March

March 14, 2011

Connecticut Newspaper Reports Muchnick’s Call to Senator Blumenthal on Concussions

[NOTE: The follow-up item on this blog about Dr. Robert Cantu and the Xenith helmet company, scheduled for today, has been postponed. It should be posted […]
March 14, 2011

Linda McMahon’s Scarecrow 2012 Senate Campaign

In the previous post I pointed everyone to Brian Lockhart’s excellent story today for Hearst about the prospects of pro wrestling regulation in the Connecticut legislature. […]
March 14, 2011

WWE Faces Home-State Regulation Heat

Lawmakers wonder why wrestling isn’t regulated like mixed martial arts Brian Lockhart / Hearst newspapers One is considered a sport, the other scripted entertainment. But an effort […]
March 12, 2011

TIMEOUT! Flashback to My September 2010 Column, ‘Why an NFL Lockout Would Be the Best Thing for America’

[originally published on September 20, 2010, at Beyond Chron, http://www.beyondchron.org/news/index.php?itemid=8513]   by Irvin Muchnick I am rooting for a players’ strike or owners’ lockout to shut […]
March 11, 2011

Memo to Waxman, Udall, Blumenthal: An Agenda for Hearings on the National Concussion Crisis

This week brings welcome news that Congressmen Henry Waxman (California) and G.K. Butterfield (North Carolina) have asked the House Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing and Trade to […]
March 9, 2011

Concussion Research Pioneer Bennet Omalu Returns to ‘Neurosurgery’ Journal

As first reported on this blog last month, Dr. Bennet Omalu has an important and comprehensive article in an upcoming issue of the journal Neurosurgery. A […]
March 8, 2011

Concussion Inc.: CTE Expert Robert Cantu Has Confused Relationship With Xenith Helmet Company

Having lambasted Dr. Joseph Maroon for his sundry commercial associations, I cannot fail to explore a controversy last week sparked by articles in the Boston business […]
March 7, 2011

‘Never Mind the Lockout – Make NFL Pay Its Fair Share of the National Sports Concussion Tab’ … today at Beyond Chron

File the National Football League labor negotiations under the heading “game within the game.” My best guess is that since veteran players, in particular, hate offseason […]
March 5, 2011

‘Muchnick on Duerson, CTE Consciousness, And What It Means For Wrestling’ (full text from WrestlingObserver.com)

[originally published on March 2 at http://www.f4wonline.com/content/view/19670/] Irv Muchnick on football’s Dave Duerson, CTE consciousness, and what it means for wrestling The other day I got […]
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