September

Here’s the news release by Chicago’s Siprut law firm, representing former Eastern Illinois University football player Adrian Arrington: http://www.siprut.com/assets/attorney_biographies/Press_Release_-_NCAA.pdf Here’s the complaint in Illinois federal court: […]

[originally published September 9 at http://www.beyondchron.org/articles/Duerson_Lite_NFL_Brain_Injury_Agony_Continues_With_Death_of_Hall_of_Famer_Lee_Roy_Selmon_9500.html]   by Irvin Muchnick The pro football season opened last night with a game on NBC – colliding, to the […]

“Retirees file lawsuit against NFLPA, Brady plaintiffs” Dan Wetzel, Yahoo Sports http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news;_ylt=ArPT5DSw1wRJkunf9aHgQY85nYcB?slug=dw-wetzel_retirees_sue_nflpa_smith_brady_091311   A group of 28 retired NFL players, including Hall of Famers Carl Eller, […]

Retired National Football League player Dave Pear, leader of the retirees’ group Independent Football Veterans, cc’d me on an email today to DeMaurice Smith, executive director […]

“Brain Expert: Kids Shouldn’t Play Contact Sports” WCVB-TV 5, Boston http://www.thebostonchannel.com/health/29168930/detail.html#ixzz1XrzYt4ke Because of Dr. Robert Cantu’s status in the sports concussion-reform world, this news is both […]

Belinda Lerner, executive director of the National Football League Player Care Foundation, provided clarifications of her statements about Dave Duerson last month to Alex Marvez of […]

This post was originally published here August 5 under the headline “Muchnick Flashback: 2003 Los Angeles Times Magazine Article ‘Welcome to Plantation Football.'” In the previous […]

Taylor Branch, author of the epic multi-volume history of Martin Luther King and his times, has a long, long story for The Atlantic about the shame […]

The blog of Dave Pear, head of Independent Football Veterans, the best-organized group of dissident disabled National Football League retirees, occasionally republishes with permission articles by […]