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Aggression, explosivity linked to multiple concussions in new study
A new study of brains donated after death details the degenerative brain disease that afflicted 68 of 85 subjects who suffered multiple concussions during stints in the military or in organized sports. Among the deceased athletes whose brains were...
Tags: Injuries and Wounds, National Football League, Concussion, Sports, Death
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Ollie Matson dies at 80; NFL Hall of Famer played on some of the worst Rams teams
Ollie Matson, a remarkably versatile football player who had the misfortune during a 14-year career in the National Football League to play on mostly bad teams, among them some of the worst Los Angeles Rams clubs in history — and made it to the Hall...Tags: Politics, San Francisco 49ers, Orange Bowl, College Football, Colleges and Universities
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Services for football star Ollie Matson set for March 12
A memorial service for Hall of Fame football player Ollie Matson will be held at 11 a.m. March 12 at the First Baptist Church of Los Angeles, 760 S. Westmoreland Ave.
Matson, who played for the Los Angeles Rams from 1959 to 1962 and also won a silver and...Tags: Multi-Sport Events, Sports, Human Interest, Summer Olympics, Athletes
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Burl Toler dies at 81; first African American game official in NFL history
Burl Toler, the first African American game official in NFL history, has died. He was 81.
Toler died Sunday at a hospital in Castro Valley, Calif., according to the University of San Francisco. He was a star lineman and linebacker on the Dons' 1951...Tags: National Football League, College Football, Colleges and Universities, Sports, Death
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