Look, I get it. The head is a scary part of the body, and people are seeing these guys who played 20, 30, 40 years ago having issues and making it a match. They're automatically assuming that I'm going to be one of those guys or have exactly the same situation later in life.The operation will require 46 months of rehab, meaning Holcomb may not be ready for the start of training camp. Seattle quarterback Matt Hasselbeck suffered the same injury at the end of last season but managed to avoid surgery and instead will rehab the injury in the offseason. Some in the Seahawks organization thought Hasselbeck should have had the procedure, but the former Boston College quarterback did not want to miss his first Pro Bowl or possibly part of training camp.

Max Albert Hietala at Sahlgrenska University Hospital in Gothenburg, Sweden, and his colleagues examined the cerebrospinal fluid of 14 amateur boxers. Levels of neurofilament light (NFL), a marker for neuronal damage, were four tim