August 31, 2011
August 31, 2011
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 […]
August 30, 2011
August 30, 2011
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 – […]
August 29, 2011
August 29, 2011
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 […]
August 29, 2011
August 29, 2011
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 […]
August 26, 2011
August 26, 2011
A new Ralph Nader group called League of Fans – saying the sports world “must open eyes to compelling concussion research” – has called for mandatory […]
August 25, 2011
August 25, 2011
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 […]
August 24, 2011
August 24, 2011
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 […]
August 23, 2011
August 23, 2011
[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 […]
August 22, 2011
August 22, 2011
Same as it ever was. Never mind.