Bizarre Sporting Injuries

This time last year Michael Jordan threw his back out playing a friendly round of golf picking up his tie after a shanked drive so I thought have a look at some of the more bizarre ways in which sports stars have injured themselves.

Paulo Diogo - Football
Little known Paulo Diogo was so excited about scoring for Swiss side Servetter that he jumped the fence near the crowd to celebrate with the fans. Unfortunately for him, his wedding finger got caught on the fence, cutting his  ring finger entirely off. The surgeons could not reattach his finger.

Chris Hanson - American Football
In 2003, the Jacksonville Jaguars coach had a bizarre ways of motivating his players as he kept telling them to 'chop wood' and accordingly installed a large piece of wood with an axe in the locker room. Hanson one day managed to lose balance and swipe deep into his right leg causing him to miss the rest of the season.

Safe hands Canizares

Santiago Canizares - Football
Heading into the 2002 World Cup, Canizares was regarded as one of the finest goalkeepers in the World, competing for the Spanish #1 jersey. Shaving at the side's training camp changed all this as he proceeded to drop a bottle of after shave on his foot, with shards of glass penetrating into his right foot.

Lionel Simmons - Basketball
In the 90s, Simmons was a talented centre for the Sacremento Kings and earning countless awards for a string of good performances. He also loved playing tetris, some much infact that he injured himself while trying to complete the game; getting wrist tendonitis.

Torrance wide awake 

Sam Torrance - Golf
One of the U.K.'s finest golfers, Torrance will go down in sporting history. In 1993 however he withdrew from the Open after he had bruised his chest sleepwalking into a flower pot. He later remarked 'I remember waking up and seeing this thing and I thought someone was in my room. I ran at it and it cracked my sternum'.

Steve Sparkes - Baseball
At a 1994 spring training camp, the pitcher was led astray by motivational speakers. 'They were bending iron bars and ripping phone books in half' he remarked 'Me and a couple of guys were trying to see how the speaker had torn the phone book in two. i got mine started but my shoulder just slipped out'.

Chris Lewis - Cricket
During a tour of the Windies, the former England bowler, had his head shaved by fellow fast bowler Devon Malcolm, whilst asleep. Believing that his dark pigment would protect him from the sun, he spent he day in the field without a hat. He suffered sunstroke and missed two test matches.