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% ' Landmark' Concussion Trial Pits Widow Of Late USC Linebacker Against NCAA Concussions - Cte HEAD TOPICS
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“Long after they played their last game, they are left with a series of neurological conditions that could slowly strangle their brains.” Read more:
HuffPost Women » Karen Bass, Gloria Allred to discuss ex-USC gynecologist George Tyndall's sexual assault case Karen Bass and Rick Caruso exchange accusations over different USC scandals they are linked to Student Body Right USC NIL collective shuts down after death of founder NCAA on trial in concussion case of dead USC football player
HuffPost Women » Karen Bass, Gloria Allred to discuss ex-USC gynecologist George Tyndall's sexual assault case Karen Bass and Rick Caruso exchange accusations over different USC scandals they are linked to Student Body Right USC NIL collective shuts down after death of founder NCAA on trial in concussion case of dead USC football player
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Read more >> Karen Bass, Gloria Allred to discuss ex-USC gynecologist George Tyndall's sexual assault caseKaren Bass and Gloria Allred are expected to discuss the sexual assault case involving ex-USC gynecologist George Tyndall. Their scheduled press conference comes in the wake of LA Times'
Karen Bass and Rick Caruso exchange accusations over different USC scandals they are linked toKaren Bass and Gloria Allred demand Rick Caruso release report on USC gynecologist, Caruso criticizes Bass for her unusual USC scholarship. Vote for RickCarusoLA.
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Karen Bass is a JoeBiden Democrat who will destroy Los Angeles. Student Body Right USC NIL collective shuts down after death of founderIndependent NIL collective Student Body Right and its plan to pay every USC football player $50,000 a year is shut down after the death of founder Dale Rech. Will the people that called for the resignation of the racist Latino Council members call for the resignation of London Breed for the horrendously racist comments she made about Hondurans/Latinos?
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NCAA on trial in concussion case of dead USC football playerThe widow of a former University of Southern California football player suing the NCAA for failing to protect her husband from repetitive head trauma is taking her case to a Los Angeles jury. NCAA on trial in concussion case of dead USC football playerThe widow of a former University of Southern California football player suing the NCAA for failing to protect her husband from repetitive head trauma is taking her case to a Los Angeles jury
LA mayor's race: Bass and Caruso continue to exchange barbs over USC scandalsUSC is taking center stage once again in the L.A.
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Karen Bass and Rick Caruso have criticized each other for their roles in two separate cases involving USC. Caruso !!!!! Because she’s a shameless petty crook.
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Karen Bass 200%. I do not trust anyone (Caruso) who claims they will work for free. That’s some Trump shit.
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Nobody works for free. AP Oct 21, 2022, 06:08 AM EDT The widow of a former University of Southern California football player suing the NCAA for failing to protect her husband from repetitive head trauma is taking what could be a landmark case to a Los Angeles jury Friday.USC gynecologist George Tyndall Thursday morning.October 20, 2022 at 6:37 p.in August against the university’s wishes. Matthew Gee died in 2018 from permanent brain damage caused by countless blows to the head he took while playing linebacker for the 1990 Rose Bowl winning team, according to the wrongful death suit filed by Alana Gee.
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Advertisement Matthew Gee led the USC Trojans in tackles during the 1991 season. At that time, Caruso was a chair of USC's governing board and was summoned to a deposition in connection to the Tyndall case.
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via Associated Press Of the hundreds of wrongful death and personal injury lawsuits brought by college football players against the NCAA in the past decade, Gee’s is only the second to go to trial alleging that hits to the head led to chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a degenerative brain disease.m. It could be the first to reach a jury.
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The Mar. “For years (the NCAA) has kept players like Matthew Gee and the public in the dark about an epidemic that was slowly killing college athletes,” the lawsuit said. Fundraising proved more of an uphill battle than anticipated.
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“Long after they played their last game, they are left with a series of neurological conditions that could slowly strangle their brains.S. Rep.” The NCAA, the governing body of college athletics in the U.S. PREVIOUS COVERAGE: George Tyndall: $852M settlement reached in lawsuits over sexual abuse by ex-USC gynecologist Fast-forward to October 2022, LA Times' report reveals Caruso dodged many of the questions the now-Mayoral candidate was asked during the deposition related to the Tyndall sexual assault case., said it wasn’t responsible for Gee’s death, which it blamed on heavy drinking, drugs and other health problems.
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Bass appeared at a press conference with attorney Gloria Allred and several survivors of sexual assault, including one who said she was abused by former University of Southern California gynecologist Dr. Advertisement “Mr.
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2022 report. His kidneys were failing. Gee used alcohol and drugs to cope with a traumatic childhood, to fill in the loss of identity he felt after his football playing days ended, and to numb the chronic and increasing pain caused by numerous health issues,” NCAA lawyers wrote in a filing in Los Angeles Superior Court.
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The issue of concussions in sports, and football in particular, has been front and center in recent years as research has discovered more about long-term effects of repeated head trauma in problems ranging from headaches to depression and, sometimes, early onset Parkinson’s or Alzheimer’s disease.m. The university eventually reached settlements totaling $1. A 2018 trial in Texas led to a swift settlement after several days of testimony by witnesses for the widow of Greg Ploetz, who played defense for Texas in the late 1960s.
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In 2016, the NCAA agreed to settle a class-action concussion lawsuit, paying $70 million to monitor former college athlete’s medical conditions, $5 million toward medical research and payments of up to $5,000 toward individual players claiming injuries. In an RSVP invite sent by Bass' campaign team, Allred is expected to "call on Rick Caruso to help victims heal. The NFL has been hit with similar suits and eventually agreed to a providing up to $4 million for a death involving CTE, which is found in athletes and military veterans who suffered repetitive brain injuries.
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But his opponent in the mayoral election has been calling for him to release a report with findings from a law firm that the university tapped to investigate the Tyndall situation. He’d fought for weeks from his hospital bed to keep the collective alive, even offering at one point to front the first year himself.
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It’s expected to exceed $1. If Bass and/or Allred were to question Caruso's handling of the Tyndall sex assault scandal, it won't be the first time Bass and Caruso have called each other out for corruption and coverups .4 billion in payouts over 65 years for six qualifying conditions. After years of denials, the NFL acknowledged in 2016 that research done at Boston University’s Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy Center showed a link between football and CTE, which is associated with memory loss, depression and progressive dementia.
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20 debate for corruption for a scholarship that the Congresswoman received from USC. “Our clients want answers from Rick Caruso, not broken promises.The center has found CTE in the brains of 110 of 111 deceased former NFL players and 48 of 53 former college players, .
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Advertisement Hall of Famers diagnosed after death include Ken Stabler and Mike Webster and Junior Seau, a teammate of Gee’s at USC. She said in the Sept.
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It was the last conversation the two longtime friends would have. Gee, 49, was one of five linebackers on the 1989 Trojans squad who died before turning 50.
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“We talked to experts – many of them – that said releasing any information is just going to cause more horrific pain to those that have been terribly, terribly wounded,” Caruso said during the debate. As with Seau, who killed himself in 2012, Gee’s brain was examined posthumously at BU and found to have CTE.
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In a campaign ad paid by "Karen Bass for Mayor 2022," Caruso was accused of keeping his mouth shut about the Tyndall sexual assault case. The defense has sought to exclude any testimony about Gee’s teammates and the NCAA said there was no medical evidence Gee suffered from concussions at USC.
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Two ex-teammates, however, testified at depositions about blows they routinely took at a time when they were told to hit with their heads. (Photo by Hans Gutknecht, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG) During Bass’ press conference on Thursday, a former victim of Tyndall’s, who now works as a trauma therapist, said survivors want information about what happened and by whom decisions were made – information she said will help with the healing process. Mike Salmon, who went on to the NFL’s San Francisco 49ers and Buffalo Bills, recalled Gee and other linebackers being “out of it” during hard-hitting practices.
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He thrived on it. “Matt hit like a truck,” Salmon said.
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“I saw him quite a bit coming back to the huddle.” Bass said Caruso shouldn’t be allowed to cite lawyers and sealed depositions as reasons not to reveal the findings. You could tell ... He needs to come clean.
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Other deals were in the works. he wasn’t all there.” “It was our job to make helmet-to-helmet contact in the ’80s,” Gene Fruge, a former nose-tackle, testified.
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“There was no question about it. Those values have no place in City Hall, especially today.
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That was your job, to explode the man in front of you.” The NCAA, which required schools in 2010 to have a concussion protocol, said long-term effects of head injuries weren’t well understood at the time Gee played. But administrators remained steadfast in their opposition.
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Gee’s lawsuit said the debilitating effects of concussions and other traumatic brain impacts have been known for about a century, first from studies of “punch drunk” boxers and later from findings in football and other contact sports. Caruso denied to the Times that he had given different reasons for not releasing the findings.
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Advertisement “The NCAA knew of the harmful effects ... Though Bass is not the subject of a criminal investigation, federal prosecutors called her scholarship and dealings with the university “critical” to a separate bribery case they are building against former L. on athletes for decades, they ignored these facts and failed to institute any meaningful methods of warning and/or protecting the athletes,” the lawsuit said.
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There’s no blowback from us on the university. “For the NCAA, the continued expansion and operation of college football was simply too profitable to put at risk.” In his senior year, Gee was team captain and led USC in tackles, forced fumbles and fumbles recovered.
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The former dean of the USC social work school, Marilyn Flynn, pleaded guilty last month to one count of bribery, admitting she agreed to route money to Ridley-Thomas’ son’s nonprofit organization in hopes of securing a county contract with the school. After graduating in 1992, Gee was cut by the Los Angeles Raiders in training camp.
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He married Alana, his college sweetheart, and they had three children as he ran his own insurance company in Southern California. For 20 years, he lived a “relatively normal” life, the suit said. Bass, as a congresswoman, later sponsored a bill that would have increased private universities’ access, including USC’s, to federal funding for social work, the report said.
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That changed around 2013, when he began to lose control of his emotions, the lawsuit said. He became angry, confused and depressed. He drank heavily.
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6 mayoral debate that she did apply to the USC social work school and agreed to provide a copy of her application to KNX Newsradio. He told a doctor days would go by without him being able to recall what happened. When he died on New Year’s Eve 2018, the preliminary cause of death was listed as the combined toxic effects of alcohol and cocaine with other significant conditions of cardiovascular disease, cirrhosis and obesity.
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Advertisement Joseph Low, a Los Angeles lawyer for clients with traumatic brain injury who is not involved in the case, said drug and alcohol abuse can become a symptom of brain injuries as those suffering try to self-medicate. Additionally, the newspaper reported that students enrolled in courses on “limited status” are prohibited from receiving financial aid. Blaming Gee’s death on substance abuse will not shield the NCAA from evidence showing he had CTE, which is not caused by drugs and alcohol, Low said.
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“That’s a distraction,” Low said. “It’s really a disgusting way to do character assassination. It’s what you call defense strategy 101.
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