Tracy Mumford
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9,176 appearances
127 recordings
3 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard 3d ago
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He was getting increasingly paranoid.
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He was having increasing difficulties with his memory.
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Especially amid a series of suicides by players.
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CTE can only be definitively diagnosed after death.
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And because of that, some players have been donating their brains to science.
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For the new study, researchers considered every NFL player who died between twenty sixteen and twenty twenty one, about nine hundred, some old, some young.
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The scientists were able to examine the brains of more than 200 of them and found that almost every single one had signs of CTE.
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The researchers said that if they'd been able to examine all of the players' brains, the number could be far higher, meaning that the one in four estimate is potentially a significant undercount.
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John Branch covers sports for the Times and is reported on CTE extensively.
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He says that while the NFL downplayed the risks of repeated head trauma for years, the new data might be hard to ignore for both the multi-billion dollar league and for its fans.
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John says, according to the lead author of the study, there are ways to make football less dangerous that wouldn't change the game, like keeping young kids from playing tackle football and reducing hits during practice at all levels, since the risks of CTE build up over a lifetime.
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In a statement in response to the study, the NFL, which has paid more than one point five billion dollars in claims related to brain injuries, said that it quote, continuously strives to make the game of football safer, including by implementing strategies to reduce concussions and head impacts.
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Now two quick updates from my colleagues covering the Trump administration.
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First, in an emergency opinion yesterday, the Supreme Court said the administration can move forward with its efforts to restrict mail-in voting, including a plan to let the United States Postal Service limit which voters it will deliver ballots to.
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The justices said this was not a final decision about whether President Trump's efforts, quote, will necessarily be lawful, but it means that plans for the new restrictions can move forward while a lower court considers the case.
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At this point, more legal challenges are likely.
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And when you consider that there's barely two months to go until the midterms, Times political reporter Nick Corcinidi says the Supreme Court has left a lot up in the air.
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Трежури секретар Скот Бесен дів, laying out what the administration is calling its most punishing economic attack yet against Іран.
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The plan, which includes dozens of sanctions with the potential for more, comes as military strikes and negotiations have failed to achieve the goals the US originally set out, of curbing Iran's nuclear program and taking down its government.
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But Times economic policy reporter Alan Rappaport says that the administration's escalating economic threats are short on details and may end up being more bark than bite.
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