Tune-In Sunday To Hear About: Former Bears Safety Doug Plank discussing past Injuries; Alabama Center Landon Dickerson’s Knee Injury; NBA Season Start Outside of Bubble

Join Co-hosts Dr. Brian Cole and Steve Kashul bringing you the following topics on Sports Medicine Weekly:

-Interview with former NFL star Doug Plank (part one of two): Doug Plank, former NFL safety who played 9 years with the Bears, suffered about 30 concussions and has had both shoulders and knees replaced.

There was a time, in the late 1970s, when there were only two reasons to watch the Chicago Bears. One was Walter Payton. The other was Doug Plank. Watching Payton was watching everything beautiful about the game, excellence in the highest form. His runs were played back to classical music. The field was his canvas, and he was DaVinci. Watching Plank was nothing like that.

Seeing him hit was spectacular, like the finale of a Fourth of July fireworks show. But it never was about what he did as much as what he stood for. Watching him was understanding the power of the human spirit. The game of football, on many levels, is about self-sacrifice. Plank, with smelling salts in his waistband and blood dripping down the side of his broken nose, was a portrait of self-sacrifice.

-Athlete Injury of the week: Alabama Crimson Tide football player Landon Dickerson, their starting center, suffering torn knee ligaments in the SEC title game.

-Ask the Doctor: Dr. Cole is asked if he thinks the NBA teams will have a full season without a full league bubble.

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