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Phil Jackson cancer was recently revealed that in March 2011, he was diagnosed with prostate cancer. According to a report by Kevin Ding of the Orange County Register, Jackson postponed surgery until after the season, instead opting to control the cancer temporarily using drugs. "Shocking," Pau Gasol told the OC Register of the news Jackson revealed in hopes of giving the team extra motivation. "But then you also could understand certain moments of his demeanor, energy and involvement because of what he was going through health-wise. It explained certain things. It was a shock. A difficult moment for the team.” Foxsportswest reported Unfortunately for Jackson's bid for ring No. 12, not all Lakers were as inspired as the Zen Master would have liked. Although the team went 12-1 that March, things came to a crashing end soon after. In Game 2 of the second round against the eventual champion Dallas Mavs, Metta World Peace - then known Ron Artest - was suspende

Phil Jackson cancer battle in 2011 is a big part of his upcoming book, “Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success.” Jackson was coaching the Los Angeles Lakers at the time, and Yahoo! Sports shared the details on April 28 of how the illness impacted the team's playoffs. Jackson was diagnosed with prostate cancer in March 2011, but he did not tell his team until two months later. The Los Angeles Lakers were in the midst of a playoff series against the Dallas Mavericks when Phil Jackson's cancer news was shared with them. The book details how Jackson sensed the team needed something to push them, so after talked with captains Derek Fisher and Kobe Bryant, Jackson shared the news. It was, of course, a difficult time for the team. Phil Jackson had decided to delay his needed surgery until after the season was complete, and some players apparently found that difficult to know. The team was eliminated from the playoffs that year after some very challenging moments and losses. Phil Jacks

Phil Jackson cancer, last time the Lakers were swept out of the playoffs (as could happen Sunday as the Lakers trail the Spurs 3-0) it was 2011, when the Lakers were the title defenders. The Dallas Mavericks made short work of Los Angeles in the second round (and went on to win a title). After that loss, Phil Jackson walked away from the Lakers as coach. Trying to motivate his team during that playoffs Phil Jackson told the players he had been diagnosed with prostate cancer. That was not made public at the time but is part of Jackson’s book “11 Rings” that comes out in May , and was reported now by Kevin Ding of the Orange County Register . Jackson was diagnosed with prostate cancer in March 2011. After doctors assured him the cancer could be controlled by drugs temporarily, Jackson waited until after the season to undergo surgery. Jackson decided to divulge his situation to his players when he sensed the team was lacking something in the playoffs. “Shocking,” Pau Gasol said Saturday,

Ponytail stunt death, An Indian daredevil died during a botched stunt that involved him going across a zipline with his ponytail. Sailendra Nath Roy, 49, held the Guinness World Record for covering the most distance on a zipline hanging by his hair. But when he tried to cross the River Teesta on Sunday in West Bengal on a 600-foot-wire above the water, he hit a snag. His hair got caught halfway and he could not move. Roy started screaming as he tried to inch forward, according to witnesses. “Roy tried frantically to get hold of a second rope to reach the finishing point,” police officer K. Jayaraman told the AFP news agency. After around 20 minutes, he went limp and was rescued by local people. He was declared dead by a suspected heart attack when he was sent to a hospital 280 miles away. The BBC reported that Roy hung by his hair for around 45 minutes before he was taken down. “He was desperately trying to move forward. He was trying to scream out some instruction. But no one could f

Beatles record broken by Emeli Sande Official Chart history Smashing The Beatles chart record, Our Version Of Events leaps ahead of The Beatles' Please Please Me to spend the most consecutive weeks in Top 10 of any debut album. Emeli Sandé’s chart success shows no signs of slowing, as the Scottish singer/songwriter today makes Official Chart history. The Official Charts Company can confirm that Emeli Sandé has smashed The Beatles’ chart record of spending the most consecutive weeks in the UK’s Official Albums Chart Top 10 of any debut album. Our Version Of Events, the debut release from the 2012 BRITs Critics Choice winner which was released in February of last year and went on to become the biggest selling album of 2012, has not dropped out of the Top 10 since its release - that’s a staggering 63 weeks! In doing so, Sandé overtakes British music icons The Beatles who held the record for almost 50 years previously with Please Please Me. The debut album from the Fab Four spent 62 w

Beatles record broken by the Scottish artist Emeli Sandé. Beatles fended off all contenders for half a century, but the Scottish singer-songwriter Emeli Sandé has toppled one of the band’s longest-standing chart records. Ms. Sandé’s debut album, “Our Version of Events,” has spent the last 63 weeks in the British top 10, surpassing the 62 consecutive weeks that the Beatles’ debut, “Please Please Me,” spent in the top 10 in 1963 and 1964. Ms. Sandé’s status as the new record-holder for the most tenacious debut album was announced on Sunday by the Official Charts Company , a British organization that has been overseeing these records for the last 60 years, and whose charts are broadcast weekly by the BBC, and published in Music Week. Ny-times reported Ms. Sandé, 26, has been writing music inspired by Nina Simone and Lauryn Hill, often with a social or political undercurrent, since she was 11, and had a songwriting contract with EMI Music Publishing before she was signed by Virgin Records

Ponytail stunt death caused due to hanging on a wire with his ponytail. The stunt that involved him going across a zipline with his ponytail Guinness Book of World Records is full of individuals who have put their lives at risk in order to gain notoriety as the ‘best.’ An Indian man named Sailendra Nath Roy, who already holds a Guinness World Record for the category of ‘traveling the farthest distance on a zip wire attached to hair’ died Sunday after trying to recreate the stunt, according to a One News Page report from April 29 . Roy was performing the feat in front of spectators over the Teesta River in West Bengal Sunday. He was suspended from a 180-meter-long zip wire at a height of 20 meters. Witnesses say that Roy had progressed about halfway across the wire, but suddenly began to struggle and was unable to go any further. After a few moments, he went still. It took approximately 45 minutes to bring Roy down from the wire. No emergency personnel were standing by for his stunt. Th