04639cim a2200565 i 4500 761146050 TxAuBib 20230213120000.0 r 151201s2015||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780147520531 electronic audio bk. 0147520533 electronic audio bk. 9780147520548 0147520541 97ebaec5-d920-450e-b66e-39b7a7de61d5 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 2156179 OverDrive (Product ID) (OCoLC)930703884 TEFOD eng rda pn TEFOD TEFOD OCLCF OCLCA TXN TxAuBib rda Laskas, Jeanne Marie, 1958-, author. Concussion [Libby] / Jeanne Marie Laskas. Unabridged. [New York : Random House Audio, 2015. 1 online resource (1 sound file (09 hr., 50 min., 59 sec.)) : digital. spw rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 271MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 271MB. Read by Hillary Huber. Soon to be a major motion picture starring Will Smith, Concussion is the riveting, unlikely story of Dr. Bennet Omalu, the pathologist who made one of the most significant medical discoveries of the twenty-first century, a discovery that challenges the existence of America's favorite sport and puts Omalu in the crosshairs of football's most powerful corporation: the NFL. Jeanne Marie Laskas first met the young forensic pathologist Dr. Bennet Omalu in 2009, while reporting a story for GQ that would go on to inspire the movie Concussion. Omalu told her about a day in September 2002, when, in a dingy morgue in downtown Pittsburgh, he picked up a scalpel and made a discovery that would rattle America in ways he'd never intended. Omalu was new to America, chasing the dream, a deeply spiritual man escaping the wounds of civil war in Nigeria. The body on the slab in front of him belonged to a fifty-year-old named Mike Webster, aka "Iron Mike," a Hall of Fame center for the Pittsburgh Steelers, one of the greatest ever to play the game. After retiring in 1990, Webster had suffered a dizzyingly steep decline. Toward the end of his life, he was living out of his van, tasering himself to relieve his chronic pain, and fixing his rotting teeth with Super Glue. How did this happen?, Omalu asked himself. How did a young man like Mike Webster end up like this? The search for answers would change Omalu's life forever and put him in the crosshairs of one of the most powerful corporations in America: the National Football League. What Omalu discovered in Webster's brain--proof that Iron Mike's mental deterioration was no accident but a disease caused by blows to the head that could affect everyone playing the game--was the one truth the NFL wanted to ignore. Taut, gripping, and gorgeously told, Concussion is the stirring story of one unlikely man's decision to stand up to a multibillion-dollar colossus, and to tell the world the truth. Media Type: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2023-04-13 10:07:10. Imported from MARC file. National Football League. Brain Concussion. Sports injuries. Football injuries. Head Wounds and injuries. Audiobooks. Downloadable audio books. Huber, Hillary, narrator. http://hadc.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=97EBAEC5-D920-450E-B66E-39B7A7DE61D5 http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1191-1/2156179-ConcussionMovieTieinEdition.mp3 Excerpt http://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=97ebaec5-d920-450e-b66e-39b7a7de61d5&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt http://images.contentreserve.com/ImageType-100/1191-1/{97EBAEC5-D920-450E-B66E-39B7A7DE61D5}Img100.jpg Image https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1191-1/2156179-ConcussionMovieTieinEdition.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=97ebaec5-d920-450e-b66e-39b7a7de61d5&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1191-1/2156179-ConcussionMovieTieinEdition.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=97ebaec5-d920-450e-b66e-39b7a7de61d5&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) RV8