'Baby Steps' in Diet and Exercise Help Get People Moving
You eat too much. You don't exercise enough. You're going to die ugly. How's that for uplifting lunchtime entertainment? et we keep getting asked back to speak with community groups and local employers to deliver that message. ...
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Broken Lockers: Repair or Replace?
When Kim Clark took over as the University of Houston's director of campus recreation in 2012, one of the first things she noticed was the poor condition of the lockers. ...
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Despite Early Criticism, Appreciation of Barclays Center Grows
They dreamed of titanium. They got rusted steel. The most fraught sports-architecture design process in recent years ended in late September with the opening of the Barclays Center, the new home of the Brooklyn Nets and the future home (it was announced in late October) of the New York Islanders.
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Locker Reuse at Center of Locker Room Renovation
One might have expected the renovation of Brooklawn Country Club’s men’s locker room to yield new custom wood lockers, but members of the Fairfield, Conn., private club wouldn't hear of losing their cage-style metal lockers, which are valued by members and management for their history, large size and superior ventilation.
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New Projects: Rock Chalk Park, Jacksonville U., Anchorage Skate Park
Construction is expected to begin this month on a renovation and expansion of the Bielenberg Sports Center in Woodbury, Minn. ...
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Parks Departments Regulate Private Fitness Classes
Santa Monica's Palisades Park is one of the city's most popular green spaces. Perhaps a little too popular. Stretching along the California coast, the park is an excellent place for a jog or leisurely stroll or just to relax and enjoy the ocean view. ...
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Rural Schools, Medical Facilities Partner for Athletic Training Services
Athletic trainer Jodie Smith has logged more than 2,500 miles in a single month, traveling between eight schools in and around Billings, Mont. Seven of those schools are K-12 facilities, with the number of high school students at each one ranging from 21 to almost 300. ...
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Scholars React to Cancellation of NCAA Colloquium
The writing was on the wall beginning last summer, when for the first time in the six-year history of the NCAA-sponsored Scholarly Colloquium on Intercollegiate Athletics, the NCAA News failed to promote a call for papers. ...
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SITES Program Promotes Sustainable Landscape Design
In the shadow of a large TV tower on the south campus of Grand Valley State University, ducks, geese and cranes gather in ponds ringed by native grasses and plant life.
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Social Media Complicating Efforts to Oversee Student-Athlete Behavior
John Williams now realizes how close Ocean Lakes High School in Virginia Beach, Va., came to being sued for violating a student-athlete's First Amendment rights. ...
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Sports Injury Expert Dawn Comstock Talks Concussion Prevention
There are few better brains to pick on the subject of prep sports injuries than the one residing in Dawn Comstock's head. Eight years ago, the injury epidemiologist joined the faculty at Ohio State University and established as her first major research initiative the National High School Sports-Related Injury Surveillance System — an NFHS-endorsed online tool that hundreds of certified athletic trainers across the country use weekly to report injury exposure and incidents, logging up to 300 distinct variables for each injury in the process.
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