21 Years Old
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Schools & Tackle Football:
A Crisis of Conscience Boulder Daily Camera 6/21/18 "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 |
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Lebron James
Applies Pressure On NCAA SB Nation. 6/11/18 "This is an incredibly important story about the institutional denial of basic human rights...." Maverick Carter, CEO of SpringHill Entertainment. |
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More than
2.5 million U.S. high school students suffered at least one concussion in past year. Medical Xpress. 6/21/18 "In another study, 40 percent of high school students who believed they had suffered a concussion said that their coach was unaware of their symptoms...." |
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Your Brain
Is More Important
Than Any Game
Is More Important
Than Any Game
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Human Rights Violations
In Our Schools? SAGE Journals. 6/4/18 "Research data were collected via in-depth interviews with 21 young volleyball players.... This study concludes that athletes are exposed to violation of rights in various forms that lead to injury." |
The Lie:
Concussion-Safe Helmets League of Fans, 6/15/18 “The feeling used to be that if you just make the helmets better things would be okay.... But you can’t make the helmets better. The helmet doesn’t protect the brain, it protects the skull. The reality is, the more efficient you make the helmets, the more dangerous they become....” Ken Reed quoting Frank Deford. |
Did Football Kill Dwight Clark?
Mercury News. 6/6/18
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"In 2012, federal researchers
had established that retired pro football players were four times more likely to die from ALS than the general U.S. population, which has five cases per 100,000 people." |
Ploetz v NCAA
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Myelin
“Magnetic resonance imaging
shows changes in the myelin content
of white matter in the brain
following mild traumatic brain injury.
Myelin changes are apparent
at the time of injury
and 3 months afterward.”
“Magnetic resonance imaging
shows changes in the myelin content
of white matter in the brain
following mild traumatic brain injury.
Myelin changes are apparent
at the time of injury
and 3 months afterward.”
Preventable Post-Concussion Syndrome
Windsor Star. 6/8/18
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Tackle Football in Japan
The Japan Times. 6/2/18
“I would compare what the player did,
tackling a defenseless player who is looking away,
to a boxer slugging his opponent from behind
after the bell ending the round and he is walking back to his corner
— an almost unforgivable offense.
The only mitigating factor for the Nichidai player
is that he was basically ordered to do it,
and I am sure he felt he had no choice."
Marty Kuehnert
The Japan Times. 6/2/18
“I would compare what the player did,
tackling a defenseless player who is looking away,
to a boxer slugging his opponent from behind
after the bell ending the round and he is walking back to his corner
— an almost unforgivable offense.
The only mitigating factor for the Nichidai player
is that he was basically ordered to do it,
and I am sure he felt he had no choice."
Marty Kuehnert
In Memoriam
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Ben Simonds
Got Out.
Millions Still
In Harm's Way.
Got Out.
Millions Still
In Harm's Way.
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Daniel Carcillo & The NHL
The Players Tribune
