Kampman on concussion: cautious approach is best

Aaron Kampman says the Green Bay training staff won't need to keep a sharp eye on him when he returns to the field for Sunday's game against the San Francisco 49ers.

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Cardinals' Morey says he played with concussion

Arizona Cardinals wide receiver and special teams player Sean Morey says he played with a concussion against the Chicago Bears last Sunday even though he has taken a lead role in raising awareness of head injuries.

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Washington state OKs tough sports concussion law

Washington now has what advocates say is the nation's toughest law regulating when high school athletes can return to games after having sustained a concussion.

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Jets WR Brad Smith doubtful with concussion

Jets wide receiver Brad Smith was listed as doubtful Friday for New York's game against Buffalo with a concussion.

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Jets' Coles, Smith dealing with concussions

New York Jets wide receiver Laveranues Coles has a concussion and his status for the team's game against Kansas City was uncertain Thursday.

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"John is ready. I think if he were someplace else, he'd be the starter. We just happen to have a Heisman Trophy winner who is our starting quarterback.

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A UTC student being initiated into a sorority at UTC was punched and kicked, winding up in the hospital with a concussion, Chattanooga Police said.

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Excerpt: Police say the 1996 Mitsubishi was going about 55 mph when it hit the Harrisonville dog groomer as she stood along a highway exit ramp.

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The first time the Army Specialist got blown up in Iraq, a cluster of anti-tank explosives jolted his Humvee. The second, third and fourth times he was hit, were IEDs. Number five was the worst when an IED blew everyone off the road.

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About one in six combat troops returning from Iraq have suffered at least one concussion in the war, injuries that, while temporary, could heighten their risk of developing post-traumatic stress disorder, researchers are reporting.

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Los Angeles Lakers forward Lamar Odom suffered a slight concussion in a two-car accident Tuesday.

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Football helmets have evolved over more than a century from crude leather bonnets to face-masked, polycarbonate battering rams. But they still often fail to protect brains from the sudden forces that cause concussions.

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Green's concussion was diagnosed as grade three, the most severe, and he'll undergo further tests to determine his future. He has been ruled out of Sunday's game at Cleveland, and Cameron declined to discuss the possibility the injury will force the 37-year-old Green to retire.

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The NHL regular season hasn't even commenced yet and we are already forced to re-open the debate on heads shots, thanks to Steve Downie's devastating hit on Dean McAmmond.

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There's no telling what Steve Downie did to his chances of making the Philadelphia Flyers on Tuesday night, but it's a certainty that he won no friends on the Ottawa Senators.

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Chrebet, the prolific Jets receiver who was driven into retirement by multiple concussions in 2005, saw the camera shots of a groggy Jon Kitna, the Detroit Lions' quarterback, on the sideline after he sustained a concussion against the Minnesota Vikings last Sunday.

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"Players can't get disability," said former coach Mike Ditka. "They get the runaround -- delay, deny and hope they die." But not all players agree the league has left disabled players behind.

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A white paneled delivery truck ran over a UW-Madison graduate student's head on Division Street Friday afternoon and, except for a concussion, he wasn't hurt.

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Mike Richter eventually lost his career to the same injury Islanders star Rick DiPietro is suffering through right now, and the retired Ranger offered some heady advice yesterday from one goalie to another.

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The shift is still a blur for him, and, by his own admission, Brendan Shanahan is in new territory with the concussion he suffered last Saturday. But, he said he feels pretty good

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Midway through a delightful school outing on the local ice- skating rink, my daughter-in- law, a good skater, suddenly fell backward, hitting her head so hard she was knocked out. After she was wheeled into the first aid room, she asked: "Where am I? How did I get here?"

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NHL Concussion Solution?

Ever year it's more of the same. The players hit the ice, and they hit it hard. Even in the "new" NHL, no one can seem to find a solution to the concussion problem facing the league.

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Chelsea, whose two goalkeepers were knocked unconscious on Saturday, may have to field third-choice Portuguese Hilario in their biggest game of the season so far against Barcelona on Wednesday.

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Carolina Panthers linebacker Dan Morgan is planning to play football again, Panthers coach John Fox said today at his weekly press conference. "He wants to play again," Fox said. "He's not talking about walking away from it, no. That's his feelings."

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The National Hockey League has reviewed the Darius Kasparaitis hit on Grant Marshall from Sunday night's New York-New Jersey game and decided no supplementary discipline is required.

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