We shared nothing in common but a football jumper,but we became close. He taught me more than he will ever know.
In Melbourne,there are four or five confirmed cases a year of the neurological disorder CTE. But one of Victoria’s leading pathologists knows there will be many more.
The federal government should set up a national sports injury database as a matter of urgency and consider enforcing return-to-play protocols,a senate inquiry found.
Women’s footy premiership player Heather Anderson has become the world’s first female athlete to be diagnosed posthumously with the degenerative brain disease CTE.
Club legend Robert Harvey and forward Dan Butler open up about mental health in football ahead of the third “Spud’s Game”,as well as Max King,emerging youngsters and an uncontracted dasher.
Danny Frawley’s widow Anita has urged sporting bodies to stop players who have exhibited repeated and severe concussion symptoms from playing again in a passionate presentation to a senate inquiry.
Neuroscientist Chris Nowinski went to the Cronulla/Storm finals match last Saturday night. Everyone else was following the narrative;he was watching for concussions.
The ill-starred Sydney Swan and former St Kilda player will hate the idea of looking for something else to do with his life. But he must think about it.
Australian Football Hall of Fame inductee and Collingwood icon Murray Weideman has been diagnosed with chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE).
Jake Carlisle ponders the question. If Danny Frawley was still with us,what would his message be for you?