EA Sports added another powerful soccer team to their ranks today, as they announced a partnership with Real Madrid C.F. The three-year agreement will see EA Sports become the exclusive video game provider for the club, and Real Madrid players will have more interaction than ever with the FIFA series of games. As a result, there […]
Last year, over 40 of the FIFA Women’s World Cup players from twelve different countries filed a gender discrimination lawsuit against FIFA. The gist of the lawsuit was that no World Cup in the men’s game has been played on an artificial grass, a surface that poses a number of health and injury risks. While artificial […]
We have seen it time and time again: human error changing the outcome of a game. Whether it is two free throws given for the smallest of touches or an imaginary pass interference, the rules of the game ultimately come down to those officiating. Some sports have taken measures to prevent human error by implementing […]
We are less than a year removed from the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. Yet, recently, people have been talking about not the next World Cup, but the one after that. The 2022 World Cup, set to take place in Qatar has made headlines as of late, and not for good reasons. A FIFA taskforce […]
Concussions, also called ‘mild traumatic brain injuries’, affect thousands of athletes yearly. Whether it’s from participating in competitive cheer leading, football, or soccer, getting hit on the head can have lasting consequences. Symptoms range from loss of consciousness, short-term amnesia, nausea and tinnitus (ringing in the ears). These symptoms can last anywhere from a few days to several weeks or longer, affecting the person in other ways such as problems with speaking, motor coordination, or memory loss.
Over time personality changes may occur. In both children and adults this can be due to headaches that are ongoing, making them irritable or short tempered.
