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Safety likely to sit out due to rare blood condition
Published on Friday, Nov 06, 2009
Associated Press
Ryan Clark may be saying everything he needs to say with his growing silence.
The Pittsburgh Steelers safety is usually one of the team's most talkative players. But he is talking little as it becomes increasingly likely he won't play Monday in Denver due to a rare blood condition that nearly caused him to die after playing there two years ago.
Nearly all of Clark's teammates are urging him to skip the game. The other Steelers safeties are being readied to play, and Clark does not appear as upbeat or as excited as he normally does before a game.
Even if Clark pleaded with them to play, the Steelers appear reluctant to take a chance considering how seriously ill he became after that 2007 game, which Denver won 31-28.
Clark was hospitalized in Denver when complications from sickle-cell trait prevented oxygen from flowing into his spleen. He later needed operations to remove his spleen and gall bladder, and the 205-pound Clark lost more than 30 pounds before he finally began feeling better more than two months later. He missed the second half of that season, but recovered and resumed his career last season, when the Steelers won the Super Bowl.
While other players with sickle-cell trait can play in Denver's thin air without problems, Clark's condition was worsened because he is among the estimated 1 percent of those affected by the condition who react poorly to exerting themselves in high altitude. Because of that, the Steelers — as would any NFL team — must weigh the potential legal matters that might arise should a player become seriously ill after being permitted to play under such risky circumstances.
The Steelers (5-2) haven't made any announcement about Clark's status.
Guilty verdict
A jury convicted a man Thursday of attempted murder in the shooting of former Jacksonville Jaguars offensive lineman Richard Collier in 2008.
The six-person jury deliberated two hours and 45 minutes before returning its verdict against Tyrone Hartsfield, 33, at the end of a nine-day trial. Hartsfield faces up to life in prison.
Collier watched much of the closing arguments while seated in his wheelchair in the courtroom gallery. He was shot six times as he waited in his car outside a Jacksonville apartment building. Collier was paralyzed from the waist down, and his left leg was amputated.
Game blacked out
The Jacksonville Jaguars have failed to sell out a home game for the fourth time this season.
Sunday's game against Kansas City (1-6) will not be televised in Jacksonville or in secondary markets that include Gainesville, Daytona Beach, Orlando and Savannah, Ga.
The Jaguars (3-4) set a franchise low for attendance (42,088) in their last home game, Oct. 18 against St. Louis.
Around the league
The Washington Redskins will use their fourth punter this season when they play the Atlanta Falcons on Sunday. Hunter Smith's right groin injury is acting up again, so the Redskins plan to sign former Dallas Cowboys punter Sam Paulescu today. With Chris Cooley out with a broken right ankle, Fred Davis is preparing for his first game as a No. 1 tight end. . . . The National Organization for Women called on the Oakland Raiders to suspend coach Tom Cable while the team investigates allegations he has a history of violent behavior toward women. . . . The ex-girlfriend of Detroit Lions wide receiver Dennis Northcutt, who played seven years with the Browns, has dropped a lawsuit claiming he arranged for his cousin to beat her up at a Hollywood restaurant while she was four months pregnant. Sharri Henry, who later gave birth to a boy, filed papers in Los Angeles Superior Court asking that the lawsuit be dismissed. The papers did not reveal reasons why. Northcutt has denied wrongdoing.
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