In late May, about 6,000 researchers met in Orlando, Florida for the annual meeting of the American College of Sports Medicine. They discussed all kinds of topics from genetics to marathon performance to sports science in the performing arts.
One topic that I didn’t expect to encounter at the conference was motor sports. But it makes perfect sense that the riders in motocross events, who zip around dirt tracks aboard motorcycles, making hard turns, and high jumps while enveloped in safety gear would qualify as athletes.
The current world records for the marathon are 2 hours, 3 minutes, 23 seconds for men, set in 2013 by Geoffrey Mutai, from Kenya, and 2 hours, 15 minutes, 25 seconds for women, set in 2003 by Paula Radcliffe, from the United Kingdom. These are incredible times — requiring male competitors to average about 4 […]
As the summer approaches, avid and casual runners alike will ramp up their respective schedules to hit the trail.
Most of them, in fact, have already made sneaker purchases to aid them in this exercise. SportsOneSource’s data by Footwear Analyst, Matt Powell, reveals that running shoe sales saw an uptick in the low singles, while Nike’s running division increased in the high singles to gain 63 percent market share during the year’s first quarter. There’s just plenty of options out there to choose from that appeal to the wide spectrum of users.
Television made the Highlight Era of sports possible, giving birth not just to 24-hour sports media outlets but also cementing iconic moments like Kirk Gibson’s 1988 walk-off home run and Michael Jordan’s “The Shot.” Digital media has transformed the Highlight Era beyond on-field heroics. What used to be a blooper, annoyance or worse now has […]
The Babalot smart tennis racquet is a far cry from the 1874 version shown in the info-graphic below. (Babalot) Sports are always being tweaked. Year after year, some moves that improve the game and some that seem forced and contrived. This season professional baseball changed its game forever by instituting instant replay, forever eliminating the memorable umpire-manager confrontations that have been a part of the game for decades. College football will unveil its new playoff system this year after the decades-old system of determining the national champion by computer rankings or writer votes. And we all know how active the NFL has been, constantly modifying its rules to adapt to the ever changing landscape of football and its safety concerns....
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