Sport Chit Chat

Alexei Cherapanov, the New York Ranger’s top prospect has passed away at the young age of 19. He is quite well known to hockey hardcore fans as he was a top 5 talent heading into the 2007 draft and dropped to 17th after teams called for boycotting/avoiding Russian players.

Some of the details of his death are unknown… but it apparently took 15-20 minutes for the ambulance to come back (it’s normally at games but left for some reason). This was after an accidental collision with Jagr apparently… There also was no defibrillator in the arena that are normally located in NHL games.

The question with Cherepanov was also when he would come over to North America and I was personally excited to watch him play. It just sucks… only 19 to as well, he’s a year younger then me too.

Here’s a highlight of his skills:

Rest In Peace.

More details to follow…sad day for hockey.
His stats in his final 15 games: 8 goals 5 assists for Avangard Omsk.

Here’s a recording of Cherepanov’s motionless body being lifted from the bench to the dressing room:

Evan Tanner was found dead in California at the tender age of 37 today. The cause of death is unknown but Tanner was apparently taking a trip to the desert by himself, journeys that he would normally take. He told friends to call authorities if they didn’t hear back from him…

I was not a hardcore fan and I’ve gotten to experience the latter part of his career but he seemed like a stand up that was a great personality in the sport of MMA. He was a great character that likely had a future in MMA regardless if his fighting career was mostly to end. On his last post he sported himself with his beard shaved off and the training facility he was in and some fabulous photos of Oceanside, California.

Tanner’s MMA career was impressive and he fought the best of the best. He compiled a record of 32-8. He fought the world’s best such as Tito Ortiz, Rich Franklin, Phil Baroni, Robbie Lawler, David Loiseau, and Yushin Okami.

He also reigned as middleweight champion defeating David Terrell at UFC 51.

His last fight was a split decision loss to Kendall Grove in June.

Here are some videos:
Evan Tanner vs Yushin Okami:

Evan Tanner HL

Rest in Peace Evan Tanner!