Hard knocks: head injuries among football players are rising and the after-effects are more serious than previously thought. Is football just too dangerous?
New York Times Upfront › Vol. 143 Nbr. 7, December 2010
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Hard knocks: head injuries among football players are rising and the after-effects are more serious than previously thought. Is football just too dangerous?
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Owen Thomas started playing football when he was 9 years old. From the beginning, he enjoyed the rough-and-tumble of the game. "He loved to go into practice and hit really hard," recalls his mother, Kathy Brearley. Over time, those hits added up and appear to have taken a terrible toll. In April, Thomas--a junior at the University of Pennsylvania and a lineman on its football team--took his own life. The autopsy showed that his brain was in the early st...See the full content of this document
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