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DALLAS _ Pedro Alcazar was taking a shower in his Las Vegas hotel room preparing for a flight home to Panama City. Until that moment last June, he'd felt just fine, despite having lost his title 36 hours earlier in what was his boxing debut in the United States.
He took a number of hard punches to the head, but a couple of post-fight examinations by a neurologist and a physician found him suffering no ill effects. Alcazar felt so good the next day, in fact, that he spent it sightseeing on the Las Vegas Strip.
But before he got out of the shower early that Monday morning, he collapsed. And died.
The story came back to mind Sunday at Texas Stadium ...