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By On February 5th, 2016

Witnessing the end of football

In the Op Ed section of the New York Times of Friday, February 5, 2016 Dr. George D. Lundberg, MD, a pathologist raised the question about the end of football approaching much like the end of boxing. Dr. Lundberg wrote about his reaction to the 1982 boxing match between Larry Holmes and Randall “Tex” Cobb…

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By On February 3rd, 2016

Retired NFL player found to have CTE

In this week, just days prior to the Super Bowl, the results of Ken Stabler’s autopsy indicated that he had Stage 3 CTE or Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy. Stabler died from cancer, but requested that his brain be studied at the Boston University Center where much of the research on CTE is taking place. The former…

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