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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.
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.
Discuss the Giants, Jets, fantasy and everything else N.F.L ...
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 ...
Brain damage commonly associated with boxers and recently found in deceased N.F.L. players has been identified in a former college athlete who never played professionally, representing new evidence about the possible safety risks of college and perhaps ...
ANAHEIM, Calif. To its credit, baseball tends to overhype its managers far less than football and basketball do their coaches. Maybe it is because baseball games are generally won by players rather than particularly innovative tactics. Maybe it is ...
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In the opening game of the Angels’ division series against the Boston Red Sox on Thursday night, Figgins never reached base. Nobody else on the Angels, a team known for its derring-do on the ...
The player looked up woozily through his face mask at University of Florida medical personnel peering through, asking if he was O.K. He wasn’t. He had sustained a concussion, a serious one and it was going to be a very, very big deal.
Scot Brantley ...
