Friday night football is a proud tradition at J.H. Rose High School in Greenville, N.C. But when a star player for the four-time state champions died after a 2008 game from “second-impact syndrome,” changes were made to the way the school approaches the sport. With reports of football concussions on the rise, Dr. Sanjay Gupta shows why developing young brains are especially vulnerable to injury, and documents how the school has created a collaboration with East Carolina University to monitor players’ brain health. Saturday, Feb. 4, at 8 p.m., CNN
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