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Several research groups competed to study Junior Seau's brain after he died. Did the NFL help pick the winner?

ESPN investigative reporter Steve Fainaru talks to Zubin Mehenti about the article he co-wrote with brother Mark Fainaru-Wada on the potential conflict of interest of two top concussion researchers.

Michele Steele speaks with Mark Fainaru-Wada about the increase in the number of NFL concussions that have been reported in the past three years.

Boston University researchers have discovered 27 more cases of chronic brain damage in deceased football players, including 15 NFL players, which more than doubles the number of documented cases connecting football to long-term brain disease.

The NFL retirement board determined in 1999 that repeated blows to the head had left Mike Webster, who spent most of his 17-year career with the Pittsburgh Steelers, "totally and permanently" disabled.

For years while the NFL's top medical experts denied any link between football and long-term brain damage, the league retirement board awarded disability payments to at least three former players after concluding that football caused their brain inju

For years NFL officials denied that playing football can cause brain injuries, but the NFL's disability board concluded otherwise. Prim Siripipat talks to Steve Fainaru about the documents he and his brother, Mark Fainaru-Wada, uncovered.

Prim Siripipat talks to Lester Munson about the legal impact of Mark Fainaru-Wada and Steve Fainaru's findings that the NFL disability board concluded playing football could cause brain injuries.

The Dallas Cowboys use sweatshop labor to manufacture apparel overseas and are facing criticism for violations of their own employee code of conduct in those factories.

Suspended Packers DE Johnny Jolly spoke with Outside the Lines reporter Mark Fainaru-Wada just a few weeks before he was sentenced to prison for six years.

Former Viking Fred McNeill is suing his old team for worker's compensation, claiming that the repeated blows to the head he sustained in the NFL has led to his early on-set dementia.

President Obama talks to Outside the Lines about his Ambassador to Ireland, Steelers' owner Dan Rooney