event, control of the house of representatives is all but gone. democrats can feel the house seats slipping through their fingers, as some experts project republicans could pick up maybe even 30 seats, and they only need five to win back the majority. some in the democratic party are already performing free autopsies. sometimes people want to just not feel as if they are walking on egg shells. and they want some acknowledgment that life is messy. i am worried about the level of voter turnout among young people and working people who will be voting democraticment i think, again, what democrats have got to do is contrast their economic plan with the republicans. tonight we look into the crystal ball to see what a republican-led house of representatives might actually look like. the house gop sees these pending election results as a repudiation of where president biden and democrats are currently leading the country. and that is part of what is driving their legislative ag
football. it s the very nature of the game. injuries and other sports are by and large incidental, although obviously they happen. in football, it s just fundamental. it s a contact sport on every single play. and the subconcussive hits, especially the linemen. linemen collide on every play. that doesn t result in a diagnosable concussion, but there are subconcussive hits on every play. cumulatively, that takes a toll. as exciting as it is, with all the strategies and the generational connections and the campus atmosphere and all that stuff, that s undeniable. but so too is the nature of the game. it s true. some 2 million kids play youth and high school football. neurosurgeons tell us the real risk is from the cumulative hits to the head, whether or not they re concussive. you ve been vocal in your criticism of the nfl.
for his quote leadership keeping the concussion and cte conversation in the national spotlight. he s been warning about this issue since at least 2007. as this montage, which was shown at the gala, evidences. more urgent football issue. concussions. it s the hundreds, if not thousands of subconcussive hits, those are the ones that actually cumulatively take a greater toll than the concussions. that may become like the roman circus. where people watch it but they don t let their kids play it. bob, the point from the montage is you ve been speaking about this issue for a long, long time. had you a viral moment this week. provide the context. well it was a symposium at the university of maryland involving other sports journalists, christine brennan, michael wilbond and tony
brain. it raises a lot of concern about the long-term consequences of the game. here to talk about it is assistant professor of neurology at the icon school of medicine in mount sinai hospital here in new york city. dr. joshua cohen. wow. you know, we saw this report this morning, and so much focus has been on concussions, specifically in the nfl and with college football players, and now this study shows that the white matter in the brain becomes abnormal just from playing the game. what are we to make from this? we know there are changes in the brain, and a lot of people have thought that probably even what is called subconcussive hits, the hits that don t cause symptoms of concussion probably have impact on the brain. we don t know what the implication is of that. so there was another analysis done on 80 division i sports players, college, ice hockey, football, that sort of thing. they found the more the brain changed, the worse the athletes did on learning and memory
you, dr. gupta, coming at you right before thanksgiving. i think what is interesting is that a lot of people pay attention to the big hits as you re saying. and obviously it draws a lot of fans and the viewer ship and all that. what is interesting and the science is really important here is that it s probably a lot of the combination of the smaller hits, as well. and these sub concussive hits that seem to really play a role in developing this alzheimer s-like disease that so many players including brett favre, tone ay dorsett concerne about it, haven t been diagnosed officially. and i think those subconcussive hits play a real role here. at the middle school and high school level, so many of those hits take place during practices for example as part of drills. so while the game itself may not change, the idea of protecting the brain and not having as many kickoff returns which are the most dangerous part of the game,