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Derrick Rose Made A Dunk That Wasn't Sad

Do our eyes deceive us, or is that Sad Derrick Rose throwing down an impressive dunk before Sunday's Bulls-Pistons game? And he jumped off of his sad left foot! ...

A Scary Minor League Hockey Injury Led To This Blood-Covered Skate

This skate belongs to Eric Wellwood of the Adirondack Phantoms, the Flyers' AHL affiliate, who hurt himself during a game yesterday afternoon. The blood is his own, and the injury—a severed tendon in his right leg, just above the ankle—was of his own doing....

OK, Maybe It's Time For Patriots Fans To Start Panicking About Rob Gronkowski's Injured Arm

Rob Gronkowski woke up to find his left forearm, operated on three times since November, was swollen and leaking. An infection, contracted sometime after his second surgery, has not cleared up as expected. An immediate cross-country flight back to Boston and a medical examination later, and now ther...

Hockey Player Who Got His Femoral Artery Slashed Open Has Ridiculous Scar

Back in February, Winnipeg Jets defenseman Zach Redmond nearly died when his femoral artery was accidentally cut open by a teammate's skate during practice. Today, Redmond returned to the ice for the first time since undergoing surgery to repair the artery, and he let the media get a peek at the nas...

Columnist: If Kevin Ware's Teammates Were Women, They Would Have Rushed To His Side

When Kevin Ware was grotesquely injured on Sunday—when his snapped tibia thrust through his shin—this was how his Louisville teammates reacted:...

Are You A Bad Person If You Want To Watch What Happened To Kevin Ware?

I caught one of CBS's two replays of Kevin Ware's horrific injury last night right after the play occurred. My brother-in-law watched it live and then called me over to the TV. He didn't mean anything malicious by it. He just saw it and his first impulse was to grab someone nearby and be like, "Holy...

"What They Must Not See": A Top Producer Weighs In On How To Cover A Catastrophic Injury

Earlier we examined some of the difficulties and choices faced by broadcasters when a live event is derailed by a gruesome injury, like Louisville's Kevin Ware's compound fracture. We asked Fred Gaudelli, lead producer of NBC's Sunday Night Football, how he's handled similar situations in the past—a...

Two Replays, No Warning: How Broadcasters Handle Gruesome Injuries

For 45 seconds after Louisville's Kevin Ware suffered a compound fracture, his tibia poking out from his shin, CBS kept its cameras off him. That 45 seconds was enough time for the production room to view the replays, realize how graphic they were, decide whether to show the play again, and decide h...

Kevin Ware Suffered Maybe The Most Gruesome Injury In The History Of Televised Sports [WARNING: VERY GROSS]

Louisville's Kevin Ware suffered what appears to be a compound fracture of both the tibia and fibula in the first half of the Cardinals' Midwest regional final bout against Duke. The injury led to a ten-minute delay in the action and is one of the most difficult things to watch, ever....

This Is Not What They Mean By Taking A Shot From The Elbow

"Shit...My Spine, Bro": Here's The Isolated Audio Picked Up From The Court Mics After Junior Cadougan's Nasty Fall

Cadougan, amazingly, came back from this during the first half, so we can watch and listen without too much queasiness. There's a lot going on here, most of which you can hear for yourself, but a couple interesting moments:...

Sidney Crosby Took A Puck To The Face

NHL points leader and early MVP frontrunner Sidney Crosby left the ice under his own power after taking a puck to the mouth in the Penguins game today against the Islanders. Crosby has famously suffered head injuries leading to prolonged absences, so this is a distressing sight beyond the cringe-in...

Metta World Peace Was Zonked Out On Painkillers After His Knee Surgery, And His Tweets Were Slightly Stranger Than They Usually Are [UPDATE: This Might Be Some Sort Of PR Stunt]

Update: This—part or all of it—is some sort of PR stunt, because in in this gilded age, even the most banal things are guerrilla marketing. A Deadspin staffer got this email yesterday, excerpted in part:...

Johan Santana's Mets Career Is Over

Johan Santana is done. He has another capsule tear, the same shoulder injury that sidelined him for all of 2011. He'll make the final decision this weekend whether to undergo surgery, the same surgery he had in Sept. of 2010, but this isn't the sort of thing that gets better with rest. He'll go und...

Enes Kanter's Dislocated Shoulder Looks Like It Feels Great

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X-Pac Shares The Full Story Of His Torn Anus And Emergency Sphincteroplasty

On Monday we told you that Sean "X-Pac" Waltman had suffered a severe injury at an independent wrestling show over the weekend, ripping himself a new hole in a very sensitive spot. Now there's video of the injury, and Waltman walks fans through exactly what happened....

Swiss Hockey Player Won't Be Disciplined For Hit That Paralyzed Opponent

It's still disturbing to watch Ronny Keller go head-first into the boards, knowing he remains a paraplegic three weeks after the incident in a second-tier Swiss playoff game. But it's good and right that Stefan Schnyder, the player whose hit sent Keller flying, won't face a suspension, let alone cri...

Topps Puts Pitcher's Season-Ending Injury On His Baseball Card

This photo comes from last June, a steamy summer night in Atlanta. Daniel Hudson, the Diamondbacks' young starter, was scared for his season and his career. He had just blown out his throwing arm, and was removed from the game in the second inning. It's a moment that would be immortalized on his dam...

Sean "X-Pac" Waltman Tore Open His Anus On A Failed Bronco Buster

Sean Waltman, best known for stints in the WWF and WCW as the 1-2-3 Kid, Syxx, and X-Pac (and that horrible, horrible Chyna sex tape), is still toiling away on the independent circuit. Saturday night brought him to Minneapolis for a tribute show to the retiring Jerry Lynn. It ended in lots of blood....

North Carolina A&T's DaMetrius Upchurch Slams Head Into Court On Contested Dunk

About 10 minutes into the first half of Louisville's dismantling of N.C. A&T in Rupp Arena tonight, the Aggies lost DaMetrius Upchurch to what is surely a concussion after smacking the back of his head on the court....