By TERRY FREI | The Denver Post PUBLISHED: May 31, 2014 at 2:01 p.m. | UPDATED: October 2, 2016 at 4:00 p.m. A healthy brain is at the top, and a CTE brain is at the bottom A helping hand from teammates Deb Ploetz and Billy Dale started their journey in 2015 to tell the…
Spanky Stephens and David Anderson – Natasha’s Law In July 2001, Michael “Spanky” Stephens became the Executive Director for the Texas State Athletic Trainers Association after working 33 years at the University of Texas, the last 22 as the head athletic trainer. Spanky served 22 years on the governor-appointed Advisory Board of Athletic Trainers and…
By Nathan FennoStaff Writer Dec. 3, 2019 BOSTON — The brains arrive at all hours in white cardboard boxes stamped “RUSH!” Inside each package is an inch-and-a-half-thick foam liner and a red bag protecting an ordinary white plastic bucket. When a courier service delivered Kevin Ellison’s brain to the Bedford VA Medical Center near Boston just…
Part III of “A Trilogy + 1 “ football and neurodegenerative diseases The book “Loving Sports” by Jessica Luther and Kavitha A. Davidson states that the Onion each year after the Super Bowl uses shredded concussion Studies as confetti to celebrate the end of another season. It is a “cruel, biting humor that reminds us…
Doug Wood shared a link. October 13 at 8:46 AM · I remember watching Jevon Snead when he was competing with Colt McCoy for the QB position & then transferring to Ole Miss. I never realized he took his own life. This is a great example of why targeting & blindside hits have to be…
“My biggest memories are the true excitement of the game day in Memorial Stadium- to stand out in the stadium at the start of a game, with the people standing up and singing “The Eyes of Texas.” I will remember those afternoons forever. It was a big motivator, and the whole scene kind of…
THE FIX Edited version on How Teddy Roosevelt helped save football By Katie Zezima May 29, 2014 at 8:00 a.m. EDT In 1905, President Theodore Roosevelt – an avowed football fan – summoned coaches and athletic advisers from Harvard University, Yale University and Princeton University to the White House to discuss how to improve the…
The individuals listed below in alphabetical order by first name have signed Greg’s lithograph. #14- Can’t read name #44- Can’t read name #58- Can’t read name Adrian Ford-1971 Alan Baum-1960 Alan Lowry-1969 Alan Luskey-1976 Alan Moravcik-1965 Alan Weddell-1969 Alfred Jackson-1974 Arlis Parkhurst-1955 Babe Dreymala-1955 Benny Pace-1965 Bill Acker-1974 Bill Atessis-1967 Bill Barron-1972 Bill Bradley-1965…
Part II of “A Trilogy + 1 “of football and neurodegenerative diseases Did helmets give athletes and Coaches a false sense of security that their heads could be used as A battering ram? The NCAA made helmets mandatory in 1939, according to “The Anatomy of a Game: Football, the Rules and the Men Who Made…
DKR is in New York with Street, Koy, and Halsell to receive the McArthur Bowl as the football national champion in 1969. President Nixon is in attendance. Halsell is on DKR’s left shoulder. Koy is behind DKR, and Street is on DKR’s right shoulder. The Darrell K Royal Research Fund for Alzheimer’s Disease is advancing…