I saw this 'breaking news' this morning on ESPN. it was running in type underneath a story about how Boston's play-off hopes are barely alive. The Boston story had, i'm not making this up, an EKG reading going that would start and stop during the highlights of the game.

To paraphrase a Japanese friend of mine, 'it was most unfortunate.' (Which is an incredibly cool way of describing things, especially useful for teenagers. It was 'most unfortunate that your car was totaled when i borrowed it without your permission.' it allows everyone to save face, y'know.)


Yahoo! Sports: NFL - Hall of Fame center Mike Webster dies of heart attack

By ALAN ROBINSON
AP Sports Writer
September 24, 2002


PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Mike Webster, the Hall of Fame center who helped the Pittsburgh Steelers win four Super Bowls and whose life spiraled into drug use and homelessness after he retired, died Tuesday at age 50. Webster died in the coronary care unit at Allegheny General Hospital, but the hospital did not announce a cause of death.