Ex-NFL players undergo health screenings
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Joe "Turkey" Jones carries a few extra pounds and a healthy sprinkling of gray hair nearly 30 years after his NFL career.
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More than 550 patients who underwent shoulder investigations over seven years have been offered blood tests to establish whether they were accidentally infected with diseases such as HIV or hepatitis.
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Young athletes in Europe should be screened before competing in events to detect heart problems and reduce sport-related deaths, health experts said on Wednesday.
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With mounting pressure from Commissioner Bud Selig and Sen. John McCain, the players union&#39;s executive board will consider whether to agree to more stringent steroid testing in Major
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Sports doctors under pressure from managers and the media could be cutting corners and risking the health of athletes, researchers said.
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Major League Baseball players began facing sanctions last year if they tested positive for illegal steroids. The NFL bans steroids and randomly tests its players. NBA rookies are tested up to four times a year, while veterans are subject to one random test during training camp.
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FOXBOROUGH -- A broken hip can do a lot of things to a professional football player, a lot of nasty, horrible things. It can terminate a career. It can act as a sobering reminder that even men built like Greek gods are just as mortal as the next. It can turn endless potential into: what if? But after a year ...
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Clinical depression among retired N.F.L. players is correlated with the number of concussions they suffered.
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Football referees and linesmen are probably used to having their eyesight questioned, particularly when they make a controversial decision.
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Former Pro Bowl linebacker Mark Fields wants to play in the NFL again after missing two of the last three seasons with Hodgkin's disease, but the Carolina Panthers aren't interested in bringing him back.
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Browns running back Lee Suggs, inactive for Cleveland&#39;s first three games with a neck stinger, has been granted medical clearance to practice at full speed this week.
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Brian Russell had no idea what hit him. A guy who routinely tackles 250-pound running backs head-on and occasionally gets pulverized by rampaging 350-pound NFL linemen for a living nearly saw his season end because of a microscopic germ. The Cleveland Browns safety was flattened by a staph infection that hospitalized him during the preseason.
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On the eve of training camp in July, former Washington Redskins tight end Rick &quot;Doc&quot; Walker addressed the players who would soon be wearing the uniform he held so dear.
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NFL commissioner Roger Goodell met Thursday with union chief Gene Upshaw and a group of other league and union officials on a range of issues, including the possibility of expanding testing for performance-enhancing drugs.
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According to information released during Tuesday's congressional hearings, the number of players in MLB seeking medical exemptions for banned drugs more than tripled.
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Wade Wilson, the Dallas Cowboys quarterbacks coach, was suspended for five games by the N.F.L. yesterday for buying and using performance-enhancing substances.Wilson, a former N.F.L. quarterback, said he took the drugs to try to improve the quality of his life after living with diabetes for more than 20 years.Greg Aiello, a league spokesman, said Wilsonâs suspension and the suspension Friday of New England safety Rodney Harrison stemmed from an investigation by the Albany district attorneyâs office. Authorities there have been looking into an Internet ring involving performance-enhancing drugs; the case allegedly involving athletes from a number of sports.Aiello said a third N.F.L. person involved in the investigation was Dr. Richard Ryzde, one of the Pittsburgh Steelersâ doctors. He had earlier been fired by the team.
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National Basketball Association officials require cardiac screening for every player in the wake of a player's death and heart issues for other players last season, a US newspaper reported.