Tag: athletics
Imaginary athletes: Creating make-believe teammates, competitors and coaches during play
Tracy Gleason, Wellesley College and Stephanie Madsen, McDaniel College
The coach, the specialized equipment, the carefully tailored exercise regimen...
MLB home run counts are rising – and global warming is...
Christopher W. Callahan, Dartmouth College and Justin S. Mankin, Dartmouth College
Home runs are exhilarating – those lofting moments...
Pickleball’s uphill climb to mainstream success
Josh Woods, West Virginia University
Most newer sports are hybrids of older ones, and pickleball is no exception. The...
Dunkology 101: How the NBA could take a more scientific approach...
Justin Barber, University of Kentucky
I grew up watching some of the greatest slam dunk artists in the world.
50-year-old muscles just can’t grow big like they used to –...
Roger Fielding, Tufts University
There is perhaps no better way to see the absolute pinnacle of human athletic abilities...
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,...
How high school sports became the latest battleground over transgender rights
Elizabeth A. Sharrow, University of Massachusetts Amherst
This year, 20 states proposed to ban transgender girls – meaning those assigned male at birth but who...
EXPLORING NATURE
Trump’s EPA decides climate change doesn’t endanger public health – the...
Jonathan Levy, Boston University; Howard Frumkin, University of Washington; Jonathan Patz, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Vijay Limaye, University of Wisconsin-Madison
