Props to Matt Calkins, a sports columnist for the The San Diego Union-Tribune, for his recent writing on brain injuries and sports. http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2013/apr/28/tp-no-soft-soap-lets-call-brain-injuries-exactly/ In his column Sunday, Calkins essentially said that people — team officials, athletes, the press — should call a spade a spade. The injuries that have plagued..
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Lawyers for the National Football League and for the 4,000 players suing it over the issue of brain damage faced off in court Tuesday in Philadelphia. They argued before a federal judge who will decide if the litigation should be dismissed. The players’ lawyer, David Frederick, got the best sound..
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For all its supposed concern and lip service about worrying about its players, the National Football League continues to stubbornly refuse to face facts about the link between repeated head injuries and long term brain damage. This is clearly demonstrated by a telling story that The New York Times published..
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The full page ads began running in The New York Times this week. “The brain has all the knowledge,” the ad says. “Yet we have very little knowledge about the brain.” The ad explains that General Electric and the National Football League are teaming up to form the Head Health..
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In my callow youth, I wanted to be a sports writer. That’s not how my life turned out. I found another passion, helping people who have sustained traumatic brain injury, fighting their battles in court. But I still love sports and good sports writing. I recently came across one of..
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More than three-quarters of National Football League players surveyed said they don’t trust their team’s medical staff, the union representing the athletes said Thursday. And they may have very good reason to be untrusting of these docs, as the Los Angeles Times reported that the union, the NFL Players Association..
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The other shoe has dropped in the tragic suicide of ex-NFL player Junior Seau. His family has filed suit against the league, alleging that brain disease caused by the head injuries he sustained playing led him to kill himself, according to the Associated Press. http://www.northjersey.com/news/Junior_Seaus_family_sues_NFL_over_brain_injuries.html Seau’s family filed the lawsuit..
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The parents of former Cincinnati Reds player Ryan Freel, who committed suicide Dec. 22, have agreed to have his brain tissue tested for a degenerative disease that has been found in athletes who sustained repeated head injuries during their careers, according to The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/31/sports/baseball/game-not-known-for-ferocity-claims-a-casualty-who-was.html?_r=0 It appears that..
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Here’s a real-life explanation about why NFL players hide their concussions. At a press briefing Friday, sports writers learned that New York Jets Greg McElroy, third-string quarterback to Mark Sanchez and Tim Tebow, concealed the fact that he suffered a concussion last Sunday. McElroy was sacked 11 times in that..
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