Biometrics Becoming Popular for Access Control at Rec Facilities
The very word biometrics tends to evoke scenes from sci-fi movies or thoughts of political intrigue. Despite that cachet, biometrics has evolved into a rather practical tool in access control.
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Campus Rec Centers Serve as Incubators for Professional Development
Nick Davidson came to Davenport University five and a half years ago as a part-time assistant men’s basketball coach and was soon put in charge of recreation and intramurals.
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Clubs Benefit from Aggressive Collections Efforts
One of the smartest business decisions we've made in recent years was to become more aggressive with our collections procedures for overdue accounts.
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Design Details: Lighter-Weight Skylight Saves on Cost
There's nothing light about a typical large skylight. Much of the cost of bringing natural illumination into a lobby space is a result of weight, of the glass and frame, and of the structure required to hold it up.
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Economy Affects Fundraising for College Athletic Facilities
That college sports can be big business isn’t exactly breaking news. Nor is the institutional strain that exists between academics and athletics.
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High School Senior Ruled One Day Too Old to Play Basketball
The primary goal of every state high school athletic association is to develop rules and regulations that ensure fair and safe play.
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New Efforts to Revive Structured Physical Education Abound
Most school gymnasiums are filled more often than not these days — hosting much-needed blood drives, fundraisers for vital school and community needs, and revenue-generating offseason sports camps.
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New Projects: North Richland Hills; TCU; Auburn University Montgomery
Following Texas Christian University’s undefeated football season that ended with a Rose Bowl victory over Wisconsin, a $105 million renovation of Amon G. Carter Stadium began on the Fort Worth campus.
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One on One: Eddie Canales Helps Catastrophically Injured Athletes
The first anniversary of the November 2001 night that saw his teenage son break his neck making a touchdown-saving tackle had just passed, and Eddie Canales could see that Chris, the all-state punter who had entertained multiple college scholarship offers, was shutting down — the realization that he would never get out of a wheelchair sinking in.
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Overly Aggressive Workouts Put Athletes at Risk of Rhabdomyolysis
A University of Iowa investigation into the January hospitalization of 13 football players has determined that an intense exercise regimen on the heels of a three-week layoff from supervised workouts was the cause of the players' rhabdomyolysis, a potentially fatal breakdown of muscle fibers into the bloodstream, where excess proteins can clog the kidneys and cause renal failure.
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School, Park Districts Explore Partnership to Save Sports
When Rockford (Ill.) Public Schools announced two weeks into 2011 that it was exploring a partnership that would transfer operation of interscholastic sports to the Rockford Park District, school officials cited several benefits.
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Synthetic Turf Fields Benefitting from Latest Fiber Technology
The Tampa Bay Rays have played on synthetic turf since their inaugural season in 1998, but the surface installed at Tropicana Field this past offseason is different.
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UConn Drama Shows a Darker Side of Donor Relations
In a brutally frank and occasionally vitriolic five-page letter to University of Connecticut athletic director Jeff Hathaway, publishing magnate Robert Burton repeatedly cited the millions of dollars he'd donated to the school as evidence that he'd been snubbed in the search process for a new head football coach.
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