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Injured Wide Receiver Plans Return

The Guys — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:16:41 +0000

Houston wide receiver Patrick Edwards, who broke his leg last year when he ran into a cart alongside the field at Marshall, expects to return to action next season at full strength. He was Houston’s leading receiver at the time of the gruesome injury.

If you’re wondering why this is news, it’s mainly an excuse to link to his injury page–one of the worst injuries I remember from last year.

Edwards is also pursuing legal action against Marshall.

More Sports Injuries Added

The Guys — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 23:15:07 +0000

Watching the Vikings game today, saw another one of those gruesome sports injuries that for some reason facinate us. Unfortunately it was a Viking–Charles Gordon–suffering the injury (which, in our expert medical opinion, was probably a dislocated and broken ankle, and/or broken leg).

Also reminded us that someone recently sent us a link to a YouTube video of a University of Houston receiver running full speed into a cart beyond the end zone, suffering a compound fracture of his leg. I’m going to go out on a limb…and say that those carts won’t be there any more.

As usual, the links above go to some pretty nasty videos/pictures–don’t say we didn’t warn you.

Tom Brady Tears ACL – Out For Year

The Guys — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 15:34:28 +0000

OK, the fact that Tom Brady tore his ACL last Sunday against the Chiefs and is out for the year isn’t exactly news. If you’re a football fan, you know this. Hell, if you’re not a football fan, odds are you’ve heard.

However, the fact that we’ve posted a picture of the Tom Brady torn ACL injury as it happened in our football injury section is news. At least in our book.

Moving to Paraguay

The Guys — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:39:16 +0000

Here at Manlyweb, we’re on top of the important Olympics stories–like this one, which discovered the identity of the woman in the picture to the right, who was spotted during the opening ceremonies.

Her name is Leryn Franco, and she’s javelin…tosser(?) for the Paraguayan team. At 26, she’s making her second Olympics appearance, after finishing in 42nd place in 2004 at Athens.

She also was runner-up in the 2006 Ms. Paraguay competition–which begs the questions ‘What did Ms. Paraguay look like?’ and ‘How much is a plane ticket to Paraguay?’

New Hockey Injury Added–Richard Zednik

The Guys — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 17:51:58 +0000

If you’re one of the loyal Manlyweb readers (you lucky few), you probably already know that we have a Sports Injury section of the site, which we try to update with some regularity. Well, we thought we’d pass along the latest update–Richard Zednick, who plays for the Florida Panthers (hoc-key?), had his neck sliced last night during their game in Buffalo.

Fortunately Zednik is apparently in stable condition (if he wasn’t, I’m not sure we’d even be crass enough to put up the video), and the video isn’t nearly as graphic as the Clint Malarchuk neck injury. But still, not good times.

NFL Veterans’ Injuries

The Guys — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 02:41:17 +0000

I’m sure that by us posting this, that Men’s Journal’s Web site traffic will go through the roof, and they’ll contact us to finally figure out how they should be publishing on the Web.

Joking aside, I only hope that Men’s Journal isn’t one of those stupid Web sites that takes content down after a month, or moves it to a pay only archive, or one of the other countless stupid things that print publications tend to do to prevent potential visitors from seeing their articles on the Web. Because their Casualties of the NFL article is one that should be read by football fans everywhere.

Seriously, that Gene Upshaw reportedly takes the stance of “Retired Players are no longer dues paying members of the Players Association” is so utterly ridiculus that we don’t even really begin to know how to put it into words.

We love football as much as the next guy (possibly more), and we love the NFL. And we understand that there is probably more than one side to this story, and some people on the veterans side aren’t necessarily handling this in the best way possible (we’re looking at you Mike Ditka and Joe DeLamielleure), but seriously, if the NFL and their own Players Association aren’t going to try to fix this, then I seriously hope someone in Congress threatens to take away their anti-trust status (this is slightly more important of an issue than whether or not a few Senators get to watch their home team’s games when they are on the NFL Network–seriously, that letter didn’t get to the NFL until the Patriots and Steelers games are just about to not be on broadcast, but where were they when the Cowboys and Packers played three weeks earlier in a game that mattered?).

OK, we’ll get off our soap box now.