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Lou Saban, who coached O.J. Simpson in the NFL and ran the New York Yankees for George Steinbrenner during a well-traveled career that spanned five decades, died Sunday. He was 87.
Saban died around 4 a.m. at his home in North Myrtle Beach, S.C., his wife, Joyce, said. He had heart problems for years and recently suffered a fall that required hospitalization, she said.
Saban played football at Indiana University and for the Cleveland Browns of the NFL before embarking on an unmatched head coaching career that included stops with the Boston Patriots and Buffalo Bills of the old American Football League and the Denver Broncos and Bills after the AFL merged with the NFL in 1970, along with college jobs at Miami, Army, Northwestern and Maryland.
Saban, who was 95-99-7 in 16 seasons of pro football, also was president of the New York Yankees from 1981-82 and coached high school football from 1987-89.
BARODA TOWNSHIP, Mich. — Three boys in southwest Michigan have turned up what has been identified as a bone from a mammoth.The Herald-Palladium of St. Joseph reports brothers Ethan and Evan Hoge and their cousin Sebastian O'Connor found the bone March 21 on top of soil that had been scraped from a drain in Baroda Township.Nine-year-old Ethan, 7-year-old Evan and 10-year-old Sebastian regularly spent time looking for antique bottles and other items around what was once a railroad line along the edge of their family's property.But that day they and two uncles found the bone instead. Tom Goodwin, a professor of paleobiology at Andrews University, identified it as a vertebral section from the lower back of a Jefferson's mammoth.
LAS VEGAS — The topless revue "Les Folies Bergere" has hung up its feathers after 49 years at the Tropicana hotel-casino.Many performers who had taken part in the show's 29,000 runs since Christmas of 1959 crowded the set after its final curtain on Saturday.Jerry Jackson, the show's choreographer and director since 1975, thanked "the thousands of performers who have entertained millions of people" in remarks to the audience before the show.The closing leaves Bally's "Jubilee!" as the last full-scale showgirl revue left on the Las Vegas Strip.The performance and reunion included dancers and specialists who graced the stage throughout the show's run.It was "like a big family," said Daniel Celario, a comedian who performed in the show with his brother on and off from 1986 to 2000. "It was like going to work at the office with a lot of people you like."
