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Former Soccer Player Sues College Over "Domination" Wrestling Drill
Former Benedictine College soccer player Zach Robertson is suing his former school for a "mandatory" wrestling drill in 2012 that cut his season short....

Japanese Skier Breaks Arm In Crash; NBC Video Says He "Lands Safely"
Japanese skier Taihei Kato suffered a broken arm on a run in the Nordic combined large hill event earlier today when he lost his balance after landing, hitting the ground hard. NBC's packaging of the highlight makes it sound less painful than it was....

Bob Costas Is Back: How Are His Eyes?
Bob Costas is back on the air tonight at NBC despite "not being 100%," and a close inspection of his wonky eye suggests he's still got a few days left to take Russian antibiotics of questionable efficacy. ...

Gigantic QB Jared Lorenzen Hurts Ankle, Is Carried Off By Four People
Jared Lorenzen, the former backup quarterback for the New York Giants who won our hearts as a breakout 320-lb. indoor football sensation, was injured today during the Northern Kentucky River Monsters' game against the Erie Explosion while running towards the end zone....

Skier Shreds Knee In Practice, Asks Dad, "Am I Still An Olympian?"
American moguls skiier Heidi Kloser, touted as a legitimate medal contender, ripped up her knee on a crash during warm-ups, just minutes before she was to begin her qualification run. Her ACL is completely torn, and her first Olympic games are over before they began....

CrossFit Athlete Paralyzed After Severing Spine During Competition
CrossFit athlete Kevin Ogar was paralyzed from the waist down after severing his spinal cord in the middle of a competition last Sunday in California....
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HBO Boxing Extreme Closeup Is Really Gross [Not Safe For Stomachs]
HBO's airing a bout between Mike Perez and Carlos Takam on the undercard of a Bute-Pascal light heavyweight fight from Montreal tonight, and Perez suffered a nasty cut in the third round. Read on only if you want to see something pretty gross....

Onlookers Horrified By Giant Testicle
You know things are bad when your coach says of your testicle injury, "I've never seen anything like it."...
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Neymar Exits Copa del Rey Match With Gruesome-Looking Injury [UPDATE]
Barcelona star Neymar has been forced off the pitch after suffering a first-half injury in today's Copa del Rey match against Getafe that looks really, really bad....

Aston Villa's Nathan Baker Stretchered Off After Strike To The Face
Villa Park played host to a scary moment today as Aston Villa defender Nathan Baker had to be given oxygen on the pitch after catching an Arsenal strike square in the face....

Derek Holland Injured His Knee Because His Dog Tripped Him
Rangers pitcher Derek Holland had surgery on his left knee Friday and could be out for half of the 2014 season, thanks to his overzealous dog....

Brayden Schenn Takes A Skate To The Stomach, Returns To The Game
Ow. Brayden Schenn was accidentally jabbed in the stomach by Dainius Zubrus's skate after a hit during tonight's Flyers-Devils game. At least Zubrus knows he doesn't need to have them sharpened for now....

MMA Fighter's Nose Probably Shouldn't Look Like That
This here is a photo of cage fighter/tomato can Andy Eichholz, who was KO'ed 15 seconds into his fight against Wade Sauer over the weekend. I'm no doctor, but that nose looks like it wants to be an ear....

What Horrible Things Did We Do To Our Penises Last Year?
While collecting insertions into various orifices for our annual feature, we stumbled across a good number of truly awful penis-related mishaps. Culled from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission's database of emergency room visits, here's a year's worth of self-abuse....

Star HS Athlete Suffers Horrific Injury Taking Pictures In Locker Room
"It was the worst thing I've seen," Huber said. "It went straight through her gum, affected a few of her teeth and she had a big gash on the right side of her face." ...

Anderson Silva's Final Moment
Anderson Silva, more than any other fighter ever, had—or has, who knows—a gift for timing, so that his career played out as a sequence of essentially perfect moments. The best may have been a Chaplinesque performance in a loss this summer that was so unimprovable that he should have said he was done...

Russell Westbrook Is Out Until After The All-Star Break
Russell Westbrook underwent arthroscopic surgery on his right knee today, and will be out until after the All-Star break, reports Darnell Mayberry of The Oklahoman. ...

What Did We Get Stuck In Our Rectums Last Year?
As in past years, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has created a searchable database of emergency room visits around the country. And as in past years, we have trolled the data for the finest examples of insertions showcasing extraordinarily bad luck and/or ingenuity. [Note: Headline has ...

Von Miller's Out For The Season, And The Broncos Are An Injured Mess
As the celebration of Peyton Manning's record 51 passing touchdowns fades away, and the Broncos try to lock up the top playoff seed, there are still a bunch of concerns about the state of the team heading into the playoffs. The biggest came yesterday after linebacker Von Miller suffered a torn ACL e...

Paralyzed Player Looks Upon Gravely Injured Player: Regrettable Angle?
Much of last night's ESPN coverage from the New Orleans Bowl matchup between Tulane and Louisiana-Lafayette focused on former Green Wave safety Devon Walker, who was paralyzed from the neck down after a helmet-to-helmet collision last year in a game against Tulsa. When Tulane cornerback Jordan Sulle...