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Articles Written by: ALAN SCHWARZ
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Alan Schwarz (born July 3, 1968 in Scarsdale, New York) is a prolific sports writer, currently on staff at The New York Times. He spent most of 2007 writing a high-profile series of articles regarding concussions and other brain injuries among athletes, primarily high school and NFL football players.
In a shift in the National Football League’s approach to handling concussions, the league will soon require teams to receive advice from independent neurologists while treating players with brain injuries, several people with knowledge of the plan ...
The National Football League Players Association is calling for the removal of Dr. Ira Casson as co-chairman of the league’s committee on concussions, saying that he is too biased to lead the research and policy group.
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The N.C.A.A. has no protocol with respect to concussion management; it allows each college that is a member to devise its own procedures, according to David Klossner, the N.C.A.A.’s director of health and safety.
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CHICAGO His shoulders shrugged. His lips pursed. But Kenny Williams bit his tongue one syllable too late.
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“A guy going from the American League to the National League, no disrespect, but. ... ” ...
WASHINGTON The helmet sits under glass at the headquarters of the football players union, memorializing the play-at-all-costs warrior who strapped it on every Sunday. Four swaths of duct tape suture the crown. Screws are broken, the enamel is cracked, ...
WASHINGTON The voices belonged mostly to N.F.L. executives, N.F.L. doctors, N.F.L. players and United States congressmen. But as they clashed Wednesday in a House Judiciary Committee hearing on football brain injuries and how the league and its players ...
WASHINGTON The commissioner of the N.F.L. faced heated criticism Wednesday before the House Judiciary Committee, with lawmakers, former players and even a former team executive accusing the league of neglect in its handling of active and retired ...
WASHINGTON The list of witnesses who will testify before the House Judiciary Committee hearing on football brain injuries Wednesday is notable less for whom it includes than whom it does not.
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The N.F.L. and its doctors have consistently dismissed independent studies showing unusual cognitive decline in former players. They insist that a long-term study by the league’s committee on concussions, expected to be published in several years, will ...
When a survey commissioned by the National Football League recently indicated that dementia or similar memory-related diseases had been diagnosed in its retired players vastly more often than in the national population, the league claimed the study was ...
