League of Denial

The NFL, Concussions, and the Battle for Truth

Mark Fainaru-Wada, Steve Fainaru

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Three Rivers Press
15 October 2014

Medical sociology; Sports & outdoor recreation; American football

"Football has become the most popular--and most lucrative--sport in America, with an inexhaustible fleet of players who get bigger, faster, and stronger every year. However, scientific evidence is beginning to make it clear that the game has taken an incredible toll on the beloved players who make it possible. Two award-winning and bestselling authors finally reveal the truth behind the relationship between brain injury and football.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER .

A ""meticulously documented and endlessly chilling"" (The New York Times) exploration of the NFL's decades-long attempt to deny and cover up mounting evidence connecting football and brain damage.

""A first-rate piece of reporting

that

adds crucial detail, texture, and news to the concussion story, which despite the NFL's best efforts, isn't going away.""-Time

ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR- The Boston Globe, NPR

""Professional football players do not sustain frequent repetitive blows to the brain on a regular basis."" So concluded the National Football League in a December 2005 scientific paper on concussions in America's most popular sport. That judgment, implausible even to a casual fan, also contradicted the opinion of a growing cadre of neuroscientists who worked in vain to convince the NFL that it was facing a deadly new scourge-chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE),a chronic brain disease that was driving an alarming number of players-including some of the all-time greats-to madness.

Everyone knows that football is violent and dangerous. But what the players who built the NFL into a $10 billion industry didn't know-and what the league sought to shield from them-is that no amount of padding could protect the human brain from the force generated by modern football.

In League of Denial, award-winning ESPN investigative reporters Mark Fainaru-Wada and Steve Fainaru expose the public health crisis that emerged from the playing fields andexaminehow the league used its power and resources to attack independent scientists and elevate its own flawed research-a campaign with echoes of Big Tobacco's fight to deny the connection between smoking and lung cancer. They chronicle the tragic fates of players like Hall of Fame Pittsburgh Steelers center Mike Webster, who was so disturbed at the time of his death he fantasized about shooting NFL executives, and former San Diego Chargers great Junior Seau, whose diseased brain became the target of a scientific battle between researchers and the NFL.

Based on exclusive interviews, previously undisclosed documents, and private e-mails, League of Denial is the story of what the NFL knew and when it knew it-questions at the heart of a crisis that threatens American football-and of the battle for the sport's future."

By: Mark Fainaru-Wada, Steve Fainaru
Imprint: Three Rivers Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 132mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 357g
ISBN: 9780770437565
ISBN 10: 0770437567
Pages: 416
Publication Date: 15 October 2014
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Mark Fainaru-Wada is an investigative reporter for ESPN. With his colleague Lance Williams, he co-authored the New York Times best-seller Game of Shadows -- Barry Bonds, BALCO and the Steroids Scandal That Rocked Professional Sports. He lives in Petaluma, California, with his wife Nicole, son Max and daughter Ella. Steve Fainaru is an investigative reporter for ESPN. While covering the Iraq war for the Washington Post, he received the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for his investigation into the U.S. military's reliance on private security contractors. He lives in Berkeley, California, with his wife Maureen Fan, and son Will.

Reviews for League of Denial: The NFL, Concussions, and the Battle for Truth

Journalistically bruising. -- Peter King It is meticulously researched, artfully structured, engaging and well written... this is an informative, intriguing and sobering book about power and control. I recommend it strongly. - Nate Jackson, The Washington Post Mark Fainaru-Wada and Steve Fainaru's book 'League of Denial' should be required reading in secondary schools for all athletes. Those of us outside the lines will be wiser, as well, for having invested just a few hours to read it. - Tim Cowlishaw, Dallas Morning News Meticulously documented and endlessly chilling. - The New York Times 'League of Denial' may turn out to be the most influential sports-related book of our time. -The Boston Globe, Best Sports Books of 2013