Sunday, July 25, 2004
SUDDEN ENDS
In ascending order of surprise and/or shock/grisliness...
-- Pat Hentgen, Cy Young Award winner in 1996, is walking away from baseball at the age of 35. He's convinced himself he doesn't have it anymore and he always wanted to retire a Blue Jay. He had a couple really good years, he did.
-- Cotton Fitzsimmons has left us due to complications from lung cancer. I knew him as a standard in the Phoenix Suns hierarchy who was called on multiple times to coach, and I remember as a youngster that he was always a great and fun interview. He will be missed and the family of the Phoenix Suns will miss him dearly.
-- In probably the saddest note of the night, redshirt freshman-to-be and third-string Oregon State cornerback Justin Williams was killed in a car accident in the southbound lanes of Interstate 5 near Wilsonville, Oregon, last night just four hours before I drove the same stretch of roadway going northbound. I had no idea that those events had transpired. After spending six weeks at field camp with some of the Beaver faithful, this one hits a little harder.
Our thoughts and prayers go out to the families and friends of Cotton Fitzsimmons and Justin Williams.
-- Pat Hentgen, Cy Young Award winner in 1996, is walking away from baseball at the age of 35. He's convinced himself he doesn't have it anymore and he always wanted to retire a Blue Jay. He had a couple really good years, he did.
-- Cotton Fitzsimmons has left us due to complications from lung cancer. I knew him as a standard in the Phoenix Suns hierarchy who was called on multiple times to coach, and I remember as a youngster that he was always a great and fun interview. He will be missed and the family of the Phoenix Suns will miss him dearly.
-- In probably the saddest note of the night, redshirt freshman-to-be and third-string Oregon State cornerback Justin Williams was killed in a car accident in the southbound lanes of Interstate 5 near Wilsonville, Oregon, last night just four hours before I drove the same stretch of roadway going northbound. I had no idea that those events had transpired. After spending six weeks at field camp with some of the Beaver faithful, this one hits a little harder.
Our thoughts and prayers go out to the families and friends of Cotton Fitzsimmons and Justin Williams.
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