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About 47 million adults in the US are expected to gamble on March Madness this year. A growing share of the bets will actually be legal.
Sponsorship, whereby a mentor in a powerful role advocates for a mentee, is what’s needed for women to advance in coaching.
Sports training often involves exposure to challenging situations to boost performance. But this can cross the line into emotional abuse. Here’s how to recognise when that happens.
Be careful before you rush your kids into so-called “talent identification” sports programs – you might be putting a whole lifetime of enjoyable exercise at risk.
Run, leap, scramble…it’s parkour! Science can help you run up walls more efficiently, and chose the best way to land from a height.
A standard clinical MRI is not sensitive to the distributed and microscopic injuries in a concussed brain. But new discoveries are in the pipeline.
The Toronto Raptors have the money to attract the NBA’s top players. Here’s why the league’s salary caps makes that so difficult.
No ordinary sports writer: Hugh McIlvanney was one of the greats of 20th century journalism.
A new study looks at decades of NCAA free throws, finding that women shoot at 3 percent higher consistency than men.
Canadian speed skater and cyclist Clara Hughes, British tennis player Andy Murray and American gymnast Simone Biles all have something in common: adverse childhood experiences.
The main sporting venues in Australian capitals have had an upgrade in recent times, with the notable exception of Sydney, where leaders seem mired in indecision and political bickering.
If you’ve been injury-free in your current sports shoe, and you’re performing at a level you are happy with, you may already have the right shoes on your feet.
Calgary is the latest city to reject bidding for the Olympics. A lack of a vision for the city and a council concerned with short-term political gains explain why an Olympic plebiscite was defeated.
With the World Chess Championship set to begin Nov. 9 in London, Alexey Root, who teaches online courses about chess in education, tackles some myths and unknowns about the royal game.
Physical education is for every body - as long as it’s male.
Anti-doping laboratories have historically worked well, but the anti-doping organisations themselves lack oversight.
A disc-golf boom is coinciding with a ball-golf bust.
On the front lines were female tennis players who refused to adhere to the club dress codes that banned them.
Recent research shows that the heart is affected when the head takes a blow, in sports-related concussion.
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Knight Chair in Sports Journalism and Society, Penn State
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Chair of Sport and Head of the Academy of Sport, The University of Edinburgh
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Professor of Sport Management, University of Michigan
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Professor of Sport and Geopolitical Economy, SKEMA Business School
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Professor of Sociology, West Virginia University
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Assistant Professor, Sport Management, Brock University
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Associate Professor, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Professor of Physics, University of Lynchburg
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Professor of Communications, Howard University
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Assistant Professor, Kinesiology, Western University
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Professor Emerita of Sociology and Equity Studies in Education, University of Toronto
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Associate Professor of Markets, Public Policy and Law, Boston University
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Senior lecturer in Screen Media, Victoria University
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Emeritus Professor of Cultural Research, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University
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James Walker is a Friend of The Conversation.
Emeritus Professor of Communication, Saint Xavier University
