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Robert Griffin III Carted Off After Left Leg Injury
Skins quarterback Robert Griffin III left today's game on a cart after hurting his left leg on a non-contact play. The team's calling it a left ankle injury, and Griffin's out for the day....

Chase Headley Takes A Fastball To The Chin
Yankees designated hitter Chase Headley took a fastball to the chin from Rays reliever Jake McGee in the ninth inning of tonight's game....

Giancarlo Stanton Removed On Stretcher After Fastball To The Face
Giancarlo Stanton left tonight's Marlins-Brewers game in the fifth inning after a Mike Fiers fastball hit him square in the face. A stretcher and cart was necessary to get the Miami slugger off the field....

Antonio Brown Sent To Locker Room After Hit Leaves Him "Dazed"
Steelers WR Antonio Brown, fresh off a fine earned by stomping the Browns' punter in the face, exited tonight's game in Baltimore early after a massive hit on a pattern across the middle that left him, in the words of Jim Nantz, "dazed."...

Bengals TE Tyler Eifert Suffered A Very Gross Elbow Injury
Cincinnati Bengals tight end Tyler Eifert appeared to have dislocated his elbow trying to break his fall after a catch in the first quarter of today's Bengals-Ravens game. Guh....

This Is What Happens When Punters Try To Tackle
(CMU is still, at the moment, beating Purdue.)...

Wozniacki Advances To US Open Final After Peng Collapses, Retires
In today's Women's US Open semifinal, Caroline Wozniacki won by default after her opponent, Peng Shuai, was forced to retire due to injury. Above, you can see Shuai dropping to the court in pain and being wheeled off....

Cam Newton Has Fractured Rib, Is Questionable For Week 1
An MRI exam yesterday revealed a hairline fracture in one of Panthers QB Cam Newton's ribs, putting him out next weeks' final preseason tune-up, and putting his availability for the start of the regular season in question....

Sam Bradford Out For The Year With Torn ACL
Rams quarterback Sam Bradford went down in the first quarter of the Rams preseason game against the Browns last night with a left knee injury. Bradford was playing in his second game since returning from a season-ending ACL tear of the same knee last year. Initially it was believed that Bradford's i...

Air Force Football Coach Handles Injuries Terribly; ESPN Approves
Air Force running back Devin Rushing suffered an ankle sprain in the second day of full-pads practice earlier this month when a defender grabbed his leg as another yanked his facemask. Injuries happen, and Rushing ended up missing over a week. But while Rushing was recovering, he basically wasn't ...

Garrett Richards Collapses At First Base With Apparent Leg Injury
Angels ace Garrett Richards appeared to injure his left knee while trying to cover first base on a ground ball tonight at Fenway. It's hard to get a great view of what exactly happened because the play never actually made it back to first after Pujols fielding it and throwing to second. Erick Ayba...


Middle School Football Players Injured In Lightning Strike At Practice
Five students and one coach were injured in a lightning strike at Picacho Middle School in Las Cruces, New Mexico. One of the students, aged between 11 and 14 years old, was critically injured and rushed to the hospital. ...

Watch Joe Panik's Pinkie Disappear As He Slides Into Second Base
Giants rookie Joe Panik was the unwilling participant in a magic trick when he slid into second during Sunday's game against the Phillies. Now you see his pinkie finger, and now—oh, shit....

Twins Prospect Byron Buxton Carted Off Field After Outfield Collision
Byron Buxton, baseball's top prospect, suffered a concussion in his first start in Double-A tonight, playing center field for the New Britain Rock Cats. In the fifth inning he collided with right fielder Mike Kvasnicka and remained motionless, in a heap for several minutes immediately after....


That Image Of "Paul George's X-Ray" Isn't Really His
You pretty much know what an X-ray of Paul George's compound leg fracture from Friday night might look like. But lots of folks wanted to see scans of his specific snapped tibia and fibula. So, starting this weekend, this image started making the rounds:...
![Paul George Breaks His Leg Horrifically In Team USA Scrimmage [GRAPHIC]](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/ufjkk1pqybbgfkbyki6w.jpg)
Paul George Breaks His Leg Horrifically In Team USA Scrimmage [GRAPHIC]
In tonight's Blue-White scrimmage as Team USA preps for the FIBA World Cup, Paul George broke his lower right leg. Be warned, the image is gruesome. ...

Cliff Lee Exits Early With Injury, Yells "Fuck!"
It's hard to say what happened—and speculating about injuries is the worst—but in the video here (not embeddable yet), Cliff lee is obviously upset and frustrated after throwing his 31st pitch of the game. In the third inning, with Denard Span up, Lee threw a cutter and immediately looked disgus...
