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Junior Seau, 1969-2012

NFL stunned by Junior Seau’s death

Follows deaths of other athletes with brain trauma

By Greg A. Bedard

 |  Globe Staff  

  May 03, 2012

The league, beset by deaths of players with brain trauma, must now hunt for answers after Seau died in what police said was likely a suicide.

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