

Pro Football Hall of Famer and Southern University coach Marshall Faulk announced he has been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, saying medication has limited his symptoms to hand rigidity and that he hopes going public will help others.

Pro Football Hall of Famer and Southern University coach Marshall Faulk announced he has been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, saying medication has limited his symptoms to hand rigidity and that he hopes going public will help others.
After Junior Seau, the league swore it would change. Committees. Rule tweaks. A lot of grave talk and zero action. That ended in nothing, as usual. Faulk’s case differs in one ugly detail: he’s still here to say it out loud. Parkinson’s doesn’t wait for a posthumous diagnosis or a settlement check. It just moves in and stays.