American Sports Thread

[Carmen Stateside]

Shumperts season finished with torn ACL also!

[mc_grens]

Absolutely gutted for D Rose.

[gallsman]

Read an article on the NBA site a few days ago suggesting the Bulls rested him for the playoffs and waited until next year given the number of injuries he's had this season. Hindsight is a great thing, but may have been right call.

[RMDrive]

What good would rest have done him? Did you see the play? He jump-stopped and elevated for a shot. There was little or no  twisting involved which suggests that his knee was weak and was going to go anyway. Unless he was going to go through a rehab program, rest wouldn't have dealt with the risk of his knee going.

Very disappointed with the Pacers performance against the Magic. Defense was spot on but the offensive execution was horrible. And once again the 2nd unit was a real dead spot for the team -  none of the energy and tempo that was their trademark a few months ago. Apart from Psycho T, none of them really got it done. It's a real series now.

[gallsman]

I imagine "rest" didn't mean invite him to sit on his hole for six months.

[J70]

Shumperts season finished with torn ACL also!

There goes half of the Knicks defense.

Unbelievable stuff from Lebron and the Heat in that second quarter yesterday.

The only comfort for the Knicks is that Chandler was ill and the Heat lost the series to the Mavericks last year despite looking very good in the first few games. That's just clutching at straws though. I think the Knicks will be hard pressed to win even one game given the way Carmello Anthony was rendered completely irrelevant.

[RMDrive]

I imagine "rest" didn't mean invite him to sit on his hole for six months.

But unless his work was going to focus on strengthening his knee it's unlikely it would have made any difference.

[Minder]

Reports Junior Seau has been shot dead?

Edit - Looks like suicide.

[heganboy]

apparently suicide indeed, he had another "domestic" last time he drove his car off a cliff in 2010 and it looks as if he shot himself in the chest. A possibility that he took that route so that his brain could be checked for damage due to multiple traumas...

[Tony Baloney]

Duerson went the same way.

[Tony Baloney]

Was reading there that he is the 8th member of the AFC winning team of 1994. The rest mostly died of cardiac related illnesses - probably due to steroid abuse imo, although one fella was struck by lightening!

[AZOffaly]

Sad. I remember him in his pomp in San Diego.

[Gabriel_Hurl]

Ok - this is legit the worst call in baseball ever

[Hound]

Was reading there that he is the 8th member of the AFC winning team of 1994. The rest mostly died of cardiac related illnesses - probably due to steroid abuse imo, although one fella was struck by lightening!

Kinda freaky alright:

— Junior Seau, LB, 43, May 2012, from apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.

— Lew Bush, LB, 42, December 2011, apparent heart attack.

— Shawn Lee, DT, 44, February 2011, heart attack brought on by double pneumonia (suffered from diabetes).

— Chris Mims, DE, 38, October 2008, heart failure/enlarged heart (he weighed over 32 stone).

— Curtis Whitley, C, 39, May 2008, drug overdose.

— Doug Miller, LB, 28, July 1998, killed by two lightning strikes while camping in Colorado

— Rodney Culver, RB, 26, May 1996, in ValuJet crash, with his wife, Karen.

— David Griggs, LB, 28, July 1995, car crash.

[Declan]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-18361297

Interesting development