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This ex-TCU player died on the court. Now he says friends’ prayers worked a miracle

Prayers work.

Just ask Johnny Pate.

The 58-year-old former TCU basketball player always believed himself to be fit, but this year he learned how fragile a human heart can be, how close death lurks and how miracles happen.

On Aug. 25, Pate died on the TCU basketball court at the Schollmaier Arena.

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“I didn’t have any idea that it was that day because I couldn’t have been happier,” said Pate, whose medical records read, “Sudden cardiac death successfully revived.