Dozens of times since beginning their work on the brains of former football players, boxers and military members who suffered repeated blows to the head, researchers have announced their findings with slides of damaged tissue, strong words about the danger of concussions and perhaps a call for sports officials to take the issue more seriously. At a Boston University medical conference …
The National Football League may be hoping this case gets swept under the rug and isn’t met with much public consumption moving forward. But a group of former NFL players and their lawyers are resilient in their efforts to not only bring the concussion issue to light, but force the league to pay out a larger sum. A settlement agreed to by the NFL and former players required the league to pay …
Talking with a mother who sued Pop Warner football By Jane McManus | Sep 8, 2016 espnW.com John Greim/LightRocket via Getty Images The concern about repeated head trauma in football is filtering from the NFL into the youth ranks and on Sept. 1, a class-action lawsuit was filed against Pop Warner football and USA Football. One of the lead plaintiffs is Kimberly Archie, whose son, Paul Bright …
Three years to the day after the NFL and thousands of former players reached a tentative settlement in a massive concussion class action, the settlement is finally official. Via the New York Post, Monday came and went without the former players who opposed the settlement filing a petition for appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court, ending the case and allowing the settlement to proceed. “It’s been …
Karen Zeidel’s father had vanished in a fog of unceasing headaches and tremors of rage. The tender, chivalrous gentleman her mother, Marie, met when she was 17 had deteriorated into a husk. For decades after his tough-guy hockey career, Larry Zeidel fell into a spiral of bizarre behavior and …
Retired NFL players who have been waiting since August 2013 for concussion settlement proceeds will be waiting even longer. Nine former NFL players have filed yet another appeal regarding the settlement, seeking a rehearing before the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit regarding the recent decision of a three-judge panel to uphold agreement to provide retired players with certain …
That is the only thing that is easy about this conversation. Anybody with a handful of working brain cells knows that football can not only cause concussions, but also multiple lesser bruises and damage to the brain. Those same folks also have to know that multiple concussions and/or trauma to the brain must create a significant risk for long range and possibly even permanent damage.
For years, the NFL has avoided saying whether football was related to CTE and deferred to the medical community’s findings on the matter. So why the change now? What is CTE?
“At Pop Warner there is nothing more important than the safety of our players and since 2010, we have led the way in making the game of youth football a safer and better experience than ever before,” the organization said. The settlement demonstrates how concerns about concussion-related brain damage have grown from the NFL to the youngest levels of football. Thousands of former professional …
A total of 87 out of 91 former NFL players have tested positive for the brain disease at the center of the debate over concussions in football, according to new figures from the nation’s largest brain bank focused on the study of traumatic head injury. Researchers with the Department of Veterans Affairs and Boston University have now identified the degenerative disease known as chronic …