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Baseball is not a collision sport
The National Football League is taking steps to minimize the risk of concussions and other head injuries. So is the National Hockey League. So is Major League Baseball -- but it can do more without hurting the game. Baseball long ago cracked down on...
Tags: Gold Glove Awards, Baseball, Injuries and Wounds, Major League Baseball, St. Louis Cardinals
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Edgy Tim on Football | Contemplating the future of high school football
The 2012 football season will come to an end this weekend at the state finals, and I can't help but think what lies ahead for the sport. Interest in Illinois high school football has improved. More media outlets have discovered people really care...Tags: Schools, High Schools, High School Sports, Illinois High School Association, Sports
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A lot to learn from Hardin's mistake
Every youth football coach in America should show his team the video from a play in the Bears-Redskins exhibition game. It happened at 14:37 of the third quarter. Redskins quarterback Kirk Cousins throws a short pass over the middle to tight end Logan...
Tags: Chicago Bears, Washington Redskins, National Football League, Kirk Cousins, Logan Paulsen
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Should we let our sons play football?
It's Super Bowl Sunday, and by kickoff I'll have a pot of chili on the stove and a couple of beer mugs chilling in the freezer. I'll sit down with the rest of the nation to watch over-hyped commercials and Beyoncé's redemption from "lip-syncgate." Oh,...
Tags: Barack Obama, National Football League, Injuries and Wounds, Sports, Mayo Clinic
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Alex Smith handles demotion like a Super Bowl champion
NEW ORLEANS — Barely two months ago, Alex Smith stood alone under center as the NFL's hottest starting quarterback for one of its best teams. One concussion later, he is lost in the crowd. At the San Francisco 49ers' Super Bowl media day this...
Tags: National Football Conference, Washington Redskins, National Football League, Injuries and Wounds, Little League Baseball
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As bodies fall, Bears stand up
A response was demanded. A big response. The Bears needed to answer a bad, weak effort in San Francisco with a solid, physical game against visiting Minnesota. And they provided it in a tough and vicious game that required it. After the usual...
Tags: Julius Peppers, Christian Ponder, Gabe Carimi, National Football League, Michael Bush
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Baltimore Raven Ed Reed, Obama warn of dangers of football
President Barack Obama and Baltimore Ravens safety Ed Reed have something in common. Both love the game of football but would be hesitant to expose a son to its physical dangers. "I am a big football fan, but I have to tell you, if I had a son, I'd...
Tags: Barack Obama, John Harbaugh, Junior Seau, National Football League, Injuries and Wounds
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Try this for a Super Bowl 'X factor'
Raise your hand if you believe the Harbaugh family storyline has been exhausted. I believe we’ve heard from Mom and Pop Harbaugh, the brothers and the sister. Unless Manti Te’o proclaims he is now going steady with an imaginary Harbaugh...
Tags: Roger Goodell, Suicide, Junior Seau, National Football League, Injuries and Wounds
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Quarterback change reiterates that NFL is foremost a business
The NFL is a business. Easy to say. Hard to swallow. Nowhere was that more evident this week than in San Francisco, where Alex Smith officially lost his starting quarterback job to Colin Kaepernick, who had filled in for him after Smith suffered a...
Tags: National Football Conference, NFC West, National Football League, Injuries and Wounds, St. Louis Rams
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NFL powers, and underdogs, rain on playoff aspirants' parade
On a Sunday when the sprinklers accidentally went off at Sun Life Stadium, dousing the Seattle Seahawks and Miami Dolphins, playoff-minded teams all over the NFL were treated to a cold, harsh splash of reality. The New Orleans Saints, who had clawed...
Tags: Devin Hester, Jacksonville Jaguars, St. Louis Rams, Cincinnati Bengals, Cleveland Browns
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2012: A Year For Skepticism In Sports
The Hartford CourantWith varying degrees of failure over a decade and a half, I have used my Half-baked Jake, ellipsis-pocked humor for my year-in-review, year-in-preview column. For example … In the Year 2012, Gabby Douglas showed us that a squirrel could fly. In...Tags: Abusive Behavior, Politics, Cycling, Livestrong Foundation, Head Injuries
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Bears serious about safety? Then sit Cutler
If the NFL truly wanted its teams to show America they take concussion awareness seriously, then the marquee Bears-49ers "Monday Night Football'' game would pit backup Jason Campbell vs. backup Colin Kaepernick. That would be a quarterback matchup only...
Tags: Houston Texans, Tim Dobbins , Robert Griffin III, New York Giants, Head Injuries
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