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Dumb Rugby Dude Breaks His Nose In Motivational Prematch Headbutt
Congratulations. To prove how tough you guys are before a game, one of you busted open a damn teammate’s nose by slamming your heads together (at 0:10). We’re all very impressed....

Survey: NFL Players Don't Trust That Team Doctors Have Their Best Interests At Heart
The Associated Press just released a big report on the relationship between NFL players’ health and the training and medical care they get from their teams. There’s a whole lot of insight into the pervasiveness of injuries and the inadequacies NFL training staffs have with addressing them. Let’s get...

Thomas Davis Has "11 Or 12" Screws In His Arm, But He Plans To Play In The Super Bowl
A quick, gruesome recap of the maladies Panthers linebacker Thomas Davis has suffered: he’s torn his right ACL three times (no other player in NFL history has come back from three such tears on the same knee), he dislocated his finger then relocated it and made a tackle all on the same play, and he ...

Report: Blake Griffin Broke His Hand After Striking A Member Of The Equipment Staff Multiple Times
Clippers forward Blake Griffin has missed the last 15 games with a partially torn quadriceps, but he was expected to make his return to the floor as early as tonight in Indiana. That all went out the window last night, though, when ESPN’s Marc Stein and Ramona Shelburne reported that Griffin flew ba...

Thomas Davis Breaks Arm, Vows To Play In Super Bowl Anyway
If there was a gloomy moment for the Panthers during their destruction of the Cardinals in the NFC Championship game, it was when linebacker Thomas Davis left the field with his right arm immobilized by the training staff. The injury, a broken arm, turned out to be as bad as it looked, but Davis sai...

British Tourist Driving On Wrong Side Of Road In Spain Hospitalizes Half A Pro Cycling Team
Scary news out of Spain this afternoon, as half a dozen Giant-Alpecin riders were hospitalized after a car going the wrong way smashed into them on a training ride. Spanish outlet Informacion reports that John Degenkolb, Warren Barguil, Chad Haga, Fredrik Ludvigsson, Max Walscheid, and Ramon Sinkeld...

NBA Ref Scott Wall Leaves Game After Being Injured By TV Cameraman
Longtime NBA official Scott Wall was forced to leave tonight’s Grizzlies-Nuggets game in Denver after tripping over a sideline camera operator and injuring his leg....

Matt Mitrione's Eye Is So Gross We Had To Censor It For You
Only click through if you want to see some uncensored and very gross photos from tonight’s UFC Fight Night....

Ben Roethlisberger's Shoulder Is All Messed Up
Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger was a guest on the Cook and Poni sports radio show this morning, and shed a bit more light on what exactly is wrong with his throwing shoulder, which he injured during Saturday’s Wild Card game against the Bengals. ...

Trump Endorses Brain Damage In Speech That Claims Football, Like America, Has Gone "Soft"
Donald Trump ranted at length today during a Reno campaign stop about how “soft” he believes the game of football has become, pointing to last night’s Steelers-Bengals game as an illustration of how player-safety rules are ruining America....

Seahawks Punter Jon Ryan Has A Nose Injury
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Report: Ben Roethlisberger Has A Separated Shoulder, But He'll Try To Play At Denver
Ben Roethlisberger left yesterday’s win crazy over the Bengals with a shoulder injury after Vontaze Burfict got him with a cheap shot. He came back to lead a last-gasp drive, but clearly was not at 100%....

Steelers Move On After Winning Field Goal Set Up By Attempted Antonio Brown Assassination
Vontaze Burfict’s head shot to Antonio Brown and a subsequent penalty on Adam “Pacman” Jones earned the Steelers and a hobbled Ben Roethlisberger enough yardage to set up a game-winning field goal—one that erased what had been a stunning fourth-quarter Bengals comeback....

Giovani Bernard And The "Unfortunate Hit" That Knocked Him Out And Enraged The Bengals
Tonight’s already tense Steelers-Bengals Wild Card game turned very ugly after Ryan Shazier knocked out Giovani Bernard and forced a fumble with a devastating hit delivered to Bernard’s skull. Brain damage apologists at CBS defended the play as legal and simply called the play “unfortunate,” because...

Jeremy Maclin And J.J. Watt Both Leave Game With Injuries On The Same Play
J.J. Watt, who’d just spent a little bit on the sideline right before this play nursing a groin injury, had to stop his rush halfway through due to a flare up. Right after he went down, Chiefs lineman Eric Fisher got a cheap shot in on the neck of a defenseless Watt. Watt went into the locker room, ...
![Bucs Fullback Jorvorskie Lane Carted Off With Broken Leg [Warning: Graphic]](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/xv7nxx7owlkzl76mne17.jpg)
Bucs Fullback Jorvorskie Lane Carted Off With Broken Leg [Warning: Graphic]
Tampa Bay Buccaneers fullback Jorvorskie Lane broke his leg in the first quarter of today’s game after teammate Joe Hawley fell on it while Lane was blocking Panthers linebacker Thomas Davis. ...

Kicker Drills Self In Face
Here we see Buffalo Bills kicker Dan Carpenter doing his best impression of a Bills fan tailgating....

Dashaun Phillips Stretchered Off After Scary Head Injury
Washington cornerback Dashaun Phillips left the team’s game in Dallas against the Cowboys after going helmet to helmet with Darren McFadden on this hit. It was eerily similar to a play earlier in the game where Kyshoen Jarrett got shaken up. ...
![Kenneth Faried Leaves Court On Stretcher After Apparent Head/Neck Injury [UPDATE]](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/f2caursijavot34e6tmp.jpg)
Kenneth Faried Leaves Court On Stretcher After Apparent Head/Neck Injury [UPDATE]
Kenneth Faried left the Warriors’ arena in Oakland on a stretcher after the Nuggets’ forward suffered an injury to the head or neck late in Denver’s overtime loss to Golden State tonight. Here’s how the play looked in live action:...