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Fall is here, and so is football, and that means concussions--an estimated 300,000 sports-related head injuries each year. While most are mild and result in no lasting damage, the larger concern, according to an NCAA study of 3,000 football players in the current Journal of the American Medical Association, is when players return to the field too soon and sustain a second, more serious injury. For an athlete with a concussion, say experts, there seems to be a 7-to-10-day window of increased susceptibility for suffering another one. Their advice: Wait this...
...That’s just a sign of an experienced guy,” Sullivan said. “Kevin just said ‘somebody has to make some shots.’ I think it was just great to see him come out of actually having a mild concussion, I think, to really generate some offense. Certainly for Kevin, he needed that badly. The team needed that badly. It was a great thing...
...brand, More. (More, in French, sounds like the word for death. "Donnez-moi un packet de Mort, s'il-vous plait." In Italy, they're pronounced Mor-ay: nearly the Italian word for love.) Since the mid-90s I've bought Capri Menthol 120s, a cigarette so svelte and mild that, I joke, smoking them makes you live longer...
...Mild-mannered, polite and genial, Payne’s personality is a closer fit to an altar boy than a defensive end. The only giveaway to his true persona is his 6’3, 230-lb frame...
...otherwise polite chit-chat with Bailey C. Gonzalez ’04, he couldn’t resist noting how much she reminds him of Tanya Harding, former Olympian, assault co-conspirator and star of Fox’s celebrity female boxing. Levinson, who suffers from a mild case of Tourrettes, was surprised when Gonzalez didn’t take the compliment as it was intended. “I simply meant that she is a strong and determined woman,” says Levinson. Apparently not strong and determined enough; a club-wielding Gonzalez was only able to fracture...