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Message: [QUOTE="oldude, post: 3596748, member: 7511"] With all that’s going on with College athletes, the virus and schools like tOSU asking players to sign waivers, I’ve been thinking a lot lately about Hank Gathers, the phenomenal basketball player who lead upstart Loyola Marymount to national prominence in the late 80’s. Gathers was only the 2nd player ever to lead the nation in both scoring and rebounding, which he did as a junior. In his senior year, LM was a top 5 team and some projected Gathers to be the 1st pick in the NBA draft. But during the season Gathers passed out during a game. Subsequently it was determined that he had an irregular heartbeat. At first LM advised Gathers that his playing days were over. But Gathers and his family pressed LM to let him continue his basketball career. Gathers was put on a strong medication to control his irregular heartbeat and he and his family agreed to sign a waiver holding LM harmless should something happen. Gathers felt that the medication made him sluggish and unbeknownst to LM or his cardiologist, he stopped taking the medication on game days. Tragically, he passed out again during a game and died of cardiac arrest. Despite the signed waiver, Gathers family sued LM and the cardiologist for $32 million. Eventually, there was a settlement with LM paying $1.4 million and the cardiologist another $1 million. [/QUOTE]