OT'ish? Pop Warner settles concussion lawsuit
Per
http://nypost.com/2016/03/08/pop-warner-football-settles-concussion-law…
This is just another event in a growing chain of consussion related stories. The Ivy League will practice w/o tackling, NFL settles with retired players. I can't see this going away- it will only intensify. The NCAA has the most at stake in protecting "student ahtletes" who don't get paid and may be damaged for life.
NCAA needs to emulate ivy league IMO and ban practice tackling. Its time.
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I think rules should be made in all sports that concussion = broken bone, you are out 3 months minimum.
You wouldn't play with a broken bone, why play with a bleeding brain?
It's going to end a lot of seasons for players, but maybe the rest will think twice about leading with the head if they are out most the season. Also, a 3 month break would make sure that the injury is healed.
There’s no doubt that a traditional element of soccer — the header — is hurting players as early as middle and high school soccer, regardless of gender. Collisions with the ball and other players account for 30 percent of the concussions players receive in this age group, research shows. Female players suffer twice as many concussions as male players in high school and college, for reasons not fully understood.
In her current work as a coach in California, Chastain argues that heading should be prohibited in youth soccer. Other members of the 1999 women’s Olympic team have joined her in this, lining up with the Safer Soccer campaign started in 2014 by the Waltham foundation and the Santa Clara University Institute of Sports Law and Ethics.