Word: concussional
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Like most National Football League players, New York Jets receiver Rob Moore is accustomed to getting hit hard and jumping right back into the fray. But Thanksgiving weekend, as his team faced the Miami Dolphins, the 6-ft. 3-in., 205-lb. Moore caught a pass and got clocked so...
A concussion, as defined by the Professional Football Athletic Trainers Society, is a "jarring injury of the brain resulting in dysfunction." Simply put, it is a shock to the brain -- usually caused by a powerful blow to the head -- that can result in vertigo, disorientation and momentary unconsciousness, or even...
Come next Super Bowl, most Americans will not remember the name of the Brazilian player who elbowed American star Tab Ramos in the head, sending him to the hospital with a concussion. (For future bar bets, it's Leonardo.) But they will remember that Bebeto's and Romario's skills...
Ulvang was at the press conference to explain his jarring assertion that the service of I.O.C. president Juan Antonio Samaranch in the Cabinet of Spain's dictator Francisco Franco decades ago was "bad" and "may not be worthy of sport." The same day, in a rehearsal of an attempt to...
Harvard Coach John Dooley had every right to be proud of his team as he saw recently changed lines come together, young players taking charge and beautiful passing running circles around opposing defenders. Against Yale, the team had to step up a notch when co-captain Joey Alissi suffered a...