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Sports Roundup: Brain injury study gives football community pause
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Jul 26, 2017
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Sports Roundup: Brain injury study gives football community pause
For this installment of K2 Sports, A Martinez speaks with Brian Kamenetzky about the potential dangers of football from a league perspective, and as parents.
Football helmet of the late Owen Thomas, a former University of Pennsylvania football player, brought to the hearing on H.R 6172, Protecting Student Athletes from Concussions Act by his mother, Rev. Katherine E. Brearley, Ph.D. A CDC study shows concussion rates in athletics have more than doubled in the past decade.
Football helmet of the late Owen Thomas, a former University of Pennsylvania football player, brought to the hearing on H.R 6172, Protecting Student Athletes from Concussions Act by his mother, Rev. Katherine E. Brearley, Ph.D. A CDC study shows concussion rates in athletics have more than doubled in the past decade.
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For this installment of K2 Sports, A Martinez speaks with Brian Kamenetzky about the potential dangers of football from a league perspective, and as parents.

The doctors who conducted a study on the brains of over a hundred former NFL players found CTEs – the degenerative brain disease associated with repeated head injuries – in all but one case. 

For this installment of K2 Sports, Take Two's A Martinez spoke with Brian Kamenetzky about how the NFL should respond and how to process the potential dangers of football as parents. 

To hear the full interview, click on the media player above.