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A lot to learn from Hardin's mistake
Every youth football coach in America should show his team the video from a play in the Bears-Redskins exhibition game. It happened at 14:37 of the third quarter. Redskins quarterback Kirk Cousins throws a short pass over the middle to tight end Logan...
Tags: National Football League, Logan Paulsen, Football, Kirk Cousins, Washington Redskins
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Edgy Tim on Football | Contemplating the future of high school football
The 2012 football season will come to an end this weekend at the state finals, and I can't help but think what lies ahead for the sport. Interest in Illinois high school football has improved. More media outlets have discovered people really care...Tags: Football, Schools, High School Sports, High Schools, Sports
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As bodies fall, Bears stand up
A response was demanded. A big response. The Bears needed to answer a bad, weak effort in San Francisco with a solid, physical game against visiting Minnesota. And they provided it in a tough and vicious game that required it. After the usual...
Tags: National Football League, Adam Podlesh, Football, San Francisco 49ers, Chris Spencer
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How much is Cutler worth now and who do you blame?
Jay Cutler was the last of three quarterbacks to get knocked out of a game because of a concussion Sunday, which brings trouble and questions. How much are Cutler’s capacities diminished? How much is his upcoming contract value diminished? How...
Tags: National Football League, Football, Matt Cassel, Tim Dobbins , Jay Cutler
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Griffin's quick return muddles NFL's message on concussions
Only seven days before Robert Griffin III became the first rookie quarterback of the modern era to rush for 100 yards and two touchdowns, a blow to the head made him woozy enough to wonder whether he was RGIII, II or I. "I still refuse to say I had a...
Tags: National Hockey League, New York Giants, National Football League, Football, Washington Redskins
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Bounties, Seau's death shine spotlight on head injuries
Growing up in Sacramento, Bears linebacker Lance Briggs found inspiration from a fellow Californian who threw his No. 55 jersey around with reckless abandon the way Briggs eventually would. Imagine Briggs' thrill when he finally got the chance to have...
Tags: National Football League, Football, Lance Briggs, Junior Seau, Hospitals and Clinics
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It's just one game, Jay: Shut it down
The NFL's concussion protocol is laughable. It's a guessing game in which team trainers and doctors roll the dice on head injuries. The coaches? They have their own agendas on game days. They are too involved in play scripts, third downs and red-zone...
Tags: National Football League, Football, Houston Texans, Jay Cutler, Chicago Bears
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American football industry is on its deathbed
With all that college beef on parade this week, the NFL draft is a wonder of sports marketing, a televised pageant for the multibillion-dollar American football industry. But there's something football fans should know: Football is dead in America....
Tags: National Football League, Football, Suicide, Marketing, Adrian Arrington
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It's far too soon for Cup talk, but Hawks look good
I'm going to leave it to Joel Quenneville and his players to remind you "it's still early" in this NHL season. It's true the Blackhawks aren't going to win the Stanley Cup this month. And they didn't get any closer to a title with their 3-2 overtime...
Tags: National Hockey League, Kari Lehtonen, Chicago Blackhawks, Dan McNeil, Patrick Sharp
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Too many around Bears just don't get it
Without hesitation or apology Thursday at Halas Hall, Bears linebacker Brian Urlacher admitted again that he would lie about having a concussion to stay in a game. The irony was you admired Urlacher's honesty. In the midst of Chicago's weeklong...
Tags: National Football League, Football, Danieal Manning, Jim McMahon, Jay Cutler
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Edgy's football blog | Progress being made on concussion front, so no need for law
First-year Johnsburg football coach Mike Maloney has been around the game for most of his life — first as a standout player at Joliet Catholic, then at Illinois and finally at the high school level again as a head coach at Joliet Central and now...
Tags: Health and Safety at School, Football, Schools, High School Sports, High Schools
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Let these new bike helmets go to your head
I should be dead, twice. The fact that I'm not — or even brain-damaged (I think) — is due to the helmets I wore while being hit by a car and slamming head-first into a mountain trail. By design, their foam shells cracked instead of my skull,...
Tags: Greg LeMond, Tour de France
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