cantu, what is the central thesis of your book here? >> first of all time i would like to thank you in the aspen institute for convening this conference today and for inviting me to participate in it. i think before i answer your question, i would like to start i just simply saying i am pro-sports. i want every sport to be continued and i wanted to be played in greater numbers, and i believe all of the opinions that i hold are trying to have that happen although right now maybe not everybody fully believes it. football's value is the exceptional exercise obtained in playing it. the last time i checked, it was the minutes if not hours of physical activity playing the sport that counts, not the milliseconds of bashing heads. as for the medical director of the national center for catastrophic sports injury research, we track catastrophic sports injuries in this country. 97% of which comes from the sport of foot wall or 96.9 to be precise. and that is even before you start to get into the concussion issue. please believe that all sports tha

cantu's remarks. the game where he got his concession -- concussion, there was other team in the got another concussion. the next day in practice another team and got a concussion. 311-year-old on a two-day period. so the incidents were pretty high in that way. from an education standpoint, that is a big part of it. and it is not just for the parents. it is also for the coaches and teachers. it is across the board. there are also cultural issues that we need to implement that really go down to scott's level. i got an e-mail from the a former professional player who is that a referee. what can i do about high school kid that lose their helmets in games? if they have the ball, the play is dead, that is fine. what if a linebacker is running down the field tried to chase a kid with the ball? i cannot do anything about that. why not? in the cross, if you lose your stick, you have to take yourself out of the plant until you get your equipment back or else it is a penalty. we can do those kinds of things in

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cantu is talking about. and then i say wow, we basically have an entire generation we have to deal with because who knows somebody in the southeast conference has perhaps already occurred tmh that isn't going to manifest itself in 15 or 20 years. >> i think you were telling me that the last team that employs the player is the one that picks up all the workers comp. >> and that's not right or wrong. it happens to be the law. >> i'm interested in your conversations as i always found with the national football league have the same situation. >> i'm not speaking for the national football league. >> the great thing under our cpa is the cost of workers conversation is actually borne by the players. so we live in a world under the cba with the insurance cost is basically estimated every year and that is a benefit that goes to the team. so the good news that these for our football teams and i'm always worried i'll say something good about nfl owners, but this is one of them. when it comes to the cost of insurance is

robert cantu wants other sports to change as well. he recommends no full body checking under age 14 in ice hockey, and for soccer players, not letting the younger kids head the ball. >> the young child is particularly vulnerable to brain injury. >> reporter: at the pro level, greater recognition of the long- term effect of brain trauma prompted the nfl to enact new rules on concussions that dictate when players can get back on the field. the nfl players association even formed a traumatic brain injury committee of which dr. jim ekland is part. >> no head to head contact, and a number of things to help protect the players as the game has gotten faster and more aggressive. and the athletes have gotten more powerful. >> he says making tackle football off limits at the youth or pop warner level seems a bit rigid, but he says young athletes need to be taught how to tackle correctly. there's one thing he says has to happen at every level of the game. players who suffer a concussion need to stay out for at least a week after they're symptom

richard cantu has the latest. >> another day, another pilgrimage to the pump for thousands.urricane sandy has left behind a fuel famine. >> i have been waiting for four and a half hours. it is an ordeal. >> while gas is low, frustrations are high. >> every time we come around it is a different cop telling us to go back the same way. >> some gassed up. >> i am happy. i got a little bit. >> but some scenes turned ugly. >> this man was arrested after he allegedly tried to fill a gas can from an off limits pump. the first of 10 fema sites opened dispensing free gas up to 10 gallons. the first fill ups went to first responders. lights are slowly coming back to life, but far too slowly for millions. >> american red cross, we have hot meals. >> in many crippled communities, no electricity means they depend on charity just to eat. >> the meal is finished. they gave out their last meals. >> and temperatures are dropping. >> it is starting to get cold. people are in homes that are uninhabitable. it is going to become increasingly clear when the temperature drops. >> there is a liquid

richard cantu has the latest. >> another day, another pilgrimage to the pump for thousands.cane sandy has left behind a fuel famine. >> i have been waiting for four and a half hours. it is an ordeal. >> while gas is low, frustrations are high. >> every time we come around it is a different cop telling us to go back the same way. >> some gassed up. >> i am happy. i got a little bit. >> but some scenes turned ugly. >> this man was arrested after he allegedly tried to fill a gas can from an off limits pump. the first of 10 fema sites opened dispensing free gas up to 10 gallons. the first fill ups went to first responders. lights are slowly coming back to life, but far too slowly for millions. >> american red cross, we have hot meals. >> in many crippled communities, no electricity means they depend on charity just to eat. >> the meal is finished. they gave out their last meals. >> and temperatures are dropping. >> it is starting to get cold. people are in homes that are uninhabitable. it is going to become increasingly clear when the temperature drops. >> there is a liquid reli

with more now here is abc's rich cantu. >> reporter: another day, another pilgrimage to the pump for hundred of thousands. hurricane sandy has left behind a fuel famine. >> i have been waiting for 4 1/2 hours to be honest with you. and it is an ordeal. >> reporter: while gas is low, frustrations are high. >> every time we come around a different cop telling us to go back the same way. >> reporter: some gassed up. >> i am happy i got a little bit. >> reporter: some scenes turned ugly. this man was arrested after he allegedly tried to fill a gas can from an off-limits pump. the first of ten fema sites opened, dispensing free gas, up to 10 gallons. first fillups went to first responders. >> hey! >> reporter: lights are slowly coming become to life. >> american red cross we have hot meals. >> reporter:en many crippled communities, no electricity means they depend on charity just to eat. >> the meal is finished they gave out their last meals. >> reporter: and temperatures are dropping. >> it is starting to get cold. people are in homes that are uninhabitable. it is going to become increas

cantu who is advocating until science proves otherwise it's safest at least to preclude tackling and stay with flag football despite the fact that there are efforts progressively to make the game safer. because what the law looks at is the perspective of safety as a whole in terms of the social aspects and the duty -- owed by those who run the game to those who play the game. and there's a continuum or scale of risk as patrick just said. and it's not just the risk of getting injuries. year never going have any sport that is risk free. that's totally sane. there's going to be some injury. a broken bone or whatever. you clearly here have enough science to understand there's a risk of concussion and a consequence to those concussions to which we're not appropriately creasing -- addressing. is if a matter of education, or does the law step in and say education is too slow, it's nice. we're moving forward a safer game, but since we have identified this particular issue having this effect on a more vulnerable population, what, if anything, is the specialty be the league -- to those who pla