Tag: Sports Injuries

A Rock Climber Finds a Softer Strength

I don’t know what time it was when my husband at the time, the rock climber Tommy Caldwell, finally scrambled over the summit. The sun had risen sometime during the first part of the climb and had set again hours later. I squinted up at him, tired eyes burning as I watched his shadow moving […]

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‘The Daily’: Football’s Young Victims

The Daily is made by Rachel Quester, Lynsea Garrison, Clare Toeniskoetter, Paige Cowett, Michael Simon Johnson, Brad Fisher, Chris Wood, Jessica Cheung, Stella Tan, Alexandra Leigh Young, Lisa Chow, Eric Krupke, Marc Georges, Luke Vander Ploeg, M.J. Davis Lin, Dan Powell, Sydney Harper, Mike Benoist, Liz O. Baylen, Asthaa Chaturvedi, Rachelle Bonja, Diana Nguyen, Marion […]

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A Former Hockey Enforcer Searches for Answers on C.T.E. Before It’s Too Late

Page 68 of Boston University’s Hope Study questionnaire asks, “Have you ever injured your head or neck in a fight or been hit by someone?” For Chris Nilan, a simple yes could never convey the whole story. The answer stretches out over 300 bare-knuckle fights as a professional hockey player, and countless other brawls on […]

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Aaron Rodgers Injury Caps a Dismal Summer for New York Fans

In the dreary, decades-long history of the New York Jets, Monday night’s game was supposed to be a turning point: Aaron Rodgers, a surefire Hall of Fame quarterback, was set to take the field surrounded by All-Pro talent. For fans of the team, which has long seemed cursed, hopes had perhaps never been higher. The […]

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Aaron Rodgers Is Out for the Jets Season With a Torn Achilles’ Tendon

Aaron Rodgers got the news on Tuesday that was widely feared since he departed the Jets’ Monday night game against the Buffalo Bills: He had torn his left Achilles’ tendon and will miss the season, the league said in a social media post. After a long and glittering career as the Green Bay Packers quarterback, […]

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Jets’ Aaron Rodgers Leaves Monday Night Football With Injury

Aaron Rodgers, the star Jets quarterback, injured an ankle during his first regular-season series with the team and will not return to Monday night’s game against the Buffalo Bills, the team said, zapping the excitement built during the off-season after Rodgers’s arrival. On the Jets’ third official offensive play, left tackle Duane Brown missed a […]

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