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Steelers Move On After Winning Field Goal Set Up By Attempted Antonio Brown Assassination
Vontaze Burfict’s head shot to Antonio Brown and a subsequent penalty on Adam “Pacman” Jones earned the Steelers and a hobbled Ben Roethlisberger enough yardage to set up a game-winning field goal—one that erased what had been a stunning fourth-quarter Bengals comeback....
Giovani Bernard And The "Unfortunate Hit" That Knocked Him Out And Enraged The Bengals
Tonight’s already tense Steelers-Bengals Wild Card game turned very ugly after Ryan Shazier knocked out Giovani Bernard and forced a fumble with a devastating hit delivered to Bernard’s skull. Brain damage apologists at CBS defended the play as legal and simply called the play “unfortunate,” because...
Dashaun Phillips Stretchered Off After Scary Head Injury
Washington cornerback Dashaun Phillips left the team’s game in Dallas against the Cowboys after going helmet to helmet with Darren McFadden on this hit. It was eerily similar to a play earlier in the game where Kyshoen Jarrett got shaken up. ...
Where In The World Is Johnny Manziel?
Just a few hours after reports came out that the Cleveland Browns were cleaning house, USA Today released a rather strange report about Johnny Manziel partying in Las Vegas. Manziel is sitting out the Browns’ season finale against the Steelers with a concussion today. Here are the relevant, and very...
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Kenneth Faried Leaves Court On Stretcher After Apparent Head/Neck Injury [UPDATE]
Kenneth Faried left the Warriors’ arena in Oakland on a stretcher after the Nuggets’ forward suffered an injury to the head or neck late in Denver’s overtime loss to Golden State tonight. Here’s how the play looked in live action:...
Dominique Reed Leaves Liberty Bowl On Stretcher After Blow To The Head [UPDATE]
Dominique Reed suffered a severe injury in the second quarter today in Memphis as the Arkansas wide receiver took a blow to the head and remained motionless on the Liberty Bowl turf....
Legendary Fighter Kazushi Sakuraba Brutalized In Depressing Spectacle
Fighting is too young a sport for a descriptor like “legend” to mean all that much, but so far as it does, Kazushi Sakuraba is one of the few people who deserve it. His incredible career has been too strange and interesting to easily summarize, but, briefly, after starting out as a pro wrestler, he ...
<i>Bone Crunchers</i>, <i>Crunch Course</i>, And How The NFL Hitched Its Brand To Brain Damage Snuff Films
On Christmas Day, Sony Pictures Entertainment will release Concussion, a film that will almost certainly be very bad. As we’ve already noted, the film—starring Will Smith as CTE researcher Dr. Bennet Omalu—suffers from significant issues, both in theory and practice. (When the film studio’s lawyers ...
ESPN: NFL Blocks $16 Million From Being Used To Fund Massive Study Of CTE
In September 2012, the NFL proudly announced that it would be making an “unrestricted gift” of $30 million to the National Institutes of Health, the purpose of which was to fund further research into football’s relationship to brain damage, and to hopefully discover a way to diagnose CTE in living p...
Joe Haden Gets Emotional While Talking About What It's Like To Have A Concussion
Browns cornerback Joe Haden has had a particularly rough season, having suffered numerous injuries early on and then two concussions that have kept him off the field since Week 8. On the latest episode of the Browns’ official podcast, Haden talked to host Max Linsky about what it’s like to try and c...
Why Is The NFL's Most Infamous Quack Still Involved In Its Concussion Program?
The many ways in which Dr. Elliot Pellman—a Guadalajara-educated rheumatologist with questionable qualifications—helped the NFL downplay the depth and gravity of its concussion crisis are well-documented. He chaired the influential Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Committee despite not having any educati...
Roger Goodell: Heh, Concussions. Heh.
The National Football Foundation had its annual dinner this week, and former NFL quarterback Roger Staubach came prepared with jokes. One joke was particularly delightful to NFL commissioner Roger Goodell....
Matt Schaub Gets Bonked In The Head, Stays In Game, Throws Spectacular Pick-Six
Matt Schaub whacked his head on the turf after going down on this play while running away from two Dolphins defenders. He did well to get out of an intentional grounding penalty, but he took this hit for his troubles. Schaub went immediately back into the game....
Enraged Football Coach Headbutts Player, Gives Self Head Injury
Coach gotta chill out, man. The concussion problem in football is bad enough without you making it worse on yourself....
Ben Roethlisberger's Trying Really Hard To Pretend He Doesn't Have A Concussion
Ben Roethlisberger is a resilient guy who will generally try to play through just about any injury, but his brain bouncing off the inside of his skull is a bridge too far. The Steelers quarterback took himself out of Sunday’s game against Seattle, and he’s still suffering the effects. The team’s ada...
Western Michigan's Asantay Brown Taken Off Field On Stretcher After Being Blindsided In The Head
Western Michigan defensive back Asantay Brown left the field on a stretcher after being targeted with a blindside hit to the head by Toledo’s Alonzo Russell....
Why The Hell Was A Clearly Concussed Case Keenum Left In The Game?
The more you watch Rams quarterback Case Keenum get slammed to the ground, clutch his head, and wobble back to his feet, the harder it becomes to understand how he was allowed to continue playing....
Case Keenum Suffers Head Injury, Stays In Game, Gives Up Game-Losing Fumble
Just a few minutes after Joe Flacco tore his ACL, the quarterback opposite him suffered a nasty injury of his own. Case Keenum got rocked here yet nobody made any moves to remove him from the game. Look at his teammate pick him up like he’s a bag of flour. ...