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...conference linebacker on the school's football team, is sitting in a Bedford, Mass., laboratory, staring at shattered brains of dead football players. On this Friday afternoon, Hadley has come to visit Dr. Ann McKee, a Boston University neurological researcher who has received a dozen brains donated from former NFL, college and high school players. In each one, it's simple to spot a protein called tau, which defines a debilitating disease known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE. Common symptoms of CTE include sudden memory loss, paranoia and depression during middle age. The disease is also known as dementia...
...three Arizona House Republicans including current Senator and former presidential candidate John McCain, voted against the bill in '83. The state did not vote in favor of recognizing the holiday until 1992, not only rejecting pleas from Reagan and then Arizona governor Evan Mecham but also losing the NFL's support when the league moved Super Bowl XXVII from Sun Devil Stadium, in Tempe, to California in protest. Arizona was not the only state openly contemptuous of federal law. In 2000, 17 years after the law's official passage and the same year it pulled the Confederate flag down from...
...shortly before its Jan. 2 Alamo Bowl game against Michigan State, Texas Tech has fired head coach Mike Leach for allegedly mistreating a player who received a concussion diagnosis. According to reports, Leach ordered that Adam James, son of former NFL player and current ESPN analyst Craig James, be sequestered in an equipment shed and electrical closet during Texas Tech practices in mid-December as punishment for allegedly faking the concussion...
...accusation, if true, is especially remarkable, given the recent scientific reports of the long-term damage to football players from concussions. In response, the NFL has taken steps to prevent players from re-entering games after suffering head injuries. "The bubble some of these coaches live in is amazing," says Murray Sperber, a visiting professor at the Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author of Beer and Circus: How Big-Time College Sports Is Crippling Undergraduate Education. "In the example of Leach, it seems the whole discussion about concussions has apparently passed...
...each fighter $40 million. The fight can be salvaged, Arum says, if a drug-testing compromise can be made between both camps. Arum says that in addition to boxing commission drug testing, Pacquiao is willing to have his urine examined by drug testing agencies that evaluate NBA, MLB and NFL players...