Seeing as how Tim Cook will be taking care of Apple’s day to day operations once again, perhaps you could use a little refresher on Mr. Jobs’ apprentice. This will be Cook’s third time filling in for Steve Jobs in day to day operations, where he’s helped o launch the iPhone 3GS, update the laptop line and take on the Palm Pre. He also has something in common with the NFL’s fourth most feared tackler.

Connie Guglielmo, Rochelle Garner and Jason Gale reported for Bloomberg this morning that Apple CEO Steve Job may need to have his pancreas removed, if Robert Thomas, head of surgery at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Melbourne, is correct. Thomas was the first to perform the Whipple operation—which involves removing parts of the pancreas, bile duct and small intestine, and which sometimes results in having to remove the entire pancreas. Jobs underwent a procedure similar to the Whipple operation after he was diagnosed with a rare type of pancreatic cancer in 2004. It should be noted, though, that Thomas is not Jobs’ doctor, and doesn’t know the details of his condition.