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I will be in Atlanta for the week-end, for a SoA meeting. Last time I went to an SoA meeting (in Chicago), I did mention a connexion between baseball and mathematics (and Paul Erdös). This, time, I can probably mention a connexion between basketball and acturial science. More precisely, a great basketball player named Peter "Pistol Pete" Press Maravich. In an interview in 1974 (while he was playing with the Hawks of Atlanta), Maravich had said, "I don't want to play 10 years [in the NBA] and then die of a heart attack when I'm 40." Unfortunately, this is what happened, somehow. On January 5th, 1988, he collapsed after a three-on-three pickup game in Pasadena, California, and died of a heart attack. Pete Maravich was 40.