As a UH student during the Phi Slamma Jamma loss to Jim Valvano's NC State team, it seemed the worse loss to accept...ever.
Now, I'm glad their team won..the joy of that moment deserved to be theirs, especially as life after has dealt this team a series of tough blows..beginning with Jimmy V's cancer death, and yesterday, the hero of the game, Lorenzo Charles' death, see:
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?id=6710669Good reason to live every day as if its your last...
..."NC State has lost four members of the 1983 team -- Valvano, who died of cancer in 1993; McLean, who died unexpectedly on April 27; walk-on Quinton Leonard, who died from a heart attack in 2006 at age 44; and now Lorenzo Charles.
"It's just hard to grasp," Sidney Lowe said. "It's just sad now when you talk about that team who have passed away. It's very difficult. You talk about special moments in your life and relationships you have and things you cherish and that's something no one can ever take away from us. We experienced something a lot of athletes will never experience. We have a bond that will never be broken. When I tell you he was a loyal friend to the end -- he was. He was a loyal friend to the end."
