RIP Kobe Bryant

That's what I thought, that it was somebody getting mixed up Knickerbockers, especially when it should be Lakers.

 

EQX in Manchester Vermont just up the road is a fantastic radio station.

On an anniversary of his death, maybe the 1 year, EQX played INXS songs throughout the day, pretty much the entire popular catalogue with obvious B-sides and the like. And yet, they didn't play one of the most popular songs, possibly out of respect who knows ... Suicide Blonde.

 

Brown stuck with me, too. I remember turning on ESPN and they were reporting on it.

For some reason, Pelle Lindbergh also resonated with me. I was just starting to follow hockey at the time and I can still remember the picture of what was left of his car.

 

And I remember Rangers fans yelling at Potvin to "buy a Porsche!"

 

He was so good he made the Nets worthy of attention.

 

Joe Delaney was the first to stand out. I didn't really like the Chiefs but did like Delaney the few times I had seen him on TV. Pelle Lindberg stood out too. Another obvious one is Petrovic, which doesn't happen if he takes the flight instead of driving.

https://www.si.com/nba/2015/03/29/drazen-petrovic-nets-book-excerpt-car-accident-death

Back at the departure gate the Croatian national team boarded their flight for Zagreb. Take-off was held up as the airline checked and double-checked on their flight numbers; one traveler was missing yet all of the baggage had been checked through. Petrovic was the missing traveler. Aleksandar Petrovic, traveling with the team as its assistant coach, stepped forward and informed airline staff that his brother had made alternate travel arrangements. With that, they took off on the flight for Zagreb, a trip of a little less than two hours. There was a short way into the trip a slight hitch, with strong turbulence as the plane made its way over Munich, Germany, the passengers encouraged to fasten their seatbelts until its force had been endured. It was a fine early summer day in Munich, a high of twenty-six degrees Celsius (seventy-nine Fahrenheit), but a late-afternoon thunderstorm closed in on the city and its immediate neighboring towns. The downpour of rain left the autobahn slick and difficult with the darkening sky in the background.​

 

Still mad at how Rick Adelman misused and then traded this guy.

 

Len Bias, Reggie Lewis and Hank Gathers still resonate.

 

I was our racing writer. The day after, I got called in on Monday or Tuesday about doing a tab. I flat out refused if there was advertising. I told them it was blood money they were trying to make off a man's death, and I wouldn't be part of it. We finally agreed that the paper would promote it to drive sales and put promos in the vending boxes. I did a four-page special section on zero ads.

 

SVP's a pro. Montgomery County (Md.) boy, that boy good!

 

While we're at it, why isn't INXS in the RNRHOF?

 

Here's a good post about Kobe by a Trump supporter:

The 'Kobe Bryant Will Leave The LA Lakers' thread