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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 […]

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 […]

In a newly published interview, Pittsburgh Steelers neurosurgeon and World Wrestling Entertainment medical director Dr. Joseph Maroon says: “I saw some statistics a few years back, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

[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 […]

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 […]

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, […]