Two-A-Days: High Schools Tread Where NFL, NCAA Fear

Some high schools have already begun playing football games, but other teams are still entrenched in a time-honored tradition that the NFL and NCAA have either limited or done away with: two-a-day practices. While the pros eliminated two full-contact practices on the same day as part of new rules designed to curb concussions - and colleges have placed restrictions on them since 2003 - The Washington Post reports that two-a-days remain a staple in the high school ranks.

Coaches told reporter James Wagner that two-a-days are conducted partly out of necessity and partly out of tradition. But if that is, indeed, the case, medical experts think high school athletics administrators need to rethink their priorities in the wake of increased concussions and heat-related illnesses and deaths.

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