Academy Addressing Concussions in Sports through School Partnership and Free...
The United States Sports Academy is addressing the growing concern over sport-related concussions through a partnership to reduce the impact of concussions on athletes in the area’s public schools, as...
View ArticleConcussions May Soon Be Evaluated Immediately Upon Impact
The next great breakthrough in concussion prevention may have been unveiled during an episode of Jeopardy! five years ago. In 2011, IBM signed up its new system, Watson, to be a contestant on the...
View ArticleMorrall’s Tragic CTE-Related Decline
No one questioned Earl Morrall’s ability as a communicator, but if they had, there were 10 witnesses who could have testified he knew what to say and how to say it. “Come on, let’s keep it going,” was...
View ArticleConcussion Awareness & Baseline Testing
The United States Sports Academy is continuing its concussion awareness efforts by collaborating with the University of South Alabama (USA) on a Concussion Awareness Program, also known as CAP. CAP was...
View ArticleThe football industry denying the football-brain damage link grew in 2015
Jerry Jones has spoken and the Dallas Cowboys owner doesn’t think there is a link between playing football and players getting brain injuries and brain damage. But that doesn’t mean Jones disagrees...
View ArticleSpanish Hurdler Onyia Reportedly Latest Implicated in Retested Beijing 2008...
Spanish hurdler Josephine Onyia is reportedly the 15th named athlete to have tested positive after re-analysis of Beijing 2008 doping samples as she becomes implicated in the fifth drugs scandal of her...
View ArticleIs Anyone Protecting Youth Football Players?
While Congress and the National Football League battle over the league’s reluctance to fund a study on brain injuries that might have been caused by athletes playing football, the people who should...
View ArticlePanel Approves Wrestling Concussion Proposal
Rule will permit an unlimited amount of time to examine wrestlers June 15, 2016 @ 3:19 p.m. Greg Johnson The NCAA Playing Rules Oversight Panel approved a rules change that allows medical personnel an...
View ArticleWill Youth Football Participation Continue To Drop?
The football season will be starting soon on all levels from six years old to the pros and all of the stories about National Football League retired players’ health issues are not going away. The...
View ArticleConcussions: You Will Get Over it Son
The football season is underway on just about every level in the United States, from young boys and some girls playing youth football to middle school to high school to college and the National...
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