United states roughly about 75 of traumatic brain injuries. It is a brain injury. There is damage to the brain. Theres a discussion about whether its permanent or temporary. In the military the rate is 77 . So it turns out that youth sports are a good model for also looking at concussion in terms of the military. In fact, most of the military concussions occur in situations most like they do with the rest of america. Some certainly occur in theater, but the majority occur outside of theater, in accidents like youth are prone to experience. If we look at brain injuries overall, there are estimates these are all estimates, of course, and they vary across the literature. Were looking at somewhere probably in the neighborhood of 4 million traumatic brain injuries per year in the United States. A sobering part of that is our birth rate in the United States is also roughly about 4 million. This does not count other ways that children are exposed to head injuries. Perhaps a disciplining irate
To provide adequate resources to professionals on the ground. We must also continue pressing for comprehensive Immigration Reform so that our system will not be so overwhelmed in times like these. I yield the obama told reporters he urged perry to press texas lawmakers and the u. S. Congress to support the whitehouses funding request. The president rejected criticism saying he didnt visit the border saying quote this isnt a theater. This is a problem. The head of the ncaa is questioned about the treatment of College Athletes and the profits generated from sports. That is next. Then a look at the Russia Ukraine conflict. And later a ceremony for a former swiss diplomat who is awarded the congressional gold medal for his humanitarian efforts during world war ii. Tune in for the harlem book fair this weekend. Live coverage starts this weekend saturday morning. Mark emmert testified about College Athletes and academics and he is joined by Taylor Branch and two formal College Football playe
Not only College Sports inspired incredible fan passion all across the country, but theyve provided a very important way for young men and women to, as is written both through athletics, as navigation and get an education. Were going talk about that today. Many young people, however, athletics has provided an avenue to college that otherwise would not have existed. And its important to understand that. College athletes and athletics are rooted in the notion of amateurism. And the history of that is very interesting and important going back to the founding of ncaa 1996, and going back, actually, to the greeks concept of amateurism. Playing College Sports is supposed to be an add vocation. Students play for the love of the game, not the love of money. Many people believe this notion of College Sports is being undermined by the power and the influence of money. I remember a meeting i had in my office with the three top executives of espn. And it was one of those meetings in which i didnt
Not only College Sports inspired incredible fan passion all across the country, but theyve provided a very important way for young men and women to, as is written, both through athletics, as navigation and get an education. Were going talk about that today. Many young people, however, athletics has provided an avenue to college that otherwise would not have existed. And its important to understand that. College athletes and athletics are rooted in the notion of amateurism. And the history of that is very interesting and important, going back to the founding of ncaa, 1996, and going back, actually, to the greeks concept of amateurism. Playing College Sports is supposed to be an add vocation. Students play for the love of the game, not the love of money. Many people believe this notion of College Sports is being undermined by the power and the influence of money. I remember a meeting i had in my office with the three top executives of espn. And it was one of those meetings in which i did
General counsels office, they arent going to notify the target. Theyre found by the same disclosure and i think the law should account for that. You know, one of the things that was interesting, i was recently reading the legislative history of ecpa, one of the things that congress stressed, even though it got a fair amount wrong when it drew the 180day line, one of the things they were trying to do, and they made this very clear, is sort of promote the adoption of new technologies like this. So i think without clarifying this, and you know, without clarifying the law in some of these other respects, you risk undermining the adoption of these new technologies which provide a number of benefits as greg was alluding to. Weve talked a fair amount of content, weve been using it as emails for content generally, obviously, both microsoft and google and many other companies store an enormous amount of content, other than emails, you know, including the backed up concepts of phones. But there