Tag: Athletes
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...
Is it immoral to watch football?
Francisco Javier López Frías, Pennsylvania State University and Cesar R. Torres, The College at Brockport, State University of New York
For a large swath of...
How Olympic athletes grapple with life once the thrill is gone
Edward Etzel, West Virginia University
Hundreds of Winter Olympians around the world are saying farewell to the thrill of a lifetime. While a handful will...
When treating sports injuries, does the West do it best?
Nate Newman, Drake University
Every two years, billions of people watch athletes at the Olympics compete to be crowned world champion.
What the viewer doesn’t...
EXPLORING NATURE
Trump’s ‘God Squad’ pits energy vs. endangered species, but it’s a...
Dan Salas, University of Illinois Chicago
There’s a well-worn debate in U.S. politics that goes something like this: Would...
