The last 19 hours have been stunning, haven’t they? Sort of like the last 19 years. The most shocking deaths of my adult life a day before the anniversary of the most shocking deaths of my childhood.
January 27 is always a sobering date, even more so this year in light of Kobe Bryant’s helicopter crash alongside eight others (one less day on the calendar, one fewer person on the chopper … all of it is surreal) on Sunday in California.
I wrote a quite lengthy thing about it on Monday for CBS Sports. On Mamba and Tiger and how their careers seemed intertwined.