Football: Brown recovers at home after life-threatening incident
On Oct. 9, Sophomore cornerback Khamal Brown was rushed to the hospital after he became sick and unresponsive in afternoon practice. Doctors performed an emergency operation to drain out blood that had accumulated in his brain and later determined that the rupturing of an arteriovenous malformation — or AVM, an abnormal connection of veins and arteries — had caused the blood spillage.The AVM was likely present since birth, and there is no reason to believe the rupturing was at all football-related. Brown has been in stable condition since being released from the hospital in late October and will take the spring semester off from school to recover at his home in Atlanta.