From Kobe to Maradona, a year of staggering losses in sports
By FRED LIEFDecember 29, 2020 GMT
There were so many this year.
Sports in 2020 was an unending state of mourning. It was as if every week, sometimes days, another luminary fell, bringing a cascade of condolence and remembrance.
It began New Year’s Day, a harbinger of what the year held, with the deaths of David Stern and Don Larsen. Not long after came a seismic jolt, the helicopter crash of Kobe Bryant in the fog-shrouded California hills that reverberated across sports and across continents.
Deep into the year, a bookend to Bryant, Diego Maradona died from a heart attack in Argentina weeks after brain surgery, the waves of grief rippling across soccer. It seemed a whole wing of the Baseball Hall of Fame was ripped away Al Kaline, Tom Seaver, Lou Brock, Bob Gibson, Whitey Ford, Joe Morgan, Phil Niekro. Football lost a big piece of its heart: Don Shula, Gale Sayers, Paul Hornung, Bobby Mitchell. Gone from colle
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In a year defined by a devastating pandemic, the world lost iconic defenders of civil rights, great athletes and entertainers who helped define their genres.
Many of their names hold a prominent place in the collective consciousness RBG, Kobe, Maradona, Eddie Van Halen, Little Richard, Sean Connery, Alex Trebek, Christo but pandemic restrictions often limited the public s ability to mourn their loss in a year that saw more than a million people die from the coronavirus.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg known as the Notorious RBG to her many admirers was one of the many noteworthy figures who died in 2020.
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Keeping Score: Duende or not
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Back in the day when kids stood on street corners hawking newspapers, Boston sports fans regularly turned to an erudite columnist named George Frazier. Educated at Boston Latin and Harvard, Frazier wrote for the Herald Traveler and the Boston Globe, and later for Esquire and Life magazine.
In Boston he coined the term “duende” for a level of class attained by few people or places. Ted Williams had it, but Stan Musial did not. Celtics center Bill Russell had it, Wilt Chamberlain did not. Nantucket had duende; Martha’s Vineyard did not.
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