But ACL injuries can occur for a wide variety of reasons, making it helpful to know what's behind the most common ones. Where is your ACL?

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Dr. Christina Allen, the chief of Yale Sports Medicine and an ACL surgery specialist, about the reasons women tend to have more ACL injuries than men.

ACL injuries dipped in the Covid and post-Covid seasons. Could the break or perceived lack of intensity have helped cause that? “I can certainly see that having the rest period would have helped.

The Sparks enjoyed a whirlwind offseason in 2025. Los Angeles limped through a dour campaign last season, stumbling down the league standings after Cameron Brink suffer a torn ACL in June.