Football and hockey players aren’t doomed to suffer brain damage
Tests on former pro athletes’ brains shows the tissues in better shape than expected

NO HEAD START For a small group of former Buffalo Bills football players and Buffalo Sabre hockey players, a career full of head slams didn’t inevitably lead to early dementia, a new study found.
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