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‘They use you up’: Hall of Famer Dorsett suing NFL

In this image take from video shot on Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012, Tony Dorsett, a retired Hall of Fame running back for the Dallas Cowboys, listens to a reporters question in his home in suburban Dallas. Dorsett, 57, is one of at least 300 former players suing the National Football League, claiming the NFL pressured them to play with concussions and other injuries and then failed to help them pay for health care in retirement to deal with those injuries. (AP Photo/Martha Irvine)

The helmet-to-helmet shot knocked Tony Dorsett out cold in the second quarter of a 1984 Cowboys-Eagles game, the hardest hit he ever took during his Hall of Fame NFL career.

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Gordie Howe’s dementia fight personal and public

Hockey Hall of Fame hockey player Gordie Howe is seen at the Joe Louis Arena in Detroit, in this April 10, 2007 file photo. At 83, Mr. Hockey is still in demand and on the move. Gordie Howe is about to embark on another series of fundraisers for research into dementia. It's a personal cause. The disease killed his wife Colleen in 2009 and is beginning to affect him. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File)

At 83, Mr. Hockey is still in demand and on the move. Gordie Howe is about to embark on another series of fundraisers to support dementia research.

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‘They use you up’: Hall of Famer Dorsett suing NFL

In this image take from video shot on Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012, Tony Dorsett, a retired Hall of Fame running back for the Dallas Cowboys, listens to a reporters question in his home in suburban Dallas. Dorsett, 57, is one of at least 300 former players suing the National Football League, claiming the NFL pressured them to play with concussions and other injuries and then failed to help them pay for health care in retirement to deal with those injuries. (AP Photo/Martha Irvine)

The helmet-to-helmet shot knocked Tony Dorsett out cold in the second quarter of a 1984 Cowboys-Eagles game, the hardest hit he ever took during his Hall of Fame NFL career.

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Crosby suffering from soft tissue injury in neck

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Sidney Crosby’s concussion-like symptoms may not be due to a concussion after all.

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4 NFL concussion lawsuits being combined in Philly

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — At least four lawsuits blaming the NFL for concussion-related dementia and brain disease will be consolidated in Philadelphia, and more could follow.

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