Remembering Hank Gathers

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Loyola Marymount held a ceremony Saturday to remember its 1989-90 team, which featured Hank Gathers, the basketball star who collapsed during a game in 1990 and died of a heart ailment. He was 23.

‘My son’s memory has become such a strength to so many people,’ said Lucille Gathers Cheeseboro.

Wrote Bill Plaschke in today’s L.A. Times: ‘In an era of sports cynicism and strife, the saddest, sweetest college basketball story still lives.’

You can read Plaschke’s column here.

-- Keith Thursby