Tag Archives: Gruesome Injury
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Kevin Ware Presents David Letterman’s Top Ten List (Video)
Less than one week ago, Kevin Ware of the Louisville Cardinals was laid out on a court at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis with a broken bone sticking out of his right leg. Since then he has undergone surgery to repair the compound fracture he suffered, and just four days later he was able to [...]
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Enes Kanter Dislocated His Shoulder, and it Looked Nasty (Video)
Hopefully you are checking out the following video before your lunch break. Not after it. If comes from last night’s game between the Phoenix Suns and the Utah Jazz. Less than two minutes into the second quarter, and less than three minutes into Enes Kanter‘s first appearance on the court, the 6’11″ center for the [...]
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50 of the Most Gruesome Sports Injuries of All-Time
Nobody likes seeing their favorite player go down with a groin injury or a high ankle sprain. However, while those kinds of injuries can keep players on the disabled list for a long time, at least they usually don’t endanger their careers. Not all sports injuries are so mild. In fact, some are so gruesome [...]
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Moroccan Goalie Smacks Head on Turf, Loses Consciousness, Swallows Tongue, Nearly Dies (Video)
There is so much flopping and feigned crying in the sport of soccer that it can be easy to forget that, every so often, serious injuries do happen. Some of these injuries are gruesome and career-threatening. Then there are others that, although less gruesome, prove to be life-threatening. The clip you are about to watch [...]
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Eskimos’ Matt Nichols Suffers Gruesome Ankle Injury During CFL Playoff Game (Video)
On Sunday, the Edmonton Eskimos took on the Toronto Argonauts in the CFL’s East Division semifinals. It was not a good day for the team from Alberta. Not only did the Eskimos get beat by the humiliating score of 46-26, but young quarterback-of-the-future Matt Nichols went down in the third quarter with what looked like [...]
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South Carolina Running Back Marcus Lattimore Suffers Gruesome Leg Break (Video)
Football is one unforgiving sport. Guys train and prepare and get their heads bashed in for years hoping they’ll one day get to the NFL—or at least get a free ride to college—and yet, on any one play, all their hopes and dreams could come crashing down. And that is almost certainly what poor Marcus [...]
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Rugby Player Ruptures Testicle During Match, Keeps Playing
British rugby player Paul Wood would have given his right nut to get his team, the Warrington Wolves, a victory in the Super League Grand Final in Manchester this past Saturday. In fact, he did give his right nut. But, sadly, Warrington still lost to the Leeds Rhinos 26-18. You see, early in the second [...]
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Gruesome Hockey Laceration: KHL Player Loses Pint Of Blood After Carotid Artery Slashed By Skate (Video)
There haven’t been many serious injuries involving skate blades in the sport of hockey over the years. However, when they do happen, they are horrifying. And strangely, the two most glaring examples both took place in Buffalo. Four years ago, the Florida Panthers’ Richard Zednick had his carotid artery nicked by the skate of teammate [...]
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This Gruesome Soccer Injury Is As Bad As They Come (Video)
Soccer isn’t really considered a brutal sport. I mean, it’s definitely a contact sport, and players are likely to take a lot of elbows to the ribs throughout the course of the season, but it’s not like football or hockey. You don’t really expect gruesome injuries. But of course, gruesome soccer injuries do occur. Just [...]
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14 Months After Gruesome Injury, Seattle Sounders’ Steve Zakuani Makes Emotional Return Against Man Who Injured Him (Video)
Steve Zakuani seems like a really positive guy, but even he would probably tell you that April 22, 2011, was the worst day of his life. After all, that’s the day the Seattle Sounders striker had his leg broken in two places by a vicious tackle from Colorado Rapids midfielder Brian Mullan. If you want [...]
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This Ridiculously Gruesome Beach Soccer Injury Is Not For The Faint Of Heart (Video)
The European Championship (of regular soccer) may only come around ever four years, but every single summer teams representing countries all over Europe compete in the Euro Beach Soccer League, or the EBSL. And every year, when it’s all said and done, the top five teams in the league qualify for the FIFA Beach Soccer [...]
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Gross Stuff: Soccer Player’s Hemorrhoids Rupture During Game (Video)
Have you ever wondered what it would look like if a soccer player had a nasty case of hemorrhoids, and they ruptured while he was playing a game? If you answered “yes,” you’re crazy. Nevertheless, your curiosity is about to be quenched. Meet Leo Ponzio, midfielder for the River Plate soccer club, which currently plays [...]
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9 Terrifying Cases Of Athletes Who Were Attacked By Animals
Top athletes often have to overcome obstacles and endure hardships to succeed. That, of course, is why we often find them so inspirational. But it’s one thing to have to overcome disease, heartbreak, car crashes, or some other horrible thing that regular people experience every day. It’s quite another to have to overcome out-of-the-blue attacks [...]
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Cricket Player Loses Three Teeth When Ball Hits Him In The Face (Video)
Cricket and Ice Hockey have more in common than you would have thought. The Zimbabwean and Bangladeshi national cricket teams recently got together for a series of five One-Day International Matches in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. (Why were they playing five one-day matches instead of a single “test cricket” match that lasts five days? I have no [...]
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AA Pitcher Makes Worst Head-First Dive In History Of Pro Baseball (Video)
I know what you’re going to think when you see this video, so I’ll just cut to the chase: no, this is not footage from some local slow-pitch softball league. This is video from a game between the Jacksonville Suns and Carolina Mudcats of the AA Southern League. The funny thing is, this happened way [...]
