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Success With Hyperlinking Gets Parental
Would You Let Your Son Play Football? I'm a (still relatively) new father, and I'm not sure. Over at Grantland, Jonah Lehrer examined the relatively unexplored area of adolescent concussions: According to a study published last year in Neurosurgery, high school football players who suffered two...
Linking Laconically Gets On the Soapbox
Jeff Sagarin NCAA football ratings :: USATODAY.comPredictor has MSU as a 5.5 point favorite this Saturday. MSU football: Brad Van Pelt, the ultimate VP | lansingstatejournal.com | Lansing State JournalGreat article about a Spartan legend who should have been honored before he passed away last...
Kevin Kolb And Stewart Bradley Do Not Pass First Concussion Test
CSN Philly is reporting that Quarterback Kevin Kolb and Linebacker Stewart Bradley have been sent home after failing to to pass the first concussion test administered by team doctors. The pair will have more tests this week. Now the Eagles must follow the NFL-imposed guidelines on players with ...
It's Not Plagiarism If You Link To It Smells Fear
Danger Denard Robinson! We'd been waiting in rapt anticipation for the Iowa iteration of Maize N Brew's "Players You Will Learn To Hate," hoping they'd choose something like "all of them." Alas, no such luck, but we can hardly be surprised at their selection of Adrian Clayborn: [H]e's the guy that...
NHL: I wrote a head-shots rule fer ya; feel free to cut/paste
When I played, which was a long time ago, my shoulder pads were little pieces of plastic and cardboard. At least, they seemed like cardboard. There was a little cup of plastic on each shoulder, and some soft material in between. I took ten years off before my first beer league game, and I couldn't...
Head Cases: The antics of two professional sports leagues
It's been well documented that the National Football League has had serious problems with concussions. The latest findings, however, suggest that the NFL has an even bigger problem than they had previously thought. Many football players aren't reporting their concussions for fear of ridicule and...
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