Performance companies prepare prospects for scouting combine

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

• The Associated Press looked at NFL prospects who were prepping for this week's NFL Scouting Combine by working out at various athletic training facilities, including one in New Jersey.

• A press release from Chicago-based Sports Brain announced it will demonstrate its new concussion technologies during the NFL Scouting Combine.

• NESN published an eBook that looks at the impact of football's growing concussion awareness and its impact on other sports.

• The University of Montana athletic department donated the $3,000 fine it was levied for NCAA sanctions to the Dylan Steigers Concussion Project, an area non-profit to promote education and testing of traumatic brain injuries, the Montana Kaimin reported.

• The Ashville (N.C.) Citizen-Times previewed a concussion conference in western North Carolina.

-- Bill Bradley, contributing editor