A new study by a pair of researchers including Elizabeth Sharrow, associate professor of public policy and history at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, has found that male student-athletes and those with sexist attitudes ...
Social Sciences
Jul 30, 2020
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Tokyo Olympic athletes beware—particularly larger ones.
Environment
Jan 9, 2020
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The International Olympic Committee last week decided to shift next year's Olympic marathon from Tokyo to Sapporo to protect athletes from the heat.
Environment
Nov 5, 2019
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Women in the United States may still have to contend with a shortfall in their lifetime earnings and a glass ceiling in the boardroom, but they've closed the gender gap in at least one arena—the television coverage they ...
Social Sciences
Aug 15, 2019
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Existing gender categories in sport should perhaps be abandoned in favour of a more "nuanced" approach in the new transgender era, University of Otago researchers say.
Social Sciences
Jul 23, 2019
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Top male biathletes are more attractive to the opposite sex, according to a new study by scientists at the universities of Exeter and Bristol.
Evolution
Jul 10, 2019
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Researchers from Dartmouth College, New Hampshire have found evidence that players born in the first quarter of the year are more likely to play in the National Football League.
Other
Jun 14, 2019
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The NCAA is quick to point out that the word "student" comes first in the term student-athlete and that the vast majority of them will not go pro in their chosen sport. It stands to reason, then, that student-athletes would ...
Education
Jun 11, 2019
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During the past women's college basketball season, two prominent head coaches, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill's Sylvia Hatchell and Georgia Tech's MaChelle Joseph, were fired.
Social Sciences
Jun 4, 2019
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Coughing is really common in horses, but it's not normal. That's true for all horses, but racehorses demand a different level of respiratory excellence than other horses. If you look at the way racehorses use oxygen and the ...
Veterinary medicine
May 16, 2019
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