Clemons taken to hospital
Eagles defensive end Chris Clemons has been taken to a Lehigh Valley hospital after leaving the field with heat-related dehydration.
Clemons taken to hospital
Les Bowen, Daily News Staff Writer
Eagles defensive end Chris Clemons scared teammates and coaches when trainers had trouble bringing down his his body temperature, after Clemons left the morning workout with dehydration symptoms. Clemons eventually left Lehigh's A. Haigh Cundey Varsity House, where the Eagles dress and train, in the back of a white-and-blue City of Bethlehem Emergency Medical Sevices ambulance, which arrived with lights and siren running a little after 11:10 a.m
.Eagles officials forbade photographers and TV cameramen from shooting footage of Clemons being loaded into the ambulance, which was not running its siren when it departed at 11:27 a.m., preceded by a black unmarked police car. Clemons seemed to be conscious and sitting up on a stretcher, hooked to an IV, as he entered the ambulance, though reporters were kept about 40 feet away, across a road from the entrance to the fieldhouse.
Eagles coach Andy Reid and team security director Butch Buchanico followed the ambulance in a white SUV.
It wasn't oppressively hot during the morning session of Eagles training camp -- officially, temperatures were in the low 80s, under bright sun -- but at least a few players seemed to experience cramps or dehydration, Clemons most dramatically.
Clemons left the field on a motorized cart, with a tan ice-filled cooling cap on his head. When the cart got to to doorway of the fieldhouse, Clemons needed a trainer under each shoulder to get into the building. Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb theorized that Clemons, 26, a free agent signee from the Raiders, was unaccustomed to the brisk pace of Eagles workouts.
"We're kind of adjusted to it," McNabb said at his scheduled news conference, minutes after Clemons was whisked away. "This is his first go-round."
McNabb said he knew little about the situation, beyond the fact that when McNabb came in from the field, Clemons was "just sitting there, they were throwing some cold rags on him."
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- Another two of Spauduaro favorites: Bill Sampy and Torrance "Tank" Daniels. He loves the bottom of the barrel guys.— shoeshineboy
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- Let's all join this message board as iterations of Dave Spadaro's name, like Davey Spadaro, or David Spadaro, etc. Who ever heard of a team having just one cheerleader on the sideline? We need rows and rows of them.— Bake McBride
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- Hey curse of Billy Penn, two words, Corey Stringer ,it can and will happen yo, lucky for Clemens all is well.— Cooltropic
- enough of the eagles hysteria. i'm as big a fan as they come, but they're not going anywhere this year. so let's stop talking about them in July. Wake me up when they kick off in the first game of the season. until then, watch the phillies— Ryan
- At the very least, these injuries warrant a reexamination of the physical intensity of Reid's training camp methods. Does his approach represent the latest recommendations of the Physical Therapist/Training research that's available? I've always gotten the impressions from interviews of the Eagle's trainers that they are very knowledgible and experts at what they do but there are variability with the approach different teams are taking. Are they creating a situation where there are more injuries or, in the long term, do they prevent future injuries by properly preparing for the season. I think that would be a topic that I'd like to see an article on. Really, what the fans think won't be the most educated opinion. Let's here what the experts have to say and are there any points of disagreement in the health care community regarding the physical fitness programs that major sports have adopted.— MikeP
- It's nice to see that Spadaro is confident in his abilities. However, this is Philadelphia. The Iggles were stacked last year too, and look what happened. This brings up the old addage..Dont tell me about the pain, just show me the baby. Furthermore, i'd rather step on a rusty nail that listen to Eskin. Finally, i am WAY more interested in that team out in South Bend, and the actual rebuilding they are doing.— tdoc
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