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"At Least I Can Hide My Own Easter Eggs" 22 Aug 2013 | 06:18 am
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE “At Least I Can Hide My Own Easter Eggs” That’s what Ralph Heywood told his wife, Suzie, when he learned he had Alzheimer’s. The four-year NFL v...
Art Donovan 5 Aug 2013 | 04:29 pm
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE We lost Art Donovan last night. The world lost a member of the Colts 1958 and 1959 NFL Championships, an NFL Hall of Fame player, a successful...
The wise eyes of Cornelius Johnson have mentored Prescott student athletes for many years 24 Jun 2013 | 07:59 pm
The Daily Courier Prescott, AZ June 23, 2013 It isn't often that the toughest guy in the room is the guy who has a prosthetic leg, is nearly blind, and turns 70 on July 12. Any room Cornelius Johnson...
Steve Gleason 19 Jun 2013 | 08:53 pm
In recent years, numerous studies have highlighted a link between head trauma and neurological ailments such as dementia, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, ALS. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell has taken steps ...
Football's Wartime Heroes 26 May 2013 | 06:12 pm
From the Pro Football Hall of Fame Former Arizona Cardinals' safety Pat Tillman (right) was killed in action in Afghanistan. He is the first member of the NFL community to be a war casualty since Vie...
Do no harm: Retired NFL players endure a lifetime of hurt 19 May 2013 | 07:31 pm
Washington Post They remember the hard hits – most of them, at least. The brain-rattlers that left them blank-eyed and disoriented, they have no recollection of at all. But the ones that snapped liga...
Team 13 May 2013 | 09:50 pm
Webster’s Dictionary describes “team” as “a number of persons associated together in work or activity: as a group on one side (as in football or a debate)." In 12 years in the National Football Leagu...
Untitled 12 Mar 2013 | 08:49 pm
When I read the announcement that NFL Alumni board members had named Joe Pisarcik as its “new” executive director, I couldn’t help but think of one of Yogi Berra’s expressions, “It’s déjà vu all over ...
Why Are You Still Here? 11 Feb 2013 | 01:37 am
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE “Why are you still here?” That’s the question that was put to me in the days before the Super Bowl, as I made the rounds of Media Row to talk ab...
Junior Seau's family sues NFL over brain injuries 24 Jan 2013 | 12:10 am
Associated Press1:40p.m. EST January 23, 2013 (Photo: Charles Krupa, AP) Story Highlights Lawsuit blames the NFL for its "acts or omissions" that hid the dangers of blows to the head Seau died in ...
