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Wednesday, December 23, 2015

ESPN: NFL Blocks $16 Million From Being Used To Fund Massive Study Of CTE

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By Tom Ley, Dec 22, 2015 Dead Spin

In September 2012, the NFL proudly announced that it would be making an “unrestricted gift” of $30 million to the National Institutes of Health, the purpose of which was to fund further research into football’s relationship to brain damage, and to hopefully discover a way to diagnose CTE in living patients. According to ESPN’s Outside the Lines, that gift was not so unrestricted after all, and the NFL has backed away from funding a $16 million study because the league doesn’t like the respected doctor who will lead it.

Here’s Outside the Lines:

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