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Brain. it raises a lot of concern about the long-term consequences of the game. here to talk about it is assistant professor of neurology at the icon school of medicine in mount sinai hospital here in new york city. dr. joshua cohen. wow. you know, we saw this report this morning, and so much focus has been on concussions, specifically in the nfl and with college football players, and now this study shows that the white matter in the brain becomes abnormal just from playing the game. what are we to make from this? >> we know there are changes in the brain, and a lot of people have thought that...

Dinner. >> and the rules to keep more than 340 division i schools, and you need something to the keep the chaos under control, and some of them are arcane and for a athlete to get or a student to get food off of the mealplan after 7:00 p.m., and so he is not starving to go to bed. >> but he seem ed to -- and supportive and said that the idea of unionizing was kind of a good idea here, and the conversation is not what time the meal plan allows you the eat, but if there is momentum following northwestern? >>, and yes, as you pointed out lawmakers in ckentucky are looking into it, too, and whethe...

Giants broadcaster whose career in the nfl covered 12 seasons and one super bowl victory with tampa bay. and alhandra cansino. what is it that the players actually want? >> medical coverage. they want to be able to have all full rights as employees. i think the ironic part of this for me is that only 23 out of 228 division i programs operate in a surplus. everything else is -- they have a deficit. so this argument that's been made should college athletes get paid is always based on what the bigger programs are doing. oklahoma, alabama. those type of schools. but this is northwestern, where you...

Players are being left behind. players put their minds and their bodies at risk, not the ncaa. in 2012, the ncaa put a record amount of revenue at $841 million. it distributed $522 million to division i schools that played in the march madness men's basketball tournament. in 2010 the ncaa reached a 14-year $10.8 billion deal with cbs network and turner broadcasting to cover the basketball tournament known traditionally as march madness. that's $770 million a year. the facts are simple. student-athletes are doing all the work and putting their bodies at risk as the ncaa rakes in all the cash. i...

Notre dame, which brings in a billion dollars a year, on and on and on and if this is successful, it begins that domino effect of other schools doing the same thing. how many teams remain division i if this is the go? how many would drop down to division ii and where does it go from there. it just gets bigger and bigger as this goes up the chain of the courts and the different venues. >> i make no secret of the fact i'm a huge fan of college football and i can't imagine the change that would happen on my favorite place on earth if this went through. i don't want to be selfish about it. >> i kn...