It's four days past the deadline, so I'm going to assume I have all the entries. We got a very good response from Red Reporters and family members, and this year's pool will include 15 participants. I will be cashing checks and money orders tomorrow and inserting the pot (in cash) into the official Binding Bereavement Binder. The winner will get $120, second place $20, third place $10.
Here are the rosters:
3 fast
- Stephen Hawking
- Phyllis Diller
- Queen Elizabeth II
- Mary Kate Olsen $$
- Keith Richards
- Cesar Laurean $$
- Nelson Mandela $$
- Dick Vitale $$
- Dick Clark
- Joe Paterno $$
- Fidel Castro
- Yogi Berra $$
- Ariel Sharon
- Stan Musial $$
- Jerry Lewis $$
- Zsa Zsa Gabor
- John Wooden
- Jack Kevorkian
- Billy Graham
- Estelle Getty $$
- Dom DeLouise $$
- Jack Klugman
- Margaret Thatcher
- Gary Glitter $$
- Kenny Baker $$
- David Prowse $$
- Stephen Hawking
- Lester "Beetlejuice" Green $$
- Lou Henson $$
- Hamid Karzai
- Bo Diddley
- Diego Maradona $$
- Pervez Musharraf
- Roger Ebert
- Andy Fordham $$
- Harold Pinter
- Roh Tae-woo $$
- Sirajuddin Haqqani $$
- Howard Dill $$
- Edna Parker $$
- Kirk Douglas
- Charlton Heston
- George H.W. Bush
- Al Davis $$
- Billy Graham
- Bilawal Bhutto Zardari $$
- George Steinbrenner
- B.B. King $$
- Omar bin Laden $$
- James Earl Jones $$
- Charlie Watts $$
- Ralph Wilson $$
- Jimmy Carter
- Amy Winehouse
- Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka $$
- Abe Vigoda
- Pete Doherty
- Paul McCartney $$
- Fidel Castro
- Eddie Van Halen $$
- Amy Winehouse
- Farrah Fawcett
- Elizabeth Edwards
- Fidel Castro
- Tony Snow $$
- Tony Yayo $$
- Bobby Murcer $$
- Muhammad Ali
- Soupy Sales $$
- George Steinbrenner
- Prodigy from Mobb Deep $$
- Zsa Zsa Gabor
- Billy Graham
- Lil Wayne $$
- Jack Kevorkian
- Doyle Brunson $$
- Fyvush Finkel $$
- Sen. Robert Byrd $$
- Pete Doherty
- Bob Barker
- Barack Obama $$
- Dick Cheney
- Keith Richards
- Ernest Borgnine
- Phyllis Diller
- Ted Kennedy $$
- Jimmy Carter
- John Travolta $$
- Farrah Fawcett
- Elizabeth Edwards
- Kirk Douglas
- Colin Farrell $$
- Joan Collins $$
- Elizabeth Taylor
- Liza Minelli $$
- Robin Williams $$
- Loretta Lynn $$
- Brigitte Nielsen $$
- Connie Stevens $$
- John Daly $$
- Elizabeth Edwards
- John Wooden
- W. Mark Felt
- Ariel Sharon
- Billy Graham
- Ralph Stanley $$
- Sammy Baugh $$
- Lee MacPhail $$
- Bobby Doerr $$
- Russell Watson $$
- Charlton Heston
- Jesse Helms
- Fidel Castro
- Karl Malden
- Prince Philip $$
- Margaret Thatcher
- Ali al-Sistani $$
- Betty Ford
- Stuart Scott $$
- Kirk Douglas
-
Mike Tyson ## $$
- Ralph Houk $$
- Billy Graham
- Ed McMahon $$
- John Wooden
- Elizabeth Edwards
- Millvina Dean $$
- Kirk Douglas
- Elizabeth Taylor
- Paul Harvey
- Ariel Sharon
- Walter Cronkite
- Orlando Thomas $$
- Larry Hagman $$
- Andy Griffith
- Don Baylor $$
- Rowdy Roddy Piper $$
- Farrah Fawcett
- Steve Smith (former Raiders running back) $$
- Gary Coleman $$
- Fidel Castro
- Ariel Sharon
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver
- Studs Terkel $$
- Jack Klugman
- Kirk Douglas
- Charlton Heston
- Paul Harvey
- Bo Diddley
- Olivia de Havilland $$
- Zsa Zsa Gabor
-
Britney Spears ##
- Roger Ebert
- Ron Santo
- Miep Gies $$
- Hamid Karzai
- Amy Winehouse
- Karl Malden
- Betty Ford
- Robert Mondavi $$
- Harvey Korman $$
- Karl Malden
- Andy Griffith
- Pervez Musharraf
- Fidel Castro
- John Wooden
- Paul Newman $$
- Dick Clark
- Robert Downey Jr. $$
- Jack Klugman
- Monte Irvin $$
- Robert McNamara $$
- Amy Winehouse
- Conrad Dobler $$
- Nancy Reagan
- George H.W. Bush
- Phyllis Diller
- Abe Vigoda
- Muhammad Ali
- Walter Cronkite
- Doris Lessing $$
- Rick Majerus $$
- Pete Doherty
- Amy Winehouse
- Haley Joel Osment $$
- Jesse Helms
- Farrah Fawcett
- Betty Ford
- Fidel Castro
- Pervez Musharraf
- Jack Kevorkian
- Ariel Sharon
- Kirk Douglas
- Louis Farrakhan
- Billy Graham
- Kenneth Arrow $$
- Paul Samuelson $$
- Ronald Coase $$
- Maya Angelou $$
- Nadine Gordimer $$
- Muhammed Ali
- Elizabeth Taylor
- Amy Winehouse
- Pete Doherty
- Andy Dick $$
- Bob Barker
- Charlton Heston
- John Wooden
- Barbara Bush $$
- Kirstie Alley $$
- Queen Elizabeth
- Abe Vigoda
-
Gerald Ford ++
- Fidel Castro
- JD Salinger $$
- Britney Spears $$
- Lindsay Lohan $$
- Betty White $$
- Hillary Clinton $$
- Clint Eastwood $$
- Gladys Knight $$
- Harry Morgan $$
- Courtney Love
- Charlton Heston
- Dick Clark
- Elizabeth Taylor
- Amy Whinehouse
- Mickey Rooney $$
-
Lady Bird Johnson ++
- Fidel Castro
- Bob Howsam $$
- Bill Clinton $$
- Sally Field $$
- Michael Vick $$
- Rush Lumbaugh $$
- Courtney Love
- Wolfgang Puck $$
- Stephen Hawking
- Morgan Freeman $$
- George Lucas $$
- Hal Holbrook $$
- Boy George $$
- David Lee Roth $$
- Mary Tyler Moore $$
- Jack Nicholson $$
- Elton John $$
- Dick Cheney
- Josh Hamilton $$
- David Copperfield $$
- Jane Fonda $$
- John Wooden
- Ernest Borgnine
- Billy Graham
- Seamus Heaney $$
- Nancy Reagan
- Sir Bobby Robson $$
- George Mitchell $$
- Stephen Baldwin $$
- Patricia Neal $$
- Maxine Kumin $$
- Natasha Lyonne $$
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg $$
- Elizabeth Taylor
- Muhammad Ali
- Ed Asner $$
- Harold Pinter
- Adam "Pacman" Jones $$
- Amy Winehouse
- Bashar Assad $$
- Stephen Hawking
- Farrah Fawcett
- Ron Springs $$
- Muhammad Ali
- Stephen Hawking
- Ron Santo
- Louis Farrakhan
- George Steinbrenner
- Harold Pinter
- Ronnie Biggs $$
- Jack Kevorkian
- Ariel Sharon
- Bo Diddley
- Fidel Castro
- Charlton Heston
- W. Mark Felt
- Peter O'Toole $$
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver
- Billy Graham
- Kirk Douglas
- King-Father Norodom Sihanouk $$
$$: 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.
A list of the most popular picks:
# Person Selections
1 Fidel Castro 10
2 Billy Graham 8
2 Amy Winehouse 8
4 Kirk Douglas 7
5 Charlton Heston 6
5 Ariel Sharon 6
7 Muhammad Ali 5
7 Farrah Fawcett 5
7 Stephen Hawking 5
7 Elizabeth Taylor 5
7 John Wooden 5
12 Pete Doherty 4
12 Elizabeth Edwards 4
12 Jack Kevorkian 4
15 Dick Clark 3
15 Bo Diddley 3
15 Phyllis Diller 3
15 Betty Ford 3
15 Zsa Zsa Gabor 3
15 Jack Klugman 3
15 Karl Malden 3
15 Pervez Musharraf 3
15 Harold Pinter 3
15 George Steinbrenner 3
15 Abe Vigoda 3
Other multiple (2) picks: Bob Barker, Ernest Borgnine, George H.W. Bush, Jimmy Carter, Dick Cheney, Walter Cronkite, Roger Ebert, Queen Elizabeth, Louis Farrakhan, W. Mark Felt, Andy Griffith, Paul Harvey, Jesse Helms, Hamid Karzai, Courtney Love, Nancy Reagan, Keith Richards, Ron Santo, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, Margaret Thatcher.
For integrity's sake, I e-mailed the picks made by me and my mom early (my roommate missed the first deadline, so I just posted him with everyone else.) Here is the full-disclosure e-mail address and password:
boobsisnotacheater@gmail.com
b00bsisnotacheater (notice the zeroes).
As far as the Fossett pick and any other dusputable picks, here is my suggestion. If no one objects, I think they should be allowed to replace that pick, especially since they got their entries in early and I failed to notice. No one will lose uniqueness bonus points if they pick people who were unique selections for other people.
I would extend the same courtesy to any other picks that are in violation of the rules that I haven't noticed.
Update [2008-2-8 12:45:10 by boobs]: I edited the list to reflect Brian B and wife's new picks. JD's wife will still receive uniqueness bonus for Britney Spears since she was the only person to pick her as of the posting of the rosters.
I'm sure there are some other mistakes in here, but I hope I copied down everyone's roster correctly. Let me know if there's anything I screwed up and I'll get it fixed right away. Not that rooting for Soupy Sales to die is fun, exactly, but this oughta be pretty entertaining.
Good luck everyone!