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Former Chicago Bears quarterback Jim McMahon calls himself "old school," including his use of marijuana both during and after his career. Yet McMahon's stab at self-medicating could be ahead of its time. Researchers at Johns Hopkins plan to test whether a compound found in hemp – and its...

The issue of medical marijuana has become more significant across America over the past 17 years, but the NFL appears to be no closer to giving it serious consideration as an alternative for pain reduction. Commissioner Roger Goodell and NFLPA executive director DeMaurice Smith both side-stepped...

To understand football, Nate Jackson says, you need to remember one inherent truth about the game: a human body was not made to absorb that kind of punishment. "There's no safe way to get hit by a truck," Jackson puts it. Jackson, author of the football memoir Slow Getting Up, spent six...