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Football: Redondo linebacker doing better

Los Angeles Times staff writer Ben Bolch
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Redondo Beach senior linebacker Andrew Caldwell appears to have avoided a potentially catastrophic spinal cord injury after being hurt while making a tackle Friday during the Seahawks’ 58-20 loss to Mission Viejo.

The tingling sensations Caldwell felt in his body immediately after being injured had subsided and he felt ‘pretty good,’ according to Redondo Beach Coach Gene Simon. The family was still awaiting results of an MRI test for a suspected herniated or bulging disk, Simon said.

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Compounding the injury, Simon said, was the fact that Caldwell had to wait 21 hours in a hallway on a gurney at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Torrance while waiting for a room. He could not eat while waiting and was finally admitted to a room Saturday night.

‘His mom was really upset about it,’ Simon said, ‘but I guess the hospital was doing the best it could.’

-- Ben Bolch

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Ben Bolch

Ben Bolch has been a Los Angeles Times staff writer since 1999. He is serving his second stint as the UCLA beat writer, which seems fitting since he has covered almost every sports beat except hockey and horse racing. Bolch is also the author of the recently released book “100 Things UCLA Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die.” He previously covered UCLA basketball from 2010-11 before going on to cover the NBA and the Clippers for five years. He happily traded in gobs of hotel points and airline miles to return to cover UCLA basketball and football in the summer of 2016. Bolch was once selected by NBA TV’s “The Starters” as the “Worst of the Week” after questioning their celebrity journalism-style questions at an NBA All-Star game and considers it one of his finer moments.

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