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Players who have suffered concussions 2009 Safety Michael Lewis 49ers Lewis picked up his third concussion since Aug. 18. Linebacker Jeff Ulbrich 49ers, Ulbrich said Monday he's not ruling out retirement after sustaining more concussions during his career than he can count. GAINESVILLE, Fla. -- It's only been three years since Florida quarterback Chris Leak stood at a lectern and claimed a vicious hit from Georgia defensive tackle Jeff Owens hadn't resulted in a concussion. "I just got dinged," Leak said. "No more than that." Had Gators coach Urban Meyer known then what he knows now about concussions, Leak's backup, Tim Tebow , might have started his first college game as a freshman. Coincidentally, the player who backed up Leak in 2006 has become the face of major college football's relatively new, more medically sound approach to concussion recovery. Tate Forcier Michiagan There's obviously a risk that comes with returning to the ...

Back in 2007 I wrote about concussions and that Parents need to know what it is that they are dealing with. 60 Minutes did some new segments on football and concussions. A blow to the brain, where they discuss the recent concussion to Tim Tebow , and how concussions forced Steve Young , Troy Aikman to retire. And they have examined the brain of former Viking Wally Hilgenberg one of my all time favorites. Watch CBS News Videos Online What parents need to know, Dr. Andrew Tucker talked about youth and concussions. Reports are that young people that injure the brain, the risks of future permanent problems increase. Watch CBS News Videos Online Thats Football, Kyle Turley reports that he suffers depression and believes that it may be due to the Concussions that he had gotten. Watch CBS News Videos Online Thank you 60 minutes for helping keep this in front of American parents.

While playing hockey, my son took himself out of the game. This is very unusual as he loves to play, and in the recent years has almost lived to play. When the period ended they resurfaced the ICE for the next period. The teams head into the locker room, I recall that he had a headache before the game so I tossed the coach some aspirin to give him while in the locker room. When the team comes back out, my son does not. The goalie, forwards, defense men and coaches... I rescan the ice to see if I unbelievably missed him, I count the players and we are certainly one player short, but also one coach short. The Goalie coach comes out and yells up to me, that my son is in the rest room possibly getting sick!?!? He is old enough that he can be left alone, but not old enough that I want to leave him alone in the condition at this moment. It is at this point that the reality of the violence that youth sports really has on our children. I start to replay in my mind the first game of the day, a...