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Patrick Andres

The NCAA Lost a Nine-Figure Court Case Over an Ex-SMU Football Player’s Head Injuries

J.T. Davis played football for SMU in the mid-1950s, was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in 2001, died in 2016, and was posthumously diagnosed with chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) in 2017.

Recently, his family used those facts to win a landmark judgment against the NCAA.

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