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Colorado manager Deion Sanders has been sick and retired of the bureau recently, a root confirmed to ESPN connected Tuesday.
Sanders has been astatine his property successful Texas dealing with an "unspecified wellness issue" arsenic the school's yearly summertime shot camps began past week, according to a study successful USA Today. A timetable for his instrumentality is unknown, but connected Sunday, his eldest son, Deion Jr., appeared connected a YouTube livestream from the Texas location wherever helium said his begetter was "feeling well."
"He'll archer y'all soon capable what he's going through, what helium went through," Deion Jr. stated, according to USA Today. "When we get backmost to Boulder, I don't know. I'm waiting until my dada leaves. When helium leaves, past I'll go. Until then, I'm going to beryllium present with him."
Sanders, 57, canceled his speaking engagement scheduled for June 8 successful Florida with the Sickle Cell Disease Research and Educational Symposia. The enactment posted the update connected X:
"Due to an unavoidable last-minute scheduling change, our primitively scheduled Foundation Keynote Speaker, Deion Sanders "Coach Prime," is incapable to attend. We are grateful for his enactment and look guardant to aboriginal opportunities to invited him."
Sanders has dealt with wellness issues before. In 2022, helium had two toes connected his near ft amputated due to the fact that of humor clots that developed from a erstwhile surgery. In 2023, Sanders had a process to relieve clots successful some of his legs and missed Pac-12 media day.
In precocious May, Sanders mentioned a wellness contented successful a podcast with erstwhile NFL cornerback Asante Samuel, according to USA Today, but didn't supply details.
Colorado opens the play astatine location connected Aug. 29 against Georgia Tech.
