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Much respect for 2nd year NFL player Chris Borland, who decided that risking injury by playing football isn't worth it. This guy was arguably a top 5 or 10 defensive rookie in the NFL last year, and he's leaving probably tens of millions of dollars on the table for the sake of his health. Truly putting his money where his mouth is.

http://espn.go.com/espn/otl/story/_/id/ ... y-concerns

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He's also returning 2/3rds of his signing bonus. I have nothing but respect for him on his choice.

It's a shame idiots have been critical of his choice.

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Former pro wrestler Kevin Nash and former women’s soccer player Brandi Chastain both announced that they will donate their brains to Boston University’s Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy Center after their deaths. There, the brains will be studied for signs of CTE.
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nfl has been using flawed data, big shock

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/25/sport ... bacco.html

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Jocephus wrote:nfl has been using flawed data, big shock

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/25/sport ... bacco.html

And they refute it with a promoted tweet where they get SLAMMED.

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WASHINGTON -- At least a half-dozen top NFL health officials waged an improper, behind-the-scenes campaign last year to influence a major U.S. government research study on football and brain disease, congressional investigators have concluded in a new report obtained by Outside the Lines.

The 91-page report describes how the NFL pressured the National Institutes of Health to strip the $16 million project from a prominent Boston University researcher and tried to redirect the money to members of the league's committee on brain injuries. The study was to have been funded out of a $30 million "unrestricted gift" the NFL gave the NIH in 2012.

After the NIH rebuffed the NFL's campaign to remove Robert Stern, an expert in neurodegenerative disease who has criticized the league, the NFL backed out of a signed agreement to pay for the study, the report shows. Taxpayers ended up bearing the cost instead.
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The NFL is the worst

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