Is Kobe's death the saddest sports death story, ever?

[Moostache]

11. All unexpected deaths visit tragedy on someone, somewhere...life is fragile beyond words.

Deaths of famous people, larger than life figures are more so...it takes your breath away to know that a man of potential and his daughter and others with them - coaches, fathers, daughters...gone in an instant.

I remember Thurman Munson's passsing in a tragic plane crash, but there was one death of a sports figure that really hit me and stayed with me for a very long time - Pelle Lindbergh, NHL goalie and victim of his own drunk driving. I was barely aware of death and its finality, but that hit me and stuck. It doesn't matter who it is, or the specifics, I believe that famous or unknown, everyone touches lives in a complex web, radiating out like waves on a pond. Some are pebbles, others are boulders and a few are comets.

Kobe was a comet.