Sports Casualties - Beethavean Scottland & Korey Stringer

» NYCScribe - Yet another sports tragedy

Pedro Alcazar, who fought in a world title match last Saturday night (6/22/02) against fellow champion Fernando Montiell, collapsed in his hotel room Monday morning and died approximately 40 hours after the bout at Desert Springs Hospital in Las Vegas. Alcazar, 26, of Panama City, Panama, died of a profuse swelling on the brain according to Dr. Flip Homansky of the Nevada State Athletic Commission.

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» NYCScribe - Re: Yet another sports tragedy

A medical examiner will sort out the circumstances that caused the death of Steve Bechler, a newlywed, expectant father and pitching prospect for the Baltimore Orioles.

Bechler died of heatstroke Monday, less than 24 hours after a spring training workout that sent his temperature to 108 degrees.

He was an overweight athlete pushing himself in warm, humid weather much different from the climate in his native Oregon. And he may have been taking a dietary supplement that has been linked to heatstroke and heart attacks.

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» NYCScribe - Retribution sought

Korey Stringer's widow has sued the NFL in U.S. District Court, filing a suit that says the league fosters a ``deadly culture'' of abusive exercise that contributed to the death of the Minnesota Vikings' lineman during training camp in 2001.

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