It's all over, and nothing has changed since my last post a week or so ago, so I'm ready to finalize the standings. Congrats again to Brian B's wife. She tied for the league lead in hits (4) and outpointed my roommate and me for top honors. 

The final rankings:

1. ($120) Brian B's wife: 197 points (Charlton Heston, Robert Mondavi, Bo Diddley, Studs Terkel)
2. ($20) boobs: 185 points (Bobby Murcer, Tony Snow)
3. ($10) boobs' roommate: 166 points (Charlton Heston, Jesse Helms, Sammy Baugh, W. Mark Felt)
4. Red Menace: 164 points (Charlton Heston, Bo Diddley, Harold Pinter, W. Mark Felt)
5. ctnyc:  136 points (Harvey Korman, Paul Newman)
6. Alan: 128 points (Bo Diddley, Edna Parker, Harold Pinter)
7. 3 fast: 66 points (Estelle Getty)
8. Madville: 61 points (Bob Howsam)
9. Man Mountain: 47 points (Harold Pinter)
10. BLee: 41 points (Charlton Heston)
10. JD: 41 points (Charlton Heston)
10. JD's wife: 41 points (Charlton Heston)
13: Gray: 39 points (Jesse Helms)

I got a strange amount of satisfaction from this pool this year. Thanks to everyone. Every time a famous person died I ran to the computer to see if the standings changed. It's really a horrible thing, depending on how you look at it, but it adds spice to life, and what fun is life without the reminder that we're still cheating death?

The biggest surprise to me was some of the folks who didn't die. Castro is still alive, as are Billy Graham and Amy Winehouse. Some of the picks that didn't hit this year will be hard to avoid in the 2009 pool.

So I've heard from a few folks who want in/back in for Season 2. These are folks who have confirmed their interest:

boobs
boobs' former roommate
boobs' mom
man mountain
brendan
cesarhernandez
madville
joshuaR (plus maybe a wife)
BK
tHan
caleb

That's 11 or 12, and I think I'll have a few more on my side of the family join in, plus I haven't heard from some of this year's participants (menace, 3fast, BLee, brianb +wife, ctnyc, gray?) We stand to have a much bigger pot this year, and if we stick with $20 for second and $10 for third, there could be a lot at stake for the winner. $10 is a good entry amount, I think, and if we get a lot of people we might expand the second- and third-place prize and maybe add a kickback for fourth. 

If you're interested, check out the rules from last year. I'll make a new form with a couple updated rules for the enrollment posts, which should come in a week or two with the pool starting february 1. At this point I just want to get an idea of how many contestants we'll have.

-Rick

Check here for the originial post.

Many buckets have been kicked since the last update, boosting Brian B's wife into the lead and boobs' roommate potentially onto the podium. Harold Pinter (Red Menace, Man Mountain and Alan) and  "Deep Throat" (Red Menace, boobs' roommate) met their demises, as did Sammy Baugh (boobs' roommate), Old Edna Parker (Alan) and Studs Terkel (Mrs. B). Everyone but Brian B and my mom have hit something.

I'm curious who all will want to play again next year. I'm definitely open to running the thing again. It shouldn't be too much work to roll the thing over, although there's probably not enough time to start by Jan. 1. Maybe if we do another, we'll run it from Feb. 1-Dec. 31. Anyone interested?

Remember, the contest runs though 11:59 p.m. on December 31, so we've got about a week to go. Good luck to those in the hunt!

Here are the updated rankings. Let me know if I've fucked something up:

1. Brian B's wife: 197 points (Charlton Heston, Robert Mondavi, Bo Diddley, Studs Terkel)
2. boobs: 185 points (Bobby Murcer, Tony Snow)
3. boobs' roommate: 166 points (Charlton Heston, Jesse Helms, Sammy Baugh, W. Mark Felt)
4. Red Menace: 164 points (Charlton Heston, Bo Diddley, Harold Pinter, W. Mark Felt)
5. ctnyc:  136 points (Harvey Korman, Paul Newman)
6. Alan: 128 points (Bo Diddley, Edna Parker, Harold Pinter)
7. 3 fast: 66 points (Estelle Getty)
8. Madville: 61 points (Bob Howsam)
9. Man Mountain: 47 points (Harold Pinter)
10. BLee: 41 points (Charlton Heston)
10. JD: 41 points (Charlton Heston)
10. JD's wife: 41 points (Charlton Heston)
13: Gray: 39 points (Jesse Helms)

And here are the updated rosters:

3 fast

1. Stephen Hawking
2. Phyllis Diller
3. Queen Elizabeth II
4. Mary Kate Olsen $$
5. Keith Richards
6. Cesar Laurean $$
7. Nelson Mandela $$
8. Dick Vitale $$
9. Dick Clark
10. Joe Paterno $$
11. Fidel Castro
12. Yogi Berra $$
13. Ariel Sharon
14. Stan Musial $$
15. Jerry Lewis $$
16. Zsa Zsa Gabor
17. John Wooden
18. Jack Kevorkian
19. Billy Graham
20. Estelle Getty $$


Alan

1. Dom DeLouise $$
2. Jack Klugman
3. Margaret Thatcher
4. Gary Glitter $$
5. Kenny Baker $$
6. David Prowse $$
7. Stephen Hawking
8. Lester "Beetlejuice" Green $$
9. Lou Henson $$
10. Hamid Karzai
11. Bo Diddley
12. Diego Maradona $$
13. Pervez Musharraf
14. Roger Ebert
15. Andy Fordham $$
16. Harold Pinter
17. Roh Tae-woo $$
18. Sirajuddin Haqqani $$
19. Howard Dill $$
20. Edna Parker $$


BLee

1. Kirk Douglas
2. Charlton Heston
3. George H.W. Bush
4. Al Davis $$
5. Billy Graham
6. Bilawal Bhutto Zardari $$
7. George Steinbrenner
8. B.B. King $$
9. Omar bin Laden $$
10. James Earl Jones $$
11. Charlie Watts $$
12. Ralph Wilson $$
13. Jimmy Carter
14. Amy Winehouse
15. Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka $$
16. Abe Vigoda
17. Pete Doherty
18. Paul McCartney $$
19. Fidel Castro
20. Eddie Van Halen $$


boobs

1. Amy Winehouse
2. Farrah Fawcett
3. Elizabeth Edwards
4. Fidel Castro
5. Tony Snow $$
6. Tony Yayo $$
7. Bobby Murcer $$
8. Muhammad Ali
9. Soupy Sales $$
10. George Steinbrenner
11. Prodigy from Mobb Deep $$
12. Zsa Zsa Gabor
13. Billy Graham
14. Lil Wayne $$
15. Jack Kevorkian
16. Doyle Brunson $$
17. Fyvush Finkel $$
18. Sen. Robert Byrd $$
19. Pete Doherty
20. Bob Barker


boobs' mom

1. Barack Obama $$
2. Dick Cheney
3. Keith Richards
4. Ernest Borgnine
5. Phyllis Diller
6. Ted Kennedy $$
7. Jimmy Carter
8. John Travolta $$
9. Farrah Fawcett
10. Elizabeth Edwards
11. Kirk Douglas
12. Colin Farrell $$
13. Joan Collins $$
14. Elizabeth Taylor
15. Liza Minelli $$
16. Robin Williams $$
17. Loretta Lynn $$
18. Brigitte Nielsen $$
19. Connie Stevens $$
20. John Daly $$


boobs' roommate

1. Elizabeth Edwards
2. John Wooden
3. W. Mark Felt
4. Ariel Sharon
5. Billy Graham
6. Ralph Stanley $$
7. Sammy Baugh $$
8. Lee MacPhail $$
9. Bobby Doerr $$
10. Russell Watson $$
11. Charlton Heston
12. Jesse Helms
13. Fidel Castro
14. Karl Malden
15. Prince Philip $$
16. Margaret Thatcher
17. Ali al-Sistani $$
18. Betty Ford
19. Stuart Scott $$
20. Kirk Douglas


Brian B

1. Mike Tyson ## $$
2. Ralph Houk $$
3. Billy Graham
4. Ed McMahon $$
5. John Wooden
6. Elizabeth Edwards
7. Millvina Dean $$
8. Kirk Douglas
9. Elizabeth Taylor
10. Paul Harvey
11. Ariel Sharon
12. Walter Cronkite
13. Orlando Thomas $$
14. Larry Hagman $$
15. Andy Griffith
16. Don Baylor $$
17. Rowdy Roddy Piper $$
18. Farrah Fawcett
19. Steve Smith (former Raiders running back) $$
20. Gary Coleman $$


Brian B's wife

1. Fidel Castro
2. Ariel Sharon
3. Eunice Kennedy Shriver
4. Studs Terkel $$
5. Jack Klugman
6. Kirk Douglas
7. Charlton Heston
8. Paul Harvey
9. Bo Diddley
10. Olivia de Havilland $$
11. Zsa Zsa Gabor
12. Britney Spears ##
13. Roger Ebert
14. Ron Santo
15. Miep Gies $$
16. Hamid Karzai
17. Amy Winehouse
18. Karl Malden
19. Betty Ford
20. Robert Mondavi $$


ctnyc

1. Harvey Korman $$
2. Karl Malden
3. Andy Griffith
4. Pervez Musharraf
5. Fidel Castro
6. John Wooden
7. Paul Newman $$
8. Dick Clark
9. Robert Downey Jr. $$
10. Jack Klugman
11. Monte Irvin $$
12. Robert McNamara $$
13. Amy Winehouse
14. Conrad Dobler $$
15. Nancy Reagan
16. George H.W. Bush
17. Phyllis Diller
18. Abe Vigoda
19. Muhammad Ali
20. Walter Cronkite


Gray

1. Doris Lessing $$
2. Rick Majerus $$
3. Pete Doherty
4. Amy Winehouse
5. Haley Joel Osment $$
6. Jesse Helms
7. Farrah Fawcett
8. Betty Ford
9. Fidel Castro
10. Pervez Musharraf
11. Jack Kevorkian
12. Ariel Sharon
13. Kirk Douglas
14. Louis Farrakhan
15. Billy Graham
16. Kenneth Arrow $$
17. Paul Samuelson $$
18. Ronald Coase $$
19. Maya Angelou $$
20. Nadine Gordimer $$


JD

1. Muhammed Ali
2. Elizabeth Taylor
3. Amy Winehouse
4. Pete Doherty
5. Andy Dick $$
6. Bob Barker
7. Charlton Heston
8. John Wooden
9. Barbara Bush $$
10. Kirstie Alley $$
11. Queen Elizabeth
12. Abe Vigoda
13. Gerald Ford ++
14. Fidel Castro
15. JD Salinger $$


JD's wife

1. Britney Spears $$
2. Lindsay Lohan $$
3. Betty White $$
4. Hillary Clinton $$
5. Clint Eastwood $$
6. Gladys Knight $$
7. Harry Morgan $$
8. Courtney Love
9. Charlton Heston
10. Dick Clark
11. Elizabeth Taylor
12. Amy Whinehouse
13. Mickey Rooney $$
14. Lady Bird Johnson ++
15. Fidel Castro


Madville

1. Bob Howsam $$
2. Bill Clinton $$
3. Sally Field $$
4. Michael Vick $$
5. Rush Lumbaugh $$
6. Courtney Love
7. Wolfgang Puck $$
8. Stephen Hawking
9. Morgan Freeman $$
10. George Lucas $$
11. Hal Holbrook $$
12. Boy George $$
13. David Lee Roth $$
14. Mary Tyler Moore $$
15. Jack Nicholson $$
16. Elton John $$
17. Dick Cheney
18. Josh Hamilton $$
19. David Copperfield $$
20. Jane Fonda $$


Man Mountain

1.  John Wooden
2.  Ernest Borgnine
3.  Billy Graham
4.  Seamus Heaney $$
5.  Nancy Reagan
6.  Sir Bobby Robson $$
7.  George Mitchell $$
8.  Stephen Baldwin $$
9.  Patricia Neal $$
10. Maxine Kumin $$
11. Natasha Lyonne $$
12. Ruth Bader Ginsburg $$
13. Elizabeth Taylor
14. Muhammad Ali
15. Ed Asner $$
16. Harold Pinter
17. Adam "Pacman" Jones $$
18. Amy Winehouse
19. Bashar Assad $$
20. Stephen Hawking


Red Menace

1. Farrah Fawcett
2. Ron Springs $$
3. Muhammad Ali
4. Stephen Hawking
5. Ron Santo
6. Louis Farrakhan
7. George Steinbrenner
8. Harold Pinter
9. Ronnie Biggs  $$
10. Jack Kevorkian
11. Ariel Sharon
12. Bo Diddley
13. Fidel Castro
14. Charlton Heston
15. W. Mark Felt
16. Peter O'Toole $$
17. Eunice Kennedy Shriver
18. Billy Graham
19. Kirk Douglas
20. King-Father Norodom Sihanouk $$

Legend:
$$: Unique pick, worth 25-point bonus.
++: JD and wife entered only 15 picks, and each picked a person who was already dead. I got their entries right up against the deadline, so they have accepted their disadvantaged fate.
##: Replaced Steve Fossett.

Check here for the originial post.

We're entering the home stretch, but there's been a whole lotta livin' goin on. Since my last update on July 16, only 2 entries have croaked: Estelle Getty (3 fast) and Paul Newman (ctnyc), both unique picks. 

Remember, the contest runs though 11:59 p.m. on December 31. 

Here are the updated rankings:

1. boobs: 185 points (Bobby Murcer, Tony Snow)
2. Brian B's wife: 143 points (Charlton Heston, Robert Mondavi, Bo Diddley)
3. ctnyc:  136 points (Harvey Korman, Paul Newman)
4. Red Menace: 87 points (Charlton Heston, Bo Diddley)
5. boobs' roommate: 80 points (Charlton Heston, Jesse Helms)
6. 3 fast: 66 points (Estelle Getty)
7. Madville: 61 points (Bob Howsam)
8. Alan: 46 points (Bo Diddley)
9. BLee: 41 points (Charlton Heston)
9. JD: 41 points (Charlton Heston)
9. JD's wife: 41 points (Charlton Heston)

And here are the updated rosters:

3 fast

1. Stephen Hawking
2. Phyllis Diller
3. Queen Elizabeth II
4. Mary Kate Olsen $$
5. Keith Richards
6. Cesar Laurean $$
7. Nelson Mandela $$
8. Dick Vitale $$
9. Dick Clark
10. Joe Paterno $$
11. Fidel Castro
12. Yogi Berra $$
13. Ariel Sharon
14. Stan Musial $$
15. Jerry Lewis $$
16. Zsa Zsa Gabor
17. John Wooden
18. Jack Kevorkian
19. Billy Graham
20. Estelle Getty $$


Alan

1. Dom DeLouise $$
2. Jack Klugman
3. Margaret Thatcher
4. Gary Glitter $$
5. Kenny Baker $$
6. David Prowse $$
7. Stephen Hawking
8. Lester "Beetlejuice" Green $$
9. Lou Henson $$
10. Hamid Karzai
11. Bo Diddley
12. Diego Maradona $$
13. Pervez Musharraf
14. Roger Ebert
15. Andy Fordham $$
16. Harold Pinter
17. Roh Tae-woo $$
18. Sirajuddin Haqqani $$
19. Howard Dill $$
20. Edna Parker $$


BLee

1. Kirk Douglas
2. Charlton Heston
3. George H.W. Bush
4. Al Davis $$
5. Billy Graham
6. Bilawal Bhutto Zardari $$
7. George Steinbrenner
8. B.B. King $$
9. Omar bin Laden $$
10. James Earl Jones $$
11. Charlie Watts $$
12. Ralph Wilson $$
13. Jimmy Carter
14. Amy Winehouse
15. Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka $$
16. Abe Vigoda
17. Pete Doherty
18. Paul McCartney $$
19. Fidel Castro
20. Eddie Van Halen $$


boobs

1. Amy Winehouse
2. Farrah Fawcett
3. Elizabeth Edwards
4. Fidel Castro
5. Tony Snow $$
6. Tony Yayo $$
7. Bobby Murcer $$
8. Muhammad Ali
9. Soupy Sales $$
10. George Steinbrenner
11. Prodigy from Mobb Deep $$
12. Zsa Zsa Gabor
13. Billy Graham
14. Lil Wayne $$
15. Jack Kevorkian
16. Doyle Brunson $$
17. Fyvush Finkel $$
18. Sen. Robert Byrd $$
19. Pete Doherty
20. Bob Barker


boobs' mom

1. Barack Obama $$
2. Dick Cheney
3. Keith Richards
4. Ernest Borgnine
5. Phyllis Diller
6. Ted Kennedy $$
7. Jimmy Carter
8. John Travolta $$
9. Farrah Fawcett
10. Elizabeth Edwards
11. Kirk Douglas
12. Colin Farrell $$
13. Joan Collins $$
14. Elizabeth Taylor
15. Liza Minelli $$
16. Robin Williams $$
17. Loretta Lynn $$
18. Brigitte Nielsen $$
19. Connie Stevens $$
20. John Daly $$


boobs' roommate

1. Elizabeth Edwards
2. John Wooden
3. W. Mark Felt
4. Ariel Sharon
5. Billy Graham
6. Ralph Stanley $$
7. Sammy Baugh $$
8. Lee MacPhail $$
9. Bobby Doerr $$
10. Russell Watson $$
11. Charlton Heston
12. Jesse Helms
13. Fidel Castro
14. Karl Malden
15. Prince Philip $$
16. Margaret Thatcher
17. Ali al-Sistani $$
18. Betty Ford
19. Stuart Scott $$
20. Kirk Douglas


Brian B

1. Mike Tyson ## $$
2. Ralph Houk $$
3. Billy Graham
4. Ed McMahon $$
5. John Wooden
6. Elizabeth Edwards
7. Millvina Dean $$
8. Kirk Douglas
9. Elizabeth Taylor
10. Paul Harvey
11. Ariel Sharon
12. Walter Cronkite
13. Orlando Thomas $$
14. Larry Hagman $$
15. Andy Griffith
16. Don Baylor $$
17. Rowdy Roddy Piper $$
18. Farrah Fawcett
19. Steve Smith (former Raiders running back) $$
20. Gary Coleman $$


Brian B's wife

1. Fidel Castro
2. Ariel Sharon
3. Eunice Kennedy Shriver
4. Studs Terkel $$
5. Jack Klugman
6. Kirk Douglas
7. Charlton Heston
8. Paul Harvey
9. Bo Diddley
10. Olivia de Havilland $$
11. Zsa Zsa Gabor
12. Britney Spears ##
13. Roger Ebert
14. Ron Santo
15. Miep Gies $$
16. Hamid Karzai
17. Amy Winehouse
18. Karl Malden
19. Betty Ford
20. Robert Mondavi $$


ctnyc

1. Harvey Korman $$
2. Karl Malden
3. Andy Griffith
4. Pervez Musharraf
5. Fidel Castro
6. John Wooden
7. Paul Newman $$
8. Dick Clark
9. Robert Downey Jr. $$
10. Jack Klugman
11. Monte Irvin $$
12. Robert McNamara $$
13. Amy Winehouse
14. Conrad Dobler $$
15. Nancy Reagan
16. George H.W. Bush
17. Phyllis Diller
18. Abe Vigoda
19. Muhammad Ali
20. Walter Cronkite


Gray

1. Doris Lessing $$
2. Rick Majerus $$
3. Pete Doherty
4. Amy Winehouse
5. Haley Joel Osment $$
6. Jesse Helms
7. Farrah Fawcett
8. Betty Ford
9. Fidel Castro
10. Pervez Musharraf
11. Jack Kevorkian
12. Ariel Sharon
13. Kirk Douglas
14. Louis Farrakhan
15. Billy Graham
16. Kenneth Arrow $$
17. Paul Samuelson $$
18. Ronald Coase $$
19. Maya Angelou $$
20. Nadine Gordimer $$


JD

1. Muhammed Ali
2. Elizabeth Taylor
3. Amy Winehouse
4. Pete Doherty
5. Andy Dick $$
6. Bob Barker
7. Charlton Heston
8. John Wooden
9. Barbara Bush $$
10. Kirstie Alley $$
11. Queen Elizabeth
12. Abe Vigoda
13. Gerald Ford ++
14. Fidel Castro
15. JD Salinger $$


JD's wife

1. Britney Spears $$
2. Lindsay Lohan $$
3. Betty White $$
4. Hillary Clinton $$
5. Clint Eastwood $$
6. Gladys Knight $$
7. Harry Morgan $$
8. Courtney Love
9. Charlton Heston
10. Dick Clark
11. Elizabeth Taylor
12. Amy Whinehouse
13. Mickey Rooney $$
14. Lady Bird Johnson ++
15. Fidel Castro


Madville

1. Bob Howsam $$
2. Bill Clinton $$
3. Sally Field $$
4. Michael Vick $$
5. Rush Lumbaugh $$
6. Courtney Love
7. Wolfgang Puck $$
8. Stephen Hawking
9. Morgan Freeman $$
10. George Lucas $$
11. Hal Holbrook $$
12. Boy George $$
13. David Lee Roth $$
14. Mary Tyler Moore $$
15. Jack Nicholson $$
16. Elton John $$
17. Dick Cheney
18. Josh Hamilton $$
19. David Copperfield $$
20. Jane Fonda $$


Man Mountain

1.  John Wooden
2.  Ernest Borgnine
3.  Billy Graham
4.  Seamus Heaney $$
5.  Nancy Reagan
6.  Sir Bobby Robson $$
7.  George Mitchell $$
8.  Stephen Baldwin $$
9.  Patricia Neal $$
10. Maxine Kumin $$
11. Natasha Lyonne $$
12. Ruth Bader Ginsburg $$
13. Elizabeth Taylor
14. Muhammad Ali
15. Ed Asner $$
16. Harold Pinter
17. Adam "Pacman" Jones $$
18. Amy Winehouse
19. Bashar Assad $$
20. Stephen Hawking


Red Menace

1. Farrah Fawcett
2. Ron Springs $$
3. Muhammad Ali
4. Stephen Hawking
5. Ron Santo
6. Louis Farrakhan
7. George Steinbrenner
8. Harold Pinter
9. Ronnie Biggs  $$
10. Jack Kevorkian
11. Ariel Sharon
12. Bo Diddley
13. Fidel Castro
14. Charlton Heston
15. W. Mark Felt
16. Peter O'Toole $$
17. Eunice Kennedy Shriver
18. Billy Graham
19. Kirk Douglas
20. King-Father Norodom Sihanouk $$

Legend:
$$: Unique pick, worth 25-point bonus.
++: JD and wife entered only 15 picks, and each picked a person who was already dead. I got their entries right up against the deadline, so they have accepted their disadvantaged fate.
##: Replaced Steve Fossett.

Check here for the originial post.

The Reds are apparently just waiting for a call from Yonder Alonso. Hold your breath.

More deets here

The Reds took the lead back on a clutchtastic slap by Valentin. 8-6.

The Reds padded the lead with a flat-out triple. 5-2.

The Red Reporter Bereavement Pool is more than halfway through. After a couple months of domination by Brian B's wife, it was all washed away on July 12 when Tony Snow and Bobby Murcer met their maker. The updated rankings:

1. boobs: 185 points (Bobby Murcer, Tony Snow)
2. Brian B's wife: 143 points (Charlton Heston, Robert Mondavi, Bo Diddley)
3. Red Menace: 87 points (Charlton Heston, Bo Diddley)
4. boobs' roommate: 80 points (Charlton Heston, Jesse Helms)
5. ctnyc: 69 points (Harvey Korman)
6. Madville: 61 points (Bob Howsam)
7. Alan: 46 points (Bo Diddley)
8. BLee: 41 points (Charlton Heston)
8. JD: 41 points (Charlton Heston)
8. JD's wife: 41 points (Charlton Heston)

Here are the updated rosters:

3 fast

1. Stephen Hawking
2. Phyllis Diller
3. Queen Elizabeth II
4. Mary Kate Olsen $$
5. Keith Richards
6. Cesar Laurean $$
7. Nelson Mandela $$
8. Dick Vitale $$
9. Dick Clark
10. Joe Paterno $$
11. Fidel Castro
12. Yogi Berra $$
13. Ariel Sharon
14. Stan Musial $$
15. Jerry Lewis $$
16. Zsa Zsa Gabor
17. John Wooden
18. Jack Kevorkian
19. Billy Graham
20. Estelle Getty $$


Alan

1. Dom DeLouise $$
2. Jack Klugman
3. Margaret Thatcher
4. Gary Glitter $$
5. Kenny Baker $$
6. David Prowse $$
7. Stephen Hawking
8. Lester "Beetlejuice" Green $$
9. Lou Henson $$
10. Hamid Karzai
11. Bo Diddley
12. Diego Maradona $$
13. Pervez Musharraf
14. Roger Ebert
15. Andy Fordham $$
16. Harold Pinter
17. Roh Tae-woo $$
18. Sirajuddin Haqqani $$
19. Howard Dill $$
20. Edna Parker $$


BLee

1. Kirk Douglas
2. Charlton Heston
3. George H.W. Bush
4. Al Davis $$
5. Billy Graham
6. Bilawal Bhutto Zardari $$
7. George Steinbrenner
8. B.B. King $$
9. Omar bin Laden $$
10. James Earl Jones $$
11. Charlie Watts $$
12. Ralph Wilson $$
13. Jimmy Carter
14. Amy Winehouse
15. Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka $$
16. Abe Vigoda
17. Pete Doherty
18. Paul McCartney $$
19. Fidel Castro
20. Eddie Van Halen $$


boobs

1. Amy Winehouse
2. Farrah Fawcett
3. Elizabeth Edwards
4. Fidel Castro
5. Tony Snow $$
6. Tony Yayo $$
7. Bobby Murcer $$
8. Muhammad Ali
9. Soupy Sales $$
10. George Steinbrenner
11. Prodigy from Mobb Deep $$
12. Zsa Zsa Gabor
13. Billy Graham
14. Lil Wayne $$
15. Jack Kevorkian
16. Doyle Brunson $$
17. Fyvush Finkel $$
18. Sen. Robert Byrd $$
19. Pete Doherty
20. Bob Barker


boobs' mom

1. Barack Obama $$
2. Dick Cheney
3. Keith Richards
4. Ernest Borgnine
5. Phyllis Diller
6. Ted Kennedy $$
7. Jimmy Carter
8. John Travolta $$
9. Farrah Fawcett
10. Elizabeth Edwards
11. Kirk Douglas
12. Colin Farrell $$
13. Joan Collins $$
14. Elizabeth Taylor
15. Liza Minelli $$
16. Robin Williams $$
17. Loretta Lynn $$
18. Brigitte Nielsen $$
19. Connie Stevens $$
20. John Daly $$


boobs' roommate

1. Elizabeth Edwards
2. John Wooden
3. W. Mark Felt
4. Ariel Sharon
5. Billy Graham
6. Ralph Stanley $$
7. Sammy Baugh $$
8. Lee MacPhail $$
9. Bobby Doerr $$
10. Russell Watson $$
11. Charlton Heston
12. Jesse Helms
13. Fidel Castro
14. Karl Malden
15. Prince Philip $$
16. Margaret Thatcher
17. Ali al-Sistani $$
18. Betty Ford
19. Stuart Scott $$
20. Kirk Douglas


Brian B

1. Mike Tyson ## $$
2. Ralph Houk $$
3. Billy Graham
4. Ed McMahon $$
5. John Wooden
6. Elizabeth Edwards
7. Millvina Dean $$
8. Kirk Douglas
9. Elizabeth Taylor
10. Paul Harvey
11. Ariel Sharon
12. Walter Cronkite
13. Orlando Thomas $$
14. Larry Hagman $$
15. Andy Griffith
16. Don Baylor $$
17. Rowdy Roddy Piper $$
18. Farrah Fawcett
19. Steve Smith (former Raiders running back) $$
20. Gary Coleman $$


Brian B's wife

1. Fidel Castro
2. Ariel Sharon
3. Eunice Kennedy Shriver
4. Studs Terkel $$
5. Jack Klugman
6. Kirk Douglas
7. Charlton Heston
8. Paul Harvey
9. Bo Diddley
10. Olivia de Havilland $$
11. Zsa Zsa Gabor
12. Britney Spears ##
13. Roger Ebert
14. Ron Santo
15. Miep Gies $$
16. Hamid Karzai
17. Amy Winehouse
18. Karl Malden
19. Betty Ford
20. Robert Mondavi $$


ctnyc

1. Harvey Korman $$
2. Karl Malden
3. Andy Griffith
4. Pervez Musharraf
5. Fidel Castro
6. John Wooden
7. Paul Newman $$
8. Dick Clark
9. Robert Downey Jr. $$
10. Jack Klugman
11. Monte Irvin $$
12. Robert McNamara $$
13. Amy Winehouse
14. Conrad Dobler $$
15. Nancy Reagan
16. George H.W. Bush
17. Phyllis Diller
18. Abe Vigoda
19. Muhammad Ali
20. Walter Cronkite


Gray

1. Doris Lessing $$
2. Rick Majerus $$
3. Pete Doherty
4. Amy Winehouse
5. Haley Joel Osment $$
6. Jesse Helms
7. Farrah Fawcett
8. Betty Ford
9. Fidel Castro
10. Pervez Musharraf
11. Jack Kevorkian
12. Ariel Sharon
13. Kirk Douglas
14. Louis Farrakhan
15. Billy Graham
16. Kenneth Arrow $$
17. Paul Samuelson $$
18. Ronald Coase $$
19. Maya Angelou $$
20. Nadine Gordimer $$


JD

1. Muhammed Ali
2. Elizabeth Taylor
3. Amy Winehouse
4. Pete Doherty
5. Andy Dick $$
6. Bob Barker
7. Charlton Heston
8. John Wooden
9. Barbara Bush $$
10. Kirstie Alley $$
11. Queen Elizabeth
12. Abe Vigoda
13. Gerald Ford ++
14. Fidel Castro
15. JD Salinger $$


JD's wife

1. Britney Spears $$
2. Lindsay Lohan $$
3. Betty White $$
4. Hillary Clinton $$
5. Clint Eastwood $$
6. Gladys Knight $$
7. Harry Morgan $$
8. Courtney Love
9. Charlton Heston
10. Dick Clark
11. Elizabeth Taylor
12. Amy Whinehouse
13. Mickey Rooney $$
14. Lady Bird Johnson ++
15. Fidel Castro


Madville

1. Bob Howsam $$
2. Bill Clinton $$
3. Sally Field $$
4. Michael Vick $$
5. Rush Lumbaugh $$
6. Courtney Love
7. Wolfgang Puck $$
8. Stephen Hawking
9. Morgan Freeman $$
10. George Lucas $$
11. Hal Holbrook $$
12. Boy George $$
13. David Lee Roth $$
14. Mary Tyler Moore $$
15. Jack Nicholson $$
16. Elton John $$
17. Dick Cheney
18. Josh Hamilton $$
19. David Copperfield $$
20. Jane Fonda $$


Man Mountain

1.  John Wooden
2.  Ernest Borgnine
3.  Billy Graham
4.  Seamus Heaney $$
5.  Nancy Reagan
6.  Sir Bobby Robson $$
7.  George Mitchell $$
8.  Stephen Baldwin $$
9.  Patricia Neal $$
10. Maxine Kumin $$
11. Natasha Lyonne $$
12. Ruth Bader Ginsburg $$
13. Elizabeth Taylor
14. Muhammad Ali
15. Ed Asner $$
16. Harold Pinter
17. Adam "Pacman" Jones $$
18. Amy Winehouse
19. Bashar Assad $$
20. Stephen Hawking


Red Menace

1. Farrah Fawcett
2. Ron Springs $$
3. Muhammad Ali
4. Stephen Hawking
5. Ron Santo
6. Louis Farrakhan
7. George Steinbrenner
8. Harold Pinter
9. Ronnie Biggs  $$
10. Jack Kevorkian
11. Ariel Sharon
12. Bo Diddley
13. Fidel Castro
14. Charlton Heston
15. W. Mark Felt
16. Peter O'Toole $$
17. Eunice Kennedy Shriver
18. Billy Graham
19. Kirk Douglas
20. King-Father Norodom Sihanouk $$

Legend:
$$: Unique pick, worth 25-point bonus.
++: JD and wife entered only 15 picks, and each picked a person who was already dead. I got their entries right up against the deadline, so they have accepted their disadvantaged fate.
##: Replaced Steve Fossett.

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According to Baseball America, stud Dominican amateur Michel Inoa will sign with the Athletics for a $4.25 million signing bonus.

The Yankees initially were the leader for Inoa, reportedly agreeing to terms with Inoa's Dominican buscon on a deal with a $2.7 million bonus. However, multiple sources have indicated that Katz was then brought into the deal and raised the signing bar to a minimum of $3.5 million. The Yankees reportedly dropped out at that point in principle over having had a deal struck and then taken away.

That left the Reds, suddenly a major player in Latin America after the signing of Juan Duran this spring for $2 million, and the Rangers, who have