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D1 Recruit
Traveon Maddox Jr. Chooses A Safer Option Detroit Free Press 7/24/18 “He'll preserve his body — and his brain -- more as a basketball player. ‘I want to be able to walk when I'm 40 years old,’ Maddox told the Free Press recently. ‘Before my shoulder injury (in high school), I never really thought about it, but after the injury, all those things came into play. In college football, you're putting body parts at risk.’" |
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"Safe Games
Save Brains" Carol Bluestein & The Good Men Project July 3, 2018 “Choose wisely when it comes to deciding on activities. The decision you make, for yourself or your children, is not only about this season but about the rest of your and their life. Have fun. Be passionate. Above all else, be brain safe.” |
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"By that point in Williams’s football career, it was normal to launch himself at vulnerable opponents. That is what he was told to do, he says now, as a Pop Warner player in Phoenix, a high school standout in Stone Mountain, Ga., and eventually a 6-foot-5, 216-pound defensive end at Alabama." |
Schools & Tackle Football:
A Crisis of Conscience Boulder Daily Camera "It is very much a moral dilemma for me now... I don't want to watch it. I don't want to participate in it. I don't believe that it has a good place in the academic enterprise, which is the University of Colorado." CU Regent Linda Shoemaker |
Apologizes For Violent Rampage
Omaha World Herald 7/26/18
“Pitzl took four hard hits
to the head during a football game
the night before the incident.
Before football season,
school tests indicated
Pitzl had suffered
a concussion previously.”