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It has become the game’s “C” word.
- 2012 Less than five years after retiring from a widely-respected football career, former NFL linebacker Junior Seau used an unidentified firearm to take his own life. In the absence of a note explaining any motive, many have blamed Seau’s May 2012 suicide on the brain disease discovered during the athlete’s autopsy.
- 2013 Junior Seau’s family has announced that they will become the newest plaintiffs to file a lawsuit against the NFL. Acknowledging that no settlement will bring back their lost relative, Seau’s family says they hope the ensuing legal battle will “send a message that the NFL needs to care for its former players, acknowledge its decades of deception on the issue of head injuries and player safety, and make the game safer for future generations.” source
Major breakthrough in the NFL/concussion story: for the first time, a new study has identified Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) in living players.
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Football as we know it will not be around in a generation.
Gary Carter making strong recovery
According to Gary Carter’s daughter Kimmy Bloemers, Carter’s brain tumors are now 75 percent smaller than they were when he was diagnosed with brain cancer, and parts of his tumors are “dying”.
“The most important fact is the tumors are starting to go away,” Bloemers wrote to the Carter family website, according to the New York Daily News.
Godspeed Gary “The Kid” Carter.
MLB Investigating Stem Cell Procedure On Yankees’ Bartolo Colon
Major League Baseball is examining a procedure performed on Yankees right-hander Bartolo Colon last year that involved stem cells being injected into his painful shoulder and elbow, according to The New York Times.
Joseph R. Purita, an orthopedic surgeon in Boca Raton, Fla., told the newspaper he flew to Colon’s native Dominican Republic and helped a team of doctors there with the treatment on the 2005 AL Cy Young Award winner. He said he has used Human Growth Hormone in the procedure before, but not in this case with Colon.
HGH is banned by Major League Baseball.
“The Yankees did notify us and we are looking into it,” league spokesman Pat Courtney told the Times for a story posted on its website on Wednesday night.
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General manager Brian Cashman told the Times he didn’t know about the treatment in the Dominican Republic when the Yankees signed Colon. He was recently told of the procedure by the pitcher’s agent, and he then notified Major League Baseball.
Purita told the Times he took fat and bone marrow stem cells from Colon and injected them back into his elbow and shoulder.
“This is the future of sports medicine, in particular,” he said. “Here it is that I got a guy back playing baseball and throwing pitches at 95 miles an hour.”
You’ll Just Die if The Steelers Don’t Win on Sunday. No Really. You Will. Researchers found that there was a 15 percent increase in cardiac deaths in Los Angeles County after the LA Rams lost the 1980 Super Bowl. Seems your favorite team losing the title isn’t exactly good for your circulatory system. Also bad for your heart: wings, beer, ribs, mozzarella sticks, chili, polish sausage, nachos, polish sausage nachos, mini burgers, and meatballs on toothpicks. I never buy any of these mass studies that tell you the Super Bowl causes more crime or heart attacks or decreased productivity. We’re American. We’re gonna be guilty of those things regardless.
-DM
