Dead body was covered in ice. The man whose feet and ankles were photographed upside down – with the rest of his body covered in ice – died of drug use. Wayne County investigators report that Johnny Redding, a middle-aged Michigan drifter, overdosed on cocaine before he was found frozen in the elevator shaft of an abandoned building. Redding’s Reebok gym shoes and sock-covered ankles were the only visible parts of his body in the thick ice that had formed over him. Homeless people used the building to keep warm, though Redding’s family claims he wasn’t homeless. Investigators still don’t know what Redding was doing at the time of his death that caused him to be found submerged in the ice.

Some viewers try to dissuade him while others egg him on. Internet viewers couldn’t tell if a Florida college student, who committed suicide by taking a drug overdose in front of a live Webcam, was joking or just faking it. (He had threatened to do it before.) By the time some concerned viewers on the bodybuilding Web site contacted police, Abraham Biggs, 19, had already killed himself.  Soon after, the officers entered the student’s home while the video camera was still rolling and streaming on the Web.  Biggs was a student at Broward College and suffered from what his family said was bipolar disorder. He killed himself in his father’s Pembroke Pines house. Its still not known how many people watched the suicide.

Tampa Rays face Phillies tonight. World Series baseball is expected to continue tonight in Philadelphia after a second rain-out forced game five’s cancellation. Following a field-drenched suspension of play in the sixth inning on Monday, fans were disappointed to learn that rain continued throughout much of the day in Philadelphia Tuesday. Weather is expected to cooperate tonight for what could be the end of the season if the Phillies win their fourth game in the best-of-seven series. The teams are tied at two runs each as of tonight’s resumed sixth inning.

Kellen Winslow returns his focus to football. Having criticized Cleveland Browns management for showing little concern about him when he was hospitalized for staph, Kellen Winslow says the game is his main focus. The tight end, whose suspension was announced after his comments, but then rescinded, is well. “I’m ready to move on and just play football,” he says. The Browns reportedly learned that a media relations staffer advised Winslow in text messages against revealing his illness. The player says he was trying to protect his teammates.

 The chief for the Harrison police department yesterday rebuked former Knicks coach Isiah Thomas’s story that the medical issue that brought authorities to his Westchester home early Friday morning had to do with his teenage daughter. “My cops … know the difference between a 47-year-old Black male and a young Black female,” Chief David Hall told The Associated Press. “These people should learn something from Richard Nixon – it’s not the crime, it’s the cover-up.” Thomas, 47, a Hall of Fame basketball star with the Detroit Pistons from 1981 to 1994, was stripped of both his team president and head coach titles within a two-week span last April, after the Knicks completed the fifth straight losing season. He was not officially fired and, therefore, is still under contract by the team. Thomas on Friday told The New York Post that his 17-year-old daughter, Lauren, was the one who had a medical issue which prompted police to be called to his home. Officers responded to a 911 call just after midnight at Thomas’ Purchase home, where a 47-year-old male, who police sources said was Thomas, was taken to nearby White Plains Hospital Center. Witnesses told Newsday that the man had his face covered and refused to give his name. “It wasn’t his daughter,” Hall said yesterday. Police classified the case as “an accidental drug overdose” and reports said it involved sleeping pills.

Retired NBA star denies accidental pill overdose.

A suburban New York police chief calls Isiah Thomas’ claim that his daughter was the focus of an emergency call to their home this past weekend a “cover-up.” Authorities went to the ex-Knicks coach’s Westchester County home early Friday before reportedly taking a 47-year-old man to the hospital to be treated for a sleeping pill overdose. But Thomas, who’d been confirmed as the victim, later told The New York Post there was no overdose and that his daughter had an unspecified medical issue. “My daughter is very down right now,” Thomas is quoted as saying. “None of us are OK.” Harrison Police Chief David Hall, however, says no teenaged girl was involved. “It wasn’t his daughter,” Hall tells The Associated Press. “And why they’re throwing her under the bus is beyond my ability to understand.” He adds: “My cops…know the difference between a 47-year-old Black male and a young, Black female. These people should learn something from Richard Nixon – it’s not the crime; it’s the cover-up.” Cops say no suicide note was found, and are they’re calling the overdose accidental. Thomas, who led the Detroit Pistons to championships, lost his job coaching the Knicks this spring.