WASHINGTON (AP) -NFL commissioner Roger Goodell and Players Association executive director DeMaurice Smith will both testify at a Congressional hearing on head injuries among NFL players.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, Jr., D-Mich., said Friday that the committee will hold its hearing Oct. 28. Conyers announced the committee’s intention to hold the hearings on legal issues relating to football head injuries Oct. 2.
The decision to hold the hearings follows a preliminary study done for the NFL which suggested retired pro football players may have a higher rate than normal of Alzheimer’s disease or other memory problems. The study, which has not been published in a peer-reviewed journal, was done at the University of Michigan.
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