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Over 60 scientific projects were carried out within the framework of the first Youth Olympic Winter Games, which took place in January 2012. They were coordinated in a special "Laboratory" at the Department for Sport Science of the University of Innsbruck. The Innsbruck scientists have recently published the most important results in the renowned British Journal of Sports Medicine.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. Think your simple wagering strategy for professional football - such as always picking the home team or the underdog - is going to pay off in the long run? Don't bet on it, say sports economists Scott Tainsky and Yoon Tae Sung.

Three-time Grey Cup champion and University of Alberta alumnus Chris Morris has been chosen to turn around the Golden Bears football program.

The University of Sheffield's Department of Hispanic Studies are joining forces with FC Barcelona and Sheffield United Football Club to promote the local and international educational possibilities of sport.

Opera singer and vocal studies chair Michael Dean helps pop stars tune up to sing "The Star-Spangled Banner" without forgetting the words or flubbing the high notes.

Robo sprint king Usain Volt and marathon specialist The Mobot will be demonstrating their athletic prowess at a special exhibition of university research on Plymouth Hoe.

The world's first 'living football' using cells from a pig's bladder has been created by an artist working with scientists in the University's Clinical Engineering laboratories.

Academics and sports history enthusiasts from all over the world are gathering at the University of Glasgow for the 30 th Annual Conference of the British Society of Sports History.

Ahead of their 2012 RFU Championship opener on Friday 31 August, Nottingham Rugby Football Club has added two new recruits from The University of Nottingham Rugby Club.

Commencing this week, the fourteenth Summer Paralympic Games will see King's students, alumni and staff take part in the world's second largest sporting competition.

The temperature-regulation research of Stanford biologists H. Craig Heller and Dennis Grahn has led to a device that rapidly cools body temperature, greatly improves exercise recovery, and could help explain why muscles get tired.

Graduates from The University of Nottingham have showcased their sporting talent and continued their alma mater's Olympic success after securing five medals at London 2012.

In a daring feat of technological nerve and skill, NASA landed a 1-ton rover on the surface of Mars Aug.

MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL (08/08/2012) —The Minnesota Supreme Court today ruled in favor of Coach Tubby Smith and the University of Minnesota in the case brought against them by James R. Williams.

Olympics Matt Holland & Ed Scott (GB Men’s Water Polo) Preliminaries 31 July, 4, 6 August // Quarter Final, 8 August // Semi Final, 10 August // Final, 12 August With Team GB facing the Gold

Saturday: Leeds alumnus Andrea Dennis competes in the first heats of the Women’s Rowing Lightweight Pairs event at 9.30am.

When UC Berkeley's Memorial Stadium reopens next week after a massive renovation, hungry football fans will notice another upgrade - the menu.

The University of Nottingham is looking to add to its list of Olympic medal winners this summer, with 11 past and future students preparing to take on the world's best athletes at London 2012.

More than 100 youngsters from across the county have been putting their sporting and study skills to the test in an action-packed Olympic themed Summer School at the University of Sheffield.

Sussex up to highest-ever position in national sports ranking Sussex's sports clubs are celebrating after the University reached 41 st , its highest-ever position, in the British Universities and Colleges Sport (BUCS) national rankings for 2011-12.

Edinburgh scientists have taken a robotic football team to the last eight of the robot world cup. The RoboCup tournament was held in Mexico City and attracted 25 robotic teams from around the world, including Edinferno from Edinburgh.

Cornell, along with the rest of the Ivy League, will collaborate with the Big Ten athletic conference and the Big Ten Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) on research into the effects of head injuries in sports.

With racist chanting having already been heard at the Euro 2012 Championships in Poland and Ukraine, it would appear that bigotry is still a problem which needs to be tackled in the world of football.

Ever wanted to know more about how exercise can increase your pain threshold, how sport can be used to improve a child's self-confidence, or why Barrack Obama has an apparent obsession with basketball?

Spain will win the UEFA European Football Championship with a probability of 25.8 per cent, defeating Germany in the final.

McGill University has applied to play in the Ontario University Athletics football conference, which, if accepted, would move the Redmen from the Quebec league to Ontario by 2013, the team's 133rd season on the gridiron.

A boat marking the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad has been launched today by Gregg Whelan, Creative Research Fellow at King's, and his project colleague, Gary Winters.

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. Americans spend, on average, only about two hours each week participating in sports and fitness activities, according to researchers at Penn State and the University of Maryland who examined U.S. government data from the American Time Use Study.

Girl power for Olympic torchbearers at Durham University Three rising international sportswomen from Durham University have been selected to carry the Olympic Torch.

Usain Bolt can achieve faster running times with no extra effort on his part or improvement to his fitness, according to a new study by Professor John Barrow, Director of the Millennium Maths Project at the University of Cambridge.

'As a child I always had aspirations to go to the Olympics and represent my sport at the highest level, but not until recently did I realise that I wanted to do this as a full-time occupation for the foreseeable future'.

The Manchester Metros Ice Hockey Club, made up of students from across the city, are returning from Zlin in the Czech Republic after a showdown with the UTB Ice Hockey Team from the Thomas Bata University.

A 'post racial' society was a popular term in America after the election of Barack Obama as president in 2008.

Members of the public are being invited to play table tennis against machines and rub shoulders with two of Plymouth’s sporting superstars at an event designed to promote health and well-being in the city.

Over the weekend of February 11-12, University of Birmingham Sport (UBSport) alumni headed to the English Institute of Sport (EIS) in Sheffield to compete at the UK Indoor Trials and Championship.

Emily Osga and Daisy Feder combined to score 33 points to lead the top-ranked UC San Diego women's basketball team to a convincing 77-52 victory over visiting Cal State Dominguez Hills in California Collegiate Athletic Association play on Saturday evening at RIMAC Arena.

A Plymouth University student is riding on the crest of a wave after being selected to train with some of the nation’s golden generation of sailors.

Chelsea Carlisle and the Tritons equaled their win total from last season with their triumph over the Gators on Saturday.

An exciting proposal to transform Glasgow's historic Kelvin Hall arena into a publicly accessible collections facility for Glasgow Museums and The Hunterian has received first stage approval from the Heritage Lottery Fund.