The player, Jeff Astle, died as a result of repeated blows to the head from soccer balls, the coroner said.
At the Ruvo Center the Cleveland Clinic is doing the first-ever study investigating the changes in brain health that occur in many boxers and MMA fighters as a result of repeated blows to the head that occur in fighting correlate with impaired thought and function.
'Whenever I get a knife in my hand', he said, 'and naturally I have to do that a lot, I always cut myself' … Three of his teeth were missing as a result of backhand blows given himself in the mouth while working with heavy wrenches.
"Phillip took the blow at the side of the neck and as a result of that blow his vertebral artery, one of the main arteries leading to the brain, was compressed by the ball," Brukner said.
Following a joint autopsy, the Palestinian doctor concluded that he died as a result of a blow to his body, not of natural causes.
Each of the Knicks' last two losses to the Celtics (including March 21) was a result of a blown second-half lead and poor fourth-quarter play.
The prisoner, who had been hit in the head with a rifle butt during his arrest by Navy Seals and Central Intelligence Agency officers, died, apparently as a result of the blow, within an hour.
The city's Department of Investigation and the Bronx district attorney's office are reviewing what led to Mr. Mobley's death on May 2. The medical examiner's office said Mr. Mobley, 60, died from a tear in his liver that was a result of a blow, but it will not decide whether his death was a homicide until the investigations are completed.
"People are going to die as a result of those blown deadlines," Keller said.
She suffered a fractured jaw, lost two teeth and started having seizures as a result of the blow.
