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Archive for August, 2013

Player welfare in the rugby community continues to be a hot topic these days.   Our own Bleacher Report investigative series has outlined some of the major issues within the public debate and has dealt with some of the most important research—or lack there of—in regards to concussion management in rugby. Click here for Part One of Bleacher Report's Player Welfare Series. Click here for Part Two of Bleacher Report's Player Welfare Series. As our ongoing reporting has discussed, the recent confirmation of the rugby's first-ever CTE diagnosis, has shaken the community further and has led to an even more vigorous discussion around what ...
"Rugby is not NFL Football." That was the claim made by an International Rugby Board (IRB) representative recently. The comment came in response to a series of investigative reports from Ben Heather of New Zealand's Dominion Post. Mr. Heather has joined others, including your humble correspondent here at Bleacher Report, in looking into the validity of that statement. Rugby versus Football Numbers: An Inconvenient Truth   Rapid Player Weight Gain: A Game for All Sizes? Brain Trauma in Rugby: Asking Difficult Questions Only two weeks ago, I posted part one of this series in which I looked at the damning comments put forward by Scotland international ...
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