August 17, 2011
August 17, 2011
From Mike Florio of NBC Sports’ Pro Football Talk comes the story of Cheta Ozougwu of the Houston Texans, who got dinged on the opening kickoff […]
August 16, 2011
August 16, 2011
I just posted a review of a story on Dave Duerson by Alex Marvez of FoxSports.com. There’s also a second Marvez piece, “NFL retirement plan faces […]
August 16, 2011
August 16, 2011
Alex Marvez of FoxSports.com has an important new piece up on Dave Duerson, which focuses on Duerson’s battle with depression and uses as its main source […]
August 15, 2011
August 15, 2011
If there is a single thing on which I believe folks of good conscience should agree in the wake of the February suicide of Dave Duerson, […]
August 13, 2011
August 13, 2011
Confronting pro wrestling legend Bret Hart on CNN’s “Nancy Grace,” 2007 (25,000+ views): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXmw7Fmhwgg&feature=channel_video_title Discussing NFL retirees’ concussion cover-up lawsuit on Toronto’s NewsTalk 1010: http://www.youtube.com/WrestlingBabylon#p/a/u/0/hrXZLpKvAAQ On […]
August 12, 2011
August 12, 2011
[originally published 8/8/11 at http://www.beyondchron.org/articles/Sports_Concussion_Crisis_a_Culture_Wide_Problem_Maybe_a_Post_Ideological_One_Too_9407.html] by Irvin Muchnick Writing in The Nation’s special August 15-22 sports issue, currently on newsstands, recently retired Denver Broncos wide […]
August 12, 2011
August 12, 2011
Dustin Fink of the Concussion Blog today has the kind of detective work you’ll read nowhere else on the mysterious – but undoubtedly hoped to be […]
August 12, 2011
August 12, 2011
And now for a heartwarming anecdote from last weekend’s Pro Football Hall of Fame festivities that you probably didn’t know: The executive director of the National […]
August 10, 2011
August 10, 2011
Yesterday I asked Chris Nowinski, head of the Sports Legacy Institute, and Dr. Robert Cantu, Nowinski’s co-director at Boston University’s Center for the Study of Chronic […]