If you drafted Rob Gronkowski this season, you probably had to do so in the second round of most drafts, and if you were lucky you snatched him up in the third. He has been one of the most prolific scoring receivers in football since he entered the league stands alone on top of the [...]
On Tuesday, Dustin Pedroia was diagnosed with a torn adductor muscle in his right thumb. Depending on who you ask, the significance of this injury may appear to be very different. If you ask the Red Sox and manager Bobby Valentine, they’ll tell you that Pedroia is too important to the team to risk losing [...]
Jacoby Ellsbury just can’t buy a break sometimes. Two years ago, he played just 18 games while he battled severely broken ribs. Last year, he had a career season but finished 2nd in MVP voting (behind a freaking pitcher!) after his team absolutely choked away their playoff spot. And now this year, Ellsbury will miss [...]
The Celtics lost to the 76ers 99-86 Friday night…but they lost much more than a game. Swingman Mickael Pietrus suffered a dangerous head injury and needed to be taken off the court on a stretcher. Watch the video (after the jump)…
According to Pro Football Weekly, a source close to the Patriots says that Tom Brady has tennis elbow. Eric Edholm, of PFW, looked more in-depth to what tennis elbow was: Also known as lateral epicondylitis, tennis elbow is a painful inflammation of the tendons that join the forearm muscles on the outside of the elbow, [...]
Earlier this week, Boston Red Sox General Manager Theo Epstein revealed that J.D. Drew is suffering from an avulsion fracture on his right middle finger. While the fractured finger may have been news, Red Sox fans were already well aware that Drew would miss a significant amount of time on the disabled list. With Drew’s [...]
Josh Beckett hates pitching in Toronto, as evidenced by his 1-2 record in 9.27 ERA in six career starts at the Rogers Centre entering Monday’s Labor Day start. Beckett pitched well through 3.2 innings though, striking out six and allowing zero runs. But, with two outs in the fourth, Beckett came up limping after a [...]
The Celtics finally received some good news on the injury front on Saturday, as center Nenad Krstic, who was injured Thursday night in the win over the Spurs, has a deep bone bruise in his right knee, but nothing worse. He’s officially listed as day-to-day. “We’re happy with the prognosis,” Krstic’s agent, Mark Cornstein said [...]
Just a handful of games into the season, Celtics point guard Delonte West will be sidelined with a broken right wrist for an undisclosed amount of time. Up until this unfortunate event, West had been contributing solid minutes to the team, and was back on the right track after serving a 10-game suspension to start [...]
UPDATE: Brady practiced on Thursday, so all is well for the Patriots heading into Sunday’s game against the Steelers. – Sound the alarms! Tom Brady has missed practice for the first time this season! It actually is somewhat notable, as you may remember Brady managed to practice the same day as his car accident in [...]
Great news! The Patriots get to take out their frustrations on the Bills on Sunday. And now…the buzzkill: third-down running back Kevin Faulk reportedly suffered a torn ACL in Sunday’s loss to the Jets, and could be lost for the season. The 34-year-old suffered the injury when he was shoved out of bounds in the [...]
It all seems to be over just as quickly as it began. With the Wes Welker saga coming to a close, everyone in New England can breathe a sigh of relief. Sept. 12 is when New England’s favorite receiver takes the field again, in a healthy state no less. The memories of a teary-eyed number [...]
If you thought the Patriots defense was bad, look out: it’s about to get a whole lot worse. The Patriots surprisingly placed No. 1 cornerback Leigh Bodden on season-ending injured reserve with a shoulder injury. Bodden’s injury comes just two days before the team’s final preseason game, and less than two weeks before the regular [...]
According to an ESPN.com interview with personal throwing coach Tom Martinez, Patriots quarterback Tom Brady had a broken finger and three broken ribs toward the end of last season. Think that might have been why he had three straight games with a QB rating under 75.0? CBS’s Charley Casserly had reported during the season that [...]
Dustin Pedroia put on the laser show on Thursday night against the Rockies, going 5-5 with three home runs to power the Red Sox to a 13-11 win in Colorado. His third HR came with a man on in the 10th inning after Jonathan Papelbon blew the save for the second straight night. The second [...]