CFL commissioner Jeffrey Orridge refused to admit a link between football and degenerative brain disease at the state of the league address on Friday in Toronto. In contrast, the National Football League admitted to a link between the sport and chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) in March. "A lot of the players hoping CFL would come forward like the NFL and acknowledge the link. "Clearly not everybody who gets multiple concussions gets a neurodegenerative process, but there is a concern that when you look at the people that are suffering multiple concussions there seems to be at least a signal that they're at increased risk," Tartaglia said. She feels Orridge's comment implies a lack of evidence for or against the link between concussions and CTE.

Source: CBC News November 25, 2016 15:50 UTC