Like many soccer fans, Kerry Thompson watched on live TV as Danish soccer star Christian Eriksen collapsed and lay motionless last week during Denmark’s European Championship match against Finland. Unlike most fans, Thompson had watched a similar scene play out 20 years earlier, when as an Ohio State senior soccer player he witnessed freshman teammate Connor Senn drop to the turf only yards away during a match at the University of Akron. Senn never moved. Tragically, the 18-year-old from Granville suffered a fatal cardiac event, an autopsy revealing he died from a congenital heart defect that restricted blood flow to the heart. “Sept. 26, 2001,” Thompson said, marking the date of Senn’s death. “I think about that day. It’s overwhelmingly sad, with moments of feeling overwhelmingly powerless. I didn’t know CPR when I was 20 years old.” Rob Oller: Head-hunting has no place in baseball, but sometimes pitchers miss by…
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