There has never been any serious question that football is a concussion delivery system. But despite this knowledge, over the years, players have been encouraged to "shake it off." The conduct of the NFL is duplicitous and must be scrutinized under a bright and honest light to reveal the truth.

I can't get enough of the quarterback's soaring arc of a pass. But the price paid by brain-injured boys and teens, and by grown men reduced to the possibility of shuffling around with early-onset Alzheimer's, is a pretty bill to pay for couch-potato thrills.

-- Add Junior Seau's family to the thousands of people who are suing the NFL over the long-term damage caused by concussions. Seau's ex-wife and fou...

The NFL's retirement board awarded disability payments to at least three former players after concluding that football caused their crippling brain in...

The preliminary diagnosis for his death at the age of 66 was Lou Gehrig's disease. But two years later, doctors in Boston, where Hilgenberg's brain wa...

ATLANTA -- Jamal Lewis, Dorsey Levens and two other former NFL players have sued the league over brain injuries that they say left them struggling wit...

BOSTON -- Lew Carpenter never had any concussions – or at least none that his family knew about back in the 1950s and '60s, when he played for t...

SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- Former Notre Dame assistant coach Corwin Brown officially notified a judge Wednesday that he plans to defend himself against charg...

Thanks to a group of altruistic doctors, former professional athletes can now receive the physical and mental care they deserve -- even after the cheering stops.

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Cincinnati Bengals receiver Chris Henry suffered from a chronic brain injury that may have influenced his mental state and b...

BOSTON — Pro Football Hall of Famer Mike Haynes and current Chicago Bears linebacker Hunter Hillenmeyer are among more than a dozen NFL players ...

The NFL is partnering with Boston University brain researchers who have been critical of the league's stance on concussions, The Associated Press lear...

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...

NEW YORK — NFL commissioner Roger Goodell reportedly will expand restrictions on returning to games for players who sustain head trauma. Fox Sp...

A little less crack! accompanies the televised collisions between National Football League behemoths these days. Players are tackling as hard as ever....

After weeks of transforming its approach to concussions and its research into their long-term effects among players, the N.F.L. not only announced Sun...

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...

NFL teams now have new, stricter instructions for when players should be allowed to return to games or practices after head injuries, guidelines that ...