Jets’ safety, Jim Leonhard, is the newest member of the NFL’s ruptured patellar tendon club, after suffering the injury in last Sunday’s victory over Kansas City. As expected, surgery will end Leonhard’s season, the second consecutive year that injury has shut him down early. Last year he fractured his right tibia (leg), the same side [...]

Houston’s first march toward the playoffs may have taken a fatal blow with back-up quarterback, Matt Leinart’s, clavicle fracture. Leinart suffered the left collarbone injury in the second quarter of the week 12 game against Jacksonville. This while the Texan’s first string QB, Matt Schaub, was on the sidelines in a walking boot because of [...]

Denver RB, Willis McGahee, returned to the field in Oakland on Sunday, and powered the Broncos past the Raiders.  He took some of the heat off Tim Tebow with 163 rushing yards  and two touchdowns.  Quite an accomplishment for a guy thought to be a back-up at best at the start of this season, and [...]

There have been so many season-ending injuries in the NFL this season,and complete ACL tears seem to lead this category.  By my count, there are already 10 players who are looking on from the sidelines after having ACL surgery. When watching replays on TV or at the stadium, I’m actually amazed there aren’t even more [...]

NFL quarterbacks are padding the injury reports, and their injuries are not only impacting game outcomes but resulting in unanticipated trades. Some injuries, like the clavicle (collarbone) fracture suffered by Raiders QB, Jason Campbell, are obvious game changers.  With the team possibly playoff bound, and with a field leader definitively unable to go, it was [...]

Michael Vick has said he’ll be on the field for Sunday’s contest at home against the 49ers, despite having suffered a significant contusion to his right (non-throwing) hand in last week’s loss to the Giants. Reports say his hand remains swollen, sore to the touch and in a protective cast. That means its function is [...]

I’m all for the glass being half full, silver linings and making lemonade, but I’m having a lot of difficulty understanding the optimism in the reporting of injuries in pro sports these days. It generally isn’t the media at fault, but I question the wisdom of the collective universe of team spokespeople and medical departments. [...]

The Mets have provided way too much material for me this season, and now, with their season spiraling totally out of control, still more injuries have taken center stage. I wrote in early April that a rash of oblique strains had dominated baseball’s preseason. Well, in the case of the Mets, here we go again. [...]

Injuries seem to keep the Mets in the news on an almost daily basis. Monday’s lowlights featured the announcement that first baseman Daniel Murphy’s MRI revealed a Grade 2 MCL sprain that will keep him out for the remainder of the season. The team also announced that Jose Reyes had been diagnosed (yet again) with a [...]

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