Word: nfl
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...distinctive voice has filled tv studios, adorned advertisements and sold one of the most successful video game franchises of all time. On April 16, Madden announced his retirement from broadcasting, a trade to which his enthusiasm and folksy wisdom made him singularly well-suited. (See pictures from an NFL training camp...
...imagine one of the challenges of building a league from scratch is marketing the game as an attractive career destination for the very best athletes. How is MLS planning to position soccer, in this respect, against the NFL or NBA or Major League Baseball...
...takes more than a few minutes to know how serious the injury is. An initial concussion, neurologists are now learning, can make a second concussion more likely, and the second injury, in turn, increases the risk of subsequent ones over the years. That's precisely the reason some NFL players become known as more concussion-prone than others. Worse, the danger is cumulative: later concussions may become not just more likely, but also more serious. "A sequence of mild events - even just two or more - can equal one big hit," Shealy says. That may have been what happened in Richardson...
...think they were not to be found.' ROBERT BLEAKLEY, father of William Bleakley, after the Coast Guard ended a three-day search for his son and two NFL players, Marquis Cooper and Corey Smith, whose boat capsized in the Gulf of Mexico...
...engenders everything I appreciate in sports, and everything we can still enjoy in Harvard athletics. The opportunity to play for nothing more than love of a sport narrows tremendously after our four years here, as even those with the talent to get drafted by the MLB or NFL face the daunting reality of profit-driven leagues...