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Title: Athletes & Brain Injury - Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE)
Post by: adarqui on June 28, 2010, 01:07:05 am

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=5333971&campaign=rss&source=twitter&ex_cid=Twitter_espn_5333971

very interesting..

Title: Re: Athletes & Brain Injury - Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE)
Post by: LBSS on June 28, 2010, 12:33:56 pm

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/28/sports/28iht-footbrain28.19747479.html (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/28/sports/28iht-footbrain28.19747479.html)

And, though it pains me to link to an article of Gladwell's because I think he's complete shit as a writer:

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/10/19/091019fa_fact_gladwell (http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/10/19/091019fa_fact_gladwell)

Title: Re: Athletes & Brain Injury - Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE)
Post by: adarqui on June 28, 2010, 03:20:43 pm

Quote from: LBSS on June 28, 2010, 12:33:56 pm

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/28/sports/28iht-footbrain28.19747479.html (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/28/sports/28iht-footbrain28.19747479.html)

And, though it pains me to link to an article of Gladwell's because I think he's complete shit as a writer:

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/10/19/091019fa_fact_gladwell (http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/10/19/091019fa_fact_gladwell)

thanks man those are some nice articles, not done with the second link but so far it's very interesting.. Just finished the kyle turley part, that guy is nuts regardless but with CTE he'll be on psycho level.

futbol (headers)/nfl/boxing is some risky shit.