Word: hanks
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...viewers last week, was sudden and mystifying. One minute a college basketball star -- one of the most promising in the U.S. -- was playing at the top of his form. The next he lay crumpled on the court, dying of apparent heart failure at age 23. But long before Hank Gathers' death, there were warning signals. The Philadelphia-born senior at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles had suffered a similar collapse three months earlier. He was diagnosed as having a heart-rhythm abnormality, treated with medication and cleared to play...
...skipped his stress-test appointment the week before his death and may have stopped taking his medication altogether -- an omission that could have increased the risk of heart failure. "He was told not to play," the unnamed doctor said in an interview with the Los Angeles Times. "We told Hank that if he wanted to live the best, he shouldn't exercise. ((But)) Hank Gathers was going to play basketball. It didn't matter what some doctor told him." Bo Kimble, one of Gathers' teammates and best friends, disagrees. Says he: "I'm sure that if Hank knew that...
...then March Madness became the madness of March 4. Playing in the semifinals of the Big West tournament, Loyola-Marymount's Hank Gathers collapsed after a slam dunk. The NCAA's leading scorer and rebounder from a year ago, Gathers was a blue-chipper, a can't-miss, a superstar...
...ANGELES--Hank Gathers, the West Coast Conference's all-time leading scorer and No. 11 on the NCAA's all-time scoring list, died last night after collapsing on the court during Loyola Marymount's game against Portland...
...Congressman Hank Brown, a Colorado Republican, wants to suspend the 1990 tax hike and make Social Security an independent agency so that, he says, "no one can get their hands on it -- not even Congress...