September

September 21, 2011

Who Foots the Bills for the Football System’s Predictable Catastrophic Medical Costs? We All Do – That Is, Until No One Does

When I argue that the $10-billion-a-year National Football League is behaving as just about any corporate entity would – trying to shirk its responsibility for a […]
September 21, 2011

Here’s the State of ‘Concussion Awareness’ in Carroll County, Georgia

“Player with head injury says coach put him back in game” http://www.wsbtv.com/news/29249803/detail.html?taf=atl
September 21, 2011

Missing in Action on Concussions: Senator Tom Udall, Congressman Henry Waxman, Senator Richard Blumenthal

A week ago today I emailed Marissa Padilla, communications director for Senator Tom Udall: “What is the status of the football helmet matter?” The same day […]
September 21, 2011

‘While Fans Fret Over Michael Vick’s Fantasy Stats, America’s Youth Football Death and Disability Toll Mounts’ … today at Beyond Chron

After dropping off my son at UCLA last week, I took the 101 back north. In Westlake Village, at the tip of Los Angeles County, I […]
September 20, 2011

Senate Candidate Linda McMahon Archive: ‘Vince Fought the Law, and the Law Lost’

Linda McMahon’s Husband Vince Fought the Law, and the Law Lost (complete text as a single post) Published December 28th, 2009 “Linda McMahon’s Husband Vince Fought […]
September 20, 2011

Introducing the ‘Senate Candidate Linda McMahon Archive’

Barely ten months after losing by 12 points to Richard Blumenthal in her campaign for the seat of the retiring Chris Dodd, Linda McMahon has officially […]
September 20, 2011

Sampling the Michael Vick Concussion Coverage

What becomes most clear from a quick survey of the coverage of Michael Vick’s concussion in Sunday night’s nationally televised game is that sports journalists have […]
September 19, 2011

Paging Writer Rob Trucks – Transcribed Dave Duerson ‘Oral History’ Interview for Deadspin

For months, I’ve been trying to get hold of Rob Trucks, a writer who did an interview with Dave Duerson in November 2010, three months before […]
September 19, 2011

NFL Week 2 – Are You Ready For Some High School Football Disability and Death?

I got an email from my old friend Mark Hanzlik, executive director of the Alternative Weekly Network. We were together in the Lamaze class with our […]
Concussion Inc. - Author Irvin Muchnick