Month: November 2013
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Past in Present
This past weekend I found myself in the company of an old foe. To some extent I’m still trying to put together all the pieces of what happened. All I knew at the time was that I was alone somewhere in a thick bog of shame and that I wanted, dare I say needed, to…
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A Mental Death: A Theory on Identity, Concussions, and Sports
For the past several weeks I’ve been discussing the effects of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE), concussions, and brain trauma on athletes. I wanted to finish up by talking about the complexity of what is happening in the minds of many athletes suffering from CTE. In order to do so we must start by looking at…
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The Sacrifices of Sport
A couple of weeks ago PBS: Frontline released a documentary entitled League of Denial: The NFL Concussion Crisis that chronicled the controversy surrounding concussion research and its potential impact on the game of football. The documentary exposed the NFL’s decade long negligence around concussions and put into question the safety of a billion dollar industry. …