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		<title>Paralympics: The Real Olympic Games</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Paralympic Games are a major international multi-sport event where athletes with a physical disability compete; this includes athletes with mobility restrictions, amputations, blindness, and cerebral palsy. There are winter and summer games held immediately following their respective Olympic Games. All Paralympic Games are governed by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC). There are twenty different [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ricky Being Ricky</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Aloof, that is one way to characterize Ricky Williams.  The one time dominant running back in the sport of football who retired early to pursue “peace” and smoke dope only to come back to earn more money has discounted the link of repeated brain trauma and degenerative brain diseases, written up by Mike Florio of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Law School Yes, Football No</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the news recently is an undrafted free agent that was signed by the Cleveland Browns, Andrew Sweat.  Not because of his prowess on the gridiron, which was decent enough to get a look, rather his career change.  Some are surmising that this can be due to concussions or the risk of them. Sweat had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In Retrospect not the First Concussion for Catcher</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes sustaining a concussion can bring back memories of other similar injuries, that at the time did not register as concussions, the most recent case is Josh Thole of the New York Mets, Andy Martino of New York Daily News; Josh Thole returned to Citi Field Tuesday for the first time since suffering a concussion [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Open Letter and Proposals to IHSA about Concussions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been working on this letter for a little while but was really spurred to action by the parent in Maryland, Tom Hearn who discussed his concerns with the local school board.  I have tried and tried to use the “chain-of-command” with these thoughts and ideas, however at every step I got the feeling [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2012 Footy Concussion Report #1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There may not be any posts about Australian Rules Football concussions to this point but we have been watching.  As you have seen in previous days the press in Australia is starting to report more and more the issues with concussions, something that was absent the past few years.  As it stands now the AFL [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Concussion Hard Limits?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you have read Fifty Shades of Grey you know what a hard limit is (yes I will freely admit I have read the series after my wife brought it home) and there is at lease one respected doc Down Under that has proposed such a limit to footballers.  Quick reminder we are talking Australian [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Greatest Football Team Ever in Canada – Head Games</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Fifth Estate of CBC aired a documentary on the “Greatest Football Team Ever” in Canada, not as a retrospective homage to the good times, rather as an unfolding mystery.  The most peculiar thing about this very good documentary is that it was originally aired, not a year ago, not even two but in 2008.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Parent Urges School Board to Take a Look</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In Maryland, Montgomery County to be specific, the school board is taking – at the minimum – a look at what they can possibly do to help with the safety of the kids they are in charge of.  Lisa Gartner of The Examiner wrote a brief column on it; Montgomery County school officials are weighing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ATSNJ Presents 3rd Annual Sports Safety Summit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was lucky enough to get out to New Jersey last year for their second edition of this, and boy was it worth my time and resources.  Eric Nussbaum and the ATSNJ does a great job in getting some of the “hottest” speakers to come and help athletic trainers learn.  This year is no different; [...]]]></description>
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