Unfortunately, it doesn't answer any questions. We can now, it appears, rule out any Len Bias-type thing, and I myself was thinking it might come from insulin abuse -- I know at one point strength athletes were using insulin as part of their stacks to speed muscle growth, and they might still be doing it. But having a slightly enlarged heart is common among athletes, and the source of the blockage that killed him isn't known. And again, if it was weighing 300 pounds that killed him so young, you'd be seeing it happen a lot more often, especially among the ranks of football players, college and pro. Was there a history of heart disease in his family? We don't know. Had he used performance enhancing drugs in the past? We don't know. There are somewhere near 10,000 young men about Herrion's age playing football, college and pro right now in this country; one of them dies of a heart attack, and the instant conclusion is it was because of his weight.

I know someone who nearly died of a heart attack at 30; they were slender and exercised regularly. That must have been an anomaly. A fat guy dies young of a heart attack, and it's automatically assumed to be because of his weight. The standards should be a little higher than that.