Fisher: Can you stop athletes playing through concussions?
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Jaffe: Seau’s suicide death prompts questions about football’s safety
Sometimes even sports can’t escape the tragedies of the real world.
Beyda: Helmet-to-helmet hits warrant ejections, not just penalties
If you’ve been following NFL football for a long time, the last few years have probably been a real eye-opener when it comes to the dangers of helmet-to-helmet hits. If you’ve been following Stanford football for a long time, that eye-opener came 11 years ago.
Bennett-Smith: Helmet-to-helmet hits are a no brainer
If there is one thing you can always count on, it’s the innate ability of human beings to do stupid things. When football is involved, go ahead and take that stupidity to the next level.
Bohm: How to address NFL concussion concerns
What was reinforced to me this weekend is that the notion that trying to change player behavior through fines will somehow change the way the game is played is entirely ludicrous.
Zimmerman: Contact sports are causing too many head injuries
I’m not calling for a ban of contact sports, because I wouldn’t know what to do with myself. Sports, as I’ve stressed time and time again, play an enormous role in my life and in the lives of millions of people. What I am asking for however is that we invest as much time reforming the contact sports culture as we do watching athletes writhing in pain. Get rid of the “if you can walk, you can play” mentality, and lecture players from an early age on the dangers of head trauma. Big hits look cool—until they turn into aggravated assaults.
Confronting concussions: Head injuries in football cause great concern
Quite simply, the human brain cannot handle the continuous high impact that football entails. And while helmets properly support the head and prevent injuries like skull fractures, they do not protect the interior of the head at all.