Walls out with broken bone in hand

Winnipeg was forced to make a major last-minute scratch yesterday.

Import defensive end Gavin Walls will not play against the B.C. LIons in a key CFL contest tonight due to a hand injury, Blue Bombers head coach Doug Berry said.

In fact, Walls could be out as long as a month with a broken bone in his hand.

"We casted him up, and he just feels like he's not going to be close enough to 100%, so we're better off not playing him this week," Berry said.

Stevie Baggs will replace Walls.

"I just want to play," said the overjoyed Baggs, 25. "I don't want to talk about it, I just want to play."

The 6-foot-1, 241-pound Bethune-Cookman College product dressed for five games with Winnipeg last year but was plucked off the practice roster by Edmonton after this year's training camp.

Baggs dressed for seven games with the Eskimos before getting released and rejoining the Bomber practice roster.

Source: http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Football/CFL/Winnipeg/2007/10/05/4552888-sun.html

Quincey suffers broken bone in hand

X-rays confirmed that Red Wings defenseman Kyle Quincey has a broken bone in his left hand and will be sidelined for the early portion of the season.

This is very unfortunate news for Quincey who seemed primed to step in to a major role with the Wings this year, after filling in admirably towards the end of last season and into the playoffs. He actually incurred the injury earlier in the month during intraquad scrimmages and will now likely go down to the AHL for some time when he returns from the injury.

Source: http://www.rotoworld.com/content/playerpages/playerbreakingnews.asp?sport=NHL&id=1937&line=52224&spln=1

Nets' Williams Faces Surgery On Right Foot

Nets backup point guard Marcus Williams will undergo surgery Monday for a broken bone in his right foot and likely miss the start of the season.

"It'll be right around six weeks. So generally, we'll say six to eight," Nets president Rod Thorn told the Newark Star-Ledger Friday.

Williams was a second-team All-Rookie pick last season after being drafted out of UConn.

Source: http://www.courant.com/sports/basketball/hc-nbaup0929.artsep29,0,3862302.story

Quincey out with broken hand

September 28, Detroit News: There's one fewer candidate to win a roster spot on the Red Wings defense. Kyle Quincey was walking around the locker room Friday with a cast on his left hand, the result of a broken bone suffered during intra-squad scrimmages back in Traverse City earlier in the month.

Quincey tried to play through the injury, but it was getting too difficult. Quincey went for X-rays Friday morning and the break was confirmed.

"I knew something was wrong with it," said Quincey, who could be out for up to three weeks. "I couldn't shoot or pass the puck in the games I was playing. I was trying to play well defensively and do what I could to make the lineup."

With Quincey out, the competition for the final spot on defense is between Brent Sopel, Derek Meech and Jonathan Ericsson. Meech is out of minor league options, and the Wings don't want to lose him on waivers to another team for nothing.

Sopel is in camp on a tryout and offers the Wings NHL experience. Ericsson is a top prospect who has developed rapidly.

The CBA states that Quincey must stay with the Wings until he's healthy, and while he will be placed on the IR, he will both continue to draw his NHL salary, and will recuperate under the care of the Wings' doctors.

Source: http://blog.mlive.com/snapshots/2007/09/quincey_out_with_broken_hand.html