NEW YORK — The NFL Players Association wants the league to remove the co-chairman of the league's committee on concussions because the union bel...
Andrew Brandt | Posted 11.19.2009 | Sports
The media needs to stop glamorizing the violent aspects of the NFL game. As this week's headlines on head trauma suggest, this is bigger than football.
AP | HOWARD FENDRICH | Posted 11.19.2009 | Sports
Washington Redskins kick returner Rock Cartwright remembers his brain "shaking like a bell" when he was walloped in a game against the New York Giants...
Eric Schmeltzer | Posted 11.17.2009 | Sports
After his second game-ending concussion in three games, Brian Westbrook's career is at a crossroads. Even if he feels fine, the lasting effects of the concussions could haunt him for years.
Dr. Johnny Benjamin | Posted 11.16.2009 | Sports
In Brian Westbrook's first game back, his day was ended when he sustained another violent concussion. Now what does he do?
Dr. Johnny Benjamin | Posted 11.10.2009 | Entertainment
Jahvid Best is the amazing running back for the University of California Golden Bears football team. Thank God his life was spared after his daunting injury.
Brad Kurtzberg | Posted 11.10.2009 | Sports
Few people would argue that the NFL is not a tough league anymore because they have attempted to reduce blows to the head. The NHL would also not be any less tough if it passed similar measures.
Lapham's Quarterly | Posted 10.30.2009 | Entertainment
"Dementia Risk Seen in Players in N.F.L. Study," The New York Times, Sept. 30, 2009: A study commissioned by the National Football League reports tha...
Elizabeth Donoghue | Posted 10.14.2009 | Living
Last week, my ten-year-old son, Mikey, suffered a concussion in third game of his first season of tackle football. I'm in a quandary: do I end tackle football now and forever, or let him play?
Dr. Johnny Benjamin | Posted 09.29.2009 | Entertainment
Tim Tebow underwent a CT scan of his brain and was hospitalized overnight for observation. That's the easy part. The difficult question to answer is: When is it safe to allow Tebow to return?
Bill Sweetland | Posted 07.26.2009 | Chicago
Let's get rid of that national monument to flaunted hypocrisy: intercollegiate athletics. Let's start over, with voluntary intramural sports only.
Paula Duffy | Posted 11.24.2008 | Entertainment
While a concussion policy in the league has been instituted to prevent players from being forced back onto the field without regard to their health, prevention seems to be the solution in the long run.
Dave Hollander | Posted 10.02.2008 | Entertainment
Aren't you outraged to hear that NFL players in their early forties have been forced to sue their union so they can get the basic medical assistance they need to walk to the bathroom?
AP | Posted 11.20.2009 | Sports