Author Bio & Stories

Sean Conboy

Sean Conboy is the sports editor for Pittsburgh magazine. Read his words about futuristic football helmets and football's appalling bad concussion testing at Wired, or follow him on Twitter, or both.

  • January 16, 2013
    Zombieland

    Amid the calls for more studies and commercials reassuring us that the NFL is on it, there is a stark and simple fact: football killed Junior Seau, as it has killed a good number of NFL players before. Now that we know this, what are we, and what is the NFL, going to do about it?

  • December 19, 2011
    Sick In The Head

    Everyone knows about the slow-motion tragedy of concussions in sports. But no one, including the players who suffer, seems to know how to talk about it—which is a big reason why this particular epidemic isn't going away anytime soon.