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RETIRED The only NFL analyst to have worked for all four networks and the voice of the best-selling eponymous sports video game, John Madden, 73, retired on April...
...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...
...Madden lent his name to to the Electronic Arts video game John Madden Football; the franchise, later renamed Madden NFL, has sold over 70 million copies. Madden was involved in the programming of the game to enhance its versimilitude and lent his voice to later editions. The game became such a pop culture phenomenon it spawned its own mythology: The Madden Curse, in which players featured on the game's cover that year are doomed to suffer an injury or drop in form...
...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...