Deion Sanders’ well being situation elevating questions at Colorado
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Colorado soccer coach Deion Sanders has been away at his property in Texas coping with an unspecified well being situation whilst CU’s annual slate of summer time soccer camps bought underway final week in Boulder.
Sanders appeared at his CU summer time camps in 2023 and 2024. Working them is listed as one of many official duties in his employment contract with CU. His image is also utilized by the college to promote them.
But it surely’s unclear when Sanders is returning to Boulder. On Sunday, his eldest son Deion Jr. appeared on a YouTube livestream from the household property in Canyon, Texas, the place he mentioned his father was in his room and “feeling effectively.”
“He’ll inform y’all quickly sufficient what he going by, what he went by,” Deion Jr. mentioned on the livestream.
He advised that after they return to Boulder was open-ended.
“After we get again in Boulder, I don’t know,” Deion Jr. mentioned June 8. “I’m ready till my dad leaves. When he leaves, then I’ll go. Till then, I’m gonna sit right here with him.”
Sanders, 57, additionally canceled a scheduled talking engagement scheduled for June 8 in Florida. He canceled due to an “unavoidable last-minute scheduling change,” in accordance with The Basis for Sickle Cell Analysis, whose symposium had marketed Sanders as its keynote speaker. The muse as a substitute changed him with NBA legend Magic Johnson.
In 2023, points associated to blood clots in Deion Sanders’ legs led him to overlook a Pac-12 Convention media occasion in Las Vegas. He has been accompanied in Texas by CU athletic coach Lauren Askevold, who has helped him along with his legs because the situation bought critical in 2021, together with the amputation of two of his toes and the elimination of the perimeters of his left calf.
Sanders has been out of the media highlight because the NFL draft in April and advised it was associated to a well being situation however didn’t say what precisely. He talked about it on a podcast with former NFL cornerback Asante Samuel in late Could.
“I hope you’re feeling higher,” Samuel mentioned to Sanders. Samuel then requested him if he ever tried fasting.
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Sanders responded by saying “what I’m coping with proper now’s at entire nother stage” however mentioned he’s coming again after shedding about 14 kilos.
Final week, CU hosted separate camps for highschool soccer gamers and eligible highschool graduates. CU is also scheduled to host a youth soccer camp this week earlier than a ladies’s soccer clinic on Thursday.
The college didn’t instantly reply to a message asking if Sanders can be showing at this week’s camp actions.
His Buffaloes group opens the season on Aug. 29 at dwelling in opposition to Georgia Tech.
Observe reporter Brent Schrotenboer @Schrotenboer. Electronic mail: bschrotenb@usatoday.com