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August 8, 2011

Two New Whoppers From the NFL’s and WWE’s Dr. Joseph Maroon

Dr. Joseph Maroon of the Pittsburgh Steelers and the National Football League and World Wrestling Entertainment and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center – also of […]
August 8, 2011

EXCLUSIVE: 1975 ‘Lancet’ Article Yet Another Smoking Gun in Football Concussion Saga

The new lawsuit by scores of retired players alleging a cover-up by the National Football League of medical research on the magnitude of the concussion problem […]
August 8, 2011

‘Sports Concussion Crisis a Culture-Wide Problem – Maybe a Post-Ideological One, Too’ … today at Beyond Chron

Writing in The Nation’s special August 15-22 sports issue, currently on newsstands, recently retired Denver Broncos wide receiver turned social critic Nate Jackson reflects on the […]
August 5, 2011

Dave Duerson’s Replacement on NFL Disability Board: New Deal Isn’t Finalized, So Hold Your Fire

A war of words has erupted on the comments board under an item at the blog of Dave Pear, a leading dissident National Football League retired […]
August 5, 2011

Muchnick Flashback: 2003 Los Angeles Times Magazine Article ‘Welcome to Plantation Football’

Below is one of the early mainstream articles on the controversy over paying college athletes: “Welcome to Plantation Football,” Los Angeles Times Magazine, August 31, 2003. […]
August 4, 2011

Annals of Youth Concussion Bureaucracy: Matt Chaney Covers the Waterfront

Author-blogger Matt Chaney (http://blog.4wallspublishing.com/), one of the smartest and least inhibited commentators on both concussions and steroids, passes along this early roundup of the new high-school-traumatic-brain-injury-liability-mitigation […]
August 4, 2011

‘Fan Accountability for Health of Performers’ (full text from Wrestling Observer website)

[originally published August 2 at http://www.f4wonline.com/more/more-top-stories/96-wwe/21575-irv-muchnick-talks-fan-accountability-for-health-of-performers]   Irv Muchnick talks fan accountability for health of performers Those of you who think I pick on wrestling fans […]
August 4, 2011

Your NFL And WWE Neurosurgeon, Joseph Maroon, in Action

World Wrestling Entertainment performer John Morrison returned to the tour little more than a month after undergoing neck surgery. The procedure – by WWE medical director […]
August 3, 2011

‘Five Keys to the Upcoming NFL (Concussion) Season’ (full text)

[originally published August 1 at Beyond Chron, http://www.beyondchron.org/articles/Five_Keys_to_the_Upcoming_NFL_Concussion_Season_9388.html]   by Irvin Muchnick No offense to Nnamdi Asomugha, who they tell me is a shutdown cornerback, but […]
Concussion Inc. - Author Irvin Muchnick