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• Gerrit Cole attended JC baseball game to pay respects to late John Altobelli
Orange Coast College baseball players took the field on Tuesday with extremely heavy hearts, and New York Yankees star pitcher Gerrit Cole wanted to be in attendance to show his support for the team. John Altobelli, one of the nine people who died in the helicopter crash that killed Kobe Bryant on Sunday, was entering his 24th season as the head ba...2020
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• Kobe Bryant said Gianna was better at her age than he was
Kobe Bryant is inarguably one of the greatest basketball players who ever lived, but many of the touching anecdotes we have heard since his death on Sunday deal with the love and dedication he had for parenthood. The story shared by ESPN’s Elle Duncan on Monday illustrated that beautifully. Duncan said she met Kobe one time when she was eight month...2020
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• Christina Mauser, girls’ basketball coach, among the helicopter crash victims
Nine people died in the helicopter crash on Sunday that claimed the lives of Kobe and Gianna Bryant. Though the Bryants lead the headlines due to their fame, we want to make sure we also recognize the other victims who died. In addition to Kobe and Gianna, junior college baseball coach John Altobelli, his wife Keri, and daughter Alyssa died in the ...2020
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• Sarah Chester, daughter Payton were also killed in Kobe Bryant helicopter crash
Millions of people around the world are hurting over the death of Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna, but it is important to remember that there are other families experiencing the same devastation as the Bryant family. That is certainly the case for those close to Sarah Chester and her daughter Payton. Sarah and Payton Chester were two of the nin...2020
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• Kobe Bryant recently filed for ‘Mambacita’ trademark for daughter Gianna
The news surrounding the death of Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna continues grow more and more heartbreaking by the minute. Like her father, 13-year-old Gianna Bryant was a basketball enthusiast. According to TMZ, Bryant had recently filed paperwork to trademark the nickname “Mambacita” for Gianna. Kobe’s nickname, of course, was the Black Mamb...2020
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• Relentless and revered: How I will remember Kobe Bryant
To young basketball fans who came of age in Southern California in the mid-1990s, Kobe Bryant was not a basketball player, but a young god. Our prince. We watched him grow up with the Los Angeles Lakers, as sure of his potential as we were of our own. When he won, we won. Now he’s gone, and with him, our childhoods. Dead at 41 in a helicopter crash...2020
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• John Altobelli, junior college baseball coach, also died in helicopter crash
Kobe Bryant and his 13-year-old daughter Gianna (Gigi) were among nine people who died in a helicopter crash on Sunday morning in Calabasas, California. We are now learning the identity of one of the other crash victims. John Altobelli, the head baseball coach at Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa, California, was also on the helicopter and died. A...2020
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• Kyrie Irving left arena after hearing Kobe Bryant news, did not return
The NBA community was hit hard on Sunday by the news that Kobe Bryant and his daughter died in a helicopter crash, and Kyrie Irving felt he could not play a game under the circumstances. There were several NBA games that went on as scheduled, and that included the Brooklyn Nets’ game against the New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden. Irving, who...2020
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• Watch: Doc Rivers breaks down talking about Kobe Bryant
The surreal news of Kobe Bryant’s death was met with shock across the NBA. Bryant and his 13-year-old daughter Gianna were among five people who died in a helicopter crash in Calabasas, Calif. on Sunday as they traveled to Mamba Academy (for a basketball game or practice). The sports world was left stunned with the news, with many sending their tho...2020
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• Kobe Bryant's daughter Gianna also killed in helicopter crash
Kobe Bryant’s 13-year-old daughter was also killed in a helicopter crash on Sunday morning that claimed the life of the legendary basketball player. The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department confirmed Sunday morning that five people were killed in a helicopter crash in Calabasas. There were no survivors. There was initial confusion about who was ...2020