• Coaches, doctors to form concussion study group: A group of coaches, doctors, equipment manufacturers and parents will study concussions and brain trauma injuries, hoping to consolidate information that will make all sports safer. The National Sports Concussion Cooperative was formed Monday by the American Football Coaches Association; the University of North Carolina’s traumatic brain injury research center; the Matthew Gfeller Foundation; and Rawlings Sporting Goods. The group will gather leaders from key industries and focus groups dealing with such injuries. Its first meeting is scheduled for early May.

—From wire reports