BOULDER — Colorado freshman basketball player Thomas Akyazili woke up Tuesday morning to a long list of texts from coaches and teammates.
Akyazili, a native of Belgium, had no idea that terrorists had bombed the airport and a metro station in Brussels, barely 30 minutes from his home.
“I had all kinds of texts asking, ‘Is your family OK? Is everything OK?’” Akyazili said. “I didn’t know what had happened to I checked immediately and saw that they had bombed everything. It’s really scary because I didn’t know the details and I’m all the way over here.