Good morning, good afternoon, whatever it is for you, I hope you're having a fantastic day.

My name is Zach Schomler. This is strong opinion sports.

Thank you so very much for tuning in today's Monday, January 27th.

And I think you know where we got to start the show today.

Oh, it.

Kobe died yesterday and it was tragic and heartbreaking and this is a

Honestly a really difficult topic for me to talk about I don't even know I got

When I found out my entire day stopped, I don't know about yours.

And for me, it put everything into perspective.

So if anybody doesn't know yesterday on Sunday morning,

Sunday January 26th, Kobe Bryant was in a helicopter,

and it crashed.

And all nine passengers on the helicopter died

including Kobe and his 13-year-old daughter Gianna

and wow that's so much harder to say out loud you know You know it's one thing to write it down in your notes.

It's another thing to say that, Kobe Bryant and his 13 year old daughter and everybody else died in that crash.

Death is awful. And when this happened I was like, man I I know I got to talk about this on the show

I don't really want to because it's just horrific and it's terrible and again death sucks

But I want to remember Kobe because Kobe was special because

Kobe was special because of his work ethic, you know all those like early mornings at the gym all those countless hours he put in behind

the scenes to make himself who he was.

I think that's how we'd want to be remembered that's how I want to remember Kobe was that work ethic that inspired

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