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Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 7:05 am
by driveby
Prayers for his family and friends.
Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 7:14 am
by mudsucker
I've not been on the boards since Sunday and was going to log in last night @ 9:45 when my cell phone rang. It was Robert Stanton calling to tell me this news as he noticed I had not been on and thought that I was out on the river without internet service! I am home but have been real busy past two days. I am glad he called as I too had spoke to Mike a few times and we would PM each other in our "effort" to rile old Benny up! He did finnally made peace(somewhat) with his archnemissis Benny. Once you got to know the big guy, you could not help but like him. I too will miss his imput and his stories of how the South Delta used to be. Rest now Big Sporty, as you deserve some peace.
Prayers sent.
Joe Mitchell
Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 7:34 am
by cwink
Sorry to hear. I truly enjoyed his posts. Prayers sent to his family.
Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 7:53 am
by Don Miller
I'm very sorry to hear this. He will be missed. Prayers go out to his family. Maybe this will serve as a wake up call for some of us to take our health more seriously.
Sportsman 450, you will be missed.
Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 8:52 am
by Bankermane
Does anyone know visitation or the funeral arrangements.
Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 8:56 am
by donia
Bankermane wrote:Does anyone know visitation or the funeral arrangements.
mallardchaser wrote:Visitation, Thursday.... 10am, funeral 11am at St. Andrews in downtown Jackson.
Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 9:18 am
by Bankermane
He turned to MsDucks when he was in trouble. Here's part of the last communications I had with him.
you wanna do me a huge favor???
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> > > > > call the g.i associates and tell them you have an emergency so you'll get a dr to call you back -- explain to the dr that dr cindy hayden wright did a colo on me wed and i'm havin some problems and won't have a phone till monday and see if they will email me at
mlyell1@comcast.net so i can get some advice???
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> > > > > > Hate that. I've tried to call a few times to check on you but got the recording. Just googled it to see what it was. Least it wasn't cancer. Looks like diet and exercise is the treatment. You probably need that anyway, so not all is bad. Sounds painful.
> > > > > > Keep me posted. Hey, the colonoscomy wasn't bad, huh. Just the golytrly. I like being put to sleep. If only you could pick out the music. Almost like the 60s.
> > > > > > > hey b-dood
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> > > > > > > it appears my initial diagnosis is ulcerative colitus, abut they took some biopsies tha'll be in next week
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> > > > > > > in the mean time, i feel even worse -- still $#!+ liquid and constant nausea -- puked twice -- no phone, so i can't call dr -- life pretty much sux right now -- just hope i make it till monday
Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 9:24 am
by feedcall
Mike was my tennis coach starting at about 10 years old, and coached me until I was about 16. Thanks goodness I reunited with him as an adult, becuase all the memories that he had of me were of a spoiled teenager. He drove me and 5 other guys all over the south playing in different tennis tournaments every weekend for several years. He was paid, but not well. He knew that we had potential and I think out of that group 5 out of 6 of us were ranked top 10 in Miss and 2 went on to play college tennis. He did it because he truly cared, and certainly not because he wanted to hang out with a bunch of brats. He was a great coach, and pushed us all way beyond our potential. We reunited several years back and I fished with him on a couple of different occasions. Mallardchaser and I took him fishing a couple of times when his health started to decline and Mallardchaser took him many times besides that. Like everyone else I loved the stories of ducks pouring into the South Delta. As a hunter I love to see the spark in other hunters' eyes as they tell stories. I think it re-assures me that I am not crazy, but that what I see fascinates me just as much as it does other people. He will be missed in the tennis community, and in the hunting community greatly. Rest in peace big Mike...
Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 10:31 am
by Nash
Sporty your gonna be missed,
RIP big guy, Opening day I will bust ones booty just for you.
Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 12:06 pm
by woundedduck
prayers sent
Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 12:14 pm
by tombstone
What was Mike's last name? Please forgive me for asking. I did not know him except through the forum.
Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 12:21 pm
by Bankermane
Lyell
Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 2:00 pm
by weimhunter
If anyone goes to the funeral they should print this thread and take to his mom.
Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 2:13 pm
by Bankermane
Just got off the phone with Sporty's brother, Garland Lyell. He said that he had been in Baptist Hospital for a kidney problem. He said that Sporty died of sleep apnea. I know that there was some discussion concerning apnea on here before. Don't take it litely.
Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 2:32 pm
by Waboduck
GREAT POEM for anyone that has crossed over to the other side ....comes from a scene in the movie "Out Of Africa".
With rue my heart is laden ,
For golden friends I've had.
For many a rose lipped maiden,
And for many a light foot lad.
By brooks too broad for leaping,
The light foot boys are laid.
The rose lipped girls are sleeping,
In fields where roses fade.