The NCAA reached a settlement in civil court Friday with the wife of a former University of Texas football player who sued the NCAA saying it was responsible for her husband’s death. Debra ...

The nation’s first trial involving football and chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is fast approaching. On June 11, the widow of a former Division I college football player will appear in the ...

One of the most visible concussion cases against the NCAA went to a jury trial for only three days, but experts say the association's problems are not over. It was the case that legal experts and ...

The NCAA and the widow of a former Texas Longhorns football player reached an undisclosed settlement Friday on the third day of a civil trial in Dallas, in which the widow's attorneys argued the NCAA ...

Lynn M. Ploetz, of Buffalo Grove, IL, age 36, died at 5:45 p.m., Thursday, June 20, 2002 at Lutheran General Hospital, Park Ridge, IL. Memorial service 10 a.m., Saturday, July 13, 2002 at St. Mary ...

Deb Ploetz, wife of former Longhorn football player Greg Ploetz, had long said she didn't want to sue the NCAA for the trauma her husband suffered after playing football. "Greg chose to play football, ...

A peaceful retirement is turned upside down by two unexpected house guests in Richard Ploetz's THE COUNTRY PLAY. The production will have its World Premiere at Theater for the New City (TNC) with ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Greg Ploetz, for several years confused and weakened by mixed dementia and frontal lobe damage, fell often. Three weeks ago, when it happened again, his ...

Greg Ploetz hasn't played a football game in more than 40 years, but the scar still shows. An undersized All-Southwest Conference defensive tackle at Texas, he earned it. A "warrior," one teammate ...

The NCAA and the widow of a former Texas Longhorns football player reached an undisclosed settlement Friday on the third day of a civil trial in Dallas, in which the widow's attorneys argued the NCAA ...