Death of a Sports Star

By Crowd Network

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"... more

· Sports

4.1

2020 ratings

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The podcast currently has 40 episodes available.

Death of a Sports Star episodes:

January 08, 2023 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 heavyweight champion of the world – one of the most famous men on the planet – the public didn’t really know him. He was unloved and unwanted.
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36min
January 08, 2023 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 on a seemingly ordinary day meant he would never fulfil that rich potential - and left a sport-obsessed nation devastated.
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36min
January 08, 2023 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 Pantani it was always about the descent rather than the climb - and he would fall further than anyone dared fear.
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41min
January 08, 2023 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. This is the story of Payne Stewart, a golfer who was brash and brilliant and different and shook up his sport and the world around it: how he lived, and how he died.
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34min
January 08, 2023 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 unfolded, what it meant, how we all felt about it. It’s Kobe, but as you’ve never heard him before.
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37min
April 03, 2022 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 matter how many different ways you’re told, it doesn’t make sense. Not Shane. Not dead. You read it once. You read it twice. A second stretches and seven stages of grief fill the gap. The fourth of March 2022 is like that...

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27min
February 15, 2021 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 the headlines after. One that changes American Football forever. It’s a story that could have died with Mike if it weren’t for two things: a young pathologist, and a hunch.

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36min
February 08, 2021 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. Twenty one-dayers.

And there are numbers that matter more. Because Ben, still only 24, is dead on a slip road on the other side of the world. Miles per hour. Models of sports car. Whether there are millimetres of rain on the road or milligrams of alcohol in his blood. So many numbers, but none of them an answer...

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34min
February 01, 2021 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 been a race car driver like him. He’s loved by most, for the same reason he’s hated by the rest. He races harder than anyone ever has. And his death changes NASCAR forever.

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29min
January 25, 2021 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. Not with Anthony Foley. He is his home city. He belongs to everyone. And no-one’s ready to say goodbye.

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31min

FAQs about Death of a Sports Star:

How many episodes does Death of a Sports Star have?

The podcast currently has 40 episodes available.