Content tagged with “football”

Is Football Poised for Change?

Super Bowl XLVII is hardly the only event in football making news this week. Immediately following President Obama’s comments in The New Republic, suggesting he’d have been unlikely to allow a son to...
Tags: concussion, Tom Farrey, NFL, football, ESPN, Robert Cantu, DeMaurice Smith

Youth Football Needs Medical Standard of Care

As the season for youth and high school football draws to a close, one could argue that it’s been one of the most memorable in history. But not for the reasons one might suspect such as spectacular...
Tags: football, concussion, playing safety

Does Football Have Serious Health and Safety Concerns to Address?

Millions of Americans will sit down today to watch special NFL Thanksgiving day games. The safety of the players may not be at the top of their minds, but should it be? At a recent roundtable...
Tags: Sports & Society, football

The Most Important Conversations in Sports

On the eve of the 2012 football season, ESPN ran a series of reports about health and safety issues facing the sport. My contribution was a television piece on a 13-year-old Pop Warner star whose...
Tags: Sports & Society, football