Tag: concussions

  • Detecting CTE—before it’s too late

    Football is irredeemably brutal. A new test may help us confront that fact.

  • How to fix football.

    Football has problems. No, not the protracted labor dispute between the billionaires and millionaires. I’m talking about the grave health threat of concussions and CTE (chronic traumatic encephalopathy). A career’s worth of head trauma takes its toll, leaving players with brain damage and devastating emotional instability. As these harmful side effects come to light, the…