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Guru of Go: The Great and Tragic Story of Loyola Marymount

"It was an instantaneous thing." That's how the death of Hank Gathers is described at the start of Guru of Go, the new ESPN 30 for 30 documentary about Paul Westhead's Loyola Marymount basketball team. Twenty years have passed since Gathers collapsed and died during a game, which means the players on the floor in this...

Twenty Years After: Hank Gathers Stirs Memories for His Family

Twenty years ago, on March 4, 1990, a mother watched her son take flight. "He was so high," says Lucille Gathers Cheeseboro, two decades later. "And then when he came down, he was so low." Taking flight was Hank Gathers, a soon-to-be NBA multimillionaire, who she'd already pledged to follow to whichever NBA city he...

Background on Hank Gathers

Eric "Hank" Gathers (February 11, 1967 – March 4, 1990) was an American college basketball star at Loyola Marymount University who collapsed and died during a game.

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