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Shooting death of Utah’s Ty Jordan shows that in year of abject horror, unforeseen tragedy can still break our hearts
Shooting death of Utah’s Ty Jordan shows that in year of abject horror, unforeseen tragedy can still break our hearts...

Ajax Player Who Collapsed On Field Has "Severe Brain Damage"
Netherlands football club Ajax announced that 20-year-old midfielder Abdelhak Nouri, who collapsed on the pitch during a Saturday friendly, has suffered “severe and permanent brain damage.” Nouri had been in an induced coma since the incident, which began when he suffered cardiac arrhythmia during t...
![21-Year-Old Pro Cyclist Chad Young Not Expected To Recover From Head Injury Sustained In Crash [Update]](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/lqigqg2to5gxkanzzm8q.jpg)
21-Year-Old Pro Cyclist Chad Young Not Expected To Recover From Head Injury Sustained In Crash [Update]
Chad Young was racing the Tour of the Gila with Axeon Hagens Berman last Sunday when he fell on a descent while chasing back onto a breakaway. Young was airlifted out to a hospital in Tucson, Ariz., and his team announced that he had suffered a severe head injury. As of Tuesday, Young was in critica...

Brazilian Soccer Clubs Offer Extensive Support To Chapecoense After Tragic Plane Crash
Brazilian first division club Chapecoense was flying to Medellin last night when their plane went down outside the city, killing 71 of the 77 passengers. The club was flying to Medellin to play Atletico Nacional in the Copa Sudamericana final....

Two Teens Die After Sneaking Onto Olympic Bobsled Track And Trying To Sled On It
Last night, eight teens snuck into Calgary’s Canada Olympic Park (where the 1988 Winter Olympics were held) with a sled, and crashed while trying to take it down the bobsled track. According to emergency services personnel, they crashed into a wall separating the luge and bobsled tracks, and two twi...

Orioles Prospect Ramon Ramirez Dies After Motorcycle Accident In The Dominican Republic
Baltimore Orioles prospect Ramon Ramirez died yesterday near his hometown of La Romana, Dominican Republic after a motorcycle accident. He was 23 years old. ...

University Of California Admits Fault In Death Of Football Player Ted Agu
Ted Agu was like many Berkeley students, in that he wanted to go to medical school after graduating. But Agu was also a walk on defensive lineman for the football team. After a team offseason workout on the morning of February 7, 2014, he collapsed with breathing trouble. Agu was taken to the Alta B...

Reports: Rams WR Stedman Bailey Shot In The Head (UPDATES)
St. Louis Rams wide receiver Stedman Bailey was shot in the head tonight in South Florida while in a car with his family, according to a report from Mike Silver of NFL.com and another from Aaron Wilson of the Houston Chronicle. The reports indicate that his injuries are non-life-threatening. Bailey ...

Keith Joseph Jr. & Sr., Current And Former Mississippi State Football Players, Die In Car Crash
Last night, Keith Joseph Jr. and his father Keith Joseph Sr. were driving to attend a football game at Pascagoula High, where Joseph Jr. went to school, when they both died in a car crash. The younger Joseph was a redshirt freshman with the Mississippi State Bulldogs, and his father played there in ...
![Four Dead After Car Runs Into A Crowd At Oklahoma State's Homecoming Parade [UPDATING]](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/1488742498178789189.jpg)
Four Dead After Car Runs Into A Crowd At Oklahoma State's Homecoming Parade [UPDATING]
According to News On 6 out of Stillwater, Oklahoma, at least two people died this morning after a car ran into a crowd gathered to watch the Oklahoma State Homecoming parade. Several other people are reportedly injured. The incident occurred towards the end of the route, at Hall Of Fame and Main Str...

Chicago High School Football Player Dies After Hit
On the last play of the game between Bogan High School and Chicago Vocational High on Thursday night, Bogan senior Andre Smith took a hit, then collapsed after walking off the field. Smith was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center, where he died early yesterday morning. He was 17 years old. ...

Texas High School Football Player Dies After Collapsing On Sidelines
Last night, junior Cam’ron Matthews of Alto High School in Alto, Texas died after collapsing near the end of the first half of his school’s game against Carlisle High. According to NBC, Matthews complained of dizziness and suffered a seizure on the sidelines. Matthews was airlifted out of the stadiu...

Oakland A's Minor Leaguer Mike Nolan Dies After Drive-By Shooting
Mike Nolan died on Thursday three weeks after he was shot outside of a Yonkers, N.Y. Burger Kings on September 18. Nolan and friends were standing around outside when their group was shot at from a car moving along Central Avenue. He was 23 years old....

High School Quarterback Dies After On-Field Injury
Late last night, Evan Murray of Washington, NJ and Warren Hills Regional High School died after getting tackled during the second quarter against Summit High. He was 17. It is not yet clear what specific injuries Murray may have suffered, but he walked off the field under his own power before being ...

High School Football Player Dies After Injury On Punt Return
In the fourth quarter of a high school football game last night in Winnsboro, La., Tyrell Cameron — a sophomore on Franklin Parish High — sustained a fatal neck injury on a punt return. He was stretchered off and taken to Franklin Medical, where he was pronounced dead. He was 16 years old....

Braves Fan Dies After Falling From Turner Field Upper Deck
On Saturday night, a man at Turner Field fell from the upper deck during the seventh inning of the Atlanta Braves 3-1 loss to the New York Yankees. He was transferred to the Grady Memorial Hospital and pronounced dead a little after 11 p.m. The man was later identified as Gregory Murrey of Alpharett...

Knicks Heroically Win Fourth Quarter By 17, Only Lose By 28
Hey New York resident, how'd you spend the Saturday early afternoon? Maybe finishing up a long brunch? Enjoying a sunny (but chilly) stroll on the High Line? Catching up on the last season of Sherlock? Really, anything would've been great because Saturdays are great and full of promise. Unless you...

Georgia Fan's Obituary Mourns "The Tragedy" Of Bulldogs' Loss To South Carolina Last Week
We all die. It may be peacefully as you sleep, a popped vessel that fades your dreams to black. It may be gradually over weeks, a diagnosed dénouement, a slow degenerative smolder that allows fear to give way to acceptance to give way to peace. It may be YouTubeably sudden, as the locomotive sheers ...

The Night Junior Seau Picked Up A Marine Captain's Tab And Serenaded Bar Patrons With A Ukulele
An email arrived this morning from Albert Flores Jr., a U.S. Marine Corps captain who lives in Sneads Ferry, N.C. It's about a chance encounter Flores had last year in a Southern California bar with Junior Seau, the former Chargers and Patriots linebacker who died yesterday of a suspected suicide. T...

Amar'e Stoudemire's Brother Was Killed This Morning In A Car Crash
Hazell Stoudemire was reportedly driving at "a high rate of speed" when his car rear-ended a tractor trailer in Lake Wales, Fla. The Knicks have confirmed his death. He was 35. [TMZ]...