Like the National Football League, its big brother in bloodsport, WWE — North American pro wrestling’s oligopolist — was opposed to the public conversation of traumatic […]
by Irvin Muchnick The managing general partner of ConcussionInc.net LLP is overdue for a post that puts the “Concussion Inc.” back into Concussion Inc. Let […]
It’s time for more than left-handed compliments to ESPN’s Outside the Lines on the football traumatic brain injury story. Today the investigative unit’s Steve Fainaru, John […]
by Irvin Muchnick Yesterday a mediator announced a $765 million settlement in a lawsuit against the National Football League by 4,000 retired players. There’s a […]
by Irvin Muchnick For the third straight year of its four-year history, I thank the organizers for giving me a seat in the audience of the […]
by Irvin Muchnick Sean Pamphilon, a one-time ESPN production assistant who has risen to the ranks of elite sports documentary filmmakers, now has produced the […]
by Irvin Muchnick Appropriately, Dr. Joseph Maroon and his fellow “ImPACT concussion management system” developers at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center are front and […]
by Irvin Muchnick The most revealing quote in League of Denial: The NFL, Concussions, and the Battle for Truth — Mark Fainaru-Wada and Steve Fainaru’s […]
Yesterday the National Football League’s four-game suspension of Wes Welker, the Denver Broncos’ oft-concussed wide receiver, for amphetamine use, led some in the Colorado media to […]