Death happens. Why not make it interesting?
The online competition to guess which famous people won't make it to the end of the current year. If they're elderly, ill, or just live a high-risk lifestyle, stick 'em in your team, and for each one whose death you correctly predict, you'll score points. DDP was dreamt up in Derby, England (hence the name...) by Big Iain back in 1996. Other hosts: Siegfried Baboon and Rude Kid (2003-7), Octopus of Odstock (2008-9), The Man in Black (2010-17), Spade Cooley (2018-19), msc (2020-21), Grim Up North (2020-22), and Reptile (2020-23). Now the Committee of DI (2022), time (2024), and Banana (2023) oversee the biggest deadpool going...
DEAD SERT Mike Sertich was a US college ice hockey coach for the Minnesota Duluth Bulldogs and despite being the most obvious ever Yahoo-or-bust gamble, actually did get a Mail obit too. He was 77 and picked by four teams. Mike Sertich9 January 1947 – 8 August 2024, aged 774 TEAMS (💀💀💀💀💀💀💀 7 POINTS)
SHAKESPEARE NOT TO BE Ex Leicester City manager Craig Shakespeare has died aged 60. After playing as a midfielder for Walsall, West Bromwich Albion, and Grimsby Town, he was assistant manager to Claudio Ranieri when the Foxes won the 2015-16 Premier League. He took over the coaching mantle upon Ranieri’s sacking in 2017 until his […]
MANCHESTER BLACKEYE Former MP Ken Eastham has died aged 96. The Labour man represented Manchester Blackley and his time in parliament bookended Labour’s dry spell of opposition – he first won as Thatcher was swept in and retired at the Blair comeback. He was unique for No More Expenses. Ken Eastham11 August 1927 – 21 […]
ATOMIC SLUMBER No, not the Married… with Children regular and patron saint of shark jumping, that’s Ted McGinley. Ken McGinley was a long-time campaigner against nuclear weapons after his witnessing of several tests left him with lingering health issues. He founded the British Nuclear Test Veterans Association, which seeked restitution for soldiers who suffered nuclear […]
SCOTT FREE Scottish rugby union player Donald Scott has died aged 96. Among his ten international appearances was an infamous match where South Africa crushed Scotland 44-0. His obit prospects were seeming similarly pessimistic until being rescued by Herald Scotland two months after the fact. He was picked by Jocks Away. Donald Scott15 April 1928 […]
THEY CALL ME ISMAIL Ismail Haniyeh was one of the leading figures of Hamas. He was wanted by the ICC for war crimes but at the very least had interest in negotiating an end to the genocide in Gaza. Which is more than you can say for Bibi. He was assassinated in Tehran aged 61 […]
STROOCK OF LUCK Actress Gloria Stroock has died aged 99. She acted in films like Fun with Dick and Jane and The Day of the Locust and was perhaps best known as Rock Hudson’s secretary in the police TV drama McMillan & Wife. Her husband was Leonard Stern, a screenwriter who also [verb]ed Mad Libs […]
NEWHART BUTTONED DOWN Comedy legend Bob Newhart … he … has hung up aged 94. He landed on the scene with his acclaimed 1960 album The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart, which featured skits such as a driving instructor struggling with a reckless student, and Abe Lincoln rebuffing a slick ad man while he writes […]
STANDING IN THE SHADOWS OF DEATH Last of the OG Four Tops, Duke Fakir, has died aged 88. Fakir had befriended frontman Levi Stubbs in high school over their mutual interest in sports and singing, and soon the quartet was rounded out with Lawrence Payton and Renaldo Benson. They named themselves The Four Aims (named […]
SHANNEN IS GONE, I HOPE SHE’S DRIFTING OUT TO SEA 90s sensation Shannen Doherty has died aged 53. First known as a child actress on Little House on the Prairie, she gained further momentum with a string of teen dramas and comedies such as the morbid Heathers. It was riding the Aaron Spelling train that […]
