Head injuries might be an expected part of playing football, but that doesn’t overcome the duty of care that the NCAA owed to student athletes, a federal magistrate judge has decided.
Matthew Onyshko, who played college football for five years starting in 1999 and now suffers from symptoms indicative of Lou Gehrig’s Disease, filed a suit late last year claiming negligence on the part of the National Collegiate Athletic Association. It survived a motion to dismiss this week.
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