Zimmer has eye surgery again
had surgery No. 8 on his right eye this week.
The Vikings head coach, speaking at his foundation’s first youth football camp, told reporters Saturday at Winter Park, Minn., that he had “another little surgery” on Wednesday.
“It’s so complicated. But they took the silicone oil out, put the gas bubble in,” said Zimmer, his eyeball red and his eyelid partially closed.
Earlier this month, Zimmer revealed that he had undergone seven total procedures on his eye since Nov. 1 of last year. He has also said he will need cataract surgery on his eye at some point.
Asked Saturday if this would be the last one, he shrugged.
“I thought that before,” Zimmer said. “We’ll see.”
Zimmer said in March that there is a “high likelihood” that he will experience similar vision issues in his other eye. Zimmer, who has a 26-22 record as Vikings coach, turns 61 next month.
Panthers Cox Jr.’s fighting for roster spot
As the sixth round gave way to the seventh round and it became increasingly apparent
wouldn’t be drafted last month, the food at his draft party started getting cold but none of the attendees got too hot — including the host.
Considering
Jose Pirela hit a two-run homer in the seventh inning, leading the El Paso Chihuahuas to a 16-8 win over the Oklahoma City Dodgers on Friday.
The home run by Pirela capped a three-run inning and gave the Chihuahuas a 7-6 lead after Franchy Cordero hit an RBI triple earlier in the inning.
The Chihuahuas later scored nine runs in the eighth to punctuate the blowout.
Jason Jester (1-0) got the win in relief while
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racked up fines totaling roughly $150,000 during his 12-year NFL career for offenses that included fighting, cussing at officials, spitting and throwing his helmet, you’d expect him to have heaved the remote or at least knocked over the chip bowl when his only son went undrafted.
But cooler heads prevailed at the Cox home in Duluth, Ga.
“He wasn’t really upset. We were all just sick to our stomachs,” Cox Jr. said recently. “We had a bunch of food prepared, but nobody ate. Everybody was kind of just moping around.”
The mood improved when the Panthers called a short time later. They wanted Cox Jr., a defensive end from Florida, to sign as an undrafted free agent.
He had similar offers from Tampa Bay and the Chargers, but Cox Sr. — an NFL defensive line coach for the past decade — was confident his son would thrive under the tutelage of the Panthers’
“He’s by far the best defensive line coach in football,” Cox Sr. said. “He’s not paid the highest like some of these guys are. But when you turn on the tape you see the physicality, you see the hand placement, you see the pad level. You see just no-nonsense football.”
Cox Sr.’s playing career featured its share of nonsense, at least in the eyes of former commissioner Grant Dayton (0-1) took the loss in the Pacific Coast League game.
Several Dodgers chipped in at the plate, as five players collected at least two hits. Willie Calhoun homered and singled, scoring two runs.
The Dodgers are in the midst of a 12-game road trip. After their series with El Paso, the Dodgers will head to Albuquerque for a second four-game road series and then to New Orleans for another four games before returning home on June 1.
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James Hahn shot a bogey-free 6-under 64 on Saturday to take the lead after three rounds at the AT&T Byron Nelson, where Jason Kokrak’s record advantage disappeared.
Hahn settled for a 12-under 198 total after his eagle chance at the 16th and a birdie putt at 17 both stopped just inches short. The twotime PGA Tour winner was a stroke ahead of Billy Horschel, who birdied his last three holes for a 66 to take second place alone.
Jason Day had his own string of birdies, five in a row midway through his round and then a 60-footer at the 17th, during a 63 that was the best of the day and got him to 10 under. The fourth-ranked player in the world was tied for third with Kokrak, who shot a 72 after setting a Nelson 36-hole record with a five-stroke lead.
Cameron Tringale and Sergio Garcia also finished with birdies on Nos. 16-18. Tringale was fifth at 9 under after a 67, with defending Nelson champion and Masters winner Garcia tied for sixth at 8 under after a 64 that also included three straight birdies at Nos. 11-13.
Top-ranked Dustin Johnson shot a 71 with five bogeys and four birdies to reach 5 under, seven strokes off the lead and tied for 19th. He had started the day in a sixway tie for third and six strokes behind Kokrak.
Hahn shared the firstround lead after an opening 64, but slipped back with a 70 on Friday before another impressive round for him at TPC Four Seasons that included a 65-foot chipin birdie at the par-4 No. 3 hole. This is Hahn’s fourth Nelson, and he has shot 64 or 65 in half of his 14 rounds there.
The last birdie for Day in his long streak came after driving the green at the 311-yard par-4 11th and two-putting from 37 feet.
Day’s only bogey came when he blasted out of greenside bunker at the 14th, then pushed his 4-foot par chance just left of the home and 2
feet past. When his 60-footer at the par-3 17th caught the left edge of the cup and dropped in, Day lifted both arms into the air, pumping his right fist while still grasping the putter in the other hand.
About the same time Day’s 16-foot birdie try at No. 18 curled just under the hole, causing him to wince, Hahn went to 11 under for the lead with his 13-foot birdie at the 15th hole.
Hahn then added another birdie at the 527-yard par-5 16th after come up just short of an eagle on the easiest-playing hole at TPC Four Seasons.
Kokrak had his first bogey in 34 holes after missing the fairway at No. 3, then three-putting on the sloping green. He quickly made up that stroke with a 15-foot birdie at No. 4 and was back to 12 under with a five-stroke lead. But his advantage was down to one by time he finished his next hole, the par-3 5th, with a triple bogey.
Garcia beat Brook Koepka in a playoff last year to become the first two-time Nelson winner since Irving became the tournament’s home in 1983.
Day, who won the Nelson in 2010, could match that Sunday in the last round at TPC Four Seasons before a move to the new Trinity Forest Golf Club in south Dallas next year.