Athletes

African athletes at the Commonwealth Games in Australia have been in the news for action on and off the track. The haul of 34 gold medals won by African athletes has been overshadowed by headlines of at least 13 athletes from Cameroon, Uganda, Rwanda and Sierra Leone absconding from team ...

And shaming Kardashian for her choices in men isn't the only problematic reaction to her current drama. NBA legend turned noted op-ed author Kareem Abdul-Jabbar writes in a new essay for Cosmopolitan that the all-pro-athletes-are-cheaters narrative furthers an unfair stereotype—and fuels cultural bias ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. (theACC.com)– Five student-athletes have been chosen to fill positions during the 2018-19 academic year as part of the annual Atlantic Coast Conference Futures Internship Program. This year's selections and job assignments include the following representatives from Boston ...

(WSPA) -- Special Olympics games will be held Wednesday in the Upstate. Special Olympics South Carolina provides training and competitions to almost 29,000 athletes with intellectual disabilities throughout the year. The organization annually hosts more than 400 competitions. The Spring Games for ...

National Athlete of the Week is an award selected and presented by the USTFCCCA Communications Staff at the beginning of each week to eight collegiate indoor track & field athletes (male and female for each of the three NCAA divisions and NJCAA Division I). Nominations are open to the public.

Being good at sports has perks beyond being picked first in gym class—billions of them, in fact. Below are the top 10 richest athletes in the world. Advertisement - Continue Reading Below. 1 Michael Jordan. Getty Images. The former NBA star is considered one of the greatest basketball players of all time, ...

Atlanta athletic traditions will be recognized with a planned Atlanta Athletics Hall of Fame recalling outstanding male and female athletes who competed at Booker T. Washington and Atlanta High School. A selection committee of seven has nominated the first five members to be inducted in the hall. Formal ...

UNC has graduated Black male student-athletes at the 10th lowest rate among 65 major universities across the nation in recent years, according to a recent study. The study, conducted by executive director of the University of Southern California's Race and Equity Center Shaun R. Harper, sparked ...

And that may be the best case scenario for local schools, which have already had to cancel spring sporting events. Tuesday's snow storm could be just the start of a frustrating April for area athletes. Athletic fields across Northeast Wisconsin are now covered in a blanket of snow, putting baseball, softball, ...

The women were gathered at a press conference to mark the passage of the Protecting Young Victims from Sexual Abuse and Safe Sport Authorization Act on January 30, which was sponsored by Feinstein and designed to afford athletes of all ages the protections against abuse that have long been ...

(Seminoles.com) – The nationally ranked Seminole softball team won the prestigious Athletic Directors Cup for Service and coveted Golden Nole Awards were presented to individual student-athletes on each of Florida State's 20 teams as the FSU Department of Athletics hosted the 24th Annual Golden ...

Brazilian Yndiara Asp is on the list of athletes invited to compete at the 2018 Road To X Games Boise Park Qualifier. Invited athletes are as follows and are subject to change. Check the full competition schedule here. SKATEBOARD PARK MEN. Pedro Barros Heimana Reynolds Curren Caples

ORLANDO, Fla. — In this Cardiology Today video exclusive, Alfred Bove, MD, PhD, emeritus professor of medicine at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University, discusses the need for further research in sports cardiology, including on early mortality and CVD risk among athletes, at the ...

Ingraham also bashes Lebron from going to the NBA straght out of high school as she refers to him as not fully educated. Well first, let's remember these athletes are human beings just like us and have emotion. Just because someone is a political Fox News show host doesn't mean they get to tell someone ...

Two Harvard students have founded a support group for BGLTQ-identifying student-athletes—dubbed Queer Undergraduate Athletes That Do Sports, or QUADS—which held its first meeting in mid-February. Co-founders and teammates on the men's varsity swim and dive team Schuyler M. Bailar '19 and ...

FAIRHOPE, Ala. (WKRG) - The weather was beautiful Friday for the Baldwin County Special Olympics in Fairhope. Dozens of athletes competed in games that included a softball throw, wheelchair races, 50 yard dash, and much more. The games began with the annual Law Enforcement Torch Run. Officers ...

Controversy struck Colorado State football as quarterback Collin Hill once again tore his ACL, this time while playing basketball outside of program actives. The rub lies in the fact that Hill suffered the injury outside of football, while not under the watchful eye of team trainers who led his rehabilitation from his ...

In 2009, the former UCLA basketball star Ed O'Bannon took on the NCAA in a lawsuit that challenged the organization's ability to profit from the likenesses of college athletes in a video game. But as the case heated up, its stakes and scope began to sprawl, opening a can of worms that threatened to upend ...

If you've never watched a game of Dota 2 before, you might be overwhelmed at first. You'll see a screen full of animated characters, special effects, and battles on battles. It can be difficult to keep tabs on all the action. Clement Ivanov, however, views the scene differently. He sees each character as a pawn ...

Louisiana politicians, athletes, entertainers and more took to social media and traditional media releases to pay tribute to Tom Benson Thursday afternoon following the announcement of his death. Many, like Louisiana Senator John Kennedy called Benson a "true New Orleanian," emphasizing the legacy ...

'Piggyback Bandit' known for stealing rides from student athletes across U.S. arrested at Dallas Love Field ... A Washington man dubbed the “Piggyback Bandit,” infamous in multiple states for jumping on the backs of student athletes, was nabbed at Dallas Love Field this month on a drug charge. Sherwin ...

Academics and proper education is definitely something that people should prioritize in life, as it is the backbone of our nation's future success. Without our youth being knowledgeable, intelligent, and educated, America would be in for a rude awakening as the younger generation grows into adulthood.

MentalEdgePerformance.ca is founded by Shayne McGowan, based on the concept of creating a superior standard of training for athletes on and off the field. McGowan is a certified mental game coaching professional. He has studied at Cal State University and has played football in college and briefly in ...

APTOS — Aptos graduated three individual Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League champions, but head coach Zach Hewett said his team has more than a handful of athletes ready to step in and help the Mariners return to the top of the league for the fourth time in five years. Star sprinter Danner Pardue, the ...

It's no surprise, of course, that these athletes need to be strong mentally as well as physically to achieve success on-court. People with a winner's mindsetare emotionally intelligent and feel comfortable being uncomfortable, according to Graham Betchart, a mental coach for three top NBA draft picks.

"(Senior associate athletic director) Jeff Stone, Dennis and I were talking about what it was all about," WMU athletic director Kathy Beauregard said of watching WMU athletes graduate. "E.J. graduated in December and sent a photo of his degree to us, and Dennis said there's never been a moment he's ...

Post-Olympics, Korean-American adoptee athletes focus on search for birth families. Hockey player Marissa Brandt and freestyle skier Jackie Kling were both adopted from South Korea to the U.S. at a young age. by Kristi Eaton / Mar.08.2018 / 5:42 AM ET. Hannah Brandt, who plays ice hockey for the United States, walks ...

Today's professional athletes push the boundaries of the possible further than Sir Roger did. But have they also been testing the limits of the rules on drugs? On March 5th a parliamentary committee published a report on doping which found “acute failures in several different organisations in athletics and ...

The suit alleges Concordia failed to provide for the care and safety of Collaro, failed to properly investigate misconduct and did not follow procedures designed to protect student-athletes from predatory coaches. The lawsuit also alleges the university never should have hired Lempesis and failed to perform ...

Abdul-Jabbar said he supports the idea of paying college athletes to play. The NCAA has a long-standing policy prohibiting paying college athletes, even though coaches and the schools that employ them make millions. Abdul-Jabbar said money generated by the players' labor should be distributed ...

Among the beneficiaries are the five participants from the three National Paralympic Committees who will take part in a Winter Games for the first time – Georgia (2 athletes), North Korea (2 athletes) and Tajikistan (1 athlete) –, who took part in a Para Nordic skiing delivered by the Agitos Foundation earlier ...

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver "has no issue at all with" paying college players, but he says introducing anything more than a stipend would be very challenging. Despite numerous calls to do so, the NCAA has remained firm on not paying players. Meanwhile it continues to thrive financially. In 2017, for ...

While on campus the athletes — who have an intellectual disability and can be any age, though most are middle-aged — will take courses in communications, governance, coaching, technology, leadership, or health, depending on their area of interest. This weekend's class list includes photography, ...

More than 1,300 athletes from 28 sports associations are now registered with the Jamaican Athletes Insurance Plan (JAIP). The disclosure was made by Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport Olivia Grange, during the meeting of the Standing Finance Committee of Parliament on Thursday.

Research shows that injuries go down when athletes limit their training to five days a week, no more than 10 hours total (playing and training) and taking a season off. During that off season, Congeni said, “just do something else.” It's the repetitive nature of doing the same motion over and over again which ...

BIRMINGHAM, England -- All five athletes in a heat of the men's 400 metre heats were disqualified at the IAAF World Indoor Championships. According to the IAAF, having a whole field disqualified is a first in the indoor championship's history and the farcical turn of events begun when Qatar's Abdalelah Haroun was given a ...

Witt is just one of many athletes to appear in movies, and not all have been limited to small roles. While not all were great – remember Brett Favre's cameo in "There's Something About Mary"? – others definitely have been. Here are some former athletes who were or still are extremely good actors in movies.