on the whole situation in his blog. It's too long to post the whole thing, so here's just a coule of paragraphs. He links to a post from Lowell Cohn, who received info from someone purporting to be an orthopedic surgeon. The guy says the 49ers wrecked his throwing shoulder by having him play too long with the separation.

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UPDATE: ESPN's Chris Mortensen reports that the MRI examination showed that a piece of bone in Smith's shoulder broke off in the area of the surgery from December.

(I tried to contact both Smith and his agent, Tom Condon, but neither responded to messages left for them on Saturday.)

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