The Close but NO CIGAR Page!

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This page contains the "Close but NO CIGAR !!!" players who could have won, but since we were between rounds, they didn't count. Just thought this would be a fun page. (started tracking on December 26th, 2006)

For educational purposes, click on the expired participant's name
to view a portion of their bio.

June 28th, 2016 - Daryle Brocanier (Buddy Ryan - age 85)

May 23rd, 2016 - Ron Burns (John Brophy - age 83)

April 20th, 2016 - Andy Bak (Guy Hamilton - age 93)

March 8th, 2016 - Bob Lessard (Rolly Fox - age 80)

February 28th, 2016 - Larry Smith & friend (George Kennedy - age 91)

February 26th, 2016 - April Pitcher (Andy Bathgate - age 83)

February 19th, 2016 - Bill Hogan (Harper Lee - age 89)

February 16th, 2016 - Mary Ann Roche (Boutros_Boutros-Ghali - age 93)

January 26th, 2016 - Rick Askew (Abe Vigoda - age 94)

January 15th, 2016 - Harry Harmer (Dan Haggerty - age 73)

January 6th, 2016 - Pierrette Landry (Pat Harrington - age 86)

December 31st, 2015 - Steve Buta (Wayne Rogers - age 82)

December 4th, 2015 - Sherry Stanton (Robert Loggia - age 85)

December 3rd, 2015 - Jim Roy (Scott Weiland - age 48)

November 20th, 2015 - Doug Imrie (Jim Perry - age 82)

October 30th, 2015 - John Hilton Jr. (Al Molinaro - age 96)

October 21st, 2015 - Will Roche (Marty Ingels - age 79)

July 31st, 2015 - Lisa McKay (Roddy Piper - age 61)

July 10th, 2015 - Larry King (Omar Sharif - age 83)

June 23rd, 2015 - Stephen Bell (Dick Van Patten - age 86)

June 11th, 2015 - Doug Imrie (Dusty Rhodes - age 69)

June 7th, 2015 - Pierrette Landry (Christopher Lee - age 93)

June 1st, 2015 - Bill Tzikas (Jacques Parizeau - age 84)

May 1st, 2015 - Ted Kibby (Grace Lee Whitney - age 85)

April 14th, 2015 - Greg Langley (Percy Sledge - age 74)

April 6th, 2015 - Ken Anderson (James Best - age 88)

February 27th, 2015 - Paula Read (Leonard Nimoy - age 83)

January 24th, 2015 - Brandon Heard (Abdullah of Saudi Arabia - age 90)

December 23rd, 2014 - Lee Ritchie (Edward Greenspan - age 70)

December 22nd, 2014 - Bill Eyre (Joe Cocker - age 70)

December 2nd, 2014 - Jason Newman (Jean Beliveau - age 83)

November 24th, 2014 - Chantal Tardif (Viktor Tikhonov - age 84)

November 23rd, 2014 - Brad Graham (Pay Quinn - age 71)

July 19th, 2014 - Paul Behm (James Garner - age 86)

July 11th, 2014 - Carolyn Ruckstuhl (Tommy Ramone - age 65)

June 1st, 2014 - Brian Jenkins (Ann B. Davis - age 88)

April 29th, 2014 - Jamie Loverock (Bob Hoskins - age 71)

April 6th, 2014 - Paula Read (Mickey Rooney - age 93)

April 5th, 2014 - Linda Loverock (John Pinette - age 50)

February 25th, 2014 - Ann Frobel (Jim Lange - age 81)

February 24th, 2014 - Dannie Bartlett (Harold Ramis - age 69)

February 13th, 2014 - Ron McLean (Ralph Waite - age 85)

February 12th, 2014 - Steven Behm (Sid Caesar- age 91)

January 16th, 2014 - Louise Fournier (Russell Johnson - age 89)

January 3rd, 2014 - Jacqueline Van London (Phil Everly - age 74)

December 23rd, 2013 - Donna Ayre (Vito Rizzuto - age 67)

October 27th, 2013 - Fred Fenton (Lou Reed - age 71)

October 18th, 2013 - Rick Kenedy (Allan Stanley - age 87)

October 18th, 2013 - Deb K. (Tom Foley - age 84)

October 1st, 2013 - Cheryl Penney (Tom Clancy - age 66)

September 1st, 2013 - Bob Lessard (Tommy_Morrison - age 44)

May 12th, 2013 - Keegan Henson (Peter Worthington - age 86)

May 8th, 2013 - Christine Pilon (Jeanne Cooper - age 84)

April 16th, 2013 - Bill Tzikas (Rita MacNeil - age 68)

April 16th, 2013 - Lee Taylor (Pat Summerall - age 82)

April 8th, 2013 - Tom Coulthard (Margaret Thatcher - age 87)

April 4th, 2013 - Ken Anderson (Roger Ebert - age 70)

March 6th, 2013 - Tom Mignardi (Stompin' Tom Connors - age 77)

January 1st, 2013 - Brad Graham (Patti Page - age 85)

December 24th, 2012 - Keegan Shea (Charles Durning - age 89)

November 23rd, 2012 - Rod Brocanier (Larry Hagman - age 81)

August 20th, 2012 - Dale Comeau (Phyllis Diller - age 95)

July 24th, 2012 - Don Wilson (Sherman Hemsley - age 74)

July 16th, 2012 - Bruce Macdonald (Kitty Wells - age 92)

July 8th, 2012 - Brad Lyons (Ernest Borgnine - age 95)

July 3rd, 2012 - Bev Taylor (Andy Griffith - age 86)

June 17th, 2012 - Jackie Surina (Rodney King - age 47)

June 12th, 2012 - Jackie Surina (Henry Hill - age 69)

June 2nd, 2012 - Charles Bosworth (Richard Dawson - age 79)

January 9th, 2012 - Jesse Doucette (Ron Caron - age 82)

December 16th, 2011 - Bill Bartlett (Robert Easton - age 81)

December 7th, 2011 - Joanne Lamont (Harry Morgan - age 96)

November 8th, 2011 - Brian Jenkins (Joe Frazier - age 67)

November 4th, 2011 - Mark Elliot (Andy Rooney - age 92)

October 22nd, 2011 - Anne Belli (Sultan bin Abdul Aziz - age 81)

October 9th, 2011 - Derek Choi (Al Davis - age 82)

September 27th, 2011 - Larry Smith (Johnny Mathis - age 78)

July 23rd, 2011 - Mike Thompson (Amy Whinehouse - age 27)

July 8th, 2011 - Kirk Easy (Betty Ford - age 93)

June 23rd, 2011 - Dannie Bartlett (Peter Falk - age 83)

June 17th, 2011 - Will Roche (Betty Fox - early 70s)

May 27th, 2011 - Don Wilson (Jeff Conaway - age 60)

May 3rd, 2011 - Andy Bak (Jackie Cooper - age 88)

May 2nd, 2011 - Mike Brown (Osama bin Laden - age 54)

March 24th, 2011 - Chantal Tardif (Dudley Laws - age 76)

January 23rd, 2011 - Ryan Penney (Jack Lalanne- age 96)

December 20th, 2010 - Jason Newman (Steve Landesberg - age 74)

November 10th, 2010 - Bill Baxter (Nicolo Rizzuto - age 86)

November 4th, 2010 - Lee Taylor (Sparky Anderson - age 76)

October 20th, 2010 - Natalie Neary (Bob Guccione - age 79)

October 19th, 2010 - Tracey Pounder (Tom Bosley - age 83)

October 16th, 2010 - Kimberly Wilson (Barbara Billingsley - age 94)

July 27th, 2010 - Walter Johnson (Maury Chaykin - age 61)

July 13th, 2010 - Lucy Busuito (George Steinbrenner - age 80)

July 5th, 2010 - Charles Bosworth (Bob Probert - age 45)

June 13th, 2010 - Natalie Neary (Jimmy Dean - age 81)

June 3rd, 2010 - Erica Mungham (Rue McClanahan - age 76)

May 9th, 2010 - Mike Blair (during R23) (Lena Horne - age 92)

March 14th, 2010 - Bob Lessard (Peter Graves - age 83)

February 10th, 2010 - Danny Lacey (Charlie Wilson - age 76)

February 3rd, 2010 - Ron Burns (Frances Reid - age 95)

January 24th, 2010 - Jane Kibby (Pernell Roberts - age 81)

January 13th, 2009 - Bill Tzikas (Teddy Pendergrass - age 59)

December 15th, 2009 - Rick Wilson (Oral Roberts - age 91)

July 17th, 2009 - Brian Jenkins (Walter Cronkite - age 92)

July 1st, 2009 - Paul Hoskin (Karl Malden - age 97)

June 25th, 2009 - Cathy Shea (Michael Jackson - age 50)

June 3rd, 2009 - Eric Loverock (David Carradine - age 72)

April 25th, 2009 - Brent Lang (during R20) (Bea Arthur - age 86)

February 6th, 2009 - Kirk Easy (James Whitmore - age 87)

January 27th, 2009 - Randy Vibert (John Updike - age 76)

January 14th, 2009 - Stephen King (Ricardo Montalban - age 88)

December 5th, 2008 - Darrell Mullins (Beverly Garland - age 82)

September 26th, 2008 - Christa Nizio (Paul Newman - age 83)

June 22nd, 2008 - Lee Taylor (George Carlin - age 71)

June 2nd, 2008 - Dan Clouthier (Bo Diddley - age 79)

June 1st, 2008 - Rick Askew (Yves St-Laurent - age 71)

May 29th, 2008 - Christa Nizio (Harvey Korman - age 82)

March 2nd, 2008 - Robin Lacey (Jeff Healey - age 41)

February 10th, 2008 - Ron Desjardins (Roy Scheider - age 75)

December 27th, 2007 - Sandy Rutherford (Benazir Bhutto- age 54)

November 30th, 2007 - Jamie Loverock (Evel Knievel - age 69)

October 30th, 2007 - Donny "Stubby" Bayus (Robert Goulet - age 73)

October 17th, 2007 - Ken Anderson (Joey Bishop - age 89)

September 26th, 2007 - Christine Lessard (Bill Wirtz - age 77)

September 6th, 2007 - Melissa Pitcher (Luciano Pavarotti - age 71)

August 13th, 2007 - Robin Lacey (Phil Rizzuto - age 89)

August 12th, 2007 - Marion Cowie (Merv Griffin - age 82)

July 30th, 2007 - Neill Ross (Ingmar Bergman - age 89)

May 15th, 2007 - Terryl Tzikas (Jerry Falwell - age 73)

April 23rd, 2007 - Jimmy Graham (Boris Yelstin - age 76)

April 17th, 2007 - Jennifer Wilson (Kitty Carlisle Hart - age 96)

January 17th, 2007 - Ian McMahon (Art Buchwald - age 81)

December 26th, 2006 - Andy Bak (Gerald Ford - age 93)