Football & Brain Injury

Jost, Kenneth. "Professional Football: Is the NFL doing enough to protect players?" CQ Researcher 29 Jan 2010. Football is the most popular spectator sport in the United States, and with annual revenues topping $8 billion the National Football League is the country's wealthiest professional sports organization. But the league was on the defensive during the 2009–2010 season because of a jarring debate over its alleged indifference toward player safety and health. Medical research now indicates a connection between concussions that players routinely suffer during games and long-term brain disease, including dementia. Under pressure from the NFL Players Association, news media and Congress, the NFL is belatedly acknowledging a possible link and trying to minimize the risk to players by, among other changes, limiting a player's return to the game after a concussion. Despite football's popularity, the NFL is also facing economic difficulties. Attendance sagged during the 2009–2010 season, the future of lucrative TV contracts is cloudy and the league and the players' union start out far apart as negotiations begin for a new collective-bargaining agreement.
From the CQ Researcher. Reprinted with permission from CQ Press.

Articles

ProQuest

AU(Schwarz, Alan) AND (football) AND (concussion or brain injury) - over 50 articles by New York Times sports journalist Alan Schwarz

SU(football) AND SU(head or brain) - over 750 full text articles

EBSCOhost: Subject Football and (Brain or Injuries) - 900+ full text articles

OVID: Omalu, Bennet I., et. al. "Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy in a National Football League Player." Neurosurgery. 57(1):128-134, July 2005. DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000163407.92769.ED

Books

Oriard, Michael. Brand NFL : Making and Selling America's Favorite Sport. University of North Carolina Press, 2007.

Reference

Gale Virtual Reference - Medical Subcollection: Concussion