Monday's health and safety news from the world of football:
- The Charlotte Observer profiled former NFL player Tremayne Stephens, who lives in the Charlotte area working as a trainer for athletes of all ages.
- The NFL's push to make the game safer is not going away, Boston Globe columnist Bob Ryan wrote.
- Former NFL coach John Mackovic, who writes a weekly column for The Desert Sun in Palm Springs, Calif., suggested the league cut the pass interference penalty down to 15 yards.
- Tampa Bay Buccaneers safety Dashon Goldson was fined $60,000 by the league Friday for a helmet-to-helmet hit against St. Louis Rams receiver Stedman Bailey last Sunday, NFL.com reported. Goldson has lost $454,705 this season for three fines and a one game suspension without pay.
- The Birmingham News reported that a Mississippi father of a high school football player filed a class-action lawsuit last week against the NCAA and the National Federation of State High School Associations to make them provide high schools with current concussion-risk information and standard-of-care practices in their possession. Mississippi is the only state that has not passed a concussion awareness law.
- The New York Times published an op-ed article that says there are big incentives for playing through pain in the NFL.
- Georgia Public Broadcasting looked at the brewing controversy over concussion baseline tests that have not been updated.
-- Bill Bradley, contributing editor
