One Football Season: The Rewards and the Risks

The Brian Lehrer Show | Sep 16, 2016

Kostya Kennedy, sports journalist and the Author of Lasting Impact: One Team, One Season. What Happens When Our Sons Play Football (Sports Illustrated, 2016), followed one season for the New Rochelle High School football team to examine the seeming paradox of seeking success in the iconic American sport with enormous potential costs to young men's futures.

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