With serious injuries ever-present, players must prioritize their own health to advocate for safer practices on the field.

She recently ruled that a postmortem exhumation and examination was needed for members of the class whose NFL player loved ones’ died before receiving a CTE diagnosis — the ruling at issue in Friday's ...

Former Rams and Dolphins running back Eddie Hill and former quarterback Bill Demory both passed away this month.

Former Rams and Dolphins running back Eddie Hill has died, the Miami Dolphins announced ... head injuries and trauma. Many former NFL players suffer from CTE. “I’m probably dealing with ...

The number of years an athlete played ice hockey correlated with his risk of developing chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a study of deceased ... the NIH, NFL, WWE, NFL Players Association ...

In December, researchers at Boston University published a study of deceased male hockey players that showed 18 of the 19 NHL players examined — including Hull, Mikita, Ralph Backstrom, Bob Probert, ...

Twenty years ago, pathologist Bennet Omalu and researchers at the University of Pittsburgh published the first paper identifying a new disease called chronic traumatic encephalopathy in the brain of ...

Bobby Hull, the former NHL legend with the Chicago Blackhawks, is part of an unfortunate trend being exposed in hockey with regards to CTE.

The family of Hull, who was 84 years old when he died, had donated ... truth” between hockey and CTE. “We are grateful to Bobby Hull and all of the NHL players and families who are helping ...

Hull joins Henri Richard and Mikita as Hockey Hall of Famers to test positive for CTE after their death. The disease can only be diagnosed through a posthumous examination. The NHL Players ...