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One of the N.F.L.’s smartest players did the math and decided to retire after just three years in the league.
The player, John Urschel, an offensive lineman for the Baltimore Ravens who received much publicity for his off-season pursuit of a doctorate in math at M.I.T., told the team on Thursday that he was hanging up his cleats at age 26.
Urschel’s decision came two days after the release of a study by researchers in Boston in which all but one of 111 brains of N.F.L. players they studied showed signs of chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a degenerative brain disease linked to repeated head hits.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/27/sports/football/john-urschel-baltimore-ravens-retires-nfl-cte-study.html _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
