Knocken Em Straight at the Scarsdale Womens Club

Alan Schwarz, a graduate of Scarsdale High School, returns to Scarsdale to present: “Knocken’ em Straight: Football’s Collision with Head Injuries”, on Sunday March 20 at the Scarsdale Woman’s Club. A reporter for The New York Times, Schwarz has twice been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for his dozens of high-profile articles that have exposed the epidemic of sports-related concussions. His stories have helped uncover the high rates of dementia among retired National Football League players, unsafe conditions on high school fields, and concussion-related disorders among female youth athletes in soccer and basketball. His 2010 investigation into the dark cave of football helmets led immediately to ongoing investigations by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and the Federal Trade Commission. Schwarz will take questions from the audience following his talk.

The audience will have an opportunity to continue the discussion over refreshments provided by the Forum’s Hospitality Committee. Copies of Schwarz’s books, The Numbers Game and Once upon a Game, will be available for purchase as well.

Schwarz is presented by The Scarsdale Forum (formerly the TVCCEF) Sunday Speaker Series program on Sunday, March 20 at the Scarsdale Woman’s Club, 37 Drake Road at 3 p.m. The Sunday Speaker Series programs are open to the public, free of charge and are underwritten in part by a generous grant from the Irving J. Sloan Education Fund, made possible by the Liz Claiborne-Arthur Ortenberg Foundation.

For more information, visit www.ScarsdaleForum.com , call 914-723-2829 or e-mail office@scarsdaleforum.com.