Matt McCarthy's posts

It started with a banana peel.

This is the most baffling sports medicine story of the year: Thirteen NHL players and two referees have been…

Did you get your flu shot? I didn't really want to (I hate needles) but as an infectious disease physician at…

Monica Seles gets the blame—at 93 decibels, her screams on the court were about as loud as a motorcycle, and…

With the Little League World Series winding down to the final few teams, there's a question that dances across the…

To the surprise of very many, when Neymar went down in the 86th minute against Colombia on Friday, the 22-year-old…

It's bad enough that these guys have to play in the Amazon. The weather in Brazil is so preposterously hot and humid…

Joel Embiid, the University of Kansas seven-footer who was expected to be the first pick in tonight's NBA draft,…

I was sitting in my office yesterday, not watching the World Cup, when I came across a tweet by my friend: "It's…

On Monday, Tony Gwynn died from complications related to salivary cancer, the same disease that claimed the life of…

Last week's class-action settlement by Vibram, an Italian footwear manufacturer known for making silly-looking…

When University of Missouri defensive end Michael Sam is selected in this week's NFL draft, it will be a soft…

I'm at that age where my buddies from college are starting to sign their kids up for Little League. They'll differ…

Tonight, Tony Parker will likely miss his third straight game with a back injury, and more than a few assume that…

There's a widespread (if unverified) belief that vasectomies increase substantially during March Madness. If you're…

The Kansas Jayhawks open up the Big 12 Tournament today against Oklahoma State, and they'll be without freshman…

The concerns over head trauma have been splashed across the front pages of newspapers and magazines for the past…

Mark Cuban is an ideas man, and he's got a hell of an idea. In late November, Cuban announced that he had asked the…

Do you care about the Super Bowl? I mean do you really care who wins or are you just watching for the commercials?…

One of the more unusual sports medicine stories in recent memory involves the best quarterback on the planet, a…