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New York Times
30-07-2025
- Health
- New York Times
Football's Brain Injuries
The gunman who opened fire in a Manhattan office building had a note in his wallet claiming that years of playing football had left him with a brain disease known as C.T.E. He inveighed against the N.F.L., which has an office in the building, though none of the four people he killed worked there. In the end, the gunman, Shane Tamura, shot himself in the chest. 'Study my brain please,' the note said. 'I'm sorry.' We won't know until experts examine his brain whether Tamura had C.T.E. But we know he played football, the sport most associated with the disease, through high school. Today's newsletter explores what we know about C.T.E. and its connections to football and violence. What causes C.T.E.? C.T.E., or chronic traumatic encephalopathy, is caused by an accumulation of blows to the head. There have been cases linked to hockey, rugby, wrestling and soccer. The blows needn't be violent collisions that cause concussions. Rather, the disease seems to progress with both the number of hits and the cumulative impact of all those hits, as the chart below shows: In a 2017 study, a neuropathologist examined the brains of 111 dead N.F.L. players. All but one had C.T.E. Tamura never made it to the N.F.L. But studies have also found C.T.E. in people who played contact sports in their youth. A 2023 study of 152 athletes who died before age 30 showed that more than 40 percent had C.T.E. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
Wall Street Journal
30-07-2025
- Wall Street Journal
Gunman Who Targeted NFL Cited Grievances Over Football-Connected Brain Disease
Shortly after Shane Tamura was identified as the shooter at the NFL's Park Avenue headquarters building in New York on Monday, investigators found a clue that spoke to his potential motive. Tamura wrote in a note that he believed he had chronic traumatic encephalopathy, commonly known as CTE, a brain disease associated with head injuries and often found in former football players.
