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In a January New Yorker article on the concussion crisis in pro football, writer Ben McGrath quoted Pittsburgh neurosurgeon Joseph Maroon speaking admiringly of Alan Schwarz, […]

On the subject of what is being done on behalf of the untold number of former athletes who are walking around with serious brain injuries (though […]

In the course of his whiny, egotistical, and largely fact-free email complaint to me last Friday, Alan Schwarz of The New York Times said the following: […]

[originally published May 23 at Beyond Chron, http://www.beyondchron.org/articles/Is_There_Now_a_Feeding_Frenzy_of_Concussion_Related_Sports_Suicides__9204.html] Is There Now a Feeding Frenzy of Concussion-Related Sports Suicides? by Irvin Muchnick We now know that hockey […]

Me: “I am interested in determining whether the Associated Press report of a settlement between the Labor Department and World Wrestling Entertainment is dispositive. While it […]

Earlier today I posted an angry email from Alan Schwarz of The New York Times. He was responding to the item here yesterday in which I […]

In the previous post I published in full a note I received this morning from Alan Schwarz of The New York Times. I’ll respond in the […]

Today I received the following email, with the subject line “what you don’t know.” is that all I did — based solely on the public-interest aspect […]

Chris Nowinski has done valuable work on the concussion crisis in sports. That work is also limited and flawed. He is the subject of a profile […]