RB D.J. Harper, who in the 3rd game of the year in 2009 tore his ACL and missed the rest of the season, again tore the same ACL and will miss the rest of the season.
However a very serious anterior cruciate knee injury that required two operations put him out of action for the rest of the season and the start of the following one.
He missed virtually all of the 2007-08 season, playing just twenty minutes of a match versus Neath F.C. and scoring before suffering an Anterior cruciate ligament injury.
Lisa takes gymnastics (and gets yelled at by the Russian coach for being too old), Bart gets tricked into taking an etiquette class by a black man dressed as a gangsta rapper (who happens to be the husband of the prim and proper etiquette teacher), and Homer participates in a basketball class for men over the age of 35, but suffers a torn ACL after a dunk attempt ends with the backboard crashing down on his leg.
In the 2006–07 season, Cicinho suffered an extensive injury to his ACL and missed over six months.
He was also valued for his off-the-bench intensity; it is felt that Maryland's absence from the 2005 NCAA Tournament was due in no small part to a season-ending ACL injury Strawberry suffered in mid-January of that year.
He was scheduled for tryouts with the Colorado Rapids and in an indoor soccer match the night before tryouts he blew out his knee requiring surgery on his ACL and meniscus.
He missed most of the 2001 high school baseball season while recovering from surgery to repair a torn ACL sustained in a football game.
Installed as team captain at the centre of defence, a seemingly minor knee injury sustained near the start of the 1990/91 season following a challenge with Tony Cascarino was later diagnosed as a ruptured cruciate ligament, resulting in a two-year absence.
On February 27, 2012, it was announced that Sizemore tore his ACL in his left knee, causing him to miss the entire 2012 season.
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On April 10, 2013, it was announced that Sizemore re-tore his ACL in his left knee, causing him to miss the rest of the 2013 season.
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This season saw the debut of 2009 draftee Ricky Rubio, who was a contender for the Rookie of the Year Award until he tore his ACL and his lateral collateral ligament after colliding into Kobe Bryant during a game against the Los Angeles Lakers and was out for the rest of the season.
In July 2008, when Israeli Olympic fencer Delila Hatuel tore her torn knee ligaments one month prior to the Olympics, including a torn anterior cruciate ligament (ACL), she almost missed out on participating in the Olympics.
Kreider and Davis shared the starting position through the season until the Monday Night Football game against the Miami Dolphins, when Kreider tore his ACL.
He played only 26 games as a rookie after a torn anterior cruciate ligament required him to undergo arthroscopic knee surgery, but he returned for the 1989-1990 season.
A medical examination later showed that he suffered two tears in his Meniscus, in his ACL and MCL, and he subsequently underwent surgery to repair the damaged knee.
Purdue officials reported the following day that Hummel tore his anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) and would miss the rest of the season.
Six plays into the team's Monday night home opener against the Baltimore Ravens, Jenkins once again suffered a season-ending torn ACL.
In the warm up for what would have been his debut for Leeds against Swindon Town at the County Ground, he suffered a serious anterior cruciate ligament injury which kept him out for up to a year.