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  • Soccer-Messi misses Barcelona game with illness

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    Barcelona forward Lionel Messi missed his side’s La Liga game against Malaga on Saturday after being taken ill. “Leo Messi has been ruled out of Saturday’s game versus Málaga at the last minute,” the league champions said in a statement on Saturday. Messi is joint-top scorer in La Liga with eight goals, alongside strike partner…

  • Concussions remain common even as awareness improves

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    Two decades after the NFL brushed off concussion concerns as being of interest only to journalists, the issue is at the forefront of any discussion about player safety and unlikely to go away anytime soon. From the 2015 film “Concussion” about a doctor who fought the NFL's campaign to conceal his research on the brain…

  • NFL-Concussions remain common even as awareness improves

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    (Updates with 2015 concussion number) By Andrew Both Jan 30 (Reuters) – Two decades after the NFL brushed off concussion concerns as being of interest only to journalists, the issue is at the forefront of any discussion about player safety and unlikely to go away anytime soon. From the 2015 film “Concussion” about a doctor…

  • Some ex-NFL players seek to re-work $1 billion concussion settlement

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    By Natalie Pompilio PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) – Lawyers representing some former NFL players urged a federal appeals court on Thursday to scrap the league’s $1 billion concussion settlement because it does not cover potential victims of a degenerative brain disease linked to repeated blows to the head. The deal should include future payments for chronic traumatic…

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    By Natalie Pompilio PHILADELPHIA, Nov 19 (Reuters) – Lawyers representing some former NFL players urged a federal appeals court on Thursday to scrap the league’s $1 billion concussion settlement because it does not cover potential victims of a degenerative brain disease linked to repeated blows to the head. The deal should include future payments for…