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Colossal comeback.(San Francisco 49er football player Garrison Hearst recovers from serious ankle injury to play again)
It hasn't been easy being Garrison Hearst, whose remarkable return from a serious ankle injury more than two years ago hit a snag Sunday. But he's determined to keep getting up.
A broken ankle, they told him. Back by the next preseason, they told him. So why was he prepping for yet another operation? And what was this the doctor had told him, that they were concerned about the rest of his life, not just his football career? Something about his being able to walk comfortably, maybe jog a little. That was their aim.
But Garrison Hearst didn't want to hear about walking. He was about running, not walking. And their saying if this surgery didn't work, he was ...
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STOCKTON, Calif. _ Let the hit parade begin on 49ers running back Garrison Hearst. When the 49ers go through their first contract drills of training camp on Monday, Hearst will slam his compact body into defenders...
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SAN DIEGO_Garrison Hearst is going to play in a football game on Saturday night. Such a simple sentence hasn't been uttered about Hearst in more than...