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RB Ron Springs (R.I.P.)

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Wife of former OSU running back sues doctors
UPDATE: 7:30 PM, Tuesday, January 22, 2008


DALLAS (AP) ? Ron Springs left his wheelchair in the car and walked through Everson Walls? front door in October, a first since getting a kidney from his former Dallas Cowboys teammate eight months earlier.

The next day, the former Ohio State University running back went into a coma and hasn?t come out.

The unexpected turn in Springs? promising and much-publicized recovery led his wife to file a medical malpractice suit Tuesday against two doctors who Adriane Springs says caused brain damage to her husband during a routine surgery to remove a cyst.

?My husband was doing so well after the kidney transplant,? Adriane Springs said. ?This is just a very tragic outcome.?

The suit, which names Dr. Joyce Abraham, Dr. David Godat and the Texas Anesthesia Group, did not specify damages. None of the defendants immediately returned calls seeking comment Tuesday.

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ESPN - Ex-Cowboy Springs testing malpractice limits in lawsuit - NFL


DALLAS -- Former Dallas Cowboy Ron Springs, who has been in a coma since fall following surgery to remove a cyst, is listed among the 11 plaintiffs challenging Texas' medical malpractice cap in a lawsuit filed Monday.
The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas in Marshall, challenges the 2003 Medical Malpractice and Tort Reform Act that limits awards in Texas. The lawsuit asks the court to declare the cap unconstitutional.

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Posted on Thu, Mar. 12, 2009
Family, friends still hopeful for former Dallas Cowboy Ron Springs
By Ray [email protected]

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Former Dallas Cowboy Ron Springs, right, remains in a coma, but family and former teammates, including Everson Walls, left, are seeing improvements.

Ron Springs has made progress during the past ?2-3 weeks? of his 17-month-long comatose state, which occurred following surgery to remove a cyst from his arm.

Despite this recent medical development, family and friends ? while still hopeful ? are guarded in their optimism.

The former Dallas Cowboys running back remains what is considered ?semi-comatose? at Medical City Dallas Hospital, but his response to stimulation from physical therapy has been noticeably improved.

Electroencephalography (EEG) results showed ?more positive brain activity? when Springs was tested shortly after Christmas, according to his wife.

?Ron is more aware. He?s opening his eyes,? said Adriane Springs, who visits her husband every day. ?I?ll walk into the hospital room, and he?ll turn his head and look at me.?

Doctors, in general, warn families against building up false hope at moments like this. Medication can cause involuntary twitches.

?You always have hope,? said Tony Dorsett, referring to his close friend and former teammate. ?There?s also reality ... and hope and reality sometime get conflicted.?

The most notable progress has been with Springs? head movements once he is propped up in bed.

?Ron?s neck muscles have gotten stronger over the past 2-3 weeks,? said former Cowboy Everson Walls, who donated a kidney to Springs on Feb. 28, 2007. It was the feel-good story of ?07.
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Family, friends still hopeful for former Dallas Cowboy Ron Springs | Dallas Cowboys | Star-Telegram.com
 
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Ron is still in a coma in Dallas.

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Rob Oller commentary: Loved ones wait for now-silent Springs to speak

Ron Springs would say anything to anyone. When his mouth opened, words would spill forth like water from a pump well, unfiltered and often leaving a bad taste. But they could contain replenishing words of encouragement, too.
The first time Springs met his future wife, Adriane, at Ohio State, where he arrived in 1976 to play tailback, she didn't like his tone. Didn't like his blunt manner. Didn't like him.

"He is very open and would tell you how he feels. I thought it was a little strange, and I was mad about it," she said. "But he's got a good side to him. Everyone I talked to said that's just his sense of humor."

During the lead-up to the 1977 Orange Bowl, Woody Hayes dropped by the team hotel room occupied by Springs, Ron Ayers and Bill Jaco.

"I'll always remember it," Jaco said. "Coach Hayes comes by to check on us.
We'd had a couple of beers, and Springer started to get on him: 'Hey coach, when you go to the beach, do a lot of women hit on you?' Woody blew him off at first. Didn't know how to handle it. It was hilarious."

It didn't matter if you were a family member, a teammate or the athletic trainer. Springs would bust your chops one minute and bless you the next.

"He had that humor where he'd crack jokes and not let you get away with nothing," said Shawn Springs, who, like his father, played for the Buckeyes. "But he'd give the shirt off his back for everybody."

And he never expected to have it returned.

"You'd be surprised how many people still owe him money, going all the way back to Ohio State," said Everson Walls, who was Springs' teammate with the Dallas Cowboys. "He would bend over backwards for you. That was Ron, politically incorrect, but he would do a whole lot for charity. He was serious about that stuff."

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my condolences to shawn and his family.

54. :sad:

Ron Springs, former Ohio State running back, dies at 54

Ron Springs, a running back for Ohio State in the 1970s who went on to an NFL career with the Dallas Cowboys and Tampa Bay Buccaneers, has died. He was 54.

Since 2007, Springs had been in a coma after surgery to remove a cyst from his forearm went awry. He was considered brain impaired but not brain dead. He was diagnosed with diabetes in 1990 and received a kidney transplant in 2007.

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I saw his name at the top of the page and didn't even want to click on it. He's been having a rough time of it for years so I knew it was coming. As a Buckeye and Cowboys fan this one is a double punch in the gut. :sad:



RIP :osu:
 
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Former Ohio State running back Ron Springs dies at 54
Friday, May 13, 2011
By Rob Oller
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
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Ron Springs played for Ohio State from 1976 to '78.

Former Ohio State tailback Ron Springs died yesterday afternoon in a Dallas hospital. He had been in a coma since Oct. 12, 2007, when surgery to remove a cyst from his forearm went awry, leaving him brain impaired.

Springs, 54, led the Buckeyes in rushing with 1,166 yards in 1977 and ranks 18th all-time with 2,140. He played three seasons at OSU (1976-78) after transferring from Coffeyville Community College in Kansas.

"As a person, he was really, really funny," said John Johnson Sr., a graduate assistant under Woody Hayes who recruited Springs. "Ron always had a story, and we had some fantastic laughs together."

Johnson confirmed Springs' death from heart failure after speaking with his son, Shawn Springs, a former Ohio State cornerback who played last season with the NFL's New England Patriots.

Johnson shared how, after the 1976 Rose Bowl win over Ohio State, UCLA coach Dick Vermeil said the first thing he was going to do was go to Coffeyville to recruit the best running back since O.J. Simpson.

"But Ohio State got him," Johnson said.

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http://www.dispatch.com/live/conten...fter-nearly-four-years-in-a-coma.html?sid=101

May 13, 2011
Ron Springs?s Death, and Revisiting a Gift of Life
By TONI MONKOVIC

The former Cowboys running back Ron Springs died on Thursday at 54, having never awoken from a coma after a mishap during a minor operation in 2007. Eight months before, Everson Walls, a former teammate on the Cowboys, donated a kidney to help keep Springs alive.

Springs and Walls had a remarkable friendship, and it?s worth revisiting a message from the two that could still save lives.

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http://fifthdown.blogs.nytimes.com/...evisiting-a-gift-of-life/?partner=rss&emc=rss

Updated: May 13, 2011
Ron Springs, 54, had been in coma
By Calvin Watkins
ESPNDallas.com

Former Cowboys running back Ron Springs died Thursday of a heart attack. He was 54.

Springs was in a coma after going into cardiac arrest in October 2007 during an operation to have a cyst removed from an elbow.

The latter years of Springs' life were punctuated when his former Cowboys teammate and best friend Everson Walls donated his kidney to save his life. The two started a foundation that touched the lives of many, and they even wrote a book about their journey.
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Tony Tomsic/Getty ImagesRon Springs played six seasons in Dallas mostly as a blocking fullback for Tony Dorsett.

"I got text from a woman who donated a kidney because of our story," Walls said Thursday night in confirming Springs' death. "There are a lot of people connected to this, sometimes you just don't realize it. Ron touched a lot of people's lives."

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Former Cowboy RB Ron Springs, 54, dies after four-year coma
By RAINER SABIN and BARRY HORN
Staff Writers
Published 12 May 2011

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In this Sept. 9, 2007, file photo, former Dallas Cowboys players Everson Walls, left, and Ron Springs are honored before an NFL football game between the Cowboys and the New York Giants in Irving Texas. Springs, who spent the past four years in a coma after losing oxygen during a 2007 operation, has died without ever regaining consciousness. He was 54. Walls, who donated a kidney to Springs for a transplant, says the Springs family informed him that his friend died about 4:30 p.m. Thursday, May 12, 2011, at Medical City Dallas hospital.

Everson Walls hoped one day he would have the chance to speak again with his former teammate, Ron Springs.

“We’d like to have all of our friends with us and we want them and us to live forever,” Walls said.

But Springs, the retired Cowboys running back, died Thursday afternoon at Medical City Dallas Hospital, where he had been since lapsing into a coma in October 2007 after undergoing a procedure to remove a cyst. He was 54.

Less than eight months before he lost consciousness, Springs made national headlines when he received one of Walls’ kidneys in a transplant. Springs had been ravaged by diabetes, and his right foot was amputated in 2005. Walls could not bear to see his friend and former colleague continue to suffer.

The transplant marked the first time a former U.S. professional athlete received an organ from a teammate. The surgery went perfectly. The story of a teammate’s sacrifice attracted as much attention as anything Springs ever did on the field and earned much needed publicity for organ donation awareness.

Walls and Springs formed the Gift for Life Foundation to educate people about ways to prevent chronic kidney disease and dispel myths about the living donor process.

Springs, who was born and raised in Williamsburg, Va., and played at Ohio State, was selected by the Cowboys in the fifth round of the 1979 draft. He spent six seasons with the team before ending his eight-year career with Tampa Bay.

“He was a very gifted athlete,” ex-Cowboys wide receiver Tony Hill said. “He was probably one of the most versatile players on the team.”

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Remembering Ron Springs- NFL Network
 
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