Wounded Warrior On Top After Round 1 In Tahoe

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A lot of eyes were focused on Annika Sorenstam playing her first competitive round of golf in six years. She was being penned as the champ of the celebrity tournament in Lake Tahoe over the likes of Mark Rypien, Billy Joe Tolliver, and Rick Rhoden.

But there was a really cool surprise after the first round...

Iraq War veteran Chad Pfeifer is trying to be the first professional golfer to play with a prosthetic limb. He lost his left leg above the knee serving our country and was the first round leader.

Pfeifer has won three straight Warrior Opens and shot a 70 on his round. The tournament is scored on a modified Stableford system and he registered a 24.

Ed Fletcher followed Pfeifer and found THE story of the day


Oh, Charles Barkley was next to last after the first 18 only ahead of Hilary Knight at a minus-32.

Junior Hockey Player Loses Finger On Slapshot

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Okay, before you click...

The story is more gross than the video below...


From the QMJHL, Rouyn-Noranda Huskies Jason Fuchs was playing D and the power of the shot sheared his finger from his hand. It was, thankfully, sewn back on and he will be able to recover. But there's no timetable on his return to the ice in his team's playoff series with the Quebec Remparts...

OSG High: FB Player With Prosthetic Runs With His Team

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The HQ was alerted to the story of Jaque Billingsley last season while we were traversing the state checking on central Georgia's best in high school football...

He's a lineman for Northside High School in Warner Robins- just like his older brother did...

In November of 2010, Jaque decided to compete in wrestling as an Eagle...
"My leg got caught and he ended up falling on it and it snapped. I dislocated my knee. And we didn't really know what was happening," he told Macon's NBC41 that following spring.

Jaque went to the hospital and was released. But when he got home, he couldn't feel his right foot. A nerve in his leg was pinched and a blood clot formed. By the time the Billingsleys got a second opinion, gangrene had set in.

Doctors amputated his right leg just below the knee, but he is still playing and practicing. And since it's conditioning time for football season (since practice doesn't start until the 1st), the Eagles were doing their thing and Jaque was right there with them as the football program put their finishing touches on its annual Ironman Competition earlier this week.

Here's Jaque with his escort home...


Jaque wants to be the first player in the NFL playing with a prosthesis...
Go get 'em...