It's rare, but sudden death does happen in athletes.
Reggie Lewis died because he snorted TOO much COCAINE.
“Doctors who examined the late Boston Celtics player Reggie Lewis say they believed his heart quite likely was damaged by cocaine before the former Dunbar High basketball star collapsed and died of heart failure near Boston in 1993.”
He died because his heart gave out.
“It’s rare, but sudden death does happen in athletes.”
Uh, no....Derrick Thomas did not just collapse and die suddenly. He died about a month after being paralyzed in a car crash on an icy road at the age of 33. The blood clot resulted from the injury for which he was hospitalized.