Injuries, safety and sports in the time of Coronavirus

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4.7 • 737 Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Welcome to the Yahoo Sports Fantasy Football Podcast! Yahoo's fantasy analyst Andy Behrens chats with sports medicine physicians Dr. Sara Edwards and Dr. Gregory Horner for an episode that's a bit of a detour from our usual discussions on sleepers, waiver wire picks and receivers who are poised to break out to talk all things injuries and COVID-19.[Create or join a 2020 Yahoo Fantasy Football League for free today] Dr. Edwards is the Associate Clinical Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at UCSF, and she currently serves as a team physician for the City College of San Francisco, the University of San Francisco and the Oakland Ballet. Dr. Horner is the leader of the Tri-Valley Orthopedic Specialists’ hand surgery team in Pleasanton, CA and former wide receiver for the Northwestern University Wildcats football team.Andy, Dr. Horner and Dr. Edwards discuss the effects of COVID-19 on sports across the country, how a coronavirus-impacted preseason could mirror the 2011 NFL lockout-affected season which saw more injuries than usual, a look at the testing protocols professional and collegiate sports will be undertaking, whether long-terms effects are a concern for athletes and why you should really, really wear a mask.Follow Andy: @AndyBehrensCheck out the rest of the Yahoo Sports Podcast family at https://apple.co/2Abi8jk or at yahoosports.com/podcasts See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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0:00.0	Oh, hey, welcome back to the Yahoo Fantasy Football podcast.
0:08.0	I am a rogue host.
0:10.0	I am not who you're expecting.
0:11.2	This is not Liz.
0:12.0	This is not Matt.
0:13.6	This is merely Andy Barron's coming to you.
0:16.0	And I am excited because we have an episode today in which we have reunited the old fantasy football live injury squad.
0:24.6	Everybody is back together.
0:25.8	It's going to be really fun.
0:26.6	I think it's going to be fun.
0:28.9	It's going to be informative, certainly.
0:30.5	We are joined by, like, by far, by orders of magnitude, the two most distinguished and thoroughly educated people to
0:38.6	appear on the Yahoo Fantasy platform, I would say ever.
0:42.7	This is Dr. Gregory Horner, orthopedic surgeon with Tri-Valley Orthopedic Specialist.
0:47.6	He is a former Northwestern University football player, so he's got that angle covered.
0:52.2	And we're joined by Dr. Sarah Edwards, an orthopedic
0:54.9	surgeon and sports medicine specialist. She is with UCSF Ortho. She has also served as a team
1:02.8	physician across multiple sports for multiple schools. So this should be an interesting conversation.
1:08.2	First of all, both of you, how have you been? It's been a,
1:11.4	it's been a minute. Well, it's been good on my side. I know Sarah's doing well. We talk periodically,
1:18.4	but it's good to see you again, Andy. Yeah, it's great to see you, Andy. Thanks for having us on.
1:22.2	So I just want to warn listeners right here at the top, this is not the podcast where we're going to have a bunch of player-specific
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