Death of a Sports Star
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Death of a Sports Star
These are the unforgettable, tragic stories of superstars we loved and lost - told as you’ve never heard them before. Death of a Sports Star is a Crowd Network original, presented by Elroy "Spoonface" Powell, Emma Clarke and Tom Price.
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Introducing: Oceans: Life Under Water
What do you hear at the bottom of the ocean? How does it feel to swim with whales? Or make friends with an octopus? Come and find out. This is Life Un...
Shane Warne
Sometimes headlines don’t make sense."Shane Warne dead"? Those are three words that don’t belong together. No matter how many times you hear it, no ma...
Mike Webster
Mike Webster is one of the greatest American Football players who ever lived. But there’s another story. One that begins before his death, but hits th...
Ben Hollioake
You’ve never seen a cricketer like Ben Hollioake. But this kid who’s set to shred record books, barely makes the small print. He only plays two tests....
Dale Earnhardt
NASCAR racing is never the same after Dale Earnhardt’s death. It sounds dramatic, but that’s what Dale means to people.
There’s never be...
Anthony Foley
Sometimes, when a famous sports star dies, you get the sense all those people mourning definitely loved that person, but not that they truly knew them...
Ayrton Senna
Ayrton Senna was more than just the greatest racing driver who ever lived. He made cars dance. One rival said he made cars move like raindrops on a pa...
Duncan Edwards
Duncan Edwards was the complete footballer. A comic-book hero leaping into the sports pages. He could’ve changed it all. Could've been the greatest fo...
Diego Maradona
When you think about how Diego Maradona lived, and died - when you think about how he’s remembered, why there’s so much love and hate - it all comes d...
Hansie Cronje
Hansie Cronje was South Africa’s captain, endorsed by Nelson Mandela. But he was also a scam artist, mixing with criminals. His story has lies, greed,...
Sarah Burke
"Sarah's the reason we're all here. Without Sarah, none of us would be Olympians" - that's what Sarah Burke did for her sport, even after her death. S...
Robert Enke
WARNING: this episode contains references to suicide.
Robert Enke needs to talk. But it's harder than it looks. Especially with all that...
Andrés Escobar
We all know that old line about football and life and death. But in Colombia in the 1990s - run by drug cartels - nothing makes sense. And when a foot...
Vitas Gerulaitis
Vitas Gerulaitis is the New York native turned global celebrity. The immigrant outsider shaking up an establishment sport. Living as large as the Time...
Chris Benoit
WARNING: this episode contains references to murder and suicide.
In professional wrestling, you don’t know where fantasy ends and reality...
Pat Tillman
If you were asked to design a super-hero to save America, he’d probably look like Pat. But what Pat looks like and who he really is are two very diffe...
Jock Stein
He did things no other football manager had ever done. He came from hardship and took a struggling club to the top of the world. Football saved him, g...
Jonah Lomu
There’s never been a player like Jonah Lomu - what he could do, the impact he had on the world. What few realised is what he’d come through to get the...
Sonny Liston
In the whole history of boxing, there cannot be a story murkier than Sonny Liston’s. And there’s no sport murkier than boxing. Even when Sonny was hea...
Phillip Hughes
He was the smiley, lovable kid from the country whose cricketing talents took him all the way into the Australia team. But a tragic sporting accident...
Flo-Jo
She was the skinny kid from the poor part of LA who grew up to be the fastest woman in history, smashing world records with a look and style that made...
Marco Pantani
Marco Pantani was a bike rider who seemed to have reached the summit of his sport. Fans loved his panache, his style, his vulnerability. But with Pant...
Payne Stewart
When you saw it, you couldn’t forget: a jet plane, flying by itself through an empty sky, a sporting superstar on board and no way of reaching him. Th...
Justin Fashanu
WARNING: this episode includes reference to suicide.
The first million-pound black footballer, a pioneer, an unstoppable goalscorer. But...
Kobe Bryant
Where were you, when you heard? In the opening episode of the series, we tell the story of the final act of basketball superstar Kobe Bryant – how it...
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These are the unforgettable, tragic stories of superstars we loved and lost - told as you’ve never heard them before. Expect a new episode every Monda...