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Is Football As We Know It About To End?
Possibly. And the culprit will be chronic traumatic encephalopathy (or CTE). I first learned about CTE after reading a Malcolm Gladwell piece in the New Yorker where he argued that football and a dog fighting are fundamentally the same. Gladwell's comparison is, of course, specious. And...
WBC Sets Up Four-Man Light Heavyweight Tournament: Pascal vs Erdei, Henry vs Sillakh
The WBC is putting together a four-man tournament at light heavyweight to determine a new No. 1 contender to their titlist, legit champion Bernard Hopkins. The 46-year-old Hopkins won the belt on May 21, when he defeated Jean Pascal in Montreal to become the oldest recognized "champion" (and...
A look back: Wait, did Arizona Wildcat Chris Henry really just go in the second round of the NFL Draft?
The 2006 Arizona football team was head coach Mike Stoops' first season with a non-losing record. OK, finishing 6-6 would get Stoops fired today, but on the bright side, it wasn't the John Mackovic era. Some credit had to be given to newfound starter Chris Henry, most recently of the Seattle...
K-State Slate: 12.2.10
Not much going on out there right now. The football team is in a holding pattern until a bowl bid is announced, and men's basketball doesn't play again until (late) Friday night. Police are investigating the threats directed toward Big 12 commissioner Dan Beebe, which led to him not going to...
Bad Left Hook Boxing Rankings Update: Advances, None Miraculous
A bunch of little shifts in the rankings after a busy weekend around the boxing landscape. Cruiserweight The Departed: Enzo Maccarinelli (8)Coming In: BJ Flores (10) Enzo Maccarinelli, ranked No. 8 last time, is out after getting knocked out by Alexander Frenkel. Frenkel moves from No. 10 to No. 9,...
With CTE, The N Does Not Equal One
More photos » Amy Sancetta - AP Chris Henry, the Cincinnati Bengals receiver who died of head injuries in a truck accident last December, is revealed to have suffered from chronic traumatic encephalopathy before his accident. (AP Photo/Amy Sancetta, File) Browse more photos » In...
Chris Henry Had CTE Before Death, And Why That Matters So Much
There are no mentions of Iowa sports in this post, but rest assured it will affect all of football very soon.--AJ As the football world has come to better understand the causes and effects of brain damage in its sport, three general assumptions about Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) started...
Saturday Results: Maidana stops Cayo in Vegas, Morales wins in comeback
First off, we have full recaps of Abraham-Dirrell, Gamboa-Barros and Kameda-Wonjongkam from today/tonight. Here are some other results from around the boxing globe. Las Vegas, NV (HBO): Marcos Maidana knocked out Victor Cayo on a body shot in the sixth round, in what appeared to be a bombs away...
Fight Previews: Morales-Alfaro, Garay-Henry and More
This weekend is bursting at the seams with notable fights, some of which are truly important (and a couple of those are among the lesser-hyped of the weekend), and some of which are boosted more by curiosity or even dread than anything else. So we're going to preview the big slate of fights this...
TV and Internet Fight Schedule - Weekend of March 26
Even with the cancellation of ESPN's Friday Night Fights card that would have featured two more title bouts, this is easily the most stacked weekend of the year so far. While there is no single fight that will shake the world of boxing at its core, there are a baker's dozen of title bouts and...
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