Concussion is considered a ‘mild’ injury, but effects can last a lifetime, especially with multiple impacts. Understanding their long-term effects can help predict who might develop neurodegeneration.
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As sports organizations adapt to changing social norms and embrace newer social causes, they hold tremendous potential to impact political attitudes.
For the first time, players will be permitted to wear Guardian Caps over their helmets during regular season games.
2 marketing experts explain how the former All-Pro center for the Philadelphia Eagles has built a powerful personal brand centered on being a gritty underdog with family values.
Preachy commercials do not go down well when big brands are suspected of disingenuous motives and virtue signalling.
This Super Bowl sees the convergence of two emotional fandoms: Swifties and NFL fans.
Oh, yeah, and there’s a game, too.
Despite being without a long-term contract extension and representation, Lamar Jackson was able to advocate and negotiate the most lucrative contract in the history of the NFL. Here’s how.
A football’s dimensions, pressure and texture affect its aerodynamics, i.e. the forces exerted by the air on the ball as it flies.
What makes the NFL’s embrace of gambling so striking is that for most of its history, the league had pushed the government for stricter regulations – not more lenient ones.
The NFL’s embrace of the sport points to a promising future. But gender and political divides could stand in the way.
Studies show college athletes sleeping less than 7 hours per night are almost twice as likely to be injured when compared with athletes sleeping more than 8 hours.
The coach’s legendary terseness and his rejection of technological trends belie a wealth of knowledge about the game and its history.
Of course the NFL is embracing Taylor Swift.
What does it say about the online media ecosystem when the end of a 146-day strike is buried under headlines and posts about Swift’s budding romance with NFL star Travis Kelce?
Two days after Rodgers’ injury, the NFL players union called on the league to convert all playing fields to natural grass.
Publishers and studios routinely pay large sums to acquire ‘life story rights.’ Two law scholars explain why the phrase is misleading.
Chronic traumatic encephalopathy is often assumed to be a disease which develops later in life, but a new study clearly shows it can start early in the brains of young athletes.
Football is starting to take concussion seriously – but there’s more to do.
As the Kansas City Chiefs prepare to take on the Philadelphia Eagles, The Conversation takes a critical look at some of the biggest news stories from the past NFL season.
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Knight Chair in Sports Journalism and Society, Penn State
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Professor of Law, Texas A&M University
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Associate Professor of Sports Media; Director of the National Sports Journalism Center, Indiana University
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UAA Endowed Professor of Sport Management, University of Florida
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Associate Professor of Clinical Communication, The Ohio State University
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Professor and Chair of Orthopedic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh
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Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Communication, Media, and Film, University of Calgary
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Professor of Sociology, West Virginia University
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The University of Queensland
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Senior Lecturer, Modern European History and Sports History, Macquarie University
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Associate Professor of Physics, Union College
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Professor and Director, School of Regulation and Global Governance, Australian National University
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Emeritus Professor, The National Centre for Youth Substance Use Research, The University of Queensland
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Associate Professor of Neurology, University of Pittsburgh
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Emergency Medicine Physician and Lecturer, University of Toronto
