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1) Concussion
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In 2002 forensic pathologist Dr. Bennet Omalu picked up a scalpel in a Pittsburgh morgue and made a discovery that would rattle America. The body on the slab in front of him belonged to a fifty-year-old named Mike Webster, aka "Iron Mike," a Hall of Fame center for the Pittsburgh Steelers. After retiring in 1990, Webster had suffered a dizzyingly steep decline. The search for answers put Omalu in the crosshairs of one of the most powerful corporations...
2) Blow out
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Lacy Sheridan is worried. Her knee injury has healed over winter, but she fears what might still be wrong with it and how much she could get hurt in the new soccer season. Worse, her spot on the team is being jacked by Raven McAlister, a girl who doesn't fear any injury.
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Both ESPN investigative reporters, the authors reveal how the NFL, over a period of nearly two decades, sought to cover up and deny mounting evidence of the connection between football and brain damage. This narrative moves between the NFL trenches, America's research labs and the boardrooms where the NFL went to war against science; it examines how the league used its power and resources to attack independent scientists and elevate its own flawed...
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"One day in 2002, the fifty-year-old body of the one-time All-Pro center for the Pittsburgh Steelers Mike Webster was laid on a cold table in front of pathologist Dr. Bennet Omalu. Webster had experienced depression, confusion, and violent mood swings near the end of his life. But when Dr. Omalu first cut into Webster's brain, it appeared to be normal. Then he began studying slides of Webster's brain tissue. And the world of contact sports would never...
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