In the case of Scotland, use of a blue background for the Saint Andrew's Cross is said to date from at least the 15th century, with the first certain illustration of a flag depicting such appearing in Sir David Lyndsay of the Mount 's Register of Scottish Arms, circa 1542.
Dennis Johnson, a brilliant defensive player who helped propel the Seattle SuperSonics and the to N.B.A. championships, died yesterday in Austin, Tex. He was 52. The cause was a heart attack, the National Basketball Association said.
The culmination of all these factors was congestive heart failure of an already enlarged heart, at the age of only 44. Cases such as Duckworth's are not rare. Consider the death of former Sonics and Celtics guard Dennis Johnson last year. Johnson never had troubles with weight in his playing career, being a 6'4, 180-pound guard. However, those who knew him at the time of his death, when he was coaching the NBDL's Austin Toros, say that his weight had ballooned close to 300 pounds at that time.