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On April 8th, the A’s were in disarray. The defending AL West champions had been embarrassed by the rival Astros in a four-game sweep in Oakland to start the season, and after narrowly avoiding another sweep at the hands of the Dodgers with an extra-inning win on April 7th, they’d lost to Houston again. They were 1-7 and looked absolutely lost . until they weren’t.
They won on April 9th. Then again on April 10th. As a matter of fact, they just kept winning until the Orioles finally cooled off their bats on Sunday in an 8-1 victory. Before that, the A’s had compiled a 13-game winning streak, their longest since the “Moneyball” A’s went on their incredible 20-game run in 2002 (the American League record until Cleveland rode 22 in a row in 2017). It was something to behold, as were those other two longer, more legendary runs.
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There were so many this year.
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From Kobe Bryant to Diego Maradona, a year of staggering losses in sports
29 Dec, 2020 07:15 PM
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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 football. 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. American Football lost a big piece of its heart: Don Shula, Gale Sayers, Paul Hornung, Bobby
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