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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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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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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U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords Friday was moved from Tucson to Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center in Houston, where she will do what most expect to be a difficult rehabiliation from the gunshot wound she sustained to the head Jan. 8. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/22/us/22giffords.html?_r=1&hpw Giffords, who has so far been making a miraculous recovery from her horrific..
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U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords is in fact headed to a Houston rehabilitation hospital to continue her recovery from a gunshot wound in her head following a bloodbath in Tucson Jan. 8. http://www.mercurynews.com/nation-world/ci_17137388?nclick_check=1 Unless there are any unexpected medical problems, Giffords will be transferred Friday to the TIRR Memorial Hermann Rehabilitation Hospital..
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Rep. Gabrielle Giffords’ condition remained the same Monday, according to the doctors treating her for the gunshot wound in the head she sustained Saturday. http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-arizona-shooting-medical-20110111,0,1714259.story During a press conference at University Medical Center (UMC) in Tucson, physcians said they are waiting to see if Giffords’ brain swells any more. Brain swelling usually peaks..
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Physicians are saying that Rep. Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona is lucky, if you can say that anyone who was shot in the head is “lucky.” Giffords, who was gunned down Saturday in the Tucson massacre that left six people dead and 13 injured, took a bullet that “luckily” didn’t travel through..
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Arizona’s Gabby Giffords Brain Injury from Gunshot The next few days will be crucial for Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who was shot through the head Saturday by a gunman who also killed six people, including a judge and a 9-year-old, outside a supermarket in Tucson. We will have to wait to..
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