Tag: Athletes
Olympic athletes excel at their sports but are susceptible to unproven...
Nicholas B. Tiller, University of California, Los Angeles
Australian Olympic swimmer Kyle Chalmers earned a silver medal and his...
What would the ancient Greeks think of an Olympics with no...
Vincent Farenga, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Because of a dramatic rise in COVID-19 cases, the...
Colleges are eliminating sports teams – and runners and golfers are...
Molly Ott, Arizona State University and Janet Lawrence, University of Michigan
North Carolina Central University, a historically Black college,...
Colleges are eliminating sports teams – and runners and golfers are...
Molly Ott, Arizona State University and Janet Lawrence, University of Michigan
North Carolina Central University, a historically Black college,...
Even if you’re asymptomatic, COVID-19 can harm your heart, study shows...
Partho Sengupta, West Virginia University
COVID-19 can do some pretty scary things to the human heart. It can trigger blood clots in severe cases and...
The Kobe legacy: Should the NBA let high school players skip...
Nicole Kraft, The Ohio State University
Less than a decade after 18-year-old Kobe Bryant got drafted into the NBA in 1996, the league made all...
Why it matters that more athletes are talking about their mental...
John Affleck, Pennsylvania State University
The great basketball writer Jackie MacMullan recently stood at the front of a hotel ballroom in Tampa taking questions after...
Stiff muscles are a counterintuitive superpower of NBA athletes
Philip Anloague, University of Dayton
For most people, the term “stiffness” has negative connotations. When you wake up in the morning complaining of a “stiff...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
