Medicine: Woes of the Weekend Jock

From armchair athlete to bloody Sunday

FRIDAY NIGHT: He could hear them yelling "Slide! Slide!" Home plate was only a few feet away. So what if he hadn't played softball since college 20 years ago? So what if he now weighed 275 Ibs. ? He could do it. He knew he could. He slid ... They carried him off the field.

SATURDAY AFTERNOON: She had run two miles her first day of jogging, then three miles the second. Now she was going for six. All right, she felt a bit sore. But she was young, only...

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