Monday's health and safety news from the world of football:
- NFL.com reported on the Veterans Combine, where Michael Sam is confident he will play in the league again. Sam was the league's first openly gay player to be drafted last season.
- Yahoo!Sports reported that Sam is open to playing in the Canadian Football League, which opens training camps in two months.
- NFL Media’s Steve Wyche reported on the league's Career Development Symposium.
- The Toronto Globe and Mail reported on a study that shows eye reflexes are a window to concussion issues.
- The Washington Post published a first-person column about a mom's struggles with allowing her son to play football.
- The student newspaper The Breeze reported on a concussion seminar at James Madison University.
- Medical Xpress featured Ryerson University medical physics professor Jahan Tavakkoli, who has spent the last few years using acoustic shock waves to expand understanding of the mechanisms involved in and the physiology of TBI.
- The Napa (California) Valley Register featured an area mom who also is an athletic trainer for a nearby high school.
-- Bill Bradley, contributing editor