Despite debilitating disease, former Alabama fullback takes brain-injury message to Washington
By Mark Inabinett | minabinett@al.com
Published June 26, 2014, 01:22:09 PM
(http://media.al.com/sports_impact/photo/kevin-turner-2e63bd1bf8fbc7e0.jpg)Former Alabama and NFL fullback Kevin Turner served as a panelist at a legislative briefing on the long-term consequences of sports-related brain injuries and concussions for the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging and the Congressional Brain Injury Task Force. Turner said only a few words on Wednesday in Washington - not because he didn't have plenty he wanted to say, but because the disease that's taking his life bit by bit makes it hard for him to be understood.
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