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 ...

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 "unique pattern" of chronic traumatic encephalopathy, the debilitating brain disease known as CTE, has been found for the first time in a patient before he died, NBC News reported. It was detected ...

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 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 ...

— -- 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, ...

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This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Vincent Jackson, the ...