The latest head-trauma news in football is decidedly mixed: not good, but now there’s at least some hope for improvement. First, the bad parts: the family of Junior Seau, the former All-Pro football ...

This story mentions suicide. Mental health resources can be found at the bottom of this story. The death of Dallas Cowboys defensive end Marshawn Kneeland from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound ...

The death of Dallas Cowboys defensive end Marshawn Kneeland from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound on Thursday has fueled questions online about chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, a ...

— -- CHICAGO -- Research on 202 former football players found evidence of a brain disease linked to repeated head blows in nearly all of them, from athletes in the National Football League, ...

Dave Zirin argues in The Nation that sports media has largely abandoned CTE coverage despite nine former and current NFL players under 48 dying in 2025. Seven of those deaths were suicides, involved ...

The brain of formerKansas City Chiefslinebacker Jovan Belcher -- the 25-year-old player who shot and killed his girlfriend in 2012 before committing suicide -- showed signs of pervasivebrain damage ...