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And the NFL Band Played On: Concussion Crisis Destined To Become Sports World Counterpart of AIDS Saga (full text)

[originally published 6/24 at http://www.beyondchron.org/articles/And_the_NFL_Band_Played_On_Concussion_Crisis_Destined_To_Become_Sports_World_Counterpart_of_AIDS_Saga_9292.html]   by Irvin Muchnick The absolute power of the National Football League has corrupted our sports culture absolutely. In his recent […]

No Lockout or Offseason for the NFL’s Pitt Med Center Docs Who Also Work for WWE

National Football League training camps are shuttered this month, pending resolution of the owners’ lockout of players. But for clinicians at the University of Pittsburgh Medical […]

Introducing ‘Concussion Inc. … Author Irvin Muchnick’

Welcome to the new look of my blog, which has been renamed “Concussion Inc.” and transformed into the hub of my web presence. You can get […]

What They’re Saying About Irvin Muchnick

On WRESTLING BABYLON: Piledriving Tales of Drugs, Sex, Death., and Scandal (2007):   “Irv Muchnick knows wrestling likes Anna Wintour knows fashion.” Frank Deford author, Sports […]

What They’re Saying

On WRESTLING BABYLON: Piledriving Tales of Drugs, Sex, Death, and Scandal (2007):   “Irv Muchnick knows wrestling likes Anna Wintour knows fashion.” Frank Deford author, Sports […]

Concussion Guru Dr. Richard Ellenbogen Does a Star Turn on ‘nflhealthandsafety.com’

Earlier this year the National Football League’s new “public service” website, nflhealthandsafety.com, posted a buffoonish demonstration by the Pittsburgh Steelers’ neurosurgeon, one of the marketing masterminds […]

‘NFL’s “Legacy Fund” For Disabled Retirees Just a Down Payment on National Concussion Costs’ (full text)

[adapted from an article first published on July 18 at Beyond Chron, http://www.beyondchron.org/articles/NFL_s_Legacy_Fund_For_Disabled_Retirees_Just_a_Down_Payment_on_National_Concussion_Costs_9349.html]   One of the last hang-ups of an agreement averting the owners’ lockout […]

Chris Benoit’s Father Is Watching the NFL Concussion Cover-Up Lawsuit With Keen Interest

This morning I talked with Mike Benoit, father of Chris Benoit, the WWE performer whose 2007 double murder/suicide in Georgia, and subsequent post-mortem diagnosis of chronic […]

Paging Dr. Richard Ellenbogen of NFLhealthandsafety.com

Dr. Richard Ellenbogen, co-chair of the National Football League’s Head, Neck, and Spine Committee, has a promising but ultimately confused and confusing video about concussions up […]

Concussion Inc. - Author Irvin Muchnick