Loyola Marymount gets painful reminder of Hank Gathers' death 30 years ago
LOS ANGELES - The text confused Tom Peabody. A friend had sent him a cryptic, expletive-laden message about Kobe Bryant late on a Sunday morning in January. Peabody was grabbing a bite to eat with his son, and he quickly searched for more information. At first, he came up empty, but then, he found something about a helicopter crash in Calabasas.
His heart sank into his stomach. He texted his friend back: "I am so stunned."
Thing was, the shock that overcame Peabody was not a new sensation. As time passed, it became all too familiar.
"When I saw that happened," Peabody said, "it kind of gave me that same feeling. It's the first time I've felt that in 30 years ..."
For Peabody and the rest of the 1989-90 Loyola Marymount Lions, it doesn't take much to remind them of their fallen friend, Hank
