Friday's health and safety news from the world of football:
- WMAR-TV in Baltimore updated viewers on the football helmet research being conducted in U.S. Army studies with a grant from the NFL, Under Amour and GE.
- Former NFL running back Eddie George told SI Now that steroids are rampant in the league, which recently started testing for performance-enhancing drugs.
- WPBF-TV in Palm Beach, Florida, reported on former Miami Dolphins fullback Rob Konrad, who was treated for hypothermia at a Florida hospital Thursday after he was forced to swim nine miles to shore after falling out of his fishing boat.
- Yahoo! Sports talked to San Francisco 49ers offensive lineman Jonathan Martin, who helped subdue a shoplifter at a Versace store in Beverly Hills, California.
- The Arizona Republic reported on the Wounded Warrior Amputee Football Team, which is taking on Arizona's NFL alumni in a charity flag-football game during Super Bowl week in the Phoenix area.
- HealthDay reported on a study by the Sanford Sports Science Institute in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, that said children who play football in middle school don't appear to have any noticeable short-term brain damage from repeated hits to the head.
- Helmet manufacturer Schutt Sports announced it will offer Brain Sentry sensor-enhanced football helmets starting with the 2015 season.
- UPI reported that the U.S. military received new guidelines for post-concussion return-to-duty protocol.
-- Bill Bradley, contributing editor
