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NFL expects to have neurologists at games in 2013
NFL general counsel Jeff Pash says he expects independent neurological consultants to be on sidelines during games next season to help diagnose and ...
NCAA hopes sports science center helps with safety
The NCAA says it is committed to ensuring the safety of all college athletes and plans to open a national sports science institute to make playing ...
Seau's family sues NFL over brain injuries
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 four ...
Goodell has no issue in handing of RG3's injury
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell says he doesn't have a problem with the way the Washington Redskins medical staff handled Robert Griffin III's knee ...
Researchers: NFL's Seau had brain disease
When he ended his life last year by shooting himself in the chest, Junior Seau had a degenerative brain disease often linked with repeated blows to ...
NFL star Junior Seau suffered from brain disease
Junior Seau, one of the NFL's best and fiercest players for two decades, suffered from a degenerative brain disease often associated with repeated ...
Doctor optimistic after Redskins' RG3 knee surgery
If Adrian Peterson can do it, maybe Robert Griffin III can, too. Peterson set an incredible standard this season for NFL players returning from major ...
Vikings still wowed by Peterson's rapid recovery
Most days, Adrian Peterson went through rehab drills looking as if he were never injured. No one could've foreseen the rapid recovery Peterson has ...
NFLPA files grievance over Toradol waivers
The NFL Players Association has filed a grievance against the league's clubs and its management council asking that team doctors no longer try to make ...
List of recent untimely deaths for NFL players
The apparent murder-suicide of Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher, 25, is one of a series of untimely deaths for current or former NFL ...
Column: NFL safety not just a current issue
Roger Goodell's timing seemed odd, with his Harvard School of Public Health speech on player safety coming after a week in which three starting NFL ...
NFL commissioner says sport will evolve, get safer
Professional football can evolve into a safer game without sacrificing the physical play — or, some would say, violence — that has made it so popular, ...
Cassel to start at QB for Chiefs vs Bengals
Matt Cassel is getting another start at quarterback for the Kansas City Chiefs. Brady Quinn still has not been cleared to participate in a game ...
Tennis players shun Spanish doctor
The owner of a leading tennis academy in Spain that trained some of the sport's stars says its players have stopped working with a doctor banned by ...
Column: Goodell an honest broker on concussions?
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell is scheduled to deliver the Dean's distinguished lecture Thursday at the Harvard School of Public Health. The title is ...
QB Quinn admits trying to play through concussion
Brady Quinn had waited three years for another chance to be a starting quarterback in the NFL. He wasn't going to let a concussion put him back on the ...
Doctor: Colts coach Pagano's leukemia in remission
Colts head coach Chuck Pagano is winning his battle with leukemia. On Monday, Dr. Larry Cripe, Pagano's physician, told The Associated Press that the ...
Ex-players reply to NFL's motion to dismiss cases
Arguing that "football has become the site of perhaps the gravest health crisis in the history of sports," lawyers for thousands of former NFL players ...
Earnhardt Jr. cleared to race at Martinsville
Dale Earnhardt Jr. was cleared Tuesday for this weekend's race at Martinsville Speedway after missing the last two weeks to recover from a pair of ...
Cheerleading needs sports safety rules, docs say
Cheerleading isn't just jumping and waving pompoms — it has become as athletic and potentially as dangerous as a sport and should be designated one ...
NFL, union try to change culture on concussions
A high-profile rookie quarterback gets slammed in the side of the head and his Super Bowl-winning coach describes him as "shaken up." An All-Pro ...
Harrison: I've had "double-digit" concussions
Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker James Harrison didn't want to wait for the NFL to do something about protecting his head, so the four-time Pro Bowler ...
Earnhardt visits concussion specialist in Pa.
Dale Earnhardt Jr. visited a noted concussion specialist in Pittsburgh on Tuesday as part of the planned rehabilitation program to get NASCAR's most ...
Earnhardt Jr to miss 2 races after 2 concussions
Dale Earnhardt Jr. knew he had suffered a concussion in an August crash so jolting that other drivers tweeted about it immediately after the impact.