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Along with 100 million fellow citizen-spectators, give or take, a 63-year-old former NFL defensive lineman named George Visger will be watching the Super Bowl in two […]

The piece below was originally published at Salon on January 29, at https://www.salon.com/2022/01/29/football-hero-how-george-visger-survived-the-nfl-and-traumatic-brain-injury–barely/. I’ve done a couple of touch-ups. Sean McVay, coach of the Super Bowl-bound […]

by Irvin Muchnick   Sam Zeff of Kansas Public Radio, who did some of the very best reporting on the exertional heatstroke (EHS) death of Braeden […]

PREVIOUSLY: “Another Exertional Heatstroke Death in Kansas Junior College Football: Tirrell Williams, Fort Scott Community College,” February 22, https://concussioninc.net/?p=14942   by Irvin Muchnick   Before getting […]

Appellate law specialist John Derrick today filed with California’s 1st District Court of Appeal our brief in response to the University of California Regents’ appeal of […]

PREVIOUSLY: “Football’s unknown epidemic: When Black players die suddenly, the cover-up begins,” Salon, November 13, 2021, https://www.salon.com/2021/11/13/footballs-unknown-epidemic-when-black-players-suddenly-the-cover-up-begins/ “Concussion Inc.’s Brief Defending Against the University of California’s […]

by Irvin Muchnick   There is the social critique of football – the overwhelming evidence, in my view, that this sport is a hazard to public […]

PREVIOUSLY: “How Jimmy Snuka Got Away With Murder. How the Allentown Morning Call Helped Cover Up the Historical and Ongoing Corruption in Lehigh County Criminal Justice. […]

The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and the First Amendment Coalition have filed an amicus curiae, or “friend of the court,” brief in response […]