I don’t know if I’ve read anything as tragic. I mean, I’m sure I have. Even written a few, but generally involving death, though. Having just finished a piece by the Philadelphia Inquirer’s Jan Hefler about how Brucie Jackson has been cut off from the brothers with whom he suffered incomprehensible abuse, I’ll...
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• Two months after concurring with a congressman that the data was “infected” and declaring that a testing program would be abandoned, the N.F.L.’s committee on head injuries joined the league and its players union on Friday in publicly releasing the results of helmet testing that outside experts described as potentially compromising the safety...
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I pride myself on timeliness, so I apologize about my tardiness. It isn’t the weekend anymore, right? So how can I justify recommend weekend reading material? Shame upon me. But I’m a gone do it anyhow. Because I also pride myself on continuity, and if I just accepted the “eh, just skip a week...
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Hey, y’all. Just a little bit of self-promotion here. In addition to writing for Metro Philadelphia five days a week, I started talking — well, typing — sports today on Deadspin.com the other two days of the week. So, if you haven’t been there before, by all means do; and if you have, I’ll...
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