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Kristina Hill says she completely understands why the Oakland A's and the City of Oakland have settled on the Howard Terminal site as the future home of the Major League Baseball team in the East Bay.

To most observers, a blistering, bruising basketball game is a contest of speed and athleticism. But to Dario Zarrabian and Nate Hollenberg, the sport is very much a numbers game.

Click to share on Google+ (Opens in new window) Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Click to print (Opens in new window) It's been 40 years since Jack Clark was in a huddle with Joe Roth,

The University of Queensland has claimed nine champion university pennants at the inaugural UniSport Nationals Div 1 event on the Gold Coast.

The project Sciences 2024 aims at helping high-level French sportspeople improve their performance for the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, by providing them with research conducted by scientists and students from 11 top Grandes Écoles and the CNRS.

MIT designers explain their philosophy in a new book, "Resonant Games." To succeed at "Lure of the Labyrinth," a video game created by designers in MIT's Education Arcade, players rescue pets from an underground lair inhabited by monsters.

The University of Queensland's Aon Uni 7s Series tournament winning streak has come to an end following a third placing in Round 2 in Canberra.

The University of Queensland will head into Round 2 of the Aon Uni 7s Series in Canberra this weekend (8-9 September) with a determination to build on its tournament winning streak.

What happens when children and teenagers lead research into the hot-button issues that affect their health, wellbeing and rights? Australia will find out this Friday when 18 junior research leaders present their findings to a panel of influential Australians in Melbourne, including the National Children's Commissioner Megan Mitchell.

The University of Queensland has continued its Aon Uni 7s Series dominance, claiming the opening round of the 2018 season in Hobart.

Basketball players need lots of practice before they master the dribble, and it turns out that's true for computer-animated players as well.

A new video game, designed by researchers at the University of Cambridge, gives teenagers an understanding of electricity by solving a series of puzzles in a bid to encourage more of them to study engineering at university.

Noah Whiteman, an associate professor in the Department of Integrative Biology at UC Berkeley, has always known how to survive.

Sound and object motion can be used to change perceptions about body size, according to a new study by an international team involving UCL researchers.

Wimbledon begins on 2 July. Over the course of the Championships some 2,500 tennis balls will be used.

Veteran jockey Dale Spriggs who is suffering the impacts of 20 or more concussions has pledged his brain to The Australian Sports Brain Bank run by the University of Sydney's Brain and Mind Centre and Royal Prince Alfred Hospital.

As New South Wales celebrates Origin victory it's likely some parents have hopes for their own children's sporting careers.

Successful weight loss maintainers have different behavioural and physiological responses to food than people with obesity and their lean counterparts, according to new research by the University of Birmingham and the University of Amsterdam being presented today at the European Congress on Obesity in Austria.