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“Retirees file lawsuit against NFLPA, Brady plaintiffs” Dan Wetzel, Yahoo Sports http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news;_ylt=ArPT5DSw1wRJkunf9aHgQY85nYcB?slug=dw-wetzel_retirees_sue_nflpa_smith_brady_091311   A group of 28 retired NFL players, including Hall of Famers Carl Eller, […]

[originally published September 9 at http://www.beyondchron.org/articles/Duerson_Lite_NFL_Brain_Injury_Agony_Continues_With_Death_of_Hall_of_Famer_Lee_Roy_Selmon_9500.html]   by Irvin Muchnick The pro football season opened last night with a game on NBC – colliding, to the […]

Here’s the news release by Chicago’s Siprut law firm, representing former Eastern Illinois University football player Adrian Arrington: http://www.siprut.com/assets/attorney_biographies/Press_Release_-_NCAA.pdf Here’s the complaint in Illinois federal court: […]

Taylor Branch’s new Atlantic article, “The Shame of College Sports,” has stimulated discussion and rightly so. But while we talk about whether college football players should […]

Alex Marvez, senior pro football writer for FoxSports.com, reports that a federal judge in Maryland has set a February 27, 2012, trial date in retired National […]

The previous post updates Dave Duerson developments. Trust me when I say the scandal of the late Duerson’s work on the NFL Retirement Plan board is […]

Ramogi Huma, the former UCLA linebacker who founded and presides over the quasi-union National College Players Association (http://www.ncpanow.org), provided this blog with a statement on the […]

[originally published 9/13/11 at http://www.beyondchron.org/articles/Is_There_a_Veterans_Bonus_March_in_the_NFL_s_Future__9509.html]   by Irvin Muchnick The blog of Dave Pear, head of Independent Football Veterans, the best-organized group of dissident disabled National […]

Dr. Robert Cantu boosted sports reform several days ago by calling for a halt to collision sports for under-14 youth. See https://concussioninc.net/?p=4578. Just as quickly, he […]