. >> the family of nfl great dave duerson filed a lawsuit holding the league responsible for his shockingar. he shot himself in the chest, and before he took his wife, he sent a text message to his ex-wife, asking her to donate his brain to science. the lawsuit alleges that they knew that the repeated body blows suffered from duerson while he played for the giants, the bears, the cardinals ledz to the brain damage that led to his death. duerson's son who is filing the lawsuit, says that what the doctors found in his father's brain proved the link between his death and the injuries he received while playing in the nfl. we're outfront exclusively tonight. thank you both for being with us. i wanted to start with you. the story about your father is a very disturbing story. for everyone to hear. what did you find out about your father's brain? >> well, boston university provided the findings on their study of my dad's brain in early may. through those findings, they concluded he had chronic emfulepathy. which is caused by respete eress to the head. >> how did it change the person he was? >> th

dave duerson suffered at least three concussions in his career.illed himself last year at the age of 50. the family says the league knew that concussions caused brain damage but they concealed it from players. >>> ryan braun can look forward to a full season after an arbitratoor fought his us is sengs. he fought the good fight. came back to the game. >> a monumental decision in the world of baseball. >>> nascar's big season opened on sunday in the daytona 500. danica patrick starts in the middle of the pack after crashes yesterday. >> she was fine. afterwards, she joked that hopefully, her backup car is faster than one she was driving. glad she is okay. >>> highlights from a high-profile nba showdown. >>> good morning the cole wright here with the espn news update. the linsanity continuing in the sunshine state of florida. lebron james had other balance. first quarter, d. wade to james, an alley-oop. later in the first, pocket picked by chalmers. he knew what to do with that. second quarter, cole gets a steal. jams it on the one hard. falls to the

in february, 2011, former chicago bears running back dave duerson committed suicide. shot himself in the chest. he left a note saying, "please see that my brain is given to the nfl's brain bank." he wanted this so his brain could be researched for concussion data. duerson had earlier revealed ç suffered multiple concussions, doctors had said so. the concussions had caused migraine headaches, mood swings, insomnia, and depression. this is why he chose not >>> question, by what right is congress able to conduct hearings on concussions in the nfl? pat? >> they can conduct hearings on anything they want, john. but i take the imp taking of your question. i think congress which is the least popular institution perhaps in the united states holding hearings on the most popular institution, the nfl, i think is absurd. they ought to stay out of it. it's a serious problem. i think the nfl ought to deal with it but i don't think the congress a ought -- >> there's a very serious issue. ites also high school football. there's an estimated 100,000 concussions every year in high sch

wrongful death lawsuit filed by the son of ex chicago bear who committed suicide last year dave duersons son says nfl didn't do enough to prevent concussions that gave his dad brain damage. jenniferdave duerson family says depressed about having brain damage crated suicide says the league should have done more to protect he and other players as well. chicago black hawks captain jonathan toews having a tough week missing second straight game because of injury concussion and crashed his car heading to united center this morning. clipped a support beam for "l" tracks as he turned eastbound onto lake street car sustained damage was not injured nobody in the car. sure that a coach now upgraded to fair condition after stabbed in the chest breaking up a fight at the school for community and environment sister and law says lucky to be alive >> she knows that she was stabbed could not breathe. that is when she touched her chest and says there was blood just pouring everywhere >> 21 year-old aisha bush a coach at east garfield park high school stabbed yesterday trying to break up a fight between

years and years, this misinformation campaign was absolutely blatantly wrong and as a result, dave duerson not seek the appropriate medical care and counseling that candidly, would have saved his life. >> seems like a lot of people are wondering if football is something where these kind of head injuries could be prevented. i want to know for viewers, we called the nfl. they said they hadn't seen the lawsuit yet, so they couldn't give us a comment, but you i know were a former football player. you played at notre dame. what's your feeling on that? that it goes with the game? >> right. i think the game is inherently dangerous and aggressive and that concussions are part of the game, but i think with the proper procedures and policies in place, we can reduce the amount of concussions and also reduce the amount of times that players hit their most vulnerable, that when they sustained a concussion in the past and did not give themselves enough time to heal before going back and returning to play and perhaps the sustaining another concussion, which leaves them vulnerable to developing the diseas

dave duerson suffered at least three concussions during his career, causing brain damage.w that concussions led to brain damage but deliberately concealed that information from everyone. >> he committed suicide by shooting himself in the chest so that they could actually perform a study on his brain. >>> well, nascar driver danica patrick walked away from an accident in a qualifying heat ahead of sunday's daytona 500. she was in the final lap with just two turns to go when she and another driver went off the track. her car smashed into the wall. she said she suspects she was just caught up in a chain reaction and she's going to have to use her backup car in sunday's race. she's trying to spin it, joking that maybe the accident will turn out to be a blessing in big disguise. but you don't really want to use the backup car if you don't have to. >> she said the spectators may have had a better idea of what happened than she did. she said the crash felt pretty big to her. but you can imagine those moments you feel like you're losing control of that car, what that must feel lik