SPORTS INJURIES are common, but some are self-inflicted (Pexels).

There’s nothing you can do badly that you can’t make worse.

Ask Shane Beamer.

The head football coach at the University of South Carolina broke a bone in his right foot when he “kicked something he shouldn’t have” after a disappointing 41-39 loss to Florida on Saturday.

Beamer, whose usually sunny attitude fits him, blamed himself for the defeat and the cracked hoof.

“It’s been one of those years,” he said.

Sports are filled with “wish I hadn’t done that” moments. Angry managers and coaches have destroyed water coolers, knocked over Gatorade coolers and fallen into the dugout in a rage.

I saw a football player throw his helmet so hard to the ground that it bounced up and hit him in the face and broke his nose. Shattered bats after strikeouts are so common as to be nearly a cliche’ and more than one basketball has been thrown angrily high into the crowd, sometimes beaning a fan.

Angels followers may remember Kendrys Morales, who hit a game-winning grand slam in 2010 and as he hopped up and down on home plate he tore his ACL.

Kareem Abdul Jabbar missed 16 games during the 1974-75 NBA season when, after being (accidentally) poked in the eye, reacted by punching the steel basket support and breaking his hand.

Perhaps the oddest do-it-yourself injury came in 2004 when Sammy Sosa sneezed so hard – twice – he sprained a ligament in his lower back and was out of the lineup.