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Derek Boogaard: A Brain ‘Going Bad’
Study Details
- Authors
- John Branch
- Published
- 12/05/2011
- Citation
- Branch, John. 2011. Derek Boogaard: A brain ‘going bad’. The New York Times (December 5): http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/06/sports/hockey/derek-boogaard-a-brain-going-bad.html (retrieved 5-29-13).
Through the Night and into the next day, as the scrolls across the bottom of television screens spread the news of Derek Boogaard’s death last May, the calls of condolences came, one after another. Among them was a call from a stranger, first to Joanne Boogaard in Regina, Saskatchewan, then to Len Boogaard in Ottawa. It was a researcher asking for the brain of their son.