Concussion Inc.’s survey of pre-Super Bowl coverage includes the news that Minnesota Vikings safety Husain Abdullah, 26, who feared that his career was over after suffering […]
ESPN’s sporadically excellent investigative series, Outside the Lines, is advertising a piece on Sunday’s edition (9 a.m. Eastern time) about Senator Tom Udall and the Federal […]
ESPN’s Outside the Lines today aired its Peter Keating-reported investigation of Riddell helmets. You can view the segment at http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=7502903. The piece disappointed me. Yes, it’s […]
(The second title of the Concussion Inc. ebook shorts series, UPMC: Concussion Scandal Ground Zero, is now available for $1.49 on Amazon Kindle, http://amzn.to/A0HQ2g, or as […]
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette is in the middle of a series examining the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center’s giant footprint on the local real estate market. “UPMC […]
Here’s the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette account of Dr. Rydze’s indictment: http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/local/region/pittsburgh-doctor-charged-in-ohio-with-improper-drug-distribution-658265/ Rydze made six-figure purchases of human growth hormone by credit card from Internet gray-market drug dealer […]
Bruno Sammartino, pro wrestling’s “living legend,” has buried a two-decade-old hatchet and, at age 77, renewed his relationship with WWE and boss Vince McMahon. The deal […]
by Irvin Muchnick The pro wrestling media did a good job of interpreting the verbal volleys in hours upon hours of recent podcasts by WWE […]
[T]hings only got better – or worse, depending on your perspective – in the person of Dr. Joseph Maroon, a neurosurgeon whose patient list spanned all […]