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Maybe Star Pitchers Having Elective Tommy John Surgery Isn't The Best Thing To Do During A Pandemic
On one hand, if ever there was a time for pitchers to undergo Tommy John surgery, this is it. Because the abbreviation of this season due to the coronavirus pandemic means there is less baseball to be missed while recovering from the operation, which typically takes about 15 months....
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Jets In Feud With Offensive Lineman Refusing To Play Through Shoulder Injury [Update]
Two doctors have told Jets offensive lineman Kelechi Osemele that he needs surgery to repair a torn labrum in his shoulder, Osemele says. But the Jets believe the 30-year-old left guard can play through the injury and postpone surgery until the end of the season, and are reportedly planning to fine ...
Cardinals Flamethrower Jordan Hicks Shredded His Pitching Elbow
In some MLB injury news that felt as sadly inevitable as it is disappointing, St. Louis Cardinals closer Jordan Hicks is likely out for the long-term future, as the team announced today that he tore the UCL in his right (throwing) elbow. The Cardinals said they are “determining the next course of ac...
Dwight Howard Needs A Buttectomy
Okay, fine, probably it’s not a buttectomy. But it’s at least a buttotomy or a buttopsy. The butt pain that has kept Dwight Howard out of all but nine Wizards game this season will reportedly require surgery:...
Shaq's Large Teenage Son Will Miss Freshman Year At UCLA Due To Heart Surgery
Well, here’s some rotten news: Shareef O’Neal, the hooping son of Shaquille O’Neal, will be forced to medical redshirt his freshman season at UCLA after doctors reportedly discovered a heart ailment during an otherwise routine checkup....
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Festus Ezeli Will Have Season-Ending Knee Surgery Involving A Cadaver Donor [UPDATED]
It’s been reported for months that Festus Ezeli would need season-ending knee surgery, but until yesterday, no date had been set or details announced. Now, the situation and timeline are clearer—Ezeli will undergo a procedure requiring a cadaver donor, and he’s spent the last several months waiting ...
Stem Cell Treatments Could Be The Next Frontier In Fixing Broken Pitchers
In an interesting dispatch from spring training, Yahoo’s Jeff Passan reports on Los Angeles Angels pitcher Garrett Richards’s recovery from a May 2016 elbow injury that shut him down for the season....
Rangers Pitcher Jake Diekman Will Miss First Half Of Season After Colon Surgery
Texas Rangers pitcher Jake Diekman, who has had ulcerative colitis since he was a kid, underwent the first of several surgeries to remove his colon earlier this week. He had hoped to delay the procedure until next offseason but after a flareup over the holidays caused him to lose nearly 20 pounds i...
Inside The Room For Tommy John Surgery, Baseball's Most Important Cut
The following is excerpted from The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports by Jeff Passan, available April 5 from HarperCollins....
Yu Darvish To Miss At Least Four Months, Might Have Tommy John Surgery
The Texas Rangers will be without the services of All-Star pitcher Yu Darvish for at least four months, as the team announced that an MRI showed Darvish sprained the ulnar collateral ligament in his right elbow. Darvish was shut down in August last season because of right elbow inflammation, but was...
Looks Like Diego Maradona Went And Bought Himself A New Face
Looking good there, Diego! Like you've shaved years off your face! Those wrinkles at the corner of your eyes, the bags underneath them—all the evidence of your 54 years of hard living has just been wiped away. ...
Masahiro Tanaka Has A Partially Torn UCL
It's been a rough year for pitchers, and the Yankees' Masahiro Tanaka is the latest casualty. He's been diagnosed with a partial tear of his ulnar collateral ligament in his elbow, and surgery is a possibility....
Bronson Arroyo Was About As Pretty OK, I Guess, As Anyone Ever
Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher Bronson Arroyo announced on Monday that he will be undergoing Tommy John surgery to repair the torn ulnar collateral ligament in his right elbow. The news that a 37-year-old pitcher who has never really warranted a descriptor any more generous than "OK" is out for the fo...
Atlanta Braves Pitcher Had Surgery On His Dickhole
Atlanta Braves pitcher Mike Minor will be starting his spring training late, as he's recovering from shoulder soreness tangentially caused by dickhole surgery....
Dry Bones
Doug Miller has an uncommonly thorough piece on Dr. Frank Jobe over at MLB.com:...
Vengeful Hot Dog Sends Young Pitcher Into Surgery After Contest
Happy birthday, America, and try not to kill yourself today. We knew the inherent dangers of errant fireworks and binge drinking, two hallmarks of this annual birthday rite. Now we learn this week that another summer tradition — the hot-dog chugging race — can also result in near-death experiences, ...
Rob Gronkowski Needs Another Goddamned Surgery
Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski will have yet another surgery, this time on his back, and is expected to miss part of training camp. That's the best-case scenario....
The Summer Of Gronk Pauses For Nothing, Not Even Surgery
It (sort of) looks that way, according to Zachary, our tipster. But it's tough to be sure. That pose you see above is certainly Gronk-like, but dude's also wearing a shirt with buttons, and we can't tell whether he's also wearing Zubaz. Another photo shows dude drinking from a bottle of water, which...
Kobe Bryant Shares Disgusting Photo Of His Achilles Surgery
OK, this isn't as gross as some other pictures (seriously, don't click that link) that we've posted on the site recently, but we have still cropped it for the sake of the squeamish. If you want to get a good look at Kobe Bryant's sliced-open heel, go ahead and click through....
This Is The Man Who Operated On Both Kobe Bryant And Zack Greinke Yesterday
Sure, he looks like he should be at the center of an involved murder mystery on General Hospital, but Dr. Neal ElAttrache spent a good chunk of his Saturday operating on both Zack Greinke's collarbone and Kobe Bryant's achilles. Both surgeries were completed without incident, if you couldn't tell ju...