Tag: sports
Winter Olympians often compete in freezing temperatures – physiology and advances...
Cara Ocobock, University of Notre Dame and Gabriel R. Burks, University of Notre Dame
The Winter Olympics and Paralympics...
What Olympic athletes see that viewers don’t: Machine-made snow makes ski...
Keith Musselman, University of Colorado Boulder and Agnes Macy, University of Colorado Boulder
When viewers tune in to the...
Broncos say their new stadium will be ‘privately financed,’ but ‘private’...
Geoffrey Propheter, University of Colorado Denver
The Denver Broncos announced in early September 2025 their plan to build a...
Japan’s sumo association turns 100 – but the sport’s rituals have...
Jessamyn R. Abel, Penn State
A visitor to Japan who wanders into a sumo tournament might be forgiven for...
Baseball returns to a Japanese American detention camp after a historic...
Susan H. Kamei, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
In the spring of 1942, 15-year-old Momo Nagano...
Watchdog journalism’s future may lie in the work of independent reporters...
Alex Volonte, University of Florida
In September 2025, podcaster Pablo Torre published an investigation alleging that the NBA’s Los...
Are high school sports living up to their ideals?
Jedediah Blanton, University of Tennessee and Scott Pierce, Illinois State University
Coach Smith was an easy hire as the...
Some pro athletes keep getting better as they age − neuroscience...
Fiddy Davis Jaihind Jothikaran, Hope College
In a world where sports are dominated by youth and speed, some athletes...
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
