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For professional athletes, coaches and managers, life is a performance. Never more so than during the postseason, where they dance on the summit of their respective professions with the whole world watching.
Every once in a great while, these postseason pageants are visited by tragedy, achievement rendered meaningless by loss, and the effect is jarring. On Wednesday came the heart-breaking news that Erin Popovich, wife of San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich, died after a long illness.