Some terrible news coming out from Fountain Hills, Arizona, as Gabrielle Dawn Schoeneweis, wife of longtime major league pitcher & current Diamondback Scott Schoeneweis, was found dead in her home this afternoon.

As this story is unfolding as we speak, details are few and far between. According to AZCENTRAL.COM, one thing we do know, sadly, is that the discovery was made when her eldest daughter went through something no teenager should ever have to experience: finding their mother’s body. Read more…

There is, of course, never a “good” kind of cancer to get. It’s not like there’s a kind that makes you a better jogger or anything. But of the myriad varieties of the deadly disease, few are as ruthlessly fatal as pancreatic cancer, which boasts a nearly 95% mortality rate. It is bad, bad news. Patrick Swayze has it and is fighting for his life. And now so is NCAA President Myles Brand.

Brand announced his illness via a statement at the end of the annual NCAA convention, which the cancer has prevented Brand from attending this year. The note was as professional as you would expect from an administrator, owing his absence to “attend[ing] to a medical condition,” which makes it sound like he had a checkup he couldn’t reschedule. But the statement didn’t dance around the issue; Brand said his prognosis was “not good.”

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