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Justin Timberlake has no problem performing the halftime show for the Super Bowl, something he’s set to do for the second time in his career. Though, when it comes to allowing his son to play football, the pop singer has a big problem with that.

If Sean “Diddy” Combs is looking for someone to help him purchase the Carolina Panthers, he might want to take a hard pass on Dallas Mavericks Owner Mark Cuban.

While the journalists fixate on anecdotes such as the suicides of high-profile players such as Junior Seau and Dave Duerson, scientists examine the data.

New York Jets safety Jamal Adams loves football to death. Literally.

The doctor portrayed in the movie “Concussion” believes that poison, not the very real concussion Hillary Clinton suffered or some other malady, may explain the presidential candidate’s health issues.

NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman wrote the response to pseudo-scientific cranks in Congress that needed to come from Roger Goodell’s Remington-Rand five years ago.

A report by congressional Democrats charging the NFL with tampering in the granting procedures of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has collapsed after revelations that nearly half of the NFL money already allocated by the federal agency went to the group the league supposedly sought to blackball.

ESPN made charges against the NFL, which led to Congressional Democrats investigating the league, which led to ESPN receiving a scoop on the results of that investigation, which led to the Congressional Democrats receiving gushing coverage from ESPN because of the investigation.

The NFL now says a link exists between football and chronic traumatic encephalopathy. The league’s most high-profile owner calls that “absurd.” He’s right.

So what is the NFL’s official position on the link between football-related head trauma and the brain disease CTE?

A representative from the NFL told a congressional committee on Monday that a link “certainly” exists between football and chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). Scores of medical journal articles insist that science attempting to establish such a link through a study, let alone proving one, remains a project for the future to embark upon.

Boston University doctors announce that 1974 NFL MVP Ken Stabler suffered from chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE).

A tax-exempt nonprofit established by Dr. Bennet Omalu, portrayed by Will Smith in the film Concussion, funded a study on a product subsequently licensed exclusively by Omalu’s for-profit business.

According to hacked emails, Sony Pictures Entertainment hoped to prevent drawing the ire of the National Football League by heavily editing the upcoming film Concussion, which stars Will Smith as a doctor who sets out to find the truth about controversial head injuries in football.

The first trailer for Will Smith’s NFL concussion cover-up film was released online this week.