Northern Illinois Huskies players walk onto the field prior to a game against Central Michigan Chippewas at Huskie Stadium. (Photo: Mike Dinovo, USA TODAY Sports) 64 CONNECTTWEET8 LINKEDIN3 COMMENTEMAILMORE The Seattle-based law firm leading a variety of class-action lawsuits against the NCAA on Tuesday opened another front against the association, this time challenging the association’s rules …
“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 …
General view of the NCAA logo. (Photo: Kirby Lee, USA TODAY Sports) 255 CONNECT TWEET 2 LINKEDIN COMMENT EMAIL MORE The NCAA and 11 major conferences on Friday night began the process of asking the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to overturn a recent ruling in which a federal district judge granted class-action status to a pair of lawsuits challenging the NCAA’s current limits on the …