RASH OF UCLA FOOT INJURIES COULD BE ADIDAS’ FAULT

The chief brain wizard of CFT, John Taylor, has had us covered on Logan Paulsen‘s right foot injury (here and here), but an interesting note in Brian Dohn’s column in the Los Angeles Daily News might reveal the culprit in a rash of foot injuries at UCLA: Their Adidas cleats."I had a similar circumstance at Washington,” UCLA coach Rick Neuheisel said. “I had Jerramy Stevens there, a tight end, who broke his fifth metatarsal, and the complaint was the shoes that they’re wearing doesn’t have enough sole for their foot because they’re big guys. The little toe hangs over the edge when they make their cuts, and it almost always happens when they’re cutting on it.” Paulsen is one of three UCLA players to break the fifth metatarsal in his foot in less than a year. Adidas is the official supplier of all cleats for the UCLA football program, and people inside the program think the sole of the shoes is too narrow and enabled the injury."I think I have the widest shoe they have here and then I have orthotics and stuff,” Paulsen said. “It’s just one of those things that happens, kind of a freak thing.”