Personally I find it very hard to believe that a paramedic can conclusively diagnose whether someone will have lingering effects from a serious concussion on the spot. But what do I know, I'm not a wrestler?
Perhaps the biggest issue facing combat sports is how they will handle concussions in the future, a question provoked by former NFL player Junior Seau's recent suicide. Even before he committed suicide there was speculation that he may be suffering from Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE), when he drove his SUV off a cliff in October 2010 hours after being arrested for assaulting his girlfriend.
The Slate is almost there. Today, Michael Orris commits to K-State, handy guide to conference realignment, conference champions only in football playoff (if they're in the top six), and Boston University requests opportunity to study Junior Seau's brain.
The Slate may make it. Today, Wichita State beats Bat Cats, Justin McCay ineligible for 2012, Charlie Weis doesn't understand the appellate process, Stephen Fry visits the Iron Bowl, and Junior Seau's suicide once again raises questions about football's effect on those who play the game.
Gary Patterson is not only an exceptional football coach, but few realize that he has more insight into head trauma than a doctor and that he is fighting the good fight against the tyranny of...
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...
As we reported here recently, the race to choose the next Republican candidate for the retiring Joe Liebermann's Connecticut Senate seat is heating up, with Linda McMahon's main rival, Christopher Shays, aggressively going after her Achilles' heel of dead former WWE wrestlers. So Robert Zimmerman once again has been called upon to stand up for WWE by writing a strongly worded letter to Shays telling him to knock off the baseless accusations.
One of the worrying trends of 2011 has been how chairshots to the head have started to creep back into mainstream American wrestling. Bristling from the criticism that his over the top hardcore match with Kevin Steen received, Steve Corino assured everyone in a post on his blog that he was a skilled magician who knows the secret behind safe chairshots to the head that look dangerous and unprotected.
It was inevitable: a film company has decided to make a movie on the Chris Benoit double murder suicide tragedy. If that wasn't enough for Vince McMahon to fall into one of his notoriously foul moods upon hearing the news, then their plans to adapt Matthew Randazzo V's infamous book "Ring Of Hell", which painted a highly unflattering picture of life behind the scenes at WWE, will surely do so.
TNA management just never learns, do they? Yes, I'm talking about Jeff Hardy's unprotected chair shot to the head delivered by TNA minority owner Jeff Jarrett towards the end of their match at the aforementioned Turning Point PPV. Why are TNA management recklessly endangering one of their highest paid stars with a needless stunt like that?
