Violence in Sports - Pakistan Coach was strangled

Posted by Marcus "Dos Un" Holmes

He was strangled! That is the breaking news this evening, Bob Woolmer, Pakistan’s former cricket coach was strangled to death.
While information reaching the YardFlex news room is ’sketchy’, it causes one to ask the question; is sport being taken too seriously?
Throughout sporting history there has been innumerable incidents of ‘passions’ overwhelming sports lovers. The famous […]

He was strangled! That is the breaking news this evening, Bob Woolmer, Pakistan’s former cricket coach was strangled to death.
While information reaching the YardFlex news room is ’sketchy’, it causes one to ask the question; is sport being taken too seriously?

Throughout sporting history there has been innumerable incidents of ‘passions’ overwhelming sports lovers. The famous ‘bite’ by Mike Tyson on Evander Holyfield, that on-field brawl between Jamaica and Mexico a few years ago and Brazilian football star, Zico’s house was ‘torched’ by angry fans after the Brazilian team was eliminated from the world cup by Argentina at the semi-final stage in 1990.

During the ongoing ICC Cricket World Cup, Indian wicketkeeper, Mahendra Dhoni’s house was ‘torn down’ after he made ‘ducks in his team’s loss to Bangladesh.

While investigations in the Bob Woolmer case continue, we should remember that although ‘top - flight’ sports are big money investments, sport is sport! And should be treated as such, ‘an active pastime participated in for pleasure or exercise’.

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[…] More Developments in a story reported on H.N. back in march about the death of Pakistans Cricket Coach Bob Woolmer Scotland Yard investigators have concluded that Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer died of natural causes and was not strangled as local police have said, a Jamaican newspaper reported on Sunday. […]

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