Welcome to Pollapalooza, our weekly polling roundup. Growing up, I always celebrated Super Bowl Sunday with my family. I say celebrated because for us, as for many Americans, it was about so much...
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/are-americans-ready-for-some-football/
With 12:18 left in the fourth quarter of a game that would decide the Big Ten East title, Indiana had trimmed Ohio State’s 35-7 lead to 42-28. On the ensuing kickoff, Buckeyes return man Demari...
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-are-we-still-returning-kicks-in-college-football/
Football’s concussion crisis has been part of the NFL for almost two decades. But the pros aren’t the only ones reevaluating their relationship with the game. Now, studies are finding that pa...
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/should-parents-be-afraid-to-let-their-kids-play-football/
Over the past few years, the NFL has been haunted by the early deaths of some former players whose brains showed signs of chronic traumatic encephalopathy. CTE is a neurodegenerative disease char...
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-we-still-dont-know-how-many-nfl-players-have-cte/
This is Strength in Numbers, a new column exploring the science of sports and athleticism. As this feature takes shape, I welcome your feedback, suggestions and news tips. Email me, leave suggest...
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/women-get-sports-concussions-at-higher-rates-than-men/
Parents might want to start carrying a list of concussion symptoms in their strollers. From 2008 to 2013, playgrounds sent increasing numbers of children to emergency departments with traumatic b...
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/beware-the-monkey-bars-playground-concussions-are-rising/
This is Strength in Numbers, a new column exploring the science of sports and athleticism. As this feature takes shape, I welcome your feedback, suggestions and news tips. Email me, leave suggest...
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-achiness-of-the-long-distance-runner/
Last week, The New York Times published an investigation that said an NFL committee assembled in 1994 to research head injuries had omitted crucial data from its analyses, which were published in...
With fall sports season underway, concussions are all over the news. In the past two weeks, at least three NFL players — New York Jets cornerback Buster Skrine, Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver...
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/concussion-tests-wont-fix-the-concussion-problem/
Klay Thompson, the star shooting guard for the Golden State Warriors, unambiguously took a knee to the face in the team’s Wednesday night game against the Houston Rockets. After that, everythin...
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/we-dont-know-how-well-the-nbas-concussion-tests-work/
Football’s reputation has taken some serious hits lately. The onslaught began in 2002 when forensic pathologist Bennet Omalu found signs of a neurodegenerative disease called chronic traumatic ...
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/football-leads-to-an-early-death-if-only-it-were-that-simple/
Welcome to this week’s episode of Hot Takedown, our podcast where the hot sports takes of the week meet the numbers that prove them right or tear them down. On this week’s show (for March 31,...
Welcome to this week’s episode of Hot Takedown, our podcast where the hot sports takes of the week meet the numbers that prove them right or tear them down. This week, we discuss the start of M...
On Nov. 30, Kosta Karageorge, a defensive lineman for Ohio State, was found dead of a gunshot wound — an apparent suicide. His family cited his multiple sports-related concussions (Karageorge w...
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/do-concussions-lead-to-suicide/
On Thursday, President Obama held a summit at the White House on youth sports and concussions, an issue that has grown increasingly salient. During the summit, representatives from the NCAA and N...
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-we-know-about-kids-sports-and-concussions/
Paul George kept playing after colliding with Dwyane Wade late in Game 2 of the Eastern Conference finals on Tuesday night. But after the game, George said he briefly lost consciousness, a p...
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/only-9-nba-players-got-concussions-this-year/
Think of a dangerous high school sport, and football is probably the first that comes to mind. You might not think of those students in uniform on the sidelines, cheering for the players. And yet...
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/cheerleading-safety-high-school-sports/
Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban predicted Sunday that oversaturation will destroy the NFL, citing the league’s play on nontraditional football nights. Cuban expanded his doomsaying in a leng...