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Dissident National Football League retiree Dave Pear’s blog has more primary-source email exchanges among principals about the confused status of increased pensions for pre-1993 players as […]

Celebrity, commerce, and a false sense of awareness all intersect at the corner of former National Football League star Jerome Bettis and Dick’s Sporting Goods – […]

The headline of this post is also the rally cry of sports-talk radio host Dan Bernstein of WSCR in Chicago. Bernstein has drawn the line perfectly […]

“The sweetest, most gentle guy ever, former Leaf Belak commits suicide” Toronto Star http://www.thestar.com/sports/hockey/article/1047590–the-sweetest-most-gentle-guy-ever-former-leaf-belak-commits-suicide?bn=1

[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 […]

Irvin Muchnick’s September 1 interview with Jim Richards of Toronto’s NewsTalk 1010, discussing the implications of the suicide of recently retired National Hockey League “enforcer” Wade […]

Deadspin, the provocative and offbeat sports site, has a story about the troubling professional and personal history of Dr. David Chao, the San Diego Chargers’ team […]

The grotesque twists of the National Football League concussion drama keep coming. Early last week, Lee Roy Selmon – the defensive end who was the iconic […]

Yesterday I posted an item with the uncomfortable suggestion that coverage of the death of Lee Roy Selmon should have included the information that, days before […]