Monthly Archives: June 2011

In this Q&A with The Sport Update, NFL Hall of Fame Cornerback Michael Haynes discusses the issue of concussions and other safety problems in professional football. Haynes is currently the Chairman of the NFL Alumni’s Health and Wellness Committee. UPDATE: Why should the NFL use the King-Devick Test to catch concussions? HAYNES: The King-Devick Test [...]

Michael Haynes If you could conduct a simple, 60-second test to immediately determine whether your athlete suffered a concussion, would you do it? Hall of Fame cornerback Michael Haynes would without a doubt. That’s why Haynes, the National Football League’s Alumni’s Health & Wellness Committee chairman, advocates the so-called King-Devick Test to everyone he can. “I’m [...]

Dr. Frank Noyes (left) accepts the United States Sports Academy’s 2010 Dr. Ernst Jokl Sports Medicine Award from Academy National Faculty member Dr. Marty K. Avant at the Sports Medicine Seminar May 31 in Hilton Head Island, S.C. Dr. Frank R. Noyes, a world-renowned orthopedic surgeon who specializes in knee problems, received his award as [...]

The Academy’s 2010 Male Athlete of the Year David Villa, a Spanish soccer player, accepts his award from Academy Board of Trustees member Tom Cafaro at Foxborough’s Gillette Stadium near Boston on June 3 before Spain’s match with the U.S. national team. Despite all of his amazing plays and goals on the soccer field for [...]