NFL Damage Control on Concussions

4 May 2011

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Well, the floodgates are opening wider and wider. Sports Legacy Institute and Boston University held a press conference this past Monday to announce their findings on the late Dave Duerson’s brain examination. To no one’s surprise, they discovered the presence of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) in his brain.
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Former NFL player Dave Duerson found to have had brain damage

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Continuing LA Times Coverage on Retired Players

20 April 2011

We’re continuing to see more mainstream media stories on the life of retired football players with an emphasis on the long-term damages of untreated concussions and career injuries. It seems the LA Times has been all over many of the issues that directly affect the retired players. We’ll start off a piece from Bill Dwyre on 49ers Hall-of-Famer Ronnie Lott.
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Ronnie Lott knows his days of misery are coming

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Concussions. And Dave Duerson.

24 February 2011

Holy cow! You’d think we never went into the off-season already. Or maybe we just had to wait until Super Bowl was over to get more media attention. But the coverage on concussions has become a loud theme everywhere, especially following the suicide of Dave Duerson last week. Duerson had left instructions with his family to ensure that his brain was donated to the Sports Legacy Institute to look for the presence and extent of CTE (chronic traumatic encephalopathy), the marker for dementia and other brain problems. We had published a critical post on the NFLPA’s three representatives on the 6-member Board for the Bert Bell/Pete Rozelle Retired NFL Players Retirement Plan, of which Duerson was a long-standing member. (You can read that May 2010 post by clicking HERE.)
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