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![We Might Soon Learn If The NFL Exchanged Cover-Up Strategies With Big Tobacco](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/uv7dhvszdh7vgnljhjvs.jpg)
![Broncos CB De’Vante Bausby Says He Was Paralyzed For 30 Minutes After Collision With Teammate](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/ttmyqtsydtg1mx27ma4w.jpg)
!["The NFL Said Dad Wasn't Sick": A CTE Sufferer's Daughter's Journey Through The NFL Concussion Settlement](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/codbxctkwqjtlvotmt30.png)
"The NFL Said Dad Wasn't Sick": A CTE Sufferer's Daughter's Journey Through The NFL Concussion Settlement
George Andrie, an original member of the Dallas Cowboys’ famed Doomsday Defense, had Stage 4 chronic traumatic encephalopathy at the time of his death last August at the age of 78, according to researchers at Boston University who posthumously examined his brain. Andrie’s diagnosis was confirmed by ...
![Nick Buoniconti's Football Life And Football Death](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/mlwsitkgbdj437zclq6s.jpg)
Nick Buoniconti's Football Life And Football Death
The Many Lives of Nick Buoniconti, the HBO documentary about the Hall of Fame linebacker who died this week at the age of 78, begins with several breathtaking shots of Buoniconti’s stately mansion in the Hamptons, just as Buoniconti makes his way out the front door, onto the porch, and into a wicker...
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Boxer Maxim Dadashev Dead At 28 After Suffering Severe Brain Damage In Bout
Russian boxer Maxim Dadashev died this morning, four days after suffering severe brain damage in his fight against Puerto Rican boxer Subriel Matias. He was 28 years old....
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Maxim Dadashev Underwent Brain Surgery Following Loss To Subriel Matias
Previously undefeated fighter Maxim Dadashev was taken to a hospital for brain surgery on Friday following his 11th-round loss to Subriel Matias, and the frightening scenes that served as evidence for just how much damage the boxer had endured....
![Football Destroyed Ken Stabler's Brain. Why Isn't His Family Getting A Cent From The Concussion Settlement?](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/eh9o0nsablyfyt1rirop.jpg)
Football Destroyed Ken Stabler's Brain. Why Isn't His Family Getting A Cent From The Concussion Settlement?
Ken Stabler, the late Hall of Fame quarterback, suffered from CTE and Alzheimer’s before his death; not even the NFL or its lawyers dispute that. Yet Stabler’s family will not collect any money from the NFL’s class-action concussion settlement, which has proven to be a disaster for hundreds of forme...
![The NFL Concussion Settlement Just Keeps Getting Worse And Worse](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/s8afeqrqesbzzvqrrk0o.jpg)
The NFL Concussion Settlement Just Keeps Getting Worse And Worse
In what plaintiffs’ attorneys view as a total disaster, the federal judge overseeing the NFL concussion settlement on Thursday denied a motion to reconsider rules changes for physicians she had approved last month. Those changes, as noted earlier, stand to make it even more difficult for players to ...
![Tuesday Is A Big Day For The NFL's Concussion Settlement](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/fwlzrifckqtnmktag72b.jpg)
Tuesday Is A Big Day For The NFL's Concussion Settlement
The NFL concussion settlement is at an inflection point. Tomorrow morning, at the federal courthouse in Philadelphia, a hearing is scheduled to discuss a series rules changes that were recently approved by Senior Judge Anita B. Brody, who has oversight of the settlement. Those changes, which govern ...
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Lawsuit Alleges NFL Directed Insurance Carrier To Deny Disability Claims
A medical clinic in Illinois is accusing the NFL of instructing its insurance carrier to deny claims made by former players under the auspices of the league’s disability plan. The allegations are outlined in a lawsuit that also accuses the league of retaliating against the clinic for providing indep...
![Ex-NFL Players Now Have To Jump Through Even More Hoops To Collect Concussion Settlement Money](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/vtzk3j1j8f5uyg0hrw4z.jpg)
Ex-NFL Players Now Have To Jump Through Even More Hoops To Collect Concussion Settlement Money
A new set of physicians’ rules has been approved for the NFL concussion settlement, and while those rules do not explicitly alter the criteria for a qualifying diagnosis, they do include a number of wholesale changes that could make it more difficult for ex-players to obtain settlement payments, jus...
![A Former Football Player Told Congress How The NCAA Misleads The Public On Concussions<em></em>](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/fv4tdu1syuf1obk8ugu2.jpg)
A Former Football Player Told Congress How The NCAA Misleads The Public On Concussions<em></em>
Former linebacker Chris Borland, who retired after one NFL season because of concerns about repetitive brain trauma, testified this afternoon at a hearing before the U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources’ Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations. He was one of four witnesses to tell the subc...
![The NFL Concussion Settlement Is Getting Personal, And Weird, And Now Roger Stone Is Involved](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/gr17mw0rvoyzkxohsjcs.jpg)
The NFL Concussion Settlement Is Getting Personal, And Weird, And Now Roger Stone Is Involved
Since its inception, the NFL concussion settlement has featured a turf battle between two groups ostensibly on the same side of the litigation: the co-lead counsel representing the settlement class of players, and plaintiffs’ attorneys representing individual players. That battle took a personal tur...
![Not Even The Lawyers Can Agree On What's Going On With The NFL Concussion Settlement](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/udfikfwwyzhaub1mgbgr.jpg)
Not Even The Lawyers Can Agree On What's Going On With The NFL Concussion Settlement
A judge’s order that called for a clarification of the physicians’ rules for the NFL concussion settlement will not affect the standard those physicians must use to issue a qualifying diagnosis, thus ostensibly making it easier for former players to qualify for settlement money, according to a lawye...