You are correct. The law, referred to as HIPPA (Health Insurance  
Portability and Privacy Act) has had some pretty ludicrous results in  
this area. Injuries are now reduced to generic pabulum: "So-and-so  
will miss 6 weeks with a lower extremity injury", and so forth. Most  
of the time, any accurate information is leaked, unverifiable,  and  
not for attribution.

I suspect that, on the college level, there has been helpful input  
from the greatest legal minds at the NCAA.
--Jeff Partnow
--Fairbanks


On Dec 3, 2006, at 10:02 PM, J. Michael Neal wrote:

> Clay Satow wrote:
>> I've always thought that the real reason that some sports (mainly  
>> the NFL) are so anal about
>> reporting injuries is gambling.
>>
>> If I'm a fan, and a particular player isn't playing, I might be  
>> curious, but I don't feel like I
>> have some right to know.  I recognize that my view on that may be  
>> off the mainstream.
> Actually, under current health privacy law, these lists are  
> borderline illegal.Health conditions are required to remain  
> private.  I can only assume that sports leagues have received some  
> sort of waiver, though I have never heard that they have.

<<snip, hack, chop....>>