A UH study finds that the practice of using electrocardiograms on high school athletes may not accurately detect heart ailments that cause sudden cardiac death, and may not be an efficient use of time or money.
Most concussions deliver a force of 95Gs to the human body, reports head injury expert Kim Gorgens of the University of Denver. Football players absorb 103Gs on their hits.
Research shows body reveals early clues to direction of soccer penalty kicks.
Whether you’re an elite athlete or weekend sports warrior, muscle cramps can affect performance. Research done by a North Dakota State University professor may shed light on how to alleviate them. Kevin C. Miller, Ph.D., certified athletic trainer and assistant professor of health, nutrition and exercise science at NDSU, investigates whether pickle juice affects muscle cramps.
Physics experts at the University of Adelaide believe the new ball created for the 2010 World Cup, called the Jabulani, will play "harder and faster", bending more unpredictably than its predecessor.
Williams College math professor Frank Morgan is keeping an eye out for Major League hitters who veer toward the dugout on their way to first base. While at first glance this route might not seem the best way to start a sprint toward home plate, Morgan says his calculations prove it’s the fastest way around the diamond.
For Tate Wagers, the big race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway this month comes two days before the scheduled 94th running of the Indianapolis 500 Mile Race.
Moving from the inner circles of professional automotive racing to the halls of academia has given Andrew Borme the second life he’s wanted - teaching a new generation of motorsports engineers .
Growing up in the northern Indiana town of Granger, Nicholas Hawes played football and other sports. But along came the IUPUI Motorsports program and he is now working trackside at IndyCar Series events.
Now in its second year, the motorsports engineering program at IUPUI enrolls nearly 60 students from more than 16 states. As the first U.S. university to offer a bachelor’s degree in motorsports engineering, IUPUI is placing those students on fast tracks to careers across the motorsports industry
Summer camps for cheerleading and dance are coming up and aspiring sideline spirit squad members and those already members of teams will participate.
Much of the world’s population will be watching as the FIFA World Cup soccer tournament begins June 11 in South Africa. A majority of those fans will be outside the United States however, where soccer has never been able to gain the popular foothold it enjoys in many of the world’s nations. Several reasons exist for this phenomenon, says Stephan Schindler, PhD, professor of German at Washington University in St. Louis, who has taught courses on the global culture of soccer.
Michigan Tech exercise scientists find that on-ice testing provides a more accurate prediction of hockey players' fitness.
Martin Brodeur is considered one of the best NHL goaltenders of all time, certainly the best of his era, but a new study from the University of Iowa suggests that there's not much difference between Brodeur and an average NHL goalie.
Southeastern Louisiana University English Professor Norman German’s recently published novel about minor league baseball in the ‘50s ("Switch-Pitchers) has been added to the Baseball Hall of Fame’s library in Cooperstown, N.Y.
Just how much does Tiger Woods dominate professional golf? This mathematicians can put a number on it.
As Tiger Woods resumes tournament play, the big marketing question is whether it will benefit the PGA,” says University of Maryland consumer psychologist Stephen McDaniel, an expert in sports marketing and fan behavior. “If it’s just morbid curiosity, all the publicity probably won’t translate into a sustained increase in tournament viewership.”
Professor who studies sports streakiness and probability can discuss NCAA games and matchups.
Candid and engaging memoir recounts player's two seasons as “Jackie Robinson in reverse".
At the University of New Hampshire, where hockey dominates the athletic scene, the sport is not just a game or a Friday night spectator tradition. It’s the subject of academic inquiry for 20 students each semester who take “The Coolest Game? Hockey and History,” a research and writing-intensive course taught by hockey historian Stephen Hardy.
A new University of Michigan study supports what college football fans and rabid tailgaters already knew: Nothing can keep diehard fans away from tailgate parties on game day.
Author Rob Fink explores baseball in Texas before integration in rich and revealing book.
Whether they win or lose in the upcoming NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament, one outcome is certain: coaches will follow predictable patterns in what they say after the game. Wake Forest professor John Llewellyn has studied those patterns for years and calls it coachtalk.
Soon Americans nationwide will begin poring over NCAA men's basketball tournament brackets as they attempt to pick winners. New research suggests sticking to the numbers and foregoing the temptation to pick the inevitable upsets.
Olympic fever continues through March, as three UNH athletes compete in the Paralympic Winter Games in Vancouver, March 12 – 21, 2010. The athletes, who trained with UNH’s Northeast Passage, are senior Taylor Chace of Hampton Falls, N.H., a sled hockey player, and mono-skiers Tyler Walker ’08, of Franconia, N.H. and Laurie Stephens ’07, of Wenham, Mass.
Kerry Whisnant, an Iowa State University professor of physics and astronomy, will present a paper about his formula to predict baseball success to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan Sports Analytics Conference.
University of Arkansas counseling education faculty have developed and taught a rigorous life skills course that puts student-athlete research into practice.
Indiana U. distance running expert Robert Chapman discusses the four biggest mistakes runners make when training for 13.1- and 26.2-mile races, just as the training season for spring half-marathons kicks in.
University of Utah scientists developed an easier way to predict snowfall amounts and density – fluffy powder or wet cement. The method has been adopted by the National Weather Service for use throughout Utah and could be adjusted for use anywhere.
Shane Murphy, PhD, is a licensed psychologist and associate professor of Psychology at Western Connecticut State University. He is the founder of Gold Medal Psychological Consultants, which teaches business and sport organizations the competitive skills that lead to success. Dr. Murphy was head of the U. S. Olympic Committee’s Sport Psychology Department from 1987 to 1994 and associate director of the USOC Sport Science Division from 1992 to 1994.
There is hope for Tiger Woods to redeem his career and his sponsorships, according to according to Jennifer Regina, an adjunct professor of marketing at Rowan University, Glassboro, N.J.
Nick Smith, assistant professor of philosophy at the University of New Hampshire and author of “I Was Wrong: The Meaning of Apologies” (2008, Cambridge University Press) is available to discuss golfer Tiger Woods’ anticipated public apology this morning and apologies by public figures in general.
Nick Smith, assistant professor of philosophy at the University of New Hampshire and author of “I Was Wrong: The Meaning of Apologies” (2008, Cambridge University Press) is available to discuss golfer Tiger Woods’ anticipated public apology this morning and apologies by public figures in general.
A few minor variations in one gene may make a difference in athletic endurance, according to a new study from Physiological Genomics.
Indiana U. altitude training expert Robert Chapman discusses how altitude can affect Olympic winter skill sports such as snowboarding and ski jumping, not just endurance athletes, and can give sprinters an edge – but not this year.
Sports management professor Stephen Dittmore, who was a staff member for the 1996 and 2002 Olympics, comments on changes in the Olympics, including the need for the International Olympic Committee to consider the impact of increasing professionalism.
Using state-of-the-art flow measurements, engineering professor Timothy Wei and students at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y., are employing science and technology to help the U.S. skeleton team trim track times and gain an edge over other sliders.
For the third straight Olympics, students from Ithaca College will be assisting behind the scenes as NBC televises the world’s biggest sporting event.
A new book, College Student-Athletes: Challenges, Opportunities, and Policy Implications, begins a discussion about student-athletes from the perspective of “students first, athletes second.”
Ryerson University experts can offer up expertise from sports psychology to the financial impact large sporting events have on cities in the lead-up to the Olympic Games.
Sahara Byrne, Cornell University assistant professor of communications, comments on the controversial commercials scheduled to air during the Super Bowl, specifically the possible impact of the Focus on the Family (Tim Tebow) commercial.
“There is nothing like it in the world for getting attention from consumers and media outlets,” says marketing expert Scott Hamula of the upcoming Super Bowl XLIV, which will be televised by CBS on Sunday, Feb. 7. Consequently, despite the continued difficulties in the economy, plenty of corporations will be shelling out big money to produce and air Super Bowl commercials.
How do Olympic figure skaters use angular momentum to achieve perfect toe loops? What precision moves do bobsled teams need to reach maximum velocity? How does the way cross county skiers metabolize oxygen increase their endurance? Ithaca College’s Deborah King, associate professor of exercise and sport sciences, is one of the experts NBC Learn and the National Science Foundation asked to answer those questions for their 16-part video series, “The Science of the Olympic Winter Games.”
Temple University sport management professor Emily Sparvero says three major challenges – a struggling economy, decreased interest in the Olympics and disputes among social welfare groups – could hinder the Canadian host city from recouping its investment.
Broomball is an odd winter sport with a fanatic following in snowbound Houghton, Mich., home of Michigan Technological University, where the snowfall often tops 200 inches a year.
Nicole Detling Miller knows honing the mental aspects of sport is a competetive advantage. Now as a "mental coach" she will be sharing those skills with US speedskaters at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games.
Challenging yourself in fitness training is good. But overdoing training is counterproductive to realizing your fitness goals, says Butler University’s Adrian Shepard, assistant director of recreation overseeing fitness. Over-training, also called over-exercising, he said, happens when you’re “not allowing your body the opportunity to adjust, adapt and recuperate in response to the training regimen you’re taking part in.”
Clarkson University honors student Emily Stefano hopes to advance skateboarding by redesigning one of its biggest and most challenging competitive structures: the MegaRamp.
To test three theories that might explain an outfielder’s ability to catch a fly ball, researcher Philip Fink, PhD, from Massey University in New Zealand and Patrick Foo, PhD, from the University of North Carolina at Ashville programmed Brown University’s virtual reality lab, the VENLab, to produce realistic balls and simulate catches. The team then lobbed virtual fly balls to a dozen experienced ball players.
Canadian Institutes of Health Research experts discuss sports and health on the eve of Super Bowl XLIV.
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