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Michael Heisley, the billionaire businessman who bought the Vancouver Grizzlies and moved the NBA team to Memphis, died on April 26 at 77.
The sports world lost former Tennessee Titans kicker Rob Bironas, who died Sept. 21 at the age of 36 after a car accident near his Nashville home. Bironas was the fourth most-accurate kicker in NFL history. In nine seasons with the Titans, he finished as the team's second all-time leading scorer with 1,032 points,Jerseys Cheap NFL, and he set a franchise record scoring triple digits in seven straight seasons. He also set an NFL record in 2011 in hitting a field goal from at least 40 yards in 10 consecutive games.
Just two weeks later, John Seigenthaler, the journalist who edited The Tennessean newspaper, helped shape USA Today and founded the First Amendment Center at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, died on July 11 at age 86.
Baker served as chief of staff to President Ronald Regan,Wholesale Authentic Jerseys. Seigenthaler worked for civil rights during the John F. Kennedy administration and served on Robert Kennedy's presidential campaign,China Jerseys. Gaskin once sought the Green Party nomination for president.
These three very different men, who died over a three-week period, were among the most prominent Tennesseans lost in 2014.
The state also lost several beloved musicians in 2014. Sixty-three-year-old Jimi Jamison, who sang lead on Survivor hits such as "Burning Heart" and "Is This Love," died on Sept. 1 at his Memphis home. Dec. 2 saw the death of 70-year-old saxophonist Bobby Keys, a lifelong rock 'n' roller who toured with Buddy Holly,Wholesale China Jerseys, played on recordings by John Lennon and laid down one of the all-time blowout solos on the Rolling Stones' "Brown Sugar."
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — On June 26, former Senate majority leader Howard Baker, who famously asked during the Watergate hearings, "What did the president know and when did he know it?" died at the age of 88.
Others included longtime Tennessee civil rights lawyer George Barrett,Wholesale Jerseys Free Shipping, who died on Aug. 26 at the age of 86. His career spanned more than 50 years, but he was best known for handling a case that ultimately desegregated the state's public colleges and universities.
In between,Cheap Jerseys For Sale, there was the July 1 death of 79-year-old Stephen Gaskin, a counterculture visionary who led a caravan of hippies from California to Tennessee to establish The Farm, one of the country's longest lasting communes. |
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