Fremantle's Michael Barlow suffers a horror injury against Port Adelaide in 2011. Picture: Lincoln Baker Source: PerthNow ITS likely Louisville basketballer Kevin Ware dreamed of being world-famous one day. If he knew how it was going to happen, he might not have been so keen. The leg injury suffered by Ware during an NCAA men's basketball match against Duke - the elite level of college hoops in the US - was nauseatingly graphic, leaving teammates and opponents bent over, distressed, and struggling to hold in their pre-game meal on the court. Like so many of the most graphic sports injuries, the incident that led to it wasn't a crunching tackle or an off-the-ball king-hit, just an innocuous leap as he attempted to block the ball. What resulted is a litmus test of squeamishness. Images showing the full extent of the injury are out there. They're not hard to find online. But if ever the following phrase was appropriate, it is now: you can't unsee them. Ware's injury is the latest in a wince-inducing, bang-the-table, insert-holy-person's-name-in-vain-here list of leg breaks, twists and dislocations in sport that have disgusted and fascinated us for years. So we've waged a war against our stomach reflux to bring you some of the best/worst examples of legs doing what they're really not supposed to in the sporting arena. Buckle up, it's not pretty. Probably the most famous injury in US sports was suffered by Washington Redskins QB Joe Thiesmann, who was cleaned up by legendary New York Giants linebacker Lawrence Taylor during a Monday Night Football game in 1985. A distressed Taylor immediately called for medical help, with replays showing the sickening extent of Thiesmann's injury. Thiesmann even reached out to Ware yesterday after the young basketballer's injury, texting him to offer help and advice on how to recover for such a dramatic incident. You hate to see anybody get hurt. But when you have an injury like he had, so similar like I had happen to me, you start to relive all the moments and what he's going through," Thiesmann said. With a broken leg, the pain is instantaneous and absolutely excruciating. But then all of the sudden, the body shuts down that section of the leg or wherever it might be. Elsewhere, it might look as if soccer players are constantly exaggerating their injuries, but sometimes they just ain't fooling. In England, just mentioning the name "David Busst" can still provoke sharp intakes of breath from football fans who recall his career-ending injury while playing for Coventry against Manchester United in 1996. Just two minutes into the game, Busst went up for a corner and collided with two United players. The resulting injury - compound fractures of Busst's right tibia and fibula - stopped the game for 12 minutes, as blood was cleaned off the grass. The enduring image is of United's man-mountain Peter Schmeichel fleeing the scene in a visibly distressed state. He reputedly had to receive counselling for some time afterwards. Meanwhile, ice-cool Swede Henrik Larsson suffered one of the most graphic soccer injuries of all time while playing for Glasgow Celtic in a UEFA Cup tie against Lyon in 1999. The leg snap threatened his career, but Larsson recovered to become Celtic's greatest player of all time and a Champions League winner during a brief stint with Barcelona. And while it's unfortunate to suffer a horror break once in your career, what about twice? That was the fate suffered by Djibril Cisse, who had a freak break while playing for Liverpool against Blackburn in 2004, when his leg caught in the turf. Two years later, in France's final warm-up match before the 2006 World Cup against China, his injury jinx struck again, as his leg twisted under him during an innocuous challenge, his screams of pain heard around the Stade de France. A fractured tibia meant he missed the tournament but he recovered sufficiently to continue playing top-level football to this day. Closer to home, the AFL has suffered its fair share of body horror incidents in recent years. One of the most infamous incidents involved Geelong's Jason Snell, who fell to the ground at the MCG during a Round 3 match in 2001. Geelong's Jason Snell injures his ankle in 2001. When he looked down he saw his leg "dangling out in the air" with a bone piercing the skin. Geelong's Jason Snell leaves the field after injuring his ankle at the MCG in 2001. Picture: Craig Borrow Source: Herald Sun After operations to fuse his ankle, Snell's football career was sadly over at the age of 25. Richmond's Nathan Brown did manage to recover from the horrific injury he sustained after an attempted smother by Melbourne's Matthew Whelan in 2005. Richmond's Nathan Brown with medical staff after breaking his leg against Melbourne in 2005. Brown had a titanium rod inserted into his tibia and returned to the field in 2006, playing for three more years before his retirement from the game. More recently, Fremantle's Michael Barlow did his bit to make AFL players look hardier than your average sportsman when he apparently failed to realise what had happened to his broken leg and tried to walk on it. After getting to his feet and realising one of his legs wasn't working as it should be, Barlow eventually made the executive decision to return to the ground and wait for help. The injury ended his 2010 season, but Barlow is now in career-best form for the Dockers, jointly winning best-on-ground in the recent derby win over West Coast. NRL has had its fair share of body shocks over the years, the most recent being a compound fracture suffered by Brisbane Bronco Jharal Yow Yeh in a match against South Sydney. The Test and Queensland State of Origin winger smashed his right leg as he landed awkwardly after leaping for a high ball in the 24th minute. Teammates begged the team doctor to administer painkillers to the stricken youngster as he lay on the ground with a broken bone sticking out of his right ankle. Bronco Jharal Yow Yeh's fractured lower leg suffered during a match against South Sydney in Perth. Picture: W Russell Source: PerthNow After numerous surgeries, Yow Yeh has returned to training but there is still no timeline on when he will return to full competitive action. And finally, do you reckon wrestling is fake? This vision of Sid Vicious in action from 2001 might change your mind.