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...Change youth football. Chris Nowinski is a former Harvard defensive tackle whose pro-wrestling career - he didn't want to sit in a cubicle - was derailed by concussions. He has since emerged as one of the country's most prominent advocates for football reform and has written a book, Head Games: Football's Concussion Crisis. To illustrate his points, he pulls up a YouTube clip titled "Big Football Hit - Helmet to Helmet." In a drill supervised by the coaches, two 8-year-olds charge toward each other, heads down, as a woman yells, "Go! Go!" The tiny helmets collide...
World Wrestling Entertainment’s Chris Nowinski, a.k.a. Chris Harvard, to sophomore defenseman Dylan Reese, at the Institute of Politics’ “Jock the Vote” on Oct. 26. Reese, a professed democrat, had loudly whispered to one of his panelists seated next to him asking for the term’s definition at its first mention, and when audience members were permitted to submit questions, classmates Ryan Maki and Steve Mandes didn’t hesitate to test how carefully he’d paid attention. Reese’s response...
After two or three exchanges and a bit more goading from Nowinski, the sides engaged in more pointed debate. At first the panelists primarily defended party positions with recycled rhetoric, but comfortably carved out their own arguments on later questions...
Topics were not quite so serious throughout, however, and the tone of discussion took a marked turn once audience members’ questions were read by Nowinski...
...Dylan, can you explain tort reform in detail for all of us?” Nowinski read, chuckling...