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An ESPN story under the headline, How a Nobel Prize winner led Reggie Cannon to breakout success in Dallas, details the strong academic background of the United States men's soccer team back. (LINK)
In addition to a grandfather who won the Nobel Prize, the story mentions that his mother, a Brown graduate, is a doctor and that his step-father played football at Dartmouth. Digging around a little bit revealed that his step-father is Victor Smith '89, who spent a little time at linebacker for the Big Green.
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An Axios Q&A with Dr. Allen Sills, the NFL's chief medical officer, offers a glimpse at the challenges faced not just in the professional ranks this fall but at the college level as well. From the Q&A, which came in response to the pronouncement about NFL football by Dr. Anthony Fauci last week (LINK):
Paint a picture of what the 2020 NFL season might look like. Will we have "football as usual" in the fall?
"I remain very optimistic that we will be playing football this fall as we've laid out, but I don't think it's going to be 'football as usual.'
"There are going to be a lot of changes in the way that we do things, from how we practice, to how we lay out our facilities, to how we travel, to how we organize sidelines and the on-field experience.
"One of our athletic trainers probably expressed it best when he said, 'It's not going to feel normal because it's not going to be normal.'"
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