This may be the best way to get the message across to youths about the dangers of football and concussions: Say it via a video game. The newest version of the video game Madden NFL 12 will not only depict players sustaining concussions, it will show them being pulled off the field..
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The dust has settled on its meeting last week, and the bottom line is this: The National Hockey League has still refused to totally ban hits to the head. The horrific concussions sustained by Sidney Crosby and Max Pacioretty didn’t sway the NHL. Air Canada and Via Rail’s theats to pull their ads..
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National Hockey League general managers will be on the hot seat next week, pressured to put more teeth into a new rule regarding checks to the head, according to The New York Times. http://slapshot.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/12/general-managers-likely-to-address-hits-to-head/?ref=sports The GMs, who are holding their annual meeting in Florida, are not likely to ban hits to the head,..
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What kind of a fool is National Hockey League Commissioner Gary Bettman? Decide for yourself. The New York Times reported Friday that Air Canada, which sponsors the six NHL Canadian teams, threatened to pull its support of the league if it didn’t crack down on violence on the ice. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/11/sports/hockey/11hits.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper “There have been..
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The revelation this week that deceased ex-National Hockey League player Bob Probert had degenerative brain disease has sparked a debate, a rather ridiculous one, about whether fighting should be banned from the ice. Of course it should. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/03/sports/hockey/03fighter.html?_r= Probert, known as an enforcer and vicious brawler, died of a heart..
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Dave Duerson Suicide – Brain Injury Connection? Yesterday I posted a blog about ex-Chicago Bear Dave Duerson committing suicide last Thursday. It’s now believed that Duerson shot himself in the chest, rather than in the head, so his brain would be intact for testing for the degenerative disease that is plaguing retired NFL..
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The life of another former pro football player, who suspected he was suffering from long-term brain damage, has ended in tragedy. In this instance it was Dave Duerson, who committed suicide last Thursday by shooting himself in the chest. He was only 50. http://www.chicagobreakingsports.com/2011/02/report-duerson-died-of-self-inflicted-gunshot-wound.html In its obituary, The New York Times described Duerson..
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Champion skier Lindsey Vonn this weekend acted the way NFL players used to act: She returned to the “field,” so to speak, while still not fully recovered from a concussion. New York Times sports writer Alan Schwarz, the paper’s concussion expert, did an analysis, headlined “Ski Team’s Protocols Fail Vonn,”..
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Have dozens of people been wrongly convicted in shaken-baby syndrome cases? That’s the issue that The New York Times Magazine tackled Feb. 6, in much detail. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/06/magazine/06baby-t.html?_r=1&ref=magazine A good portion of the story is about Trudy Ruenda, who was convicted in a shaken-baby case in Fairfax County, Va., involving baby Noah..
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Champion skier Lindsey Vonn bowed out of a World Cup slalom in Germany Friday due to a concussion, according to the Associated Press. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/05/sports/skiing/05sportsbriefs-vonn.html?scp=4&sq=Lindsey%20Vonn&st=cse Vonn decided to miss the race, which was won by Marlies Schild of Austria, despite the fact that she was cleared by doctors Friday. Vonn sustained a concussion during..
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