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\nby Irvin Muchnick<\/em><\/p>\n

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On November 17 this blog published a pungent follow-up to my recent Salon article about non-traumatic football conditioning deaths, with special focus on exertional sickling and what that largely unknown medical phenomenon illustrates about the difficult and exploitative relationship between African-Americans and an amateur football feeder system desperately in need of being cut down to size.<\/p>\n

The post about the elimination of football by Fort Scott Community College in Kansas is at https:\/\/concussioninc.net\/?p=14892<\/a>. The long Salon piece, “Football’s unknown epidemic: When Black players die suddenly, the cover-up begins,” is at https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2021\/11\/13\/footballs-unknown-epidemic-when-black-players-suddenly-the-cover-up-begins\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Last week brought another P.S. This time it was yet another supposed random heart attack that, on full examination months later, is found actually to be exertional sickling.<\/p>\n

The victim in this case was 18-year-old Quandarius Wilburn, a defensive end at Virginia Union University in Richmond who collapsed and died during conditioning drills in August. Read the full story at https:\/\/richmond.com\/sports\/college\/virginia-union\/acute-sickle-cell-crisis-killed-vuu-freshman-football-player-according-to-chief-medical-examiner\/article_16653cd1-8380-5dd7-b5b2-e4787adcab56.html<\/a>.<\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"