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As a kid, Bryan Walters '10 would don Seattle Seahawks football gear like thousands of other little NFL fans.

What do champion surfers who gathered at last week's Mavericks Invitational have in common with a UC Berkeley engineer? They all are looking to harness the power of big ocean waves.

"We like where we are right now, and everybody is itching to move forward," said Katey Stone , coach of the U.S. Olympic women's hockey squad , after a recent two-hour practice in Belmont.

Globally unique eco-friendly fertilizer and innovative work in wearable technology are featured; show debuts Wednesday, Jan.

The Lancet : A gender-sensitised weight loss and healthy living programme for overweight and obese men delivered by Scottish Premier League football clubs (FFIT): a pragmatic randomised controlled trial BMC Public Health: Do weight management programmes delivered at professional football clubs attract and engage high risk men?

Oil and water don't mix, as any chemist or cook knows.

When your goal is to outperform others, your feelings of pride will be amplified when you succeed, but when your goal is to avoid being outperformed by others, your feelings of shame will be amplified when you fail.

Posted under: For UW Employees , Health and Medicine , Research , Science , UW and the Community The Institute of Medicine today, Oct. 30, issued a report reviewing the science on youth concussions. The committee recommended actions to reduce their occurrence and consequences. The report cautioned that, while existing research provides useful information, much is still unknown about the extent of the problem, how to diagnose, manage and prevent concussions, and their shortand long-term effects.

Over £5 million has been awarded to an eleven strong consortium, led by the University of Glasgow, to develop and evaluate a European wide programme to help male football fans become more active, less sedentary and improve their diets in a sustainable way.

A business which specialises in arranging overseas sporting programmes for gap year students is going from strength to strength at the University of Nottingham's Innovation Park.

The Leland Stanford Junior University Marching Band, shown here at a recent football game against Arizona State University, is celebrating its 50th anniversary as a 'scatter band.

As baseball playoffs begin this week, Yale psychologists have a prediction: Your favorite player is likely to be a natural talent rather than someone who worked hard for success. And it definitely won't be somebody who took performance-enhancing drugs. Studies of adults and children as young as five-years old reveal a strong preference for individuals for whom intelligence, good looks or physical talents come naturally over those who succeed because of hard work, medication, or who were offered bribes.

Cornell men's soccer midfielder Atticus DeProspo '15 has launched an Athlete Ally chapter on campus "to break down barriers and show that LGBT individuals can be anyone and anywhere.

Changing coaches' behaviour to give children a more positive experience of playing sport has been found to change children's intentions to drop out of sporting activity, according to sports scientist

Help to kick homophobia out of football by heading to The University of Nottingham for its annual Football v Homophobia tournament on Saturday 7 September.

Certain types of video games can help to train the brain to become more agile and improve strategic thinking, according to scientists from Queen Mary University of London and University College London (UCL). The researchers recruited 72 volunteers and measured their 'cognitive flexibility' described as a person's ability to adapt and switch between tasks, and think about multiple ideas at a given time to solve problems.

Looking to accomplish the unprecedented, the University of Pennsylvania football team was picked as the preseason favorite to win the Ivy League title on Tuesday at the annual Ivy League Football Media Day teleconference.

Major League Baseball is poised to announce a flurry of player suspensions involving high-profile athletes linked to Florida-based wellness clinic, Biogenesis, and the use of performance-enhancing drugs or PEDs.

For well over a century, baseball fans have pored over statistics on players and games, trying to determine what makes a winner.

Sussex researcher awarded ESRC grant to study disease, injury and new medical treatments in elite sport Dr Alex Faulkner of the Centre for Global Health Policy, School of Global Studies has been awar

18 Jul 2013 Manchester student Simon Richman had to settle for a silver medal as Great Britain's men lost 3-2 to France in extra time in an enthralling football final at the Summer Universiade played at the Rubin Stadium, Kazan.

Acoustics faculty member Daniel Russell's work testing baseball bats has led to dampening technology to reduce painful stings when baseballs are hit the wrong way.

History graduate inspired future footballers in Africa Young footballer Nathan Green's life took a different path when an injury scuppered his chances of playing for Premiership side Liverpool.

21 May 2013 Shadow Health Secretary, Andy Burnham MP, believes the proposed Leveson model for press regulation should be used to regulate English football.

Aboard the frigate HMS Argyll, Christopher Harress (JRN'13) reported on humanitarian efforts in Sierra Leone and two major drug busts in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.

Saturday's TEDxStanford featured awe-inspiring ideas and displays of creativity. Among them: a presentation about a solar house that "teaches" its inhabitants, a hip-hop dance that smashes Asian stereotypes and a talk about Stanford's model football program.

Albion united: university technology links fans by phone for promotion battle at the Amex It will be a testing time in more ways than one for football fans at Brighton's Amex Community Stadium when 1

After winning Gold in London last year, Canada intends to continue its wheelchair basketball domination, opening a revolutionary training academy to recruit and train elite athletes for the men's and women's teams at the University of Toronto Scarborough (UTSC).

More than 1 million young and adult athletes in the U.S. suffer concussions each year. Until now, no consistent standards existed to guide coaches and physicians in evaluating and treating sports-related brain injuries. Today, the American Academy of Neurology released its first updated guidelines since 1997 for managing athletes with head injuries.

The first ever database of statues commemorating baseball's biggest stars, featuring legendary players, managers, owners, broadcasters and even famous fans, has been compiled by researchers from the University of Sheffield.

Sports captains across Oxford will be making their final preparations for a busy weekend of Varsity competition in Cambridge.

Stanford Report, February 8, 2013 Press was the managing director of the Professional Journalism Fellowships and the Knight Fellowships Program at Stanford and served as founding editor of the alumni newspaper, The Stanford Observer .

The University of Nottingham has been working with the FOX Soccer network to help it understand the British audience's reaction to their ground-breaking programme, BEING: Liverpool. The programme, a fly-on-the-wall documentary about Liverpool FC, was screened on Channel 5 last year, and also around the world to an estimated audience of 500 million viewers.

Stanford Report, February 1, 2013 Classics scholar Susan Stephens says that modern sports may be misguided in attempting to emulate ancient Greek and Roman athletic ideals.

Elite youth footballers are at risk of burnout before they leave school because of the perfectionist standards some feel coaches, parents and team members demand of them, according to a new study. Andrew Hill, lecturer in sports and exercise science in the University of Leeds’ School of Biomedical Sciences, said some youngsters in professional football academies are showing signs of chronic stress, exhaustion, and disillusion with their sport at a young age.

If 2012 University of Pennsylvania grad Mathew Bernstein does his job right, he thinks his position could be eliminated.

Researchers from the Oxford Internet Institute are analysing geotagged tweets to see what they tell us about the material, offline world. As a fun side project, they have created a Twitter map to find out where football fans of different clubs actually live. The data used include all geocoded tweets mentioning any of the Premier League football teams and their associated hashtags (e.g., #MUFC) that were sent between 18 August and 19 December 2012.