Falobi Akanbi, a Montana State Football Recruit, Collapsed and Died While Playing Basketball
All, College Football, Death, High School Sports, Sad. February 28th. 2013, 3:41pm
Falobi Akanbi, a 6′ 5″, 290-pound, 17-year-old Montana State recruit who attended Dawson High School in Pearland, Texas, collapsed while playing basketball after school on Wednesday afternoon. Friends attempted to perform CPR until an ambulance arrived. Akanbi was pronounced dead at Memorial Hermann Southeast Hospital. He had signed a letter of intent to play at Montana State earlier this month.
[Houston Chronicle, KHOU, Bobcat Nation, h/t: @JeromeSolomon]
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February 28th, 2013 at 3:45 PM
Basketball: the Silent Killer.
February 28th, 2013 at 3:47 PM
The NBA needs to be proactive.
February 28th, 2013 at 3:47 PM
damn near went to montana state. financial aid papers went awry there but not at Idaho, so my fate was sealed that way
almost a bobcat
btw, sad
February 28th, 2013 at 3:55 PM
ban basketball in college.
February 28th, 2013 at 4:02 PM
The NBA should pay for all the heart screens for anyone playing basketball. It’s the right thing to do. They can afford it.
February 28th, 2013 at 4:13 PM
This isn’t a time to make things about y;o;u.
February 28th, 2013 at 5:02 PM
You new here?
I believe it is a;l;w;a;y;s a good time to make things about me