Infographic: CTE by the numbers
The revelation that Owen Thomas was found to be the first active college football player with chronic traumatic encephalopathy adds a twist to the growing body of research of the degenerative disease.
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The revelation that Owen Thomas was found to be the first active college football player with chronic traumatic encephalopathy adds a twist to the growing body of research of the degenerative disease.
Raised by a Jewish mother and a baseball-enthused father, I learned at an early age the story of Sandy Koufax’s refusal to pitch in the first game of the 1965 World Series because it fell on the holiest day of the Jewish year, Yom Kippur.
A brain autopsy of Penn football player Owen Thomas, who committed suicide in the spring, revealed that the standout lineman had developed a disease caused by repeated head trauma. Commonly experienced by football players, the disease has also been linked to depression.
Here we are again. The start of another school year — and more importantly, the start of another year of Penn sports. The fields have been neatly mowed and chalked, helmets polished, backboards windexed, nets restrung and Jerome Allen’s pocket squares have all been cleaned and neatly folded.
Last season, Penn football coach Al Bagnoli ended a five-year championship drought — the longest of his Penn career — with a rotating cast of often-injured quarterbacks.
Penn’s last taste of a Final Four came in 1979 when the basketball team played in Salt Lake City, Utah. When the next Final Four comes to Philly, though, it won’t be on the hardwood.
Love it or leave it, the Ivy League’s policy on scholarships and recruiting is, well, dynamic. Here’s a list of pros and cons to a massive incoming freshman class like the one Penn announced yesterday.
Those of you with the dedication to get up early enough to watch this summer’s World Cup games in South Africa have probably noticed one common thread in every game, showing up in virtually every super-slow mo camera shot ESPN has to offer.
With over 20 players set to be on the Penn men’s basketball team’s roster next season, the Quakers could certainly use all the coaching they can find.
Survival of the fittest. Darwin may not have known much about Penn Basketball when he used the term in 1869, but that phenomenon may be an apt way to describe the Quakers’ ballooning 2010-11 roster.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Ryan Wittman’s dad has been making him run all his life.
They say the first step towards solving a problem is admitting that it, in fact, exists.
On his first day on the job, Dan Leibovitz was at work at 7 a.m., conditioning with the men’s basketball team on the track.
While former Penn assistant John Gallagher is headed north for a new job, it may not be quite as far north as he originally planned.
Billy Haddad extolled the benefits of being one of few “dudes” at cheerleading camp.
Exactly one week after assistant coach John Gallagher left Penn for Boston College, and two weeks after Jerome Allen was announced as the basketball program’s head coach, Hartford coach Dan Leibovitz said he plans to join Allen as the program’s top assistant.
Suiting up against the No. 1-ranked scoring and total defense in the nation, Penn football’s offensive unit was in for a bruising Saturday afternoon.
Yesterday, just one day after former Penn assistant Steve Donahue was announced as the next head basketball coach at Boston College, Penn assistant John Gallagher informed the team that he will be leaving Philadelphia to take an assistant position under Donahue.
A heartfelt Mazel Tov to Steve Donahue.
Interim no more.