Luke Cage, one of Marvel Comic’s earliest black superheroes, is about to fight a new foe that is making social justice warriors stand up and celebrate, tackling the National Football League and the brain disease CTE.
According to National Federation of State High School Associations, participation in high school football is declining.
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — More than $500 million in claims were approved as of Monday under the NFL’s concussion settlement, nearly a decade earlier than league officials estimated they would reach that amount.
Speaking at a recent press conference, University of North Carolina football coach Larry Fedora said that the game of football is “under attack,” and will see major changes over the next decade.
Despite the CTE-related controversy surrounding his death, it appears that Junior Seau will not be the last Seau to try and leave his mark in the NFL.
Los Angeles (AFP) – Former Green Bay Packers quarterback Brett Favre said Thursday he may have suffered “thousands” of concussions as he revealed his struggle with possible long-term effects of his 20-year NFL career.
The NFL had a 16 percent increase in concussions from 2016 to 2017, with 291 concussions in 2017, compared to 250 in 2016.
Justin Timberlake has no problem performing the halftime show for the Super Bowl, something he’s set to do for the second time in his career. Though, when it comes to allowing his son to play football, the pop singer has a big problem with that.
With the sport of football increasingly losing popularity among younger players, former Green Bay Packers great Brett Farve didn’t help the Pop Warner leagues much by saying he’d rather his grandsons play a safer sport than football.
If Sean “Diddy” Combs is looking for someone to help him purchase the Carolina Panthers, he might want to take a hard pass on Dallas Mavericks Owner Mark Cuban.
While the journalists fixate on anecdotes such as the suicides of high-profile players such as Junior Seau and Dave Duerson, scientists examine the data.
New York Jets safety Jamal Adams loves football to death. Literally.
Last year, the New York Times reported that the brain bank associated with Boston University found chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) in 76 of 79 former NFL players examined. This week, the Old Gray Lady reported the group finding CTE in 110 of 111 players examined. Like so much of what the Times reports, this doesn’t add up.
The doctor portrayed in the movie “Concussion” believes that poison, not the very real concussion Hillary Clinton suffered or some other malady, may explain the presidential candidate’s health issues.
NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman wrote the response to pseudo-scientific cranks in Congress that needed to come from Roger Goodell’s Remington-Rand five years ago.
A report by congressional Democrats charging the NFL with tampering in the granting procedures of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has collapsed after revelations that nearly half of the NFL money already allocated by the federal agency went to the group the league supposedly sought to blackball.
Congressional investigators working under Rep. Frank Pallone (D-NJ) never spoke to a scientist they accuse of wrongdoing in a report accusing the NFL of attempting to manipulate the grant giving of the National Institutes of Health.
ESPN made charges against the NFL, which led to Congressional Democrats investigating the league, which led to ESPN receiving a scoop on the results of that investigation, which led to the Congressional Democrats receiving gushing coverage from ESPN because of the investigation.
The NFL now says a link exists between football and chronic traumatic encephalopathy. The league’s most high-profile owner calls that “absurd.” He’s right.
So what is the NFL’s official position on the link between football-related head trauma and the brain disease CTE?
A representative from the NFL told a congressional committee on Monday that a link “certainly” exists between football and chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). Scores of medical journal articles insist that science attempting to establish such a link through a study, let alone proving one, remains a project for the future to embark upon.
Boston University doctors announce that 1974 NFL MVP Ken Stabler suffered from chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE).
A tax-exempt nonprofit established by Dr. Bennet Omalu, portrayed by Will Smith in the film Concussion, funded a study on a product subsequently licensed exclusively by Omalu’s for-profit business.
According to hacked emails, Sony Pictures Entertainment hoped to prevent drawing the ire of the National Football League by heavily editing the upcoming film Concussion, which stars Will Smith as a doctor who sets out to find the truth about controversial head injuries in football.
The first trailer for Will Smith’s NFL concussion cover-up film was released online this week.
