Recent wave of sports deaths all too real for Sam Perkins

Posted Mar 20, 2015
The calls have become disturbingly normal. Too many times this year, Sam Perkins has answered his phone, learned of a death from his basketball past and mourned, realizing his own mortality during this never-ending grieving process. Dean Smith, his legendary college coach at North Carolina, a man he revered and helped win a national championship in 1982, died on Feb. 7. (Seattle Times)

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