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Jon Burnett, 70, was recently diagnosed with the disease, and he says he'll donate his brain to science when he dies to help find a cure. The long-running co-host of Evening Magazine and Pittsburgh Today on KDKA-TV played both fullback and defensive end football in Knoxville, Tennessee, beginning at the age of 10. Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is a degenerative brain disease characterized by repeated head blows, and it has been linked to high-impact sports like football and boxing.

A Los Angeles jury dismissed a complaint involving $55 million by a former USC football player's widow who said the NCAA failed to shield him from repeated head injury that resulted in his death. According to lawyers for Matthew Gee, a linebacker on the 1990 Rose Bowl-winning team, he took home an estimated 6,000 hits as a college athlete. They said the effects caused permanent brain damage, which culminated in heroin and alcohol use, which eventually killed him at the age of 49. The NCAA, the governing body of US college sports, said it had nothing to do with Gee's death, which the NCAA attributed to a sudden cardiac arrest owing to untreated hypertension and acute cocaine toxicity. Hundreds of wrongful death and personal injury lawsuits have been filed by college football players against the NCAA in the last decade, but Gee's was the first one to reach a jury. The lawsuit alleged that hitting the head caused chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a degenerative brain disorder that is also known as CTE. Judge Terry Green told jurors in Los Angeles Superior Court that they'made history' in the first case of its kind.

A Los Angeles jury will hear from the widow of a former University of Southern California football player suing the NCAA for failing to shield her husband from repetitive head injury. Matthew Gee died in 2018 after suffering permanent brain damage from numerous blows to the head while playing linebacker for the 1990 Rose Bowl winning team, according to Alana Gee's wrongful death lawsuit. Gee's is only the second of hundreds of wrongful death and personal injury lawsuits brought by college football players against the NCAA in the last decade, and it was only the second to go to trial alleging that hits to the head led to chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a degenerative brain disorder. It could be the first time a jury could reach a convicted person.