Tag Archives: tragic death
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Track Worker Killed at Formula One Grand Prix in Montreal (Video)
Everyone knows that auto racing is one of the most dangerous sports in the world, but it’s usually the drivers and fans we think of as being most vulnerable. Unfortunately, on Sunday we were all given a reminder that grave danger lurks pretty much everywhere in professional auto racing—even behind the scenes. At Formula One’s [...]
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Gold Medal-Winning Olympic Sailor Drowns in San Francisco Bay While Training for 2013 America’s Cup (Video)
Today the sports world is morning the tragic death of Olympic gold medalist Andrew Simpson. The 36-year-old sailor died yesterday after the 72-foot catamaran he was training on capsized in San Francisco Bay. Simpson won a gold medal for Great Britain in the Star Class competition at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, and he [...]
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17-Year-Old Boxer Tubagus Sakti Dies in the Ring in Indonesia (Video)
I apologize in advance: this is the most depressing sports-related story you’ll read all week. On Sunday, January 27, in Jakarta, Indonesia, a junior flyweight title bout between two 17-year-old boxers was halted in the 8th round. Ical Tobida was handed the victory by technical knock-out after Tubagus Sakti threw up his hands and gave [...]
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Heavy Hearted Torrey Smith Scores Two Touchdowns During The Ravens’ Victory (Video)
Yesterday, Baltimore Ravens receiver Torrey Smith received something nobody ever wants: a telephone call in the middle of the night telling him that his younger brother had been killed in a motorcycle accident. After hearing the news about his 19-year-old brother, Smith left the team hotel around 1 A.M. to be with his family in [...]
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Texans Fan Dies At Reliant Stadium After Three-Story Fall From Escalator
Sadly, we have another fan death to report this morning. Last night at Reliant Stadium in Houston, where the hometown Texans were taking on the Minnesota Vikings in their preseason finale, a 45-year-old man fell from a moving escalator and plunged three stories to the concrete below. He was quickly rushed to Houston’s Memorial Herman [...]
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Fan Dies of a Heart Attack at Blue Jays Game
If there’s any good that can come from a tragic and untimely death, it’s that one family’s loss can remind the rest of us to keep things in perspective. Sports are a lot of fun. They help us take our minds off real life for a while, and that is invaluable. However, there is a [...]
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11 Tragic Cases Of Athletes With Bad Tickers
The world of Italian soccer came to a screeching halt over the weekend when Livorno’s Piermario Morosini, 25, collapsed and died on the pitch during a Seria B match in Pescara, Italy. Although nothing will be official until after an autopsy has been performed, it’s pretty clear that the poor guy’s heart just gave out. [...]
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13 Tragic Cases Of Athletes Killed In Plane Crashes
Tragedy struck yesterday when the passenger plane carrying Russian hockey team Lokomotiv of the KHL (Kontinental Hockey League) crashed just after take-off, killing 43 people. Added to the growing list of prominent athletes whose lives were cut short were former NHL players Pavol Demitra and Brad McCrimmon, the team’s coach. Sadly, this was hardly the [...]
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Pole Vaulting Practice Ends In Fatal Tragedy At UCSD
Total Pro Sports – It was supposed to be a typical day for Leon Roach. As one of the country’s top young pole vaulters, he was practicing at the University of California, San Diego’s La Jolla campus performing a swinging rope drill when tragedy struck. Roach overshot the landing pad and fell head first on [...]
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A Steve McNair Murder Update, From The Eyes Of Holly Peete
Total Pro Sports – Over the weekend the NFL world was hit hard by the tragic news of Steve McNair’s death. Since the discovery of his body on Saturday, several pieces of evidence have been uncovered that suggest he may have been the victim of a murder-suicide. While McNair was shot four times, twice in [...]
