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NCAA Recommends Lighter Practice Schedule For Football

The NCAA is "recommending that college football teams abandon two-a-day practices and scale back the number of full-contact days" in an effort to "reduce concussions and other injuries." The proposal, distributed to schools by the NCAA Sport Science Institute yesterday, calls for a "mandated full day off each week and a reduction in preseason full-contact practices to three from four." The NCAA also "recommended a one-week extension to the preseason, which would require a legislative change by the membership." NCAA President Mark Emmert plans to formally announce the proposed changes tomorrow (WALL STREET JOURNAL, 1/18).

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