Adopt-a-Park Programs Improve Community Green Spaces
"Great parks make great neighborhoods," says Alex Moroz, quoting the simple philosophy driving the adopt-a-park program in Hamilton, Ont.
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Building Sponsors into the Design of Spectator Facilities
Few professional venues have enjoyed as smooth and quick a route to success as MetLife Stadium.
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Club Chains Should Level with Potential Franchisees
We must be in the wrong business. If we owned a fitness franchise, rather than our privately owned facilities, we'd be wildly successful while rarely going to work.
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Exercise Intervention Policies in Campus Fitness Centers
Today's generation of incoming college freshmen expect a college to deliver the full package — not just a good education, but the latest technology, luxurious dorms, state-of-the art buildings, an elite athletic program and of course, an extensive offering of recreational activities to keep them busy outside of class.
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Former Wrestler Hudson Taylor Champions Tolerance
As a member of the nation's top-ranked high school wrestling team, Hudson Taylor was subjected to homophobic taunts as a teen.
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Gaps in Glass Walls Allow for Movement of Air and Sound
Noise is something that most facility owners would prefer to keep from escaping the fitness center and affecting other facility users. Not so at Missouri Southern State University's Beimdiek Recreation Center.
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How to Weed Out Trouble-Making High School Sports Fans
In a brief but volatile confrontation with a referee officiating his daughter's basketball game at Albuquerque, N.M.'s Volcano Vista High School in January, Paul Alfaro flung a vulgarity the official's way.
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New Projects: University at Albany; Le Moyne College; Marlins Park
The University at Albany (above) plans to break ground this month on a new athletic and recreation complex.
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School Districts Embrace Monolithic Domes as Gymnasiums
Ninety minutes before tipoff of the first basketball games scheduled in the Archie (Mo.) R-V School District’s new gymnasium on Jan. 20, staff members were still cleaning up from its seven-month construction.
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Sprint Football is Witnessing a Growth Spurt
Bruce Kirsh has been associated with Franklin Pierce University for more than four decades as a student-athlete, coach and administrator.
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Stadium Security Professionals Urged to Remain Diligent
It hasn't happened. By due diligence or pure luck, no major outdoor spectator venue in the United States has experienced a significant security breach — much less an act of premeditated, catastrophic terrorism — in the decade since the Sept. 11 attacks.
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