A member of the House Judiciary Committee criticized the biggest conferences in college athletics Monday for failing to adopt policies on handling athlete concussions that go beyond what's required by the NCAA. During a committee hearing on head injuries in college and youth football, Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tenn ...

Team doctors are not to blame for the death of rising star Alexei Cherepanov, who collapsed during a Continental Hockey League game last year in Russia. Doctors with the Siberian team Avangard Omsk had no reason to suspect the 19-year-old Cherepanov suffered from a chronic ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A common type of knee surgery, known as anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction, is unlikely to cut short the career of a professional football player -- although another surgery known as simple meniscus repair might, hints research reported at the American Orthopedic Society for Sports Medicine's annual meeting in Keystone, Colorado. Injury to the ACL, the ...