Harlequins lock James Horwill should face a short stint on the sidelines owing to the gruesome compound fracture of his finger suffered in Sundays 25-6 defeat at Leicester.Former Australia captain Horwill asked physios to tape up his nasty finger injury so he could keep playing, immediately inking his name into rugbys hard-man annals. Stills of the horrific injury were quickly tweeted and duly went viral.The 31-year-old had no option but to be withdrawn from the closing stages of the Aviva Premiership clash at Welford Road, and has since undergone corrective surgery.Horwills humour has remained undimmed in light of the nasty blow, as he took to social media to offer an update on his recovery.Finger is looking normal again and all good! tweeted Horwill. His message continued: Thanks to Doc @mike_hayton for seeing me on a Sunday. Appreciate all the messages. #COYQSpecialist hand and wrist surgeon Hayton is based in the north-west and was able to quickly carry out the procedures to repair Horwills awful-looking injury.Television cameras picked up the extent of Horwills injury during Sundays Premiership encounter, leading to immediate messages of respect from fellow rugby stars on Twitter.Former Leicester and England fly-half Andy Goode tweeted a picture of the injury with the message: Fair play to @JHorwill playing for @Harlequins, hard as nails asking the physio to tape this up to play on!Horwill later quipped back: Fair to say my days as a hand model may be over!Harlequins are continuing to monitor Horwills condition before determining when he can return to action.New Zealand full-back Ben Smith suffered a similar injury in the All Blacks 21-9 win over Ireland in Dublin on Saturday.The 30-year-old was immediately led from the field for treatment, with All Blacks boss Steve Hansen quickly ruling him out of New Zealands forthcoming Test clash with France this weekend.New York Mets Store . 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We had a plan to keep him off the perimeter and they played their tails off tonight.It was a back and forth for most of the game, with the teams trading scores into the fourth quarter.But after South Alabama (3-2) took a 28-24 lead on Garvins strike to McGee in the left corner of thhe end zone with 11:58 left, a bad punt snap on the Aztecs next possession set up South Alabama at the San Diego State 3 and Dami Ayola took it in from there for a 35-24 bulge.ddddddddddddRegular long snapper Turner Bernard went out early in the game, forcing freshman Mark Ellis into duty.It got worse for the Aztecs (3-1) on the ensuing drive when South Alabamas Devon Earl returned a fumble 80 yards for a touchdown to seal it with 4:17 to go.South Alabamas other score came on Tyreis Thomas pinballing 12-yard run. 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