Death of a Sports Star

Crowd Network

These are the unforgettable, tragic stories of superstars we loved and lost - told as you’ve never heard them before. Death of a Sports Star is a Crowd Network original, presented by Elroy "Spoonface" Powell, Emma Clarke and Tom Price.

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20 episodes
Updated Feb 27, 2025
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Feb 27, 2025 · 9 min
What is Artificial Intelligence? | Introducing SystemShift
Do you love Death of a Sports Star? Then you'll love this new podcast. Perfect for question-askers and curious minds, welcome to SystemShift! Have a listen, and if you love it, hit one of the links below to see and hear more. Enjoy! https://podfollow.com/1683278976 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENvqNLnE8js Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Feb 29, 2024 · 7 min
Introducing: Oceans: Life Under Water
What do you hear at the bottom of the ocean? How does it feel to swim with whales? Or make friends with an octopus? Come and find out. This is Life Under Water. Wildlife filmmaker and TV personality Hannah Stitfall wants to take you the world below the waves. She’ll be chatting to freedivers, marine biologists, submarine pilots and more, hearing mind-boggling stories about the oceans-deep and its inhabitants. We explore The Lost City. We hang out with your favourite animals. The hypnotic sound design and storytelling will drop you right there. Oceans: Life Under Water is brought to you by Crowd Network and Greenpeace UK, which is how these stories can be told so beautifully but also responsibly. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apr 3, 2022 · 26 min
Shane Warne
Sometimes headlines don’t make sense."Shane Warne dead"? Those are three words that don’t belong together. No matter how many times you hear it, no matter how many different ways you’re told, it doesn’t make sense. Not Shane. Not dead. You read it once. You read it twice. A second stretches and seven stages of grief fill the gap. The fourth of March 2022 is like that...<br /><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' hr
Feb 15, 2021 · 35 min
Mike Webster
Mike Webster is one of the greatest American Football players who ever lived. But there’s another story. One that begins before his death, but hits the headlines after. One that changes American Football forever. It’s a story that could have died with ...
Feb 8, 2021 · 33 min
Ben Hollioake
You’ve never seen a cricketer like Ben Hollioake. But this kid who’s set to shred record books, barely makes the small print. He only plays two tests. Twenty one-dayers.And there are numbers that matter more. Because Ben, still only 24, is dead on a...
Feb 1, 2021 · 28 min
Dale Earnhardt
NASCAR racing is never the same after Dale Earnhardt’s death. It sounds dramatic, but that’s what Dale means to people. There’s never been a race car driver like him. He’s loved by most, for the same reason he’s hated by the rest. ...
Jan 25, 2021 · 30 min
Anthony Foley
Sometimes, when a famous sports star dies, you get the sense all those people mourning definitely loved that person, but not that they truly knew them. Not with Anthony Foley. He is his home city. He belongs to everyone. And no-one’s ready to say goodbye.
Jan 18, 2021 · 34 min
Ayrton Senna
Ayrton Senna was more than just the greatest racing driver who ever lived. He made cars dance. One rival said he made cars move like raindrops on a pavement. So good, he made us all poets. But there wasn't anything poetic about Senna’s death. Ther...
Jan 11, 2021 · 32 min
Duncan Edwards
Duncan Edwards was the complete footballer. A comic-book hero leaping into the sports pages. He could’ve changed it all. Could've been the greatest footballer of all time. But we never got to find out. It was all lost in a mess of snow and fire an...
Dec 21, 2020 · 26 min
Diego Maradona
When you think about how Diego Maradona lived, and died - when you think about how he’s remembered, why there’s so much love and hate - it all comes down to the story of few short years in the city of Naples. How he came back, the mir...
Dec 14, 2020 · 33 min
Hansie Cronje
Hansie Cronje was South Africa’s captain, endorsed by Nelson Mandela. But he was also a scam artist, mixing with criminals. His story has lies, greed, bribery, threats, corruption and ultimately a plane crash that ended his life.
Dec 7, 2020 · 31 min
Sarah Burke
"Sarah's the reason we're all here. Without Sarah, none of us would be Olympians" - that's what Sarah Burke did for her sport, even after her death. She was a trailblazer, a daredevil and a star of the X Games.
Nov 30, 2020 · 34 min
Robert Enke
WARNING: this episode contains references to suicide.Robert Enke needs to talk. But it's harder than it looks. Especially with all that baggage from the past and worries about the future. He's the kid from East Germany who made it to the B...
Nov 23, 2020 · 37 min
Andrés Escobar
We all know that old line about football and life and death. But in Colombia in the 1990s - run by drug cartels - nothing makes sense. And when a footballer for the national side makes a critical mistake, the repercussions will echo around the world.
Nov 16, 2020 · 32 min
Vitas Gerulaitis
Vitas Gerulaitis is the New York native turned global celebrity. The immigrant outsider shaking up an establishment sport. Living as large as the Times Square billboards. But when the money is spent, and the momentum slows, what’s left? And wh...
Nov 9, 2020 · 30 min
Chris Benoit
WARNING: this episode contains references to murder and suicide.In professional wrestling, you don’t know where fantasy ends and reality starts. But Chris Benoit was a method actor. He liked realness. And after years of drugs and injuries, that had ...
Nov 2, 2020 · 33 min
Pat Tillman
If you were asked to design a super-hero to save America, he’d probably look like Pat. But what Pat looks like and who he really is are two very different things. He reads poetry and the Qur'an and the Communist Manifesto. He fights tooth and nail...
Oct 26, 2020 · 30 min
Jock Stein
He did things no other football manager had ever done. He came from hardship and took a struggling club to the top of the world. Football saved him, gave him a purpose. All until one dark autumn night when two countries met with so much at stake and th...
Oct 19, 2020 · 30 min
Jonah Lomu
There’s never been a player like Jonah Lomu - what he could do, the impact he had on the world. What few realised is what he’d come through to get there - and what he was going through even as he appeared to be unstoppable.
Oct 12, 2020 · 32 min
Sonny Liston
In the whole history of boxing, there cannot be a story murkier than Sonny Liston’s. And there’s no sport murkier than boxing. Even when Sonny was heavyweight cha...

Death of a Sports Star

What is Artificial Intelligence? | Introducing SystemShift

Introducing: Oceans: Life Under Water

Shane Warne

Mike Webster

Ben Hollioake

Dale Earnhardt

Anthony Foley

Ayrton Senna

Duncan Edwards

Diego Maradona

Hansie Cronje

Sarah Burke

Robert Enke

Andrés Escobar

Vitas Gerulaitis

Chris Benoit

Pat Tillman

Jock Stein

Jonah Lomu

Sonny Liston