{"id":6727,"date":"2011-05-16T16:09:34","date_gmt":"2011-05-16T20:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=6727"},"modified":"2011-05-16T16:09:34","modified_gmt":"2011-05-16T20:09:34","slug":"ex-dallas-rb-ron-springs-dies-after-long-coma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=6727","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Dallas RB Ron Springs Dies After Long Coma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DALLAS \u2014 Former Dallas Cowboys running back <strong>Ron Springs<\/strong>, who spent the past four years in a coma after losing oxygen during a 2007 operation, has died without ever regaining consciousness. He was 54.<\/p>\n<p>Former Cowboys teammate <strong>Everson Walls<\/strong>, who donated a kidney to <strong>Springs<\/strong> for a transplant, says the <strong>Springs<\/strong> family informed him that his friend died about 4:30 p.m. Thursday at Medical City Dallas hospital.<\/p>\n<p>The hospital is where <strong>Springs<\/strong> first slipped into the coma in 2007 after undergoing surgery to remove a cyst from his forearm about seven months after receiving the kidney.<\/p>\n<p>In 2008, <strong>Springs\u2019<\/strong> wife, <strong>Adriane<\/strong>, filed a medical malpractice lawsuit against two doctors she says caused brain damage to her husband during the cyst surgery.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the lengthy coma, the death came as a surprise, <strong>Walls<\/strong> said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Springs<\/strong> was drafted by the Dallas Cowboys out of Ohio State in 1979 and became a starter alongside <strong>Tony Dorsett<\/strong> in \u201881, the year <strong>Walls<\/strong> arrived as an undrafted rookie from Grambling. <strong>Springs<\/strong> left in 1985, finishing his career with two seasons in Tampa Bay.<\/p>\n<p>He ran for 2,519 yards, had 2,259 yards receiving and scored 10 touchdowns in his NFL career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DALLAS \u2014 Former Dallas Cowboys running back Ron Springs, who spent the past four years in a coma after losing oxygen during a 2007 operation, has died without ever regaining consciousness. He was 54. Former Cowboys teammate Everson Walls, who donated a kidney to Springs for a transplant, says the Springs family informed him that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}