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    "pk": 60201,
    "title": "The NCAA Needs Smelling Salts When It Comes to Concussion Regulation in Major College Athletics",
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    "abstract": "Despite the now commonplace concern surrounding concussions,\n \nthe widely-recognized long-term cognitive damage caused by on-field\n \nhead injuries, the preventative steps that youth and professional sports\n \nleagues have taken to mitigate these effects, and the plain words of\n \ncaution spoken by professional athletes themselves, the NCAA has been\n \nlethargic, at best, in reacting to the alarm that athletes, doctors, and\n \nlawmakers have been sounding about the danger of head injuries from\n \nplaying contact sports. Congress, state legislatures, sports leagues,\n \nand NCAA-member conferences have rallied to the cause, applying\n \nthemselves to the task of establishing concussion management\n \nprotocols and funding studies to evaluate how concussions are caused\n \nand what can be done to prevent them.\n \n \nYet, the NCAA has failed to apply its resources with similar energy,\n \nor take independent action to protect its student-athletes from being\n \nplagued by cognitive decline in their post-collegiate professional lives.\n \nThis Article explains the science of a concussion, and presents the\n \nreasons why it is imperative that concussions be prevented This\n \nArticle evaluates the efforts of other sports leagues -fom the NFL to\n \nyouth leagues to the Ivy League - to implement concussion\n \nmanagement plans and devote funds to studying the cognitive effects of\n \nmultiple head injuries. This Article argues that the NCAA, which\n \npurports to prepare student-athletes for success off the field, has \n \nenjoyed great autonomy since its inception - shielded from government\n \nregulation and from student-athlete demands. This Article argues that\n \nthe NCAA's independence has allowed it to fail its student-athletes by\n \nnot providing proper education, guidelines, and prevention techniques.\n \nFurthermore, this Article suggests that the NCAA create an education\n \nplan to prepare student-athletes for timely returns-to-play, and urges\n \nthe NCAA to direct its funds towards research and collaborative\n \nopportunities with existing concussion research efforts. Ultimately,\n \nthis Article concludes that the NCAA has failed to provide proper\n \nregulation in this area of collegiate athletics, and urges the federal\n \ncourts to mandate change.",
    "language": "en",
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        {
            "first_name": "Cailyn",
            "middle_name": "M.",
            "last_name": "Reilly",
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    "date_submitted": "2015-04-25T23:54:46+08:00",
    "date_accepted": "2015-04-25T23:54:46+08:00",
    "date_published": "2012-01-01T08:00:00+08:00",
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