A story in the New York Times reports that twelve retired players are planning to leave their brains to a new center at Boston University's School of Medicine devoted to studying the long-term effects of concussions. TSD has now learned that researchers affiliated with the new center have been harvesting brains from former athletes within hours of their death. The brains were taken from both professional and amateur athletes, ranging from former NFL linemen to sixty-five year old Rick "Beanhead" Templeton, a softball legend who was known to crash head-first into a beer keg after clubbing a round tripper (he hit 843 in his career -- home runs and kegs). (More)
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