Prayers for Louisville's Kevin Ware

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If you missed the injury it was easily the ugliest injury I've seen in sports ever. It looks a lot worse than Joe Theismann's injury. I was completely sickened when I saw it. I also heard $670,000 for the medical expenses. Prayers for him and his future in basketball. I should probably add the injury is very graphic.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Os7HP7F60vo

Edited April 1, 2013 by -oo-

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If you missed the injury it was easily the ugliest injury I've seen in sports ever. It looks a lot worse than Joe Theismann's injury. I was completely sickened when I saw it. I also heard $670,000 for the medical expenses. Prayers for him and his future in basketball. I should probably add the injury is very graphic.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Os7HP7F60vo

 

It was the worst thing to happen in major college basketball since Hank Gathers.

 

I initially thought that there was some mass collision, as Hairston from Duke was covering his eyes and Behanan and Siva from Louisville were down on the ground. But no. I had just eaten a nice, large Easter dinner, and had to fight the urge to wretch with everything I had. And I haven't done that in 14 years.

 

What I've heard is a double compound fracture, which would jive with the image in which his leg looks like roughly like a triangle.

 

I'm very pessimistic about recovery from something like that. I know that modern medicine has advanced far since the days of Theismann, but this injury is bad. It is significantly worse than Michael Bush, whose injury everyone is using as a point of comparison. It is even worse than Theismann's, as Theismann's was 1 clean break through the tibia and fibula. Theismann walks with a limp today because of that injury.

 

Ware may never walk properly again, much less play organized basketball. I pray that I can eat my words, but his playing days are very likely over.

[blueinbama 259]

It was the worst thing to happen in major college basketball since Hank Gathers.

 

I initially thought that there was some mass collision, as Hairston from Duke was covering his eyes and Behanan and Siva from Louisville were down on the ground. But no. I had just eaten a nice, large Easter dinner, and had to fight the urge to wretch with everything I had. And I haven't done that in 14 years.

 

What I've heard is a double compound fracture, which would jive with the image in which his leg looks like roughly like a triangle.

 

I'm very pessimistic about recovery from something like that. I know that modern medicine has advanced far since the days of Theismann, but this injury is bad. It is significantly worse than Michael Bush, whose injury everyone is using as a point of comparison. It is even worse than Theismann's, as Theismann's was 1 clean break through the tibia and fibula. Theismann walks with a limp today because of that injury.

 

Ware may never walk properly again, much less play organized basketball. I pray that I can eat my words, but his playing days are very likely over.

 

I sincerely hope he will be able to come back from this. Tyrone Prothro of Alabama (vs Floride, 2005) comes to mind. I don't believe Prothro's injury was a compound fracture, but he broke both the tibia and fibula. He never played again. I pray that's not the case here.

[hokie07 11]

 

Remarkable that Ware is already up and on crutches. Hopefully, he can make a full recovery and find his way back onto the basketball court sometime in the future. The L'ville doctors don't believe its career ending but he sure has a long road ahead of him.

[sixcat 2,942]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buzjAeYljKM

 

The above link is the worst incident I have witnessed at a major sporting event. Patrick Edwards recovered enough to play for the Detroit Lions.

 

There is hope for Kevin Ware!

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Remarkable that Ware is already up and on crutches. Hopefully, he can make a full recovery and find his way back onto the basketball court sometime in the future. The L'ville doctors don't believe its career ending but he sure has a long road ahead of him.

 

His legs are rail-thin. I wonder...

[BlueTornadoFan 17]

Maybe he had already had an underlying microfracture or a stress fracture, and the awkward landing on his leg finally gave it away. Who knows? Hope nothing but the best for Kevin Ware and wish him a speedy, and full recovery.

[ThomasDenton 79]

 

Remarkable that Ware is already up and on crutches. Hopefully, he can make a full recovery and find his way back onto the basketball court sometime in the future. The L'ville doctors don't believe its career ending but he sure has a long road ahead of him.

 

My brother broke his leg in a football game his senior year pretty much the same way, broke both the tibia and fibula, and was up walking in no time. Was just a couple of weeks and he was already walking some without crutches, so it's not too surprising (to me at least) that he's up walking in this pic. Still a gruesome injury though. Might come back from it, might not, but I'd say either way, he won't be 100%.