With Curt limping, swagger disappears
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BOSTON -- Curt was the subject on everyone&#39;s lips, Curse was the subject on everyone&#39;s mind. Two games into their showdown with the hated Yankees, the poor, bedeviled and favored Red Sox have suffered no less
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HE last time a Yankees pitcher punched a wall, he wound up with a cast on his pitching hand. When Kevin Brown showed up at Yankee Stadium yesterday, he had a splint on his nonpitching hand after surgery.
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Though it seems like a season ago -- and it nearly was -- the broken right scaphoid bone that Tedy Bruschi had surgery on in early August is still a part of his game. The wrist injury has been a constant this season, with his brace to serve as a reminder, and, as Bruschi said yesterday, it has ...
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Tedy Bruschi seemed to be limping as he trudged to the podium yesterday to address the media.
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Bailed out by his offense for the second straight start after lasting less than four innings, Tim Wakefield had few specific reasons for his performances since returning from a missed outing because of back trouble. His health was fine. He thought his pitches were going to be fine. But the Devil Rays - almost always fooled by the knuckleball - ...
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By John Bazemore, AP. The sucking noise you hear is the air being taken out of the Philadelphia Eagles&#39; passing game in the wake of the right ankle injury that will sideline big-play
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With Scott Williamson bracing for a potentially grim diagnosis of his latest elbow injury, the Red Sox last night appeared poised to move on without him as Curtis Leskanic inched closer to rejoining the club. The Sox initially indicated they would make an announcement last night on Williamson's injury but changed their position during the first inning of the game ...
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For a while, everything looked the same. The hunched-over pocket stance, the tap-tap-tapping of the ball, the fidgeting in the pocket finally giving way to his three-quarter, slingshot release to a crossing receiver.
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WALTHAM -- He hasn't played since Dec. 20. An injury that initially was diagnosed to keep him out 2-3 weeks is now on week six and likely will stretch to seven before he plays another game. Any wonder Paul Pierce felt a bit isolated as he watched his team drop 20 of 22 games in his absence?
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MORGANTOWN, W.Va. -- Steve Hailey says he has suffered and played through sprained ankles before. "But I think this might be the worst one, so far," said the Boston College sophomore guard after he hobbled out of the visitors' locker room on crutches following yesterday's 73-53 victory at West Virginia.
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The high-sock retro look Manny Ram&#xED;rez had sported earlier in the week was gone yesterday afternoon. Long and baggy was back in.
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Sport: Athletics: Another British medal hope for world championships disappears with triple jumper's injury.
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ATHENS, Greece - In the waning seconds of the final fight of the preliminary round, US super heavyweight Jason Estrada shuffled his feet, bobbed his head and playfully raised his left hand in the classic pose of exuberant boxers. Estrada ...
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FOXBOROUGH -- It seemed routine enough. Guss Scott fell on a punt return in the Patriots' game in Cincinnati Saturday night, basically untouched, and stayed down until the play ended. He limped off the field, mostly under his own power, and didn't receive an extraordinary amount of medical attention once he retreated to the sideline.
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com. It started at Nomar Garciaparra&#39;s Achilles&#39; heel, ended at Curt Schilling&#39;s torn ankle tendon, and included hair, lots of it.
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Rulon Gardner, who had already left a big mark in the world of Olympic wrestling, left his shoes on the mat to signify his retirement from the ancient sport.
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With 1 minute 41 seconds remaining in the third quarter of last night's 106-100 Celtics victory over the Bobcats, Wally Szczerbiak went down with a sprained right ankle and did not return. Given how quickly the ankle swelled up after the veteran was helped from the court by teammates, Doc Rivers suspects the forward will not be ...