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Chris Peterson Column: Alarming CTE studies mean youth, high school football needs to be safer, now

Anyone who knows me, knows that I love football. It's my favorite sport, heck, it's one of my favorite things.

But as much as I love the game, I know that it needs to change.

And it needs to change now.

It's no secret that over the last few years, we have started to realize just how dangerous football can be. The discovery of CTE, or chronic traumatic encephalopathy, and its prevalence in football players has been disturbing to say the least and a study published earlier this week isn't any more encouraging.

If you aren't familiar with it, here are the basics: A neuropathologist exam...

 

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