Ex-Players Dealing With Not-So-Glamorous Health Issues
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As concern grows among former N.F.L. players about the impact of football on health, the medical community is working to gather more information on the problem.
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When a player of Manny RamÃ­rezâs magnitude misses four of the last five weeks of the season when his team is fighting for a postseason spot, the impact can be significant.
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Reports of substance abuse by top competitors in the baseball and cycling worlds remind us once again that it is important to keep athletic heroics in their proper perspective.
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Overcoming a poor history can be tough in sports. Keeping a strong team consistently on top might be even harder.
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Former pro football players are in Washington to talk about the struggles they have faced in getting disability benefits from the NFL.
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The number of players making attention deficit disorder claims that allowed them to use stimulants like Ritalin and Adderall spiked over the past season.
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The worldwide recall of Vioxx is not causing the same stir in the sports world as it is among geriatric circles. But, as expected, team trainers and doctors are removing the drug from locker rooms.
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Time away from the game has given Wayne Chrebet some perspective.
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It's in the nature of athletes to imagine themselves immortal, if not impervious to harm, as though they live by a different set of rules from ordinary people.
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Sudden death in athletes is more common than you might think. What to do about it, however, remains a dilemma.
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A professional athlete sidelined by an injury might as well be a dead man. Harsh, but true. If you are too hurt to play, you might as well stay home. Some teammates don't even want to look at you. Reminds them of their own vulnerability. In a big league locker room, no one wants to talk about ...
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Health care experts are convinced that games can help people get and stay well, but they don't agree on what's the best approach. By Noah Shachtman.
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Just eleven days into the 2004 Olympics in Athens, we have already been confronted with the seemingly common problem of drug use within sport. So much so, in fact, that it has been dubbed "The Gene Games" by chairman of the World Anti-Doping Agency's ethical issues review panel, Thomas Murray.    In a recent interview conducted by the New York Times, Murray talks about the impact of drugs in sport, and what effect they have on the athletes involved.
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it&#39;s the sport that won&#39;t die, no matter what. You can have gamblers, psychotic fans, spouses that blab and players who cork.
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Foreign coaches and players often appear in a state of shock when first exposed to the conditions of professional soccer in the United States. The higher the level of their previous club, the greater the contrast when they arrive at their new team.
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Kyle Turley said it is "near criminal" how some needy former NFL players are being treated. He blames Gene Upshaw, leader of the NFL Players Association.
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About $125,000 has been raised to aid needy, retired National Football League players.