Former University of Kansas fullback Christopher Powell alleges in a lawsuit that the NCAA failed to adequately protect athletes from head trauma. The class-action lawsuit, filed this week in the in the U.S. District Court for Western Missouri, seeks an undetermined amount in damages for Powell and other athletes who suffered head trauma in college, The Topeka Capital-Journal (http://bit.ly/18vrHlS) reported. Powell, of Kansas City, Mo., said in his filing he had at least four concussions while playing for Kansas from 1990 to 1994. He alleges that said the NCAA was negligent in its ''failure to take effective action to protect players and/or inform players of the true risks associated with concussions, brain injury and brain trauma.'' The University of Kansas is not a named defendant in Powell's suit. More...