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It has been a bad end to the year for the National Football League. At a time when the NFL is being sued by thousands of former players and their families, who contend that the league hid information about the danger of football-related head injuries, Boston University School of Medicine helped the suit along. Its researchers made public a new report bolstering the link between the Alzheimer's-like condition known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy and the concussions experienced by football players.
Soon after the concussion story made new headlines, the NFL was on the front pages again when Jovan Belcher, a Kansas City Chiefs linebacker, shot his girlfriend and then himself. Belcher's murder-suicide came shortly before the Baltimore Ravens linebacker Terrell...
The only threat to the NFL comes from brain-trauma research, which doesn't have much professional interest in whether 12, 14 or 16 teams make the playoffs. This expansion idea emphasizes the NFL's craven quest for more revenue,... more »
BALTIMORE — With a wrecking-ball defense, the Broncos came to the NFL town Ray Lewis built and tore it down. Forty-five minutes after Denver's 34-17 victory against Baltimore, a tractor swept the stadium turf, picking up the... more »
Calvin Johnson can do anything he wants on a football field, except will his team to wins. Johnson put on another spell-binding performance, shredding double- and triple-teams to break Jerry Rice’s single-season receiving... more »
Nothing is harder than trying to predict a championship so far in advance that you don't even know who's playing. Which means that nothing is dumber than publishing those advance picks for all to see. Luckily, almost nobody will... more »
There is pageantry within the N.F.L.—excess, shamelessness, rawness, and a struggle for control by League overseers in the face of many tendencies toward anarchy—that has made the League more successful than any... more »
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