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August 20, 2023
WITHOUT HELMETS OR SHOULDER PADS: The American Way of Death in Football Conditioning has begun shipping from warehouses. At the bottom of this post is information […]
August 4, 2023
Irvin Muchnick’s Thursday interview on Up to Date, on Kansas City’s National Public Radio affiliate KCUR, can be streamed at the home page of the station […]
August 2, 2023
As noted here yesterday, 19-year-old Myzelle Law, of MidAmerica Nazarene University in Olathe, Kansas, has become the first known fatality this year during preseason football conditioning […]
August 1, 2023
On the fifth anniversary of the exertional heatstroke death of another 19-year-old in the same state –Braeden Bradforth at Garden City Community College, whose story is […]
July 28, 2023
This month, the American ritual of preseason football practice gets underway for more than a million boys, from teenagers down to as young as 5. If […]
July 27, 2023
Tomorrow, Friday, the Chicago Tribune will be publishing my op-ed article “Popular or Not, Football Belongs Out of Our Public Schools,” alongside a Tribune editorial calling […]
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