Archive for the 'Deaths' Category
After her father was murdered during halftime at one of her games Tierra Rogers questions her love of basketball.
Terray Rogers, an anti-violence activist and a constant and visible presence at Tierra’s basketball games, was shot while smoking a cigarette outside during halftime. Police feel Terray was targetted since his friend was not harmed.
Tierra told a […]
When we say sport is war, we don’t usually think of horse racing, but reading this, I can’t help but think that horse racing is pretty tough. From FOX Sports:
Eight Belles is dead. She broke two ankles after finishing second in the Kentucky Derby, and since horses can’t live after that kind of injury […]
35-year old athletes don’t drop dead, do they?
The captain of a Scottish Premier League soccer team died Saturday, collapsing during a game just as he was about to leave the field for a substitute.
Phil O’Donnell, a 35-year-old midfielder for Motherwell, fell to the ground at Fir Park and was carried off on a stretcher and […]
Sevilla midfielder Antonio Puerta died Tuesday, three days after collapsing on the field during his team’s Spanish league match against Getafe.
Puerta died of “multiple organ failure stemming from prolonged cardiac arrest” and subsequent coronary problems, Virgen del Rocio Hospital director Gimeno Guerrero said in a statement.
The 22-year-old Puerta had been in an […]
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Posted By: froosh | Aug 28th
Wake Forest’s Coach, Skip Prosser, recently died due to a heart attack at the age of 56, which is the result of the current empty schedule Wake Forest are choosing to follow.
For further information on Skip Prosser’s death, click here.
To view the schedule, click here.
Chris Benoit was one tough athlete, but I guess there were some issues beneath the surface, because allegedly, he was involved in a murder suicide.
Our condolences to everyone involved:
A professional wrestling superstar, Chris Benoit, was found dead alongside the bodies of his wife and 7-year-old son and police are treating the case as a possible […]