By Nina Burleigh 11/19/12 6:51pm

HEAD GAMES

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Would Football Without Concussions Still Be Football?

Earlier this fall, two squads of pint-size players clashed in the crisp air at a peewee football field in Southbridge, Mass. The boys on one team were much larger than the others, and within six plays, three of the smaller boys had been carried off with head injuries, one with his eyes rolling back in their sockets.

By the end of the game, a 52-0 rout, five boys on the losing team were receiving emergency medical care for concussions. Read More

By Steve Huff 3/30/12 12:25am

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Charles Snelling (from Mr. Snelling's Facebook page)

Charles Snelling, PA Republican Pol and Author of NYT ‘Life Report’ Commits Murder-Suicide

Charles Darwin Snelling, a noted Pennsylvania Republican who wrote a “Life Report” published by columnist David Brooks in the Times last December, killed his wife and committed suicide in Pennsylvania on Thursday. Mr. Snelling was 81. He had been married to wife Adrienne for 6 decades. Mr. Snelling had been caring for his Alzheimer’s-afflicted wife for six years and  in his long essay published by the Times on December 7, 2011, expressed what seemed a fundamentally positive view of the situation: Read More