Ryan Freel Apparent Suicide May be Linked to Concussions Now, it’s not only football and hockey players who commit suicide after suffering concussions — and permanent brain damage — during their careers. Add professional baseball players to the list. Ryan Freel, an MLB player who had to end his career..
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Last Thursday National Football League Commissioner Roger Goodell delivered an address at Harvard where, in detail, he vowed to “promote a culture of safety” in the game. “Is playing tackle football worth the risk?” Goodell said during his speech before Harvard’s School of Public Health. “For some, the answer may..
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Want some fascinating reading? Then look at the timeline on the website for the multi-district litigation that more than 3,000 ex-NFL players have filed against the league. http://www.nflconcussionmdl.org/timeline/ The timeline starts in 1928 , showing the results of medical studies that even back then link concussions and permanent brain damage..
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How about this as a model of good sportsmanship and compassion: You cheer your quarterback, who hasn’t been playing well, when he sustains a head injury during a game. Again, you can’t make this stuff up. On Sunday thousands of Kansas City Chief’s fans loudly cheered when quarterback Matt Cassel..
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Hindsight is 20-20, as the saying goes. Just ask former Chicago Bears quarterback Jim McMahon. McMahon, who has the early stages of dementia, told a Chicago TV station this week that if he could live his life over again, he would have played baseball, not football. USA Today was among..
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You learn something new every day, and here is something I never realized: The National Football League doesn’t require players to wear helmets that offer the best protection against concussions, despite all the hoopla about safety and head injuries. The New York Times did a detailed story, “Despite Risks, NFL..
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As one New York sports writer put it, there is no such thing as a “mild” concussion now in the National Football League. When New York Jets cornerback Darrelle Revis received a head injury last Sunday in a game against Buffalo, team officials at first totally downplayed the incident and..
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The National Football League seems to be having some success in its efforts to curtail concussions. Largely due to the league’s changes in kickoff rules, last season overall concussions dropped to 266 from 270 the prior season, according to Edgeworth Economics, a consulting firm. Concussions at kickoff plummeted by 43..
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This is no surprise: Former Atlanta Falcons player Ray Easterling, who committed suicide earlier this year, had the brain disease that’s been linked to repeated concussions in athletes. Easterling’s widow, Mary Ann Easterling, released the results of a medical examiner’s report on her husband to the Associated Press on Friday,..
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Facing concussion lawsuits on behalf of about 3,000 defendants, the National Football League Thursday launched a confidential mental health hot line that was developed by suicide prevention experts. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell announced that the NFL Life Line as one of the foundations of the new NFL Total Wellness initiative,..
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