1.3
Dick Clark - 1.2
Warren Buffet - 1.1
Liza Minelli - 1.0
Brooke Astor - 1.0
Liz Taylor - 1.0
Barbaro - 1.0
Luciano Pavarotti - 1.0

(If you won't allow Barbaro, gimme Jerry Lewis's big head)

Larry V 2007 Roster

Mohammed Ali - 2.0
Brooke Astor - 1.9
Lady Bird Johnson - 1.8
Ronnie Biggs - 1.7 ???
Billy Graham - 1.6
Jerry Lewis - 1.5
Abe Vigoda - 1.4
Kirk Douglas - 1.3
Joey Bishop - 1.2
Nancy Reagan - 1.1
Betty Ford - 1.0
Harold Pinter ???
Jack Kevorkian
Delores Hope
Fidel Castro

I would like some clarification on the submissions with ?'s above.

Mark M Roster

2.0 - Fidel Castro
1.9 - Ariel Sharon (right)
1.8 - Sen. Jesse Helms
1.7 - Rev. Billy Graham
1.6 - Muhammed Ali
1.5 - Dick Clark
1.4 - Farah Fawcett
1.3 - Mary Kate Olsen
1.2 - Kurt Douglas
1.1 - Jerry Lewis
1.0 -
Mickey Rooney
Nancy Reagan
Andy Rooney
Bob Ritchie (aka Kid Rock)
Kurt Vonnegut

I have verified all of these as celebrities. Any vetos should be directed to me by Jan 13.

Buying the Farm Roster 2007

Ariel Sharon -2.0
Farrah Fawcett - 1.9
Dom DeLuise - 1.8
Nelson Mandela - 1.7
Fidel Castro -1.6
Betty Ford - 1.5
Henry Kissinger - 1.4
Walter Cronkite - 1.3
Dan Fogelberg - 1.2
Nancy Reagan - 1.1
Nicole Richie (Lionel's li'l girl)
Angus Young
Lady Bird Johnson
King Abdullah of Saud
Norman Schwarzkopf

Buying the Farm - perennially near the top.

FINAL STANDINGS of 2006

***ANY CHALLENGES TO THE SCORES BELOW
NEED TO BE TURNED IN TO ME BEFORE JANUARY 12***

WINNER
Rat Pack 480
Shelly Winters (duo), Lloyd Bentsen (solo), June Allyson (solo) James Brown (duo), Saddam Hussein (trio)

*Brian G 333
Louis Rukeyser (duo), Aaron Spelling (solo), Gerald Ford, Hussein (trio)

Buy the Farm 290
Dana Reave (solo), Earl Woods (solo), Red Auerbach (duo), Ford

Gary H 283
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi (solo), Jack Palance (solo)

Vince 243
Coretta Scott King (solo) Red Auerbach (duo) August Pinochet (solo)

Mark M 234
Winters (duo), Rukeyser (duo), Hussein (trio)

Robert G 208
James Brown (duo) , Freddy Fender (solo)

*Larry V 82
Galbraith (solo), Ford

*Jeff S 64
Gerald Ford