Mike Leach break his arm while bicycling...wait, bicycling??

Posted on Tue Oct 09, 2007 at 06:51:09 AM EST in College
More on: Texas Tech, Texas, college football, injury, surgery (all tags)

We always took Leach as a scooter
guy for some reason.

Oddly enough our oddball injury of the day goes to one of college football's biggest oddities, Texas Tech coach Mike Leach. We'd like to say that it involves a pirate ship, a parrot and a plank, but that would just be wishful thinking.

Leach said today (Monday) he broke a bone in his right arm. He hit the pavement after falling from his bicycle Friday.

Leach says he got a flat tire and tried to fill it with enough air to make it to his destination, but "it proceeded to run out of air. I took a routine turn, then went into a slide, so then it broke the arm.

While Leach takes the cake for stupidest boo-boo, Limas Sweed gets the nod for most demoralizing Big 12 injury.

Just days after losing to rival Oklahoma, the Longhorns wide receiver found out that his college career is over. Sweed needs surgery to repair ligament damage in his wrist stemming from a preseason incident.

I knew it was an injury I would be dealing with going into the season and I did everything I could to play through the pain and help the team," Sweed said.

"I've aggravated it a couple of times and again last week and have probably been in more pain than I let anybody know," he added.

If you thought Mack Brown was throwing a fit after Colt McCoy took a late hit in the game against Oklahoma, you know that the furniture is flying in his office today. After all, considering Texas' running game is virtually nonexistent, without Sweed in the lineup, Brown chances of Leachin' it up and getting 500+ yards per game through the air just lost all sorts of steam.

Links:
[KCBD.com]: Texas Tech coach Leach breaks arm in bicycle crash
[SportingNews.com]: Horns lose Sweed to wrist injury

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