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Yahoo Sports’ Jason Cole this week had a feel-good story about how Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers, the most valuable player of the Super Bowl, […]

The agonizing serial of layoff-averting concessions by Connecticut’s public employee unions is over. It seems hard to argue with the conclusion of Chris Powell of the […]

In a move whose significance cannot be minimized — and I suspect is not the last word — World Wrestling Entertainment has eliminated its corporate website. […]

Same as it ever was. Never mind.

[originally published 8/19/11 at http://www.beyondchron.org/articles/Football_Media_Courts_Still_Not_Tackling_Lesson_of_Dave_Duerson_Suicide_9447.html]   by Irvin Muchnick Six months after Dave Duerson put a bullet through his own chest, the annual national brain trauma […]

Below is an edited exchange I had the other day with a sports columnist for a major newspaper. I am not identifying the columnist except to […]

I am working my way through A Preliminary Investigation of Active and Retired NFL Players’ Knowledge of Concussions – the extremely valuable 2004 doctoral dissertation of […]

A new Ralph Nader group called League of Fans – saying the sports world “must open eyes to compelling concussion research” – has called for mandatory […]

Sad-sack pro wrestling legend Ric Flair – still slicing up his own forehead and taking “bumps” for other promotions in his 60s, three years after “retiring” from […]