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Magdeburger Joe (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
The World Series has been, understandably, the talk of New York as the Yankees won yet another championship. For the next couple of months, it will be football season. The October 19 New Yorker had a sobering article on football, describing it as carrying a certainty of head trauma that puts it on a par with boxing. It describes in grim detail the symptomatic and clinical manifestations of successive...
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Brain Injury Lawyer (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
I read an interesting article online last week which details the career of Kyle Turley, offensive tackle for the New Orleans Saints, St. Louis Rams and Kansas City Chiefs. The article recounts the injuries Turley sustained over his nine years in the National Football League and the devastating long-term effects those injuries have had, and continue to have, on his health. The article serves as an...
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Vox Verax (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
How different are dogfighting and football? by Malcolm Gladwell The New Yorker October 19, 2009 One evening in August, Kyle Turley was at a bar in Nashville with his wife and some friends. It was one of the countless little places in the city that play live music. He’d ordered a beer, but was just sipping it, because he was driving home. He had eaten an hour and a half earlier. Suddenly, he felt...
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Arrowhead Pride (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
Former Chief Kyle Turley Donating Brain to Science
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News for Greens (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
[From The New Yorker] OFFENSIVE PLAY How different are dogfighting and football? by Malcolm Gladwell An offensive lineman can’t do his job without “using his head,” one veteran says, but neuropathologists examining the brains of ex-N.F.L. players have found trauma-related degeneration. ne evening in August, Kyle Turley was at a bar in Nashville with his wife and some friends. It [...]...
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Field Gulls (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
In typical Malcolm Gladwell fashion, his piece Offensive Play is rich, engrossing and effortless. The story he spins exposes how football ravages the human brain. He is an excellent writer and specifically, an excellent propagandist. Gladwell quotes scientist in place of science and reserves the rebuttal to an almost insignificant two paragraphs on page eight. One might think after reading it, the...
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Epic Carnival (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
Jaime Pressly in a bikini on her honeymoon (ads nsfw)Kyle Turley in not a human dogfighterThe Best Movies of All-Time mapThe 40 funniest Star Wars photos on the InternetThe top 10 Val Kilmer movie rolesRay Lewis' failed decapitation of OchocincoHot Wheelz crash gets bloodyPimp My PlanePOV girl buying condomsPetra Nemcova wet look to die for (ads nsfw)The inevitable (and awesome) Biggie Smalls/
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Blog of Hilarity (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
America’s Hottest College Sophomore is back with new naked photos Nena Ristic (Part 3) is the International Babe of the Day Kyle Turley in not a human dogfighter Fergie’s back on the meth Megan Fox’s Wonderland magazine photoshoot Hot chicks in pillow fights Madonna inks endorsement deal for vaginal pessaries The Best Movies of All-Time map Mariah Carey squeezes into a small dress...
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DownWithTyranny! (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
The damaged dogs rescued from Michael Vick's dog-fighting operation were sent to Best Friends Animal Sanctuary in Angel Canyon, Utah, for rehabilitation. by Ken There are writers with whose work you develop an ongoing relationship. It took me awhile to bond with The New Yorker 's Malcolm Gladwell, whom we last talked about when he was pondering the question " Is free the future? " (with a...
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NewMexiKen (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
Malcolm Gladwell writes about Football, dog fighting, and brain damage in this week’s New Yorker. An excerpt: “Lately, I’ve tried to break it down,” [Kyle] Turley said. “I remember, every season, multiple occasions where I’d hit someone so hard that my eyes went cross-eyed, and they wouldn’t come uncrossed for a full series of plays. [...]
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kottke (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
Using Michael Vick as a pivot, Malcolm Gladwell compares professional football with dogfighting and asks if the former is just as morally unacceptable as the latter. This is former NFL offensive lineman Kyle Turley: I remember, every season, multiple occasions where I'd hit someone so hard that my eyes went cross-eyed, and they wouldn't come uncrossed for a full series of plays. You are just out there,...
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The New Yorker (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
One evening in August, Kyle Turley was at a bar in Nashville with his wife and some friends. It was one of the countless little places in the city that play live music. He’d ordered a beer, but was just sipping it, because he was driving home. He . . .
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Booster Clubs (Free subscription) | 09/20/2009
Here’s a profile on Kyle Turley, former NFL star, and his struggles with possible results of concussions. It’s a sobering read whether you like football or have family and friends that play. Posted in Football Tagged: concussion, head trauma, helmet, Kyle Turley, NFL, NFLPA
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In Entertainment (Free subscription) | 09/20/2009
Kyle Turley has been speaking to Yahoo Sports about the effects of his head trauma, admitting that the effects were scary. He explains that this was the worst and most significant concussion of his NFL career, which has been nine years. The trauma happened back in 2003, in a game with St. Louis Rams. He went [...]
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SportsFilter (Free subscription) | 09/19/2009
The funny part of retired St. Louis Rams defensive tackle Kyle Turley's history of concussions: He once hugged team owner Georgia Frontiere while completely naked in the locker room and doesn't remember doing it. The sad part: A recent collapse and other symptoms suggest he may be developing Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy , a degenerative neurological condition. "I never considered myself a...
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