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Health and Safety in Sports
American Red Cross - Sport Safety Training for Coaches
"Bigger, Stronger, Faster" - ESPN's Outside the Lines (December 10, 2000 Transcript)
"Can Baseball Change Macho Culture of High and Tight Fastball?" - ESPN's Outside the Lines (April 30, 2000 Transcript)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) tobacco-free sports
"Comebackers" - ESPN's Outside the Lines (July 8, 2001 Transcript)
"Concussions: What Doctors and Players Know and Don't Know" - ESPN's Outside the Lines (September 24, 2000 Transcript)
DiscoveryHealth.com
Dying for the Game
"NASCAR Safety: The Danger Dilemma" - ESPN's Outside the Lines (November 19, 2000 Transcript)
National Athletic Trainers Association (NATA)
The National Center for Drug Free Sport
National Safe Kids Campaign - Sports and Recreation
National Youth Sports Safety Foundation
NCAA Committee on Competitive Safeguards and Medical Aspects of Sports (CSMAS)
NCAA Drug Testing Program
"Olympic Drug Testing" - ESPN's Outside the Lines (October 1, 2000 Transcript)
"On the Ropes" - ESPN's Outside the Lines (April 15, 2001 Transcript)
Spine-Health.com - Sports and your spine
TopCondition.com
"Training Athletes to Death" - ESPN's Outside the Lines (August 5, 2001 Transcript)
"Truth or Scare" - ESPN's Outside the Lines (April 8, 2001 Transcript)
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