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Michael Del Zotto Gets Cut By Skate, Looks Like Frankenstein
Hockey games feature—among other things—sharp blades and exposed necks, and every so often they collide. Last night Flyers defenseman Michael Del Zotto fell over while trying to dig the puck out of the corner. Avalanche forward Daniel Brière tried to step over him, but managed to clip Del Zotto's ...
What Horrible Things Did We Do To Our Penises Last Year?
Consider this the crotch-clenching companion piece to our annual look at American insertion: a collection of the worst penis-related mishaps to befall our great nation last year....
It Took Four Days For Alex Smith To Find Out He Had A Lacerated Spleen
Alex Smith isn't going to start for the Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday because he has a lacerated spleen. Smith suffered the injury during last Sunday's game against against the Steelers, but he didn't find out what had happened to him until yesterday....
What Did We Get Stuck In Our Rectums Last Year?
It is time for a Deadspin holiday tradition like no other: our annual trawl of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission's database of emergency room visits to discover the strangest, unlikeliest, and most awkwardly shaped objects America inappropriately shoved into its various holes. God bless us...
Timofey Mozgov Had A Rough Night
Not only did the Nuggets get their butts kicked in Charlotte tonight, but Denver center Timofey Mozgov ended up bloodied after this one-two punch to the face:...
Now The Coaches Are Getting Injured
The Camellia Bowl has been rough for officials and coaches. This shot to the face resulted in a bloody mess of a nose....
Kevin Durant Suffers Sprained Ankle
Kevin Durant left Thursday night's matchup against the Warriors with an ankle injury, and he will not return. Durant injured his right ankle late in the second quarter, when he stepped on Mo Speights's foot as Speights slid over to take a charge. X-rays on the ankle were negative, but he was diagnos...
Report: Jabari Parker Out For The Season With Suspected Torn ACL
Jabari Parker will likely miss the rest of the season with a "suspected torn ACL," according to ESPN's Marc Stein. Parker left last night's win over the Suns with a "sprained knee" after he collided with PJ Tucker. He becomes the second lottery pick to suffer a season-ending injury, after Julius Ran...
NFLPA: Patriots And Team Doctor Conspired To Screw Player Out Of $3.85M
The NFLPA alleges that the New England Patriots, including Robert Kraft, Bill Belichick, and the former team physician, were involved in a plan to alter or withhold treatment of a former player in an attempt to force him to return his signing bonus....
Soccer Player Struck By Lightning, Thought Dead, Says He Survived
Joao Contreras Fuentes is either one lucky son of a bitch or tops on God's shit list, take your pick. He was playing soccer for the club Sport Aguila in the Copa Peru when a bolt of lighting leaped from Zeus' fingertip and basically erased Fuentes in the fashion of blowing out a candle. The bolt ign...
Kyrie Irving Helped To Locker Room After Injuring Leg
Kyrie Irving had to be helped to the locker room in the second quarter of tonight's game against the Thunder, after seemingly suffering a knee or leg injury. Irving jumped out to contest Russell Westbrook's shot, and his knee banged into Westbrook's, causing him to land quite awkwardly. There is no ...
Jadeveon Clowney Out Nine Months After Microfracture Knee Surgery
Houston Texans 2014 number one overall draft pick Jadeveon Clowney will be out for approximately nine months after undergoing microfracture knee surgery yesterday, according to Adam Schefter. Professional athletes undergoing microfracture knee surgery have had mixed results, with some (Marques Colst...
Keep The Punter In Your Thoughts
Mike Scifres was carted off after suffering what looks like a possible rib injury ....
Brandon Marshall Taken To Hospital After Receiving A Knee To The Back
Bears receiver Brandon Marshall left tonight's game against the Cowboys after this play, where he got kneed in the back on safety Barry Church's tackle. The Bears initially said that Marshall had injured his ribs and his return was questionable, but later ruled him out for the rest of the game...bec...
Another Referee Knocked Out Of Game Due To Tip Injury
Just days after Rick Crawford's terrifying collapse after being elbowed during the opening tip of La Salle-Vanderbilt, another college basketball referee has had to leave the game due to jump ball-related injury....
Corey Crawford Is Out A Few Weeks Because He Fell At A Concert
Corey Crawford's mysterious "lower-body" injury turned out to be a fairly hilarious one—the Blackhawks goalie says he missed a step and fell down while leaving a concert....
What Was This Thing Sticking Out Of Tony Hawk's Thigh?
Warning: the following picture is kind of gross. But if you're interested in a strange object jutting from a gash in Tony Hawk's leg that looks like Jupiter's Great Red Spot, check out the uncropped pic:...
Valencia Fans Drill Messi In Head After Barça Score Last-Second Winner
Lionel Messi earned a yellow card for complaining to the referee after angry Valencia fans cracked him in the head with a thrown object as Barcelona celebrated a late added-time Sergio Busquets goal that gave them a 1-0 road win....
Earlier today the Toronto Raptors—who surprisingly have the third best record in the NBA—announced that DeMar DeRozan suffered a "torn left adductor longus tendon" with no timetable for return. Injury blog In Street Clothes explains what that is, and how long DeRozan will likely be out for. [In Stre...
OSU's J.T. Barrett Out For Season; Here's The Ovation He Received
Ohio State quarterback J.T. Barrett will miss the rest of the season due to the ankle fracture he received late in today's win over Michigan, leaving Cardale Jones to serve as field general for the rest of OSU's season. Above is some previously-unseen video of Barrett being tended to by medical pers...