Tag Archives: injuries
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Orlando Magic Cheerleaders Takes Nasty Spill During Stunt, Gets Carted Off Court on a Stretcher (Videos)
We are all somewhat used to seeing athletes carted off the field on stretchers. It doesn’t happen everyday, but it happens often enough that we all know the drill: everyone stands around silently watching, waiting for a positive sign, and then, more often than not, the player gives a thumbs up to let us know [...]
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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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Valencia’s Roberto Soldado Scores Wonder Goal, Stomps Falcao’s Face Vs. Atletico Madrid (Videos)
At first, things were looking good for Atletico Madrid on Saturday in their Liga game against Valencia. They were the ones applying all the pressure early in the game, getting three brilliant scoring chances at the 12, 14, and 17-minutes marks. However, after the third of these chances, Atletico’s luck took a turn for the [...]
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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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Buffalo Bills Ball Boy Face-Plants, Injures Himself (Video)
Usually in the NFL, if you hear somebody got injured on the kickoff, you assume it was a player. Maybe somebody on the kicking team didn’t see the receiver signal a fair catch, or perhaps the kicker pulled a hamstring—something like that. But during the New England Patriots’ historic second half run against the Buffalo [...]
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Another Wednesday, Another MLB Pitcher Clocked In The Head By A Screaming Line Drive (Video)
So apparently Wednesday is now “hit a pitcher in the head with a line drive” day in Major League Baseball. First it was Oakland’s Brandon McCarthy who took a liner to the noggin last Wednesday against the Angels. Now it’s Houston’s Mickey Storey. On Wednesday night at Minute Maid Park, during the top of the 8th [...]
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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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Scary Stuff: Tulane Safety Devon Walker In Stable Condition After Breaking His Neck (Video)
Wow, nothing kills the football buzz that accompanies a new season like a horrific injury that might very well leave a promising young athlete paralyzed for the rest of his life. On Saturday in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Tulane safety Devon Walker suffered a collapsed lung and a cervical spine fracture—more commonly known as a broken [...]
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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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11 Biggest NFL Preseason Injuries of All Time
As the NFL preseason rolls into week three, the injuries are really starting to pile up. Thus, we’re once again starting to hear rumblings from people who think the league should just get rid of these meaningless exhibition games altogether. And, you know, they have a point. The games are boring to watch after the [...]
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Rory McIlroy’s Tee Shot Clocks Guy in the Head at British Open (Video)
It would seem that golf fans are in need of a little refresher on the things you should and should not do when attending a professional golf tournament. Last weekend a kid at the John Deere Classic decided he’d take home a nice souvenir, which just so happened to be Troy Matteson’s tee shot from [...]
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Minor League Catcher Obliterates Base Runner During Collision At The Plate (Video)
Remember when San Francisco Giants catcher Buster Posey broke his leg and ended his season after a brutal home plate collision last year? Everyone was talking about how the MLB has to do something to protect the poor, vulnerable catchers from such plays, including Posey’s own manager, Bruce Bochy. On some level, the argument was [...]
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South African Cricket Player Has Career Ended By Freak Eye Injury (Video)
Don’t worry, you don’t need to know a lot about cricket—a strange and mercurial game to most North American sports fans—to appreciate this story. In fact, you don’t even need to care about sports (though I assume you do). You just need to have a heart. In England, a South African cricket player named Mark [...]
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11 Most Dangerous Sports
When you hear the phrase “dangerous sports,” your mind immediately turns to things like auto racing or MMA—sports where fiery crashes and bloody faces are commonplace. But here’s thing: if you don’t play the sport, it’s not dangerous. And the vast majority of athletes out there in North America do not take part in auto [...]
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9 Injuries That Could Affect The Outcome Of The 2012 NBA Playoffs
No one really wanted to see a shortened and condensed 2012 NBA Season. Well, the Charlotte Bobcats are probably glad after the fact, because the the fact that this wasn’t a full 82-game season may be the only thing that keeps them from going down as the worst NBA team of all time. But most [...]
