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A familiar face in sports has hydrocephalus

Posted Apr 08 2011 11:47am
SPORTS PEOPLE

SPORTS PEOPLE; Rodgers to Be Coach

Published: September 1, 1983
Pepper Rodgers , the former football coach at Georgia Tech who sued that university for discharging him in 1979, yesterday was named head coach of the Memphis Showboats in the United States Football League.
Rodgers has also coached at U.C.L.A. and Kansas and had a 75-63-3 college record. Rodgers had been out of coaching since his dismissal at Georgia Tech. . . . The Cleveland Browns' punter and kickoff specialist, Steve Cox , underwent successful brain surgery at the Cleveland Clinic to correct a condition known as hydrocephalus, in which pressure between the brain and the spinal cord causes headaches and blurred vision. ''He'll come back in about a month,'' said Sam Rutigliano , the coach of the Browns.
New York Times

The article says his condition was corrected. I was to make some things clear that may be misunderstood. Hydrocephalus can't be cured. It can be treated.

Relieving the pressure on the brain with a shunt hopefully helped his headaches and blurred vision. A shunt has to be monitored and doesn't always help with the first shunt surgery.

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