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Former Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Buffalo Bills receiver Mike Williams is surviving after having life support removed, according to his child's mother.
Tierney Lyle, the mother of Williams' 8-year-old daughter, told Buffalo's WIVB on Friday that Williams was taken off a ventilator Thursday evening and remains responsive.
"We need prayer warriors to continue praying and spread the word,” Lyle told WIVB. "... He goes hard in everything he does. He doesn’t give up easily at all."
Williams, 36, was admitted to the intensive care unit at St. Joseph’s Hospital on Sept. 1. Lyle told the Tampa Bay Times on Thursday that Williams was injured in a construction accident in Hillsborough County, Florida. A steel beam landed on his head, causing injury, WVIB reports.
The laceration on his head became infected, and Williams was placed into an induced coma upon being hospitalized, according to the report. A report that Williams died circulated widely earlier this week but was confirmed to multiple outlets to be false.
Williams played high school football and basketball in Buffalo before attending Syracuse, where he was a standout wide receiver for three seasons. He also played briefly for the Syracuse basketball team during the 2007-08 season.
The Bucs selected him in the fourth round of the 2010 NFL Draft, and he was an All-Rookie selection after tallying 65 catches for 964 yards with 11 touchdowns. He played four seasons with the Bucs before being traded to his hometown Bills during the 2014 offseason. He played the 2014 season, his last in the NFL, in Buffalo. He retired with 223 catches for 3,089 yards and 26 touchdowns.
Daniel Weinman was crowned winner of the 2023 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event on Monday, taking home a record breaking $12.1 million in winnings. Weinman had to outlast the other 10,043 entrants to take home the prize and get his hands on his share of live poker’s largest ever prize pool – a staggering $93,399,900. As well as taking home the prize money, 35-year-old Weinman also got his hands on the WSOP Main Event bracelet. The huge bracelet contains 500 grams of 10-karat yellow gold, as well as 2,352 various precious gemstones.
Daniel Weinman won the World Series of Poker's main event world championship on Monday in Las Vegas, earning $12.1 million along the way. Playing in the tournament for a 16th year, Weinman was tops in a deep pool of 10,043 players vying for $93.39 million. His victory came after just 164 hands at the final table. "I was honestly on the fence about even coming back and playing this tournament," the 35-year-old Atlanta native told reporters afterward. Weinman's final table featured Jan-Peter Jachtmann, who landed in fourth place and took home $3 million, as well as Toby Lewis, who finished seventh and secured $1.42 million. According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the main event's entry pool far outpaced the previous record of 8,773 set in 2006. "I've always kind of felt that poker was kind of going in a dying direction, but to see the numbers at the World Series this year has been incredible," Weinman said. "And to win this main event, it doesn't feel real. I mean, [there's] so much luck in a poker tournament. I thought I played very well." Steven Jones finished second, securing $6.5 million. And Adam Walton settled for third and a $4 million prize.
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