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Mumps and the NHL: How Safe Are Sports Teams?

Mumps and the NHL: How Safe Are Sports Teams?

In a year when ebola has claimed center stage in health concerns, it is ironically a childhood disease that is attempting to bring the NHL to a screec...

SFIA: Structured Team Sports Play Rising, Casual Play Decreasing

SFIA: Structured Team Sports Play Rising, Casual Play Decreasing

Kids are dropping out of pick-up games. While team sports participation is up in the U.S., it’s rising in a far more structured way than in years past...

The New Hat in the Olympic Ring

The New Hat in the Olympic Ring

At a time when nobody seems to want to throw their hat into the Olympic bidding war, there has been a most unlikely contender -- the District of Colum...

Legal Experts: Teams Not Able to Suppress Athletes' Freedom of Speech

Legal Experts: Teams Not Able to Suppress Athletes' Freedom of Speech

You talk, you walk? Perhaps not. Although a number of teams, as well as schools, athletic programs and more have either (a) forbidden athletes to disc...

No Wi-Fi? No Chance of Gaining Fans

No Wi-Fi? No Chance of Gaining Fans

Times were, you only worried about two things regarding your seat at sports events: how close you were to the action, and how far you were from the re...

OlympicRings

Brazilian Judge Allows Olympic Golf Course Construction to Proceed

Environmental activists and developers are never going to be friends, but now you can add another party to the Hatfield and McCoy list: Golf enthusias...

Port Congestion: The Sports Fitness Industry Association Weighs In

Port Congestion: The Sports Fitness Industry Association Weighs In

Worried about port congestion potentially affecting holiday shipments, the Sports Fitness Industry Association has appealed to Pres. Obama.

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Electronic Ink Technology for Smart Clothes? DuPont is Banking on It

Clothing that can detect wi-fi and enhance your workout? It's here.

Virtually Gifted in Sports: Video Gaming Scholarships

Virtually Gifted in Sports: Video Gaming Scholarships

Admittedly, it sounds like a plotline out of the movie, “Revenge of the Nerds,” but it’s true: one college is offering student-athletes scholarships b...

Parkour Raises Profile of Quirky Urban Athletic Movement

Parkour Raises Profile of Quirky Urban Athletic Movement

Once termed “the sport of nerds,” parkour, or urban obstacle course athletics, is now catching on globally thanks to smart phone cams and YouTube.