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ESPN.com senior reporter, Greg Garber, interviewed the Brain Injury Research Institute for an “Outside the Lines” episode about Retired NFL Hall-of-Famer, Harold Carson, and the effects of concussions in the National Football League. The show focused on the recent controversy around head injuries and concussions in the league, highlighting BIRI’s research after the death of [...]

New York Times sports columnist George Vecsey spoke with  BIRI co-founder Dr. Omalu after the Conyers Hearing in Detroit on football concussions.  Vecsey’s conversation with Dr. Omalu is included in “Sports of The Times.”

Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., chair of the House Judiciary Committee, held a second hearing on football concussions at Wayne State School of Medicine in Detroit.  BIRI co-founder Dr. Omalu testified, and excerpts are included in the Associated Press and The Detroit News.

Earlier this month, BIRI co-founder Dr. Julian Bailes attended a meeting with the NCAA Committee on Competitive Safeguards and Medical Aspects of Sports to consult on concussion-management measures.  NCAA News reported on the measures that came out of the meeting, which include a new playing rule for every championship sport that would prohibit student-athletes who [...]

ESPN.com senior reporter Greg Garber interviewed Dr. Omalu and Dr. Bailes regarding the recent findings from analyzing the brain of wrestler Andrew “Test” Martin, which prove he suffered from chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) — brain damage stemming from repeated blows to the head.  The article goes on to discuss Dr. Omalu’s earlier discoveries of CTE [...]

Dr. Julian Bailes appears on CNN American Morning on December 3, 2009 to discuss the NFL’s adoption of a new rule that governs a players return to action after suffering a head injury or a concussion.

Dr. Julian Bailes was recently quoted in a Wall Street Journal article on retiring the use of helmets in the National Football League. Dr. Bailes, a neurosurgeon who has conducted brain research for the players’ union, has recommended that the NFL change the rules of the game to prevent linemen from starting in the three-point [...]

Following is the AP story about this week’s House Judiciary Committee hearings on brain injuries in the NFL:
Goodell defends NFL’s handling of head injuries
Frederic Frommer and Howard Fendrich
Associated Press
October 29, 2009

WASHINGTON — After testifying for several hours on Capitol Hill and defending how the NFL handles current and retired players with head injuries, commissioner Roger [...]

The October 27 issue of Psychology Today reviews a story about Malcolm Gladwell’s article, Offensive Play, which appeared in the October 19 issue of The New Yorker.
Dr. Bennett Omalu is featured in both articles which discuss the dangers of football to the brain and how increased competition has really made the sport more dangerous to [...]

Let’s say you run a multibillion-dollar football league. And let’s say the scientific community—starting with one young pathologist in Pittsburgh and growing into a chorus of neuroscientists across the country—comes to you and says concussions are making your players crazy, crazy enough to kill themselves, and here, in these slices of brain tissue, is the [...]