Athletes injure themselves outside the context of their sport all the time. Just yesterday the Angels put Justin Upton on the DL when he cut himself on a wine glass. But what happened to UFC fighter Bryce Mitchell is so much worse. Unimaginably worse.
Mitchell—and there’s no way to soften this—tore open his scrotum with a power drill.
It’s probably the pain meds talking but Mitchell appears to be taking this all in stride. He at least did get his underwear replaced.
Ricardo Benitez, a high school football player in Texas with a rare medical condition that means he was born without femurs in either leg, has an offer to walk on at Baylor from head coach Matt Rhule.