{"id":14741,"date":"2016-06-28T12:30:51","date_gmt":"2016-06-28T17:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=14741"},"modified":"2016-06-28T12:40:55","modified_gmt":"2016-06-28T17:40:55","slug":"obit-watch-june-28-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=14741","title":{"rendered":"Obit watch: June 28, 2016."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bad day for sports.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/06\/29\/sports\/ncaabasketball\/pat-summitt-obituary.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fobituaries&#038;action=click&#038;contentCollection=obituaries&#038;region=rank&#038;module=package&#038;version=highlights&#038;contentPlacement=1&#038;pgtype=sectionfront\" target=\"_blank\">Pat Summitt<\/a>, University of Tennessee basketball coach. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.knoxnews.com\/sports\/vols\/womens-basketball\/tennessee-coaching-legend-pat-summitt-dies-at-age-64-362416ed-b215-63fa-e053-0100007f2703-384619061.html\" target=\"_blank\">Knoxville News-Sentinel<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/womens-college-basketball\/story\/_\/id\/16577486\/legendary-tennessee-lady-vols-coach-pat-summitt-dies-64\" target=\"_blank\">ESPN<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>She was only 64. Alzheimer&#8217;s sucks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/06\/29\/sports\/football\/buddy-ryan-dies-nfl.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fobituaries&#038;action=click&#038;contentCollection=obituaries&#038;region=stream&#038;module=stream_unit&#038;version=latest&#038;contentPlacement=1&#038;pgtype=sectionfront&#038;_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">Buddy Ryan<\/a>, one of the great NFL defensive coaches. <a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/16579465\/former-nfl-coach-defensive-guru-buddy-ryan-dies-age-82\" target=\"_blank\">ESPN<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Noted without comment:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/16579465\/former-nfl-coach-defensive-guru-buddy-ryan-dies-age-82\" target=\"_blank\">Ryan later punched offensive coordinator Kevin Gilbride on national TV on Jan. 2, 1994, when both were assistant coaches with the Houston Oilers.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bad day for sports. Pat Summitt, University of Tennessee basketball coach. Knoxville News-Sentinel. ESPN. She was only 64. Alzheimer&#8217;s sucks. Buddy Ryan, one of the great NFL defensive coaches. ESPN. Noted without comment: Ryan later punched offensive coordinator Kevin Gilbride on national TV on Jan. 2, 1994, when both were assistant coaches with the Houston [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,16,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nfl","category-obits","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14741"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14742,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14741\/revisions\/14742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}