Arizona football team careful not to exploit player's death
On the back of Phoenix Moon Valley’s spring football Rockets shirts is CarlosStrong. Carlos Sanchez’s memory is all they could hold on to late last season after the junior linebacker sustained a head...
View ArticleAriz. baseball team grieving over pitcher's death as it heads into state...
Verrado (Buckeye, Ariz.) heads into Thursday’s 5A state high school baseball semifinal game at Tempe Diablo Stadium with heavy hearts after junior pitcher Bryan McKinsey died on Wednesday. On May 3,...
View ArticleNew York coach killed in boating accident
LANCASTER, N.Y. — The man killed in Saturday’s tragic boat crash on Lake Erie was a science teacher and lacrosse coach in the Lancaster School District. Eric Przykuta, 43, died late Saturday in a...
View ArticleFootball player days from graduation dies after being pulled from ocean
An 18-year-old man has died following a water rescue at St. Augustine Beach, according to the teen’s school district. Jaylen Lott died after being pulled from the ocean at St. Augustine Beach. He was...
View ArticleBasketball player in Tenn. dies after game at Boys & Girls Club
Tyner Academy sophomore student, Javon Craddock, died Wednesday after playing a basketball game at the Boys and Girls Club. @TimesFreePress https://t.co/M7X2u5ir9j — Meghan Mangrum (@memangrum) May...
View ArticleFootball star bound for college murdered days after graduation
Trevon Richardson graduated from Cedar Grove (DeKalb County, Ga.) High School just a few days ago and had plans to attend Valdosta State University. On Memorial Day, however, Richardson was murdered...
View ArticleAssistant football coach killed in Chicago drive-by shooting
An assistant football coach at a Chicago high school was shot dead during a drive-by shooting outside a birthday party early Sunday morning, per Chicago NBC affiliate WMAQ. Per the network, 35-year-old...
View ArticleTeammates of N.Y. football player killed by log to sue school district
Teammates of a New York football player who died during a training exercise last summer are seeking to file a lawsuit against their school district. Claiming emotional harm, three families are asking...
View ArticleIndiana football player killed in shooting weeks after graduation
Three short weeks ago, Trevon Bonds graduated from Lawrence North High School. On Tuesday, the 19-year-old running back for his school’s football team was shot and killed at a west-side apartment...
View ArticleIn his 15 years, Matt Stratman made mark on community
We leave the meaning of death to the pens of the poets and the words of the clergy. There isn’t always, it turns out, a reason for everything. God does, in fact, occasionally give us things we can’t...
View ArticleFormer Montana football star, basketball coach dies in swimming accident
Former Lame Deer prep football star and boys’ basketball coach Allen Fisher died Monday in a swimming accident on the Tongue River, the Billings Gazette reported. Fisher, who coached the Lame Deer...
View ArticleHigh school football player dies in tragic Miami car crash, volleyball player...
The son of a baseball coach at the University of Miami who was himself a high school football player in the city died as part of a tragic car crash in Miami-Dade County. As reported by the Miami Herald...
View ArticleBeloved Tennessee wrestler drowns, remembered for 'talent and presence'
A Father Ryan High School student is known as a talented wrestler drowned Friday, the Nashville private school announced late Saturday. Bailey Rush died “in a tragic drowning while with his family,”...
View ArticleMississippi community mourning death of football player
A Byhalia (Miss.) High School football player collapsed on the field and died Friday night during a game. The school announced the death of Dennis Mitchell, a sophomore, on its Facebook page Saturday....
View ArticleQuestions swirl following death of Mississippi football player
Many questions remain following the collapse and subsequent death of Byhalia High School football player Dennis Mitchell on Friday. Questions that his grandmother, Adeline Richard, wants answered. “How...
View ArticleColorado Springs softball coach killed in car accident
An assistant softball coach in Colorado died in a car accident early Tuesday morning. Peyton Riedel, a 25-year-old who was an assistant coach at Pine Creek (Colorado Springs), died when her 2013 Kia...
View ArticleMass. basketball coach shot and killed at Hartford house party
A basketball coach at a Massachusetts school was shot to death at a Hartford, Conn., party last weekend. According to MassLive.com, a shooter opened fire early Sunday morning during a crowded house...
View ArticleMississippi JV football player dies after collapsing during game
William Anderson, a football player at Houston (Miss.) High School, died Monday night after collapsing during a JV football game. Anderson, a freshman offensive lineman, was taken off the field by an...
View ArticleIowa volleyball, softball player dies after collapsing at school
An Iowa high school senior who was a member of the volleyball, softball and cheerleading teams died after collapsing at her school on Monday. Natalee Henke, a MMCRU High (Marcus, Iowa) senior, was 18....
View Article'God always takes the special ones': Community mourns after student-athlete's...
INDIAN RIVER COUNTY, Fla. — Those who knew Kamaree Lyons, the 17-year-old who suddenly collapsed after walking off the basketball court Saturday night at Sebastian River High School, remembered him as...
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