Word: helmets
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Sports doctors and equipment engineers have struggled over the years to make football safer. Voigt Hodgson, a Wayne State University bioengineer, says helmet improvements have led to an 85% decrease in serious brain injury among all football players since 1958. Research by Dr. Joseph Torg, director of the University of Pennsylvania's Sports Medicine Center, led to rule changes in 1976 that banned "spearing," in which a player uses his helmet as a battering ram to tackle an opponent. Torg had shown that spearing was a leading cause of neck injuries (indeed, experts are debating whether Byrd accidentally speared...
Nevertheless, players are still using helmets as a weapon. Houston Oiler quarterback Warren Moon was speared by a tackler last month and remains sidelined. In a SPORTS ILLUSTRATED article last week, he charged that "creating turnovers has become so important that players today are being coached to strike with the helmet first" in the hope of jarring the ball loose...
...Vietnamese military headquarters known as the Citadel, they were buried in previously withheld documents and paraphernalia from dead and captured Americans. Included among the wartime artifacts handed over to Kerry were a handful of Social Security cards, a charred diary, flight suits worn by downed pilots, and a helmet said to have been left behind by Senator John McCain, a member of Kerry's subcommittee on MIA-POW affairs who was a prisoner in Vietnam for five years. Prime Minister Vo Van Kiet said his goal was to "resolve all aspects of the issue of missing Americans" so that full...
...Lake of the Clouds is off limits to the public. The underground trek involves scrambling through narrow passages, navigating around steep crevasses and using ropes to descend two drop-offs -- the second of which encompasses a 60-m (200 ft.) cliff. Turn off the miner's light on your helmet, and you cannot see your hand in front of your face...
...Crimson's finest all-round athletes, Santos also won three other awards this week: Harvard's Most Valuable Player award ("one of the happiest moments of my life," he said), the ECAC Gold Helmet Award and Ivy League Defensive Player of the Week...