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As you may know by now, I had the opportunity to interview U.S. national team striker Charlie Davies last Friday in his first detailed interview since the car accident that nearly took his life. What I found was a player in the midst of an amazing recovery, a Charlie Davies who looked much more like the Davies we knew before last October's deadly car cash than the Davies we saw look so swollen and unfamiliar in the interview he did with ESPN in late November.

You probably know of Darius Vassell's toils in Turkey. What you may not know is that he documents his mental travails in a blog. Some of which is quite disturbing. Read on for the choicest exerts...

8 December

I feel like there is something stirring, boiling .

Clint Dempsey, a US Soccer supporters favorite looks like he could be available for the World Cup this summer.

That sound you just heard was the US Soccer community exhaling a collective sigh of relief. You know you just did! Fulham Football Club, the team that I follow and support in the English Premiership, announced late on Tuesday in England, that American international Clint Dempsey will NOT NEED surgery on his knee and is expected to make a recovery for Fulham before the end of the season.

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Charlie Davies has a message for all the doubters who didn't believe him when he said he would be back for the 2010 World Cup.

You just don't know.

If you've read my ESPN.com story on Davies, you know how determined he is to come back, and just how far he has already come since the accident.

After weeks of rally and support, it has now emerged that River Plate's promising midfielder, Diego Buonanotte may be discharged from the hospital in two days following his horrifying car accident which claimed the lives of his three friends.

"He's a very peaceful guy, he's not a "night-man" and he was not drunk.

Bob Bradley should find out by the Monday what the exact fates of Fulham forward Clint Dempsey will be after sustaining a serious injury at the weekend.

Dempsey suffered a knee injury in in the 61st minute of Fulham's 2-0 defeat at the hands of Blackburn Rovers. An MRI was already taken and the initial prognoses indicate that he might have suffered a torn PCL (posterior cruciate ligament).

After a phenomenal run at the 2009 Confederations Cup that saw the team finally fall to an experienced Brazilian side, the USA is set to play England in it's first group match of the 2010 World Cup. One of the promising new youngsters of the tournament was Charlie Davies, who with his pace and invention added a new dimension to Red White & Blue alongside Jozy Altidore.

As I'm sure many of you know, yesterday's post was a bit controversial. I attempted to take a creative look at the CBA and the writing came across a bit poor to some of you -- while others seemed to like it.

While I'm happy that the piece provoked such strong reactions from some of you, I wanted to say that I didn't write the piece simply to get people fired up.

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No, Charlie Davies is not fully recovered and he has a whole lot more to do just to get out on training ground again. But if you ever doubted he could make that recovery let alone make it in time for the World Cup this summer, yesterday's outstanding article by Ives Galarcep may make you feel guilty for ever doubting.