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Road to recovery complete, injured players took to bounce back

By Dana O'Neil
ESPN.com

Monday, September 22, 2008

There were more than 16,000 people in the Carrier Dome the night Syracuse hosted East Tennessee State. Eric Devendorf didn't hear any of them. Everything -- motion, noise -- stood still after he dished a pass to Paul Harris on a fast break. "All I heard was my knee pop," Devendorf said. "All those people and that's all I heard." Devendorf's season was shelved before it barely started, his ACL torn in that December 2007 game. Relegated to the bench and ...

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