There are the medical dangers of football in general caused by head trauma over repetitive hits.

Your perception plays tricks when you are hoping for something.

Committing unnecessary surgeries is very, very rare. And it's very wrong.

Why did I become a writer? Because I grew up in New York City, and there were seven newspapers in New York City, and my family was an inveterate reader of newspapers and I loved holding a paper in my hand. It was something sacred.

Teams are made up of a lot of components. They're made up of hunger, they're made up of desire, they're made up of chemistry, and they're made up of emotion.

In more than 20 years I've spent studying the issue, I have yet to hear a convincing argument that college football has anything do with what is presumably the primary purpose of higher education: academics.

If someone is going to criticize what you've written and you believe in what you've written then you should respond.