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by Irvin Muchnick What the sports-reform movement still lacks, but may soon acquire, is its equivalent of MADD – Mothers Against Drunk Driving. We can call […]

In my Beyond Chron column published earlier today, I reported that the National Football League gave the CDC Foundation $150,000 for the “Heads Up” program of […]

[originally published 10/11/11 at http://www.beyondchron.org/articles/Flowery_Al_Davis_Tributes_Downplay_Dark_Side_of_His_Oakland_and_Raiders_Legacy_9590.html]   by Irvin Muchnick It’s not nice to speak ill of the dead, and to be sure, Al Davis – the […]

As is the case every Monday, there’s a lot of concussion news, and most of it speaks for itself. At the National Football League level, we […]

Will Carroll, @injuryexpert on Twitter, writes the “Fantasy Football Expert” column for the Sports Illustrated website. His new one, as he puts it, wonders whether the […]

[originally published 10/14/11 at http://www.beyondchron.org/articles/Political_Football_Centers_for_Disease_Control_in_NFL_s_Pocket_Too_on_Concussion_Issue_9600.html]   by Irvin Muchnick What the sports-reform movement still lacks, but may soon acquire, is its equivalent of MADD – Mothers […]

Last Friday I solicited comment from Brian Frederick’s “Sports Fans Coalition” and Ralph Nader’s “League of Fans” on my column asserting that the Centers for Disease […]

The Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee held a two-hour hearing on sports concussions on Wednesday. You can view the video at http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/Concuss. Despite an annoyingly […]

The approach of our government to the concussion crisis reminds me of the “fix” of the radio payola scandals in the 1950s. Back then we made […]