The National Football League's (NFL) concussion rates are rising very rapidly, causing the league to increase protocol to provide better protection for players. ... The ex-players said that the league misinformed them about the long term health risks of concussions and did not take enough steps to avoid damage. ... Junior Seau was one of the national football league's fiercest linebackers for nearly twenty seasons. ... Until recently, one of the major complications with CTE detection and treatment was the fact that no precise indicators or examinations existed to detect CTE in living...

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National Football League The National Football League (NFL) is the United States" most popular sport, eclipsing Major League Baseball (MLB) over a decade ago. ... To date, the League has coordinated this effort. ... His new YES Network caused major trouble for cable provider Cablevision who refused to carry the YES Network as a basic channel. ... NFL Properties is responsible for leading all marketing efforts for the league's teams. ... The United Way benefits greatly from the league wide sponsorship it is given under the direction of NFL Properties because it is a national organ...

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On May 2, 2013, Junior Seau, a former National Football League (NFL) linebacker for the San Diego Chargers, lay dead on his bedroom floor after suffering a self-inflicted gunshot wound. ... The trauma from sustaining multiple head injuries has the potential to cause both severe short and long term effects, and has become a major problem in the NFL. ... While this settlement is significant, some have said that the league that makes 9 billion dollars in revenue each year would have paid more had this case gone to court (Maese and Boren). ...

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It is estimated that 40 percent of the National Football League (NFL) players regularly use cocaine and that number is also increasing in Major League Baseball (MLB) ("Drugs"). ... Also, in all of America 's professional sports leagues, such as the NFL and the MLB, they have banned the use of recreational drugs and PEDs ("Drugs"). ... The first major Olympic disqualification due to steroids occurred in 1988, when the Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson was stripped of both his gold medal and his world record in the 100-meter sprint after testing positive for the banned steroid stano...

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As quoted in Business Week, women have "few Leagues of their own."" ... The WBNA is tagged as a "runaway hit- due to the fact that it is the first women's sport to sign a deal with a major network to air their games. ... This league was to start with a 2.5 million dollar budget. ... The NHL is now working on starting on plans for a women's league. ... The softball league, WPF, was backe...

• Word Count: 1978
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Since then, organizations such as the National Football League and National Collegiate Athletic Association have also put drugs on their lists of banned substances. The only two organizations that have not yet done the same are the National Hockey League and Major League Baseball (MLB). ... A drafted football player from a High School to a NFL (National Football League) team can already rely on the use of drugs to reach success. ...

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There are also other football leagues available to the consumer such as the Arena Football League which was drawing over a million fans per season in 1999, college football, and the NFL. However, these other football leagues do not coincide with the XFL schedule. ... The leagues ability to raise equity or borrow capital appears to be strong. ... The whole idea and concept of the league is creative, maybe even ahead of its time. ... The league however also made a tremendous mistake in its choice of a time slot, since their major target market was young males. ...

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Basketball has gained popularity over the years, according to the 2014 Harris Poll, the NBA is ranked 6th in popularity behind the National Football League (NFL), Major League Baseball (MLB), college football and auto racing (Rovell, 2014). ... The MLB has two leagues, the American League and the National League. ... There a youth leagues, high school and college leagues just to name a few. ... The NBA Development League or D-League is the NBA's official minor league basketball organization. The D-League was founded in 2001 (NBA Development League, 2014). ...

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During the 2012 season in the National Football League (N.F.L.) there was a new league high of 8.4 concussions per week of games played (Leon). ... This little attention could be why starting from every year from the year 2000 until this day the amount of concussions in the N.F.L. per season has increased from its previous season, which is major problem for players (Concussions Slightly Down). ... This change was a major success, in the following 2012 season the concussion count on kickoffs went from thirty-five in 2011, to twenty in 2012 (Concussions Slightly Down). ...

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There appears to be no end in sight since leagues like the NFL and NCAA have weak testing programs. ... Both leagues have had many players use steroids and many more are getting away with it. ... This is a weak punishment if you compare it to other leagues which do more testing and are more strict overall. For instance, the MLB (major league baseball) effectively launched a productive system which stopped players from using steroids after the steroid era and only have a few steroid users in the game...

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What is even more amazing about Peterson is that he accomplished all this after having major surgery on his left knee at the end of the previous season. ... In a standard scoring fantasy football league, Peterson yielded two hundred and ninety-seven points. ... More touches for Peterson means more points for whoever owns him in their fantasy football league. ... That being said, the clear cut choice for the number one overall pick of everyone's fantasy football draft will be Adrian Peterson, the best running back in the league. ... You can't win your league in the first round of a ...

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Robert Kraft purchased one of the leagues least successful clubs in the Patriots in January of 1994. ... In the nineteen full seasons that Kraft has been owner of the Patriots, his major accomplishments include building a new stadium in 2002, winning their division thirteen times, including six American Conference Championship wins, and most importantly, three Super Bowl wins. ... There was only one team in the league that seemed to like the play of Brady, and that was the Patriots. ... Now entering his fifteenth season in the league, Tom Brady is seen as one of the best quarterbacks in NFL hi...

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