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Junior Seau

Author : Jim Trotter
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0544237145
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (442 download)

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Download or read book Junior Seau written by Jim Trotter and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2015-10-27 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This intimate biography of the NFL icon by a veteran sports reporter sheds light on his singular life and the controversy surrounding his tragic death. Tiaina Baul “Junior” Seau is widely considered to be among the best linebackers in NFL history, a ten-time All-Pro, a twelve-time Pro Bowl selection, and a first-ballot entrant into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. But in 2012, just two years after retiring from football, Junior Seau committed suicide. Studies of his brain by the National Institutes of Health concluded that Seau suffered from chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a brain disease often caused by repeated hits to the head. Seau’s suicide spawned numerous investigations into the brains of deceased NFL players, and many were found to have CTE. Drawing on exclusive access to Seau’s family as well as Seau’s never-before-seen diaries and letters, Jim Trotter paints a moving and revealing portrait of a larger-than-life sports star whose achievements on the field were rivaled by his personal demons. “Few people knew Junior Seau like Jim Trotter . . . he took a sports book and artistically crafted it into a lyrical narrative about dreams, love, and, ultimately, heart-wrenching loss.”—Lars Anderson, author of The All Americans

Heavy Artillery

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780764969225
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (692 download)

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Download or read book Heavy Artillery written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

League of Denial

Author : Mark Fainaru-Wada
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0770437567
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book League of Denial written by Mark Fainaru-Wada and published by Crown. This book was released on 2014-08-26 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The story of how the NFL, over a period of nearly two decades, denied and sought to cover up mounting evidence of the connection between football and brain damage “League of Denial may turn out to be the most influential sports-related book of our time.”—The Boston Globe “Professional football players do not sustain frequent repetitive blows to the brain on a regular basis.” So concluded the National Football League in a December 2005 scientific paper on concussions in America’s most popular sport. That judgment, implausible even to a casual fan, also contradicted the opinion of a growing cadre of neuroscientists who worked in vain to convince the NFL that it was facing a deadly new scourge: a chronic brain disease that was driving an alarming number of players—including some of the all-time greats—to madness. In League of Denial, award-winning ESPN investigative reporters Mark Fainaru-Wada and Steve Fainaru tell the story of a public health crisis that emerged from the playing fields of our twenty-first-century pastime. Everyone knows that football is violent and dangerous. But what the players who built the NFL into a $10 billion industry didn’t know—and what the league sought to shield from them—is that no amount of padding could protect the human brain from the force generated by modern football, that the very essence of the game could be exposing these players to brain damage. In a fast-paced narrative that moves between the NFL trenches, America’s research labs, and the boardrooms where the NFL went to war against science, League of Denial examines how the league used its power and resources to attack independent scientists and elevate its own flawed research—a campaign with echoes of Big Tobacco’s fight to deny the connection between smoking and lung cancer. It chronicles the tragic fates of players like Hall of Fame Pittsburgh Steelers center Mike Webster, who was so disturbed at the time of his death he fantasized about shooting NFL executives, and former San Diego Chargers great Junior Seau, whose diseased brain became the target of an unseemly scientific battle between researchers and the NFL. Based on exclusive interviews, previously undisclosed documents, and private emails, this is the story of what the NFL knew and when it knew it—questions at the heart of a crisis that threatens football, from the highest levels all the way down to Pop Warner.

Junior Seau

Author : Terri Morgan
Publisher : Lerner Publications
ISBN 13 : 0822528967
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (225 download)

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Download or read book Junior Seau written by Terri Morgan and published by Lerner Publications. This book was released on 1996-08-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles the personal life and football career of the hard-working linebacker for the San Diego Chargers who helped his team get to Super Bowl XXIX.

Junior Seau

Author : Mark Alan Stewart
Publisher : Children's Press
ISBN 13 : 9780516260105
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Junior Seau written by Mark Alan Stewart and published by Children's Press. This book was released on 1996-08 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perseverance, courage, and the personal will to succeed are the qualities that bind the athletes profiled in this new series of authorized sports biographies for children. The athletes come to life in a plentiful assortment of action, portrait, and full-color photos that take them from childhood to the playing fields and arenas of their greatest accomplishments. Includes timeline, career stats, glossary, and an index.

Tropic of Football

Author : Rob Ruck
Publisher : The New Press
ISBN 13 : 1620973383
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Tropic of Football written by Rob Ruck and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2018-07-31 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Longlisted for the PEN/ESPN Award “Everything that’s rousing and distressing about block-and-tackle football is encompassed in Tropic of Football. . . illuminating.” —Newsday How a tiny Pacific archipelago is producing more players—from Troy Polamalu to Marcus Mariota—for the NFL than anywhere else in the world, by an award-winning sports historian Football is at a crossroads, its future imperiled by the very physicality that drives its popularity. Its grass roots—high school and youth travel program—are withering. But players from the small South Pacific American territory of Samoa are bucking that trend, quietly becoming the most disproportionately overrepresented culture in the sport. Jesse Sapolu, Junior Seau, Troy Polamalu, and Marcus Mariota are among the star players to emerge from the Samoan islands, and more of their brethren suit up every season. The very thing that makes them so good at football—their extraordinary internalization of discipline and warrior self-image—makes them especially vulnerable to its pitfalls, including concussions and brain injuries. Award-winning sports historian Rob Ruck travels to the South Seas to unravel American Samoa's complex ties with the United States. He finds an island blighted by obesity, where boys train on fields blistered with volcanic pebbles wearing helmets that should have been discarded long ago, incurring far more neurological damage than their stateside counterparts and haunted by Junior Seau, who committed suicide after a vaunted twenty-year NFL career, unable to live with the demons that resulted from chronic traumatic encephalopathy. Tropic of Football is a gripping, bittersweet history of what may be football's last frontier.

Sid Brooks' Tales from the San Diego Chargers Locker Room

Author : Sid Brooks
Publisher : Sports Publishing LLC
ISBN 13 : 1596700971
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (967 download)

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Download or read book Sid Brooks' Tales from the San Diego Chargers Locker Room written by Sid Brooks and published by Sports Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2006 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During his 27-year tenure with the San Diego Chargers, equipment manager Sid Brooks kept over 5,000 football players from appearing naked before their cheering fans. The first African-American to hold the job of equipment manager in the NFL, Brooks' job was to see that each player left the locker room in uniform. But the means to that end was far more complicated -- and outrageous -- than one would believe.Sid Brooks' Tales from the Chargers Locker Room takes the reader aboard the elevator to B2, the basement of Qualcomm Stadium, where the Chargers locker room is housed. In that basement, the equipment department and trainers, affectionately known as "dungeon rats," ran the Chargers locker room. There, Sid Brooks became caretaker for all who crossed its threshold. The locker room would be damp, dark, and quiet before the coffee and doughnuts arrived, before the arrogant swagger of the players and boom boxes, high-fives, and back-slapping brought the joint to life. Here Sid recreates that environment with tales from within the locker room, the team hotel, and the field of play, featuring stories about Chargers greats like Dan Fouts, Charlie Joiner, Kellen Winslow, Louie Kelcher, John Jefferson, Rodney Harrison, and Junior Seau. Sid recounts stories unique to a life spent working behind the scenes in the Chargers locker room. With an eye for detail, he recounts tales of spies sent out to capture the opposing team's playbooks; the night the lights went out on Don Schula; wild cab rides with Fouts, Joiner, and Winslow; the zany pre-game rituals and idiosyncrasies of Russ Washington, Wilbur Young, Pat Curran, Woodrow Lowe, and others; rivalries born not on the playing field, but at thedominoes table; and plenty of pranks and good-natured ribbing.Rarely does a book offer more than a passing glance at what makes a football team a family. But Chargers fans can rejoice, because Sid Brooks not only introduces the family, h

Tales from the Chargers Sideline

Author : Sid Brooks
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1683581237
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (835 download)

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Download or read book Tales from the Chargers Sideline written by Sid Brooks and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-09-12 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During his 27-year tenure with the Chargers, beloved equipment manager Sid Brooks kept more than 5,000 football players from appearing naked before their cheering fans. The first African American to hold the job of equipment manager in the NFL, Brooks was tasked with seeing that each player left the locker room in uniform. But the means to that end was far more complicated—and outrageous—than one would believe. In Tales from the Chargers Locker Room, Sid recounts stories unique to a life spent working behind the scenes in the Chargers locker room. He features stories about Chargers greats like Dan Fouts, Charlie Joiner, Kellen Winslow, Louie Kelcher, John Jefferson, Rodney Harrison, and Junior Seau. With an eye for detail, he recounts tales of spies sent out to capture the opposing team’s playbooks; the night the lights went out on Don Shula; wild cab rides; the zany pregame rituals and idiosyncrasies; rivalries born not on the playing field, but at the dominoes table; and plenty of pranks and good-natured ribbing. Brimming with hilarity, insight, and fascinating behind-the-scenes stories, Tales from the Chargers Locker Room is a must-read for every Chargers devotee.

Junior Seau

Author : Mark Stewart
Publisher : Children's Press(CT)
ISBN 13 : 9780516201542
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Junior Seau written by Mark Stewart and published by Children's Press(CT). This book was released on 1996 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brief biography of the all-pro linebacker for the San Diego Chargers.

Why Football Matters

Author : Mark Edmundson
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 110163572X
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Why Football Matters written by Mark Edmundson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-09-04 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaimed essayist Mark Edmundson reflects on his own rite of passage as a high school football player to get to larger truths about the ways America's Game shapes its men Football teaches young men self-discipline and teamwork. But football celebrates violence. Football is a showcase for athletic beauty and physical excellence. But football damages young bodies and minds, sometimes permanently. Football inspires confidence and direction. But football instills cockiness, a false sense of superiority. The athlete is a noble figure with a proud lineage. The jock is America at its worst. When Mark Edmundson’s son began to play organized football, and proved to be very good at it, Edmundson had to come to terms with just what he thought about the game. Doing so took him back to his own childhood, when as a shy, soft boy growing up in a blue-collar Boston suburb in the sixties, he went out for the high school football team. Why Football Matters is the story of what happened to Edmundson when he tried to make himself into a football player. What does it mean to be a football player? At first Edmundson was hapless on the field. He was an inept player and a bad teammate. But over time, he got over his fears and he got tougher. He learned to be a better player and came to feel a part of the team, during games but also on all sorts of escapades, not all of them savory. By playing football, Edmundson became what he and his father hoped he’d be, a tougher, stronger young man, better prepared for life. But is football-instilled toughness always a good thing? Do the character, courage, and loyalty football instills have a dark side? Football, Edmundson found, can be full of bounties. But it can also lead you into brutality and thoughtlessness. So how do you get what’s best from the game and leave the worst behind? Why Football Matters is moving, funny, vivid, and filled with the authentic anxiety and exhilaration of youth. Edmundson doesn’t regret playing football for a minute, and cherishes the experience. His triumph is to be able to see it in full, as something to celebrate, but also something to handle with care. For anyone who has ever played on a football team, is the parent of a player, or simply is reflective about its outsized influence on America, Why Football Matters is both a mirror and a lamp.

Junior Seau

Author : Terri Morgan
Publisher : Lerner Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 9780822597469
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (974 download)

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Download or read book Junior Seau written by Terri Morgan and published by Lerner Publishing Group. This book was released on 1997 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles the personal life and football career of the hard-working linebacker for the San Diego Chargers who helped his team get to Super Bowl XXIX.

San Diego Magazine

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book San Diego Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 2006-05 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: San Diego Magazine gives readers the insider information they need to experience San Diego-from the best places to dine and travel to the politics and people that shape the region. This is the magazine for San Diegans with a need to know.

Junior Seau

Author : Jeff Savage
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780894908002
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Junior Seau written by Jeff Savage and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in American Samoa, Junior Seau moved to California and starred in high school sports. After his junior year at University of Southern California, he was drafted by the San Diego Chargers and proved himself to be an aggressive linebacker feared by quarterbacks around the league.

Love, Zac

Author : Reid Forgrave
Publisher : Algonquin Books
ISBN 13 : 1643752022
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (437 download)

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Download or read book Love, Zac written by Reid Forgrave and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The story of a young man from small-town Iowa who decided to take his own life rather than continue his losing battle against the traumatic brain injuries (CTE) he had sustained as a no-holds-barred high school football player, and at the same time a larger story about the hot-button issues that football raises about masculinity and violence, and about what values we want to instill in our kids"--

Against Football

Author : Steve Almond
Publisher : Melville House Publishing
ISBN 13 : 161219415X
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book Against Football written by Steve Almond and published by Melville House Publishing. This book was released on 2014 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With American Football becoming an increasingly popular sport in the UK, concerns are also being raised about the health impact the sport can have on players. The scary facts about American football causing brain injury have become a hot topic in the media, especially as the same worries are surfacing for other full contact sports such as rugby. Steve Almond was a keen American football fan, but, in light of recent scientific studies about the prevalence of injuries within the sport has slowly turned against the game.

Brainwashed

Author : Merril Hoge
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781684018659
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (186 download)

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Download or read book Brainwashed written by Merril Hoge and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addresses myths surrounding CTE and examines flaws in often-cited studies.--

Racing to the Finish

Author : Dale Earnhardt Jr.
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
ISBN 13 : 0785221964
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (852 download)

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Download or read book Racing to the Finish written by Dale Earnhardt Jr. and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s only authorized book revealing the inside track on his final year of racing and retirement from the driver’s seat. “Time was running out on my charade… My secrets were about to be exposed to the world.” It was a seemingly minor crash at Michigan International Speedway in June 2016 that ended the day early for Dale Earnhardt Jr. What he didn’t know was that it would also end his driving for the year. He’d dealt with concussions before, but concussions are like snowflakes, no two are the same. And recovery can be brutal, and lengthy. When NASCAR star Dale Earnhardt Jr. retired from professional stock car racing in 2017, he walked away from his career as a healthy man. But for years, he had worried that the worsening effects of multiple racing-related concussions would end not only his time on the track but his ability to live a full and happy life. Torn between a race-at-all-costs culture and the fear that something was terribly wrong, Earnhardt tried to pretend that everything was fine, but the private notes about his escalating symptoms that he kept on his phone reveal a vicious cycle: suffering injuries on Sunday, struggling through the week, then recovering in time to race again the following weekend. For the first time, he shares these notes and fully reveals the physical and emotional struggles he faced as he fought to close out his career on his own terms. In this candid reflection, Earnhardt opens up about his frustration with the slow recovery, his admiration for the woman who stood by him through it all, and his determination to share his own experience so that others don’t have to suffer in silence. Steering his way to the final checkered flag of his storied career proved to be the most challenging race and most rewarding finish of his life.