Thursday, October 23, 2008

Sick Call: Seve Ballesteros

Category: Sports News

Spanish golfing great Seve Ballesteros underwent surgery for a brain tumor earlier this week. The news was terrible: the tumor was malignant. Now Ballesteros, 51, is in a fight for his life and facing more surgery.

Ballesteros suffered swelling of his brain and bleeding as part of post-op complications, which required part of his skull to be removed. Now a third operation will be performed Friday in an attempt to remove the remainder of the cancerous tumor that, according to the press releases, is "lodged deep inside the brain." The type of malignancy was characterized as an oligoastrocytoma.

Among Ballesteros' golfing accomplishments are two Masters victories (1980, 1983), three British Open championships (1979, 1984, 1988), and serving as captain of the victorious European Ryder Cup team in 1997.

Please keep this golfing legend in your prayers.

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