Advocate for Victims of Student-Athlete Gender Violence Urges Action
The year 2010 was a particularly violent one in college athletics, and not just on the fields of play. According to research compiled for the National Coalition Against Violent Athletes, Lexis-Nexis searches turned up more than 600 reports of violence perpetrated by student-athletes against women last year.
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Baseline Testing for Concussions Gains Popularity
Nathan Stiles, a senior football player at Spring Hill (Kan.) High School, was playing an epic game against Osawatomie High on a Thursday night last October. He already had 65- and 18-yard touchdown runs when he came out of the game after being tackled near the sideline just before halftime.
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Club-Owner Strategies for Finding, Saving, Managing Cash
This is for all of you who were stumped over the holidays when a relative asked, "So, how's business?" — given that you have no access to capital and your product is considered a discretionary expense by most consumers.
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Design Details: Generous Concourse Encourages Social Spaces
A generous concourse offers ample opportunities for incorporating social spaces into what would otherwise exist solely as a pedestrian thoroughfare. Helping enliven the trip between point A and point B might be a café, an informal seating area or an overlook into an activity space — or one such area that incorporates all three.
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Digital Signage Helps Arena Managers Monetize Concourses
Some within the Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment ranks refer to it as the Gate 1 Spectacle — a 42-screen digital signage mosaic just inside the doors of Toronto's Air Canada Centre.
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High School Loses Retaliation Case
One of the ugly truths in high school and college athletics is that there is some number of sexual predators working as coaches. Through long hours of practices and competition, these individuals gain their players' trust and use their positions to either sexually harass or abuse the young athletes under their supervision.
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Layer of Protection Keeps Fields Looking, Playing Their Best
In one of baseball's enduring scenes, drizzle turns into a steady rain, the home-plate umpire gives a signal and, as the spectators seek cover, the grounds crew looks for one of their own.
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Lock Specification is Key to Locker Room Design
There are few components in any recreation center, aquatics center or health club that nearly every facility user is guaranteed to touch on nearly every visit. One of those components is the locker door lock. And unlike major program spaces or available exercise equipment, locks are unlikely to be one of the amenities that initially draws patrons to a given facility.
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Massive Product Recall Rocks Auto-Belay Industry
Rock climbers take safety seriously. Out on a rock face, they know that only three things stand between them and a catastrophic fall — their equipment (ropes, harnesses, carabiners, anchors and the like), their own skills and the skills of their belayer.
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New Projects: Virginia Beach; Texas A&M; TCU; Auburn
Construction is under way in Virginia Beach, Va., on the Williams Farm Recreation Center. The city enlisted the services of Newport News-based W.M. Jordan Company for the $21 million design-build project, which is expected to be completed in July of next year.
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One on One: Personal Trainer David Geslak Helps Autistic Children
David Geslak's personal training career has taken him from making stronger men of major college football players to changing the diapers of 16-year-old boys. He has no regrets about the career change.
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Rec Agencies Struggle With Makeshift Tent Cities
Darin Krueger says he was brought up “like any North Dakota kid.” “I was taught that if people need help, you do what you can to try to take care of them,” says Krueger, the director of the Williston, N.D., parks and recreation department.
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