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Methods used to get athletes to their peak would be unacceptable outside of the stadium, but success papers over a lot of cracks.
Like George Washington, Colin Kaepernick is willing to sacrifice for America.
Virtual reality technology is a radical departure from traditional video presentation, with myriad applications in both consumer media and in athletic practice.
Companies can help both society and the bottom line by spending the price of a 30-second Super Bowl spot on something that benefits society.
Once the stuff of tweeting birds and rolling cartoon eyes, bumps on the head are now linked to dementia. Will Smith’s latest movie tells how sports authorities tried to cover it up.
For coaches like Ohio State’s Urban Meyer, it’s not just about X’s and O’s.
In what’s looking more and more like a power grab, the NFL and Goodell may have overplayed their hand.
It turns out professional football players are perfect lab rats for labor experiments, and the answer has implications well beyond the NFL.
“The worst call in Super Bowl history,” read a headline in my hometown Seattle Times after Seahawks’ head coach Pete Carroll seemingly threw the game away with his ill-fated decision to pass – rather than…
Seattle Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman gets called a lot of things. He calls himself the greatest cornerback in the NFL (and Seattle fans tend to agree). Sportswriters and some other players call…
News reports say that 11 of the 12 game balls used by the New England Patriots in their AFC championship game against the Indianapolis Colts were deflated, showing about 2 pounds per square inch (psi…
The cascade of woes that have befallen former NFL players has stunned fans and casual observers. Former NFL stars Junior Seau and Dave Duerson committed suicide. All-pro Warren Sapp went bankrupt after…
The sports media has a fascination with concussions. Not only is there a huge volume of stories about the issue, but there’s also an urgency to the tone of the reporting. The heightened coverage has served…
This fall, the deaths of three high school football players were linked to direct head injuries on the field of play and one collegiate football player’s death has been potentially attributed to unresolved…
Parents, government officials, and tuition-paying students are all seeking solutions to the skyrocketing costs of higher education and the burden of student debt. Currently, public universities in America…
As yet another NFL player stands accused of domestic violence, it is beginning to look as though the sport is riddled with wife-beaters and child-abusers. By apparently sweeping such behaviour under the…
On Wednesday the US Patent and Trademark Office cancelled the US trademark registration for the Washington Redskins football team. This is a big victory for Native American groups, and an important development…
In 1863, the newly formed English Football Association (FA) drew up and published the first Laws of the Game of football. The aim was to provide a set of universal rules to govern the various forms of…
The XLVIII (that’s the 48th) contest has been held in New York and be fought out by the Seattle Seahawks and the Denver Broncos, with the Seahawks crushing the Broncos 43-8. Fox TV, which broadcast the…
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Knight Chair in Sports Journalism and Society, Penn State
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Associate Professor of Clinical Communication, The Ohio State University
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Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Communication, Media, and Film, University of Calgary
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Associate Professor of Physics, Union College
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Head of Centre for Professional and Economic Development, University of Chester
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Associate Professor of Markets, Public Policy and Law, Boston University
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Assistant Professor of Kinesiology, Penn State
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Associate Professor of Sports Media; Director of the National Sports Journalism Center, Indiana University
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Director of Sport, Performance and Health, Heriot-Watt University
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Dean, Richard J. Bolte, Sr. School of Business, Mount St. Mary's University, Mount Saint Mary College
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Professor of Sport and Geopolitical Economy, SKEMA Business School
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Director of Undergraduate Studies, School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, Cardiff University
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