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Istockphoto Girls' soccer at the high school level has one of the highest rates of concussion. Playing sports has many benefits, from getting exercise to learning teamwork.

A few decades ago, when a football player got his "bell rung" with a hard hit to the head, he would shake it off, take smelling salts and return to the game.

The Toronto Blue Jays face the Kansas City Royals tonight in the American League Championship Series, after a riveting duel with the Texas Rangers.

Christopher Kirkland, Teaching Associate at the University of Sheffield, comments on the methodology used by the BBC in their recent 'Cost of Football' survey.

Satcoms are enabling smaller football clubs in Italy to broadcast their matches in high quality from 60 stadiums, via the Internet.

As a few hibernating mammals in the Arctic might not be aware, the Toronto Blue Jays are in the playoffs.

Working with a highly reputable corporate leader helps managers get promoted to senior positions in the short term, but such a career boost is balanced in the longer-term as competitive job markets, including professional sports, punish those managers who initially benefited.

AUSTIN, Texas -   To coincide with the release of the biopic film "My All American," the Longhorn Foundation for Texas Athletics launches its first-ever crowdfunding campaign to fully endow the Fred Steinmark Fund.

Less than 24 hours after University of Missouri football head coach Gary Pinkel tweeted support for the #ConcernedStudent1950 efforts at Mizzou, President Tim Wolfe resigned.

Centre of the Cell opened its doors to a group of young Londoners to run a full day of game development activities.

The University of Minnesota Board of Regents has appointed Regent Laura Brod, Regent Abdul Omari, Ph.

Today the University of Minnesota announced it has retained an independent, external legal counsel, Karen G. Schanfield of the law firm Fredrikson & Byron P.A.

The following statements are from University of Minnesota leaders regarding the resignation of Gopher Athletics Director Norwood Teague.

While many parents and educators believe holding children back from entering kindergarten offers advantages if they are older relative to their classmates, Cornell researchers Kevin Kniffin and Andrew Hanks have found that such "redshirting" has no impact on their performance in graduate school. Kniffin and Hanks looked at relative age among a sample of doctoral students to determine if it had any bearing on their success, including time to earn the degree and salary after completion.

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell dons a headset to explore virtual football in the Virtual Human Interaction Lab run by Jeremy Bailenson, left, on Thursday.

Penn State DuBois Head Baseball Coach Tom Calliari has put in some extra innings of his own in recent months, working overtime to recruit the greatest talent he can find to fill up his team roster.

For several years now, the research groups of MIT professors of computer science and engineering William Freeman and Frédo Durand have been investigating techniques for amplifying movements captured by video but indiscernible to the human eye.

Seven FIFA officials were arrested May 27, accused of "rampant, systematic and deep-rooted corruption" - and that's good news for soccer, say experts at the University of Toronto, who've tracked problems with FIFA for more than a decade.

When Dave Ross first started coaching trampoline athletes in the 1970s, sport and science weren't nearly as intertwined as they are now.

Sussex American football coach picks up tips in America The head coach of the American football club at Sussex wanted to learn more about the sport to help his team improve.

On May 23 and 24, the annual Doors Open Toronto (presented by Great Gulf and produced by the City of Toronto) is set to take over 155 buildings in Toronto with the theme "Sports, Recreation and Leisure".

Sports to Facilitate Intercultural Exchange / Tryouts for University Team On Sunday the ALBA BERLIN basketball team and Freie Universität Berlin signed a cooperation agreement in the context of the ALBA home game against Bamberg.

On 24 April 2015, QMUL's Centre for Commercial Law Studies convened a group of legal experts to consider and examine issues around gaming an intellectual property law.

A squad of academy players from Liverpool Football Club will be getting a taste of University life later this month when they visit the University of Warwick's Politics and International Studies Department (PAIS).

Government plans to increase participation in rugby within schools fail to take into account data on the serious levels of school rugby-related injury and are happening in the absence of systems for

Attorney and Longhorn philanthropist Joe Jamail, BA '50, JD '53, died today at age 90. Leaders from The University of Texas at Austin offer the following condolences.

For University of Toronto Olympian and Toronto 2015 Pan Am/Parapan Am Games hopeful Sarah Wells , few athletic moments are as rife with anticipation as those leading up to when she places her feet on the starting blocks.

ESA Space in Images Title Thomas Pesquet with Tony Parker and Boris Diaw Released 07/04/2015 1:17 pm Copyright NASA-L.

Nearly 93 percent of National Football League (NFL) athletes who sustained traumatic injuries to the midfoot returned to competition less than 15 months after injury and with no statistically significant decrease in performance, according to new research from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

Sussex wins Varsity for second year running Sussex students retained the Varsity sports cup against local rivals Brighton this weekend, to the delight of a packed home crowd of supporters.

ANN ARBOR-Each year, millions of people lose billions of dollars in NCAA March Madness basketball pools. Still, most return the following year for another pummeling. But flipping a coin yields better results than carefully selecting brackets, says Dae Hee Kwak, assistant professor of sport management at the University of Michigan School of Kinesiology.

ANN ARBOR-Each year, millions of people lose billions of dollars in NCAA March Madness basketball pools. Still, most return the following year for another pummeling. But flipping a coin may yield better results than carefully selecting brackets, says Dae Hee Kwak, assistant professor of sport management at the University of Michigan School of Kinesiology.

The ninth annual MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference (SSAC) was the biggest meeting yet of sports-data experts: More than 3,100 people attended the event last Friday and Saturday, including a notab

Stanford scholars offer perspective on Major League Baseball's antitrust exemption, which could come under review this spring if a San Jose lawsuit proceeds to the high court.

Sussex athletes all set for Stanmer Park The training is almost over and nearly 40 University of Sussex runners are set to race at a national student athletics championships in Stanmer Park tomorrow (31 January).

By Jocelyn Duffy / 412-268-9982 By now, most people in America have heard about "Deflategate," where the New England Patriots are alleged to have used underinflated footballs during the AFC championship game against the Indianapolis Colts.

A complaint has been filed with the U.S. Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights (OCR), against the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities.

William Maloney, professor of orthopaedic surgery, told the Faculty Senate on Thursday that while concussions are a problem in football, they also are a big concern in other sports, including soccer, basketball and club sports, involving both male and female players.

He's chosen as the first Kid Captain by the basketball team and Mattel Children's Hospital UCLA Amy Albin UCLA Logan Nobriga, a 10-year-old cancer patient, was honored at Wednesday's Brui

Stroke survivors can have "significant" improvement in arm movements after using the Nintendo Wii as physiotherapy according to researchers.