As concussions continue to be a huge concern at all levels of football, helmet companies continue to make strides in player safety and reduce the risk of head injuries. In 2014, Riddell took a huge ...

Head injuries are a hot-button issue in football. A number of products, like the Reebok CheckLight and Riddell's Insite Impact Response System, help identify and rate the severity of concussive hits.

As concussions continue to be a big topic of conversation at all levels of football, companies that make equipment continue to look for ways to make the game safer for players, specifically when it ...

Several college football programs will be using the new Riddell SpeedFlex helmet and InSite Impact Response System in 2014. The helmet is designed to disperse energy, reducing the risk of trauma, ...

Although we may admire older cars' ability to "hold together" in a collision, it's now generally accepted that it's safer for vehicles to feature impact-absorbing crumple zones. With that in mind, ...

If you're a college football fan -- and especially if you're a fan of one of the big Division I programs like Texas, LSU, Florida or Alabama -- you may have noticed some recent tweets like these: New ...

Riddell sporting goods' SpeedFlex football helmet has gained a lot of attention this year. Riddell has tried to set a new standard with the headgear, incorporating a new facemask, shell, chinstrap ...

Football is a high-impact sport. Even though the phrase is common sense, it doesn’t make us any less desensitized when we see a hit that leaves a player unconscious on the ground. It’s a scary image.

If you think some NFL and college football helmets have a new design this year, it's because many of them do. The latest — and most expensive to date — football helmet from Rosemont-based sporting ...

The grace period for 32 players and their outdated helmets is at its end. And for Tom Brady, like New England Patriots teammate Stephen Gostkowski, his Riddell VSR-4 has been hung up for the final ...