Carroll's approach with players draws coaches of other sports

Monday's health and safety news from the world of football:

• The Seattle Times examined how coaches from other sports have peeked inside Seattle Seahawks' coach Pete Carroll's lab, noting how the defending champions' leader has changed the player culture.

• A Newsday survey of 763 former players found 61 percent found the transition difficult to post-NFL life.

• Forbes looked at how former NFL stars regularly cash in during Super Bowl week.

• The St. Louis Post-Dispatch featured the injury talk that always surrounds Super Bowl week.

• NFL.com reported on how technology took another leap in the league as officials experimented with tablets for replay reviews in Sunday's Pro Bowl.

• Revenge of the Birds reported on how some Pro Bowl players visited airmen at Luke Air Force Base in Glendale, Arizona.

• Adweek reported on the safety improvements with the latest models for Riddell helmets.

• The New York Daily News reported on proposed city rules that would require a doctor to be present at all youth football games. Staten Island Live reported that Staten Island youth leagues don't support the bill.

• KWIT-FM in Sioux City, Iowa, reported on how area high school officials are seeking a safer path back from concussions for area athletes.

• The San Jose Mercury News looked at the debate over the two-year playoff ban for the Serra (California) High School football team, which forfeited a playoff consolation game for player-safety reasons.

• a local inventor who thinks he has created a helmet breakthrough with the Cosmic Shock Helmet Pads.

• at why young athletes need time off.

• a concussion conference at Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital.

-- Bill Bradley, contributing editor