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Junior Seau was a football player. For close to thirty years of his life, from high school to being an All-American at USC to a 20-year career in the NFL, he was a football player. If we exclude ...

Junior Seau had just turned 21 when the San Diego Chargers selected him with the fifth overall pick in the 1990 NFL draft, but he was already fully formed as everything a linebacker should be. Seau, ...

Get a compelling long read and must-have lifestyle tips in your inbox every Sunday morning — great with coffee! Junior Seau didn’t just commit suicide last week. He probably killed football itself.

Junior Seau is a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame. The hall announced its Class of 2015 on the eve of the Super Bowl in a ceremony at Phoenix Symphony Hall. The former New England Patriots ...

Friends, family and former teammates are still reeling from the suicide of Junior Seau. While much is still unclear over Seau’s motives, the leading suspicion is that any depression he had may have ...

Did the game Junior Seau loved help take his life? We don't know. We don't know why one of the greatest linebackers of his generation shot himself in the chest Wednesday and died at 43, leaving behind ...

Former USC and San Diego Chargers football star Junior Seau sustained injuries Monday morning after the car he was driving plunged off a cliff in San Diego County. Officials told Fox 5 San Diego that ...

Junior Seau committed suicide in San Diego on Wednesday, and in the wake of a tragedy, we’re left with more questions than ever about concussions, depression and the NFL. “To see that guy bleed,” ...

Junior Seau was a local legend as a three-sport star at Oceanside High and later became one of the most dominant NFL linebackers of his era with the San Diego Chargers. Seau, 43, died of an apparent ...

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