San Francisco Giants Fan Sustains Brain Damage After Beating By Dodgers Boosters

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Posted on 9th April 2011 by Gordon Johnson in Uncategorized

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Modern sports tap into our tribal instincts. When your hometown team wins, your clan has won, has survived. Sports access deep, primitive, powerful emotions.

But that is no excuse to beat up a fan of a rival team.

Yet that is exacty what happened March 31 in a horrendous incident at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles. During the season opener between the Dodgers and their archrivals, the San Francisco Giants, a Giants  fan dressed in that team’s “regalia” was attacked by two animalistic Dodgers’ fans.

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/656969-when-it-stops-being-a-game-fan-violence-and-the-real-threat-to-sports?search_query=brain%20damage

The victim, 42-year-old Bryan Stow of Santa Cruz, Calif., sustained serious brain damage and was put in a medically induced coma by doctors. Published reports said doctors had performed surgery to remove part of Stow’s skull to relieve the pressure on his brain, which had swollen from his injuries.

The two sports savages that attacked Stow, a father of two, escaped. Authorities are offering a $100,000 award for any information about the attackers.

Let’s hope these two cowards, who reportedly attacked Stow from behind, are identified, apprehended, charged and convicted. 

And while they are in prison, we hope they are surrounded by Giants fans.   

Physicians, Coaches Form Concussion ‘Cooperative’ Group

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Posted on 3rd April 2011 by Gordon Johnson in Uncategorized

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Doctors, coaches, equipment makers and parents are teaming up to study concussions, forming the National Sports Concussion Cooperative, according to the Associated Press.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hHHTI5jvbKmb-iZEbP9yp6F_TAKg?docId=0864f199942d40ecab0196f8c01b3a52

The first meeting of the new group is set for May, with the American Football Coaches Association, the University of North Carolina’s traumatic brain injury research center, Rawlings Sporting Goods and the Matthew Gfeller Foundation among those participating. They are the founders of the group.

The Gfeller foundation was created by the parents of Matthew Gfeller, a high school student who died of brain injuries he sustained playing football in 2008. The North Carolina research center is named after deceased youth.

The concussion cooperative wants “to create a sort of clearinghouse for information on sports-related brain injuries,” according to AP.

The idea is to pool ideas and make suggestions for : guidelines for returning to a game after a concussion; coaching techniques; equipment design; and incorporating research into the process.

It sounds like a plan.