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Tom Savage Continued To Play After Distressing Hit

Houston Texans quarterback Tom Savage returned to the field for a series after taking what looked like a truly damaging hit from the 49ers’ Elvis Dumervil. After getting knocked over in his own end zone, Savage stayed on the ground with his hands shaking before being helped up....

The Army-Navy Game Is A Tradition Living On Borrowed Time

In the fall of 1893, Joseph Reeves got some bad news. A midshipman at the United States Naval Academy, he also played for the school’s football team, busting wedges and butting heads as an undersized lineman whose nicknames—“billy goat” and “bull”—aptly described his on-field style....

Steelers' Mike Mitchell Rails At The NFL's Inconsistency On Suspensions For Hits

Steelers safety Mike Mitchell watched how the NFL has responded to three different plays in this past week of football, and he’s not happy about the different punishments that the league has handed down in response or the arcane reasoning behind those punishments....

Ryan Shazier Carted Off After Apparent Severe Injury In Tackle Attempt [Updated]

The Pittsburgh Steelers will finish tonight’s Monday night game against the Bengals without their leading tackler after Ryan Shazier suffered what appears to be a head or neck injury while attempting to make a tackle early in the game....

Coby Fleener Stayed On The Field After This Helmet-To-Helmet Hit

The Saints’ Coby Fleener took the textbook definition of a helmet-to-helmet hit on a defenseless receiver from Blake Countess in the fourth quarter of the Rams-Saints game, but despite the apparent damage caused, Fleener got right back up....

The Warlords Who Rule Chechnya And Bahrain's Repressive Regime Are Bonding Over MMA

This past April 5, Ramzan Kadyrov, the longtime head of the Chechen Republic, arrived in Bahrain for an official state visit with the kingdom’s royal family. Flanked by a delegation from the Chechen government—intimidating henchmen with atrocious résumés of human rights abuses among them—Kadryov bro...

What Happens To A Brain When It Gets Rattled

Today’s column is about brain injuries....

Russell Wilson And The Seahawks Seem To Have Skirted Brain-Injury Protocol

During last night’s game against the Cardinals, Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson took a direct shot to the jaw that left most reasonable observers thinking he would need to be evaluated for a brain injury:...

Bob Costas says football “destroys people’s brains,” and that “the cracks in the foundation [of the sport] are there.” He probably would not have said this during the 11 seasons he emceed Sunday Night Football, ending last year. [USA Today]...

Needless To Say, This Man Required Medical Attention

Ovince St. Preux kayo’d Corey Anderson in a prelim for tonight’s big UFC event in New York, leaving Anderson looking... not great....

John Harbaugh Goes After Kiko Alonso After Hit That Sends Joe Flacco To Locker Room [Update]

Kiko Alonso drilled Joe Flacco in the head as the Ravens quarterback attempted to slide late in the first half tonight in Baltimore, sending Flacco to the locker room and drawing face-to-face anger from Ravens head coach John Harbaugh....

I Can't Stop Watching This Video Of Petr Cech Slapping Ping Pong Balls Away From His Face

I don’t know if this video of Arsenal keeper Petr Cech batting away a bombardment of ping pong balls depicts the brilliant cutting edge of goalkeeper training, a fun but ultimately pointless exercise, or Arsenal’s real-life version of Blade Runner 2049's emotional baseline test, but what I do know i...

A Little Luck Gives Bobby Rainey The Year's First Kickoff Return TD

At first, the Ravens’ Bobby Rainey looked down before the 25 on just another ho-hum kickoff return. But Rainey got up after he was tripped by his own man, and without any whistles blown, he was able to accelerate past all the confused Chicago tacklers for a 96-yard score....

Luke Kuechly Is In Concussion Protocol Again

Panthers linebacker Luke Kuechly, who has missed parts of each of the last two seasons after suffering concussions, left last night’s game against the Eagles in the second quarter. The hit that knocked Kuechly out of the game looked like it may have hurt his shoulder, but afterwards it was revealed ...

Dutch Gymnast Nearly Knocked Out By Fall From High Bar

Football is not the only sport with the potential for head injuries. During podium training at the 2017 World Championships in Montreal, Dutch gymnast Bart Deurloo—the same gymnast who hit his groin on the pommel horse at the American Cup back in March—fell from the high bar after a crazy release mo...

Notre Dame's Tony Jones Dazed By Hit To Head That Ruined Helmet

Notre Dame’s playing Miami U. tonight, for some reason, and the Fighting Irish found themselves without running back Tony Jones after he took a blow to the head that left gold pieces flying in every direction. Completely healthy, surely....

Davante Adams Carted Off Field After Brutal Hit To The Head From Danny Trevathan

Packers wide receiver Davante Adams was taken off the field on a stretcher and left the stadium in an ambulance tonight after being the victim of a vicious hit from Bears linebacker Danny Trevathan. The hit—which was called as an unnecessary roughness penalty—sent Adams’s mouth guard flying as his h...

BU Identifies Biomarker That Could Allow The Living To Be Tested For CTE

Boston University’s CTE Center released a study yesterday detailing research on a protein found in spinal fluid that, they say, “may be a novel target for future CTE biomarker studies” that could eventually be part of a panel of tests to identify chronic traumatic encephalopathy—the pathology at the...

The "CTE Drove Aaron Hernandez" Narrative Is Too Convenient, And Dangerous<em></em>

The hits arrived swiftly, recklessly, striking brains and causing damage. Not tackles on this Sunday’s NFL fields. Not this time. These were journalists contorting Aaron Hernandez’s diagnosis of chronic traumatic encephalopathy into arguments as twisted as the man himself....

Trump Says NFL Owners Should Fire "Son Of A Bitch" Anthem Protestors<em></em>

While stumping for Alabama senatorial candidate Luther Strange tonight, prominent dotard Donald Trump urged his friends in NFL ownership to march onto the field and fire players who kneel during the playing of the national anthem. He further claimed that NFL ratings are down because players aren’t a...