Annotated Bibliography

Scott Jennings

English 1A T/TH 8:00

Ms. Stamper

15 March 2014

AB 1.2

Annotated Bibliography

Blount, Rachel. "NFL Hopefuls Deserve Assurance of Integrity." Star Tribune. 06 Mar. 2012:

C.4. SIRS Issues Researcher. Web. 18 Mar. 2014.

Rachel Blount is a sports columnist and general assignment reporter for the Minneappolis Star Tribune. This article argues the line between the football’s innate violence and the checkbook barbarism and player bounties; when players get paid to injure other players. The author uses mostly player inteviews and individual stories to support her ideas. This article can be used to show that football cruelty and and the lack of solid safety rules and regulations ruins NFL player’s lives and leaves them helpless.

Gregory, Sean. "The Problem with Football: How to Make It Safer." Time. Time Inc., 28 Jan. 2010. Web. 05 Mar. 2014.

Sean Gregory is a Time staff writer who has covered sports extensively over the last decade. Gregory discusses the concequences of playing football, especially in the NFL. He uses a combination of player interviews and individual NFL statistics and player reports in the article. This could be very useful in that it provides examples and testimonies of actual football players that can be used to show that this issue of effects after football is not just a myth but a reality.

"Hit Men. (Cover Story)." Current Events 111.8 (2011): 4-5. Academic Search Premier. Web. 5 Mar. 2014.

This is a current events article published on ebscohost in 2011 in regards to the current problems of the NFL. The article reports on the risk of injuries, especially concussions for the players of National Football League (NFL). It mentions that collisions may lead to permanent brain damage and states the symptoms of concussions. It uses current NFL statistics as of 2011 and the analysis of those statistics. This article would serve to provide statistics and official information in the research paper to show the...