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Author Kennedy, Kostya, author.

Title Lasting impact : one team, one season : what happens when our sons play football / Kostya Kennedy.

Publication Info. New York, NY : Liberty Street, an imprint of Time Inc. Books, 2016.

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Location Call No. Status
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  796.332 KENNEDY    Check Shelf
 Wethersfield Public Library - Non Fiction  796.332 KENNEDY    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description xvi, 236 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-236).
Contents The question -- Hey, Coach D -- Camp Brookwood -- Mess up your baseline, bro -- What we do -- Opening night -- A homegoing -- Ray Rice is here -- The Stand -- Once and always a Huguenot -- Elephant in the locker room -- A death too close to home -- Bullies and brothers -- No. 1 and knowing it -- Arlington -- To play or not to play.
Summary "This captivating, character-rich story is set against the back-drop of one of the most pressing questions in sports: Should we let our sons play football? At the high end of America's most popular game is the glittering NFL, a fan-stoked money machine and also an opaque enterprise under scrutiny for the physical dangers imposed on its players. Then there's high school football, unrivaled for the crucial life lessons it imparts-discipline, leadership, cooperation, humility, perseverance-yet also a brain-rattling, bone-breaking game whose consequences are at best misunderstood, and, at the very worst, deadly. What is the parent of a young athlete to make of that? The New Rochelle High School team in suburban New York is like many across the country: a source of civic pride, a manhood workshop for a revered coach and an emotional proving ground for boys of widely different backgrounds. In the fall of 2014, New Rochelle's season unfolded alongside watershed NFL head injury revelations and domestic abuse cases (remember Ray Rice?), as well as fatalities on nearby fields. The dramatic story of that season, for players, parents and coaches, underscores fundamental questions. Are football's inherent risks so great that the sport may not survive as we know it? Or are those risks worth the rewards that the game continues to bestow, and that can stay with a young man for a lifetime?" -- Dust jacket flap.
Subject Football injuries -- New York (State) -- New Rochelle -- Case studies.
Football injuries -- Risk assessment.
Brain -- Wounds and injuries -- New York (State) -- New Rochelle -- Case studies.
Brain -- Wounds and injuries -- Risk assessment.
High school athletes -- Wounds and injuries -- New York (State) -- New Rochelle -- Case studies.
Football -- Health aspects -- New York (State) -- New Rochelle.
Football -- New York (State) -- New Rochelle.
New Rochelle High School (New Rochelle, N.Y.) -- Football.
New Rochelle (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs.
ISBN 9781618931573 (hardcover) $27.95
1618931571 (hardcover)
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