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A lawyer says a Colorado jury has awarded $11.5 million to a man whose family sued helmet maker Riddell Inc. and his coaches over brain injuries from a high school football practice in 2008.

Volleyball player Austin Roberts has overcome two brain tumors and two bouts with bacterial meningitis and is now hoping to earn a scholarship.

First, a tip 'o the cap to Glenn Thompson, founder of Long & Strong Throwers Club/Journal and shot/disc coach extraordinaire, for the title. It's been his magazine's catchphrase for years and perfectly suited to this blog entry. With champions...

Basketball player Maggie Meier always had perfect free-throw form -- even while she was hospitalized with a life-threatening brain infection. But a meningitis-induced coma couldn't keep her off the court or away from the game she loves for long.

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Authorities say a 16-year-old high school football player who died after collapsing during a game suffered bleeding on his brain, apparently from a helmet-to-helmet collision.

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A Kansas coroner confirmed Thursday that the brain injury that killed Spring Hill High School football player Nathan Stiles on Oct. 29 came from a part of the 17-year-old's brain that had bled earlier this year.

A south-central Missouri baseball player who was struck by a wild pitch has died.

For football recruits who make the grade both on the field and off, academic heavyweights like Stanford and Northwestern offer the best of both worlds.

Five finalists will be on hand Saturday in Los Angeles for the Watkins Awards, which honos the top African-American male student-athlete in football, basketball or baseball, writes Christopher Lawlor.

A New Providence High School football player died Monday, two days after he underwent emergency brain surgery following his collapse on the sideline during a game, a hospital official said.

Tragedy turned Tim Duncan to basketball, but it was his modesty, brains and hard work that helped him become the Basketball King of St. Croix Island.

The brain trust behind the first-ever National High School Football All-Star Game, which will take place in Dallas on Dec. 30, had to face numerous hurdles to pull this dream game off.

Because Palm Beach Gardens High (Fla.) pitcher Zach Miner has a brain to go along with his powerful right arm, most Major League Baseball scouts shied away from drafting the teen. But in the end, Miner was eventually taken by the Atlanta Braves.

After undergoing brain surgery as an infant, Saint Martin School's (La.) Jeb Bauer didn't expect the tumor to come back. But even more unexpected was Bauer's rapid recovery after a second surgery.