CECIL HURT: Remember Turner, Lyda for how they lived

Kevin Turner played for the Crimson Tide from 1988-91. He also played in the NFL for nine seasons with the New England Patriots and Philadelphia Eagles. He passed away Thursday. The Associated Press

There is no good timetable for losing a friend. There is an ache at their passing, whether those losses come at regular intervals or, as often seems to be the case, when one loss piles on top of another so quickly that the pain seems to compress itself into a single numbness, an inseparable sadness.

Over the past three days, two deaths happened, taking away not one but two fine men, different in some ways but united in many others, particularly by a love of the University of Alabama. Even more,…