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Election Results for the Assembly of the African National Olympic Committees
A number of executive posts were up for grabs at the African National Olympic Committees (ANOCA) elections, which were held recently during the organization’s three-day General Assembly in Abidjan,...
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The Importance of Building and Maintaining a Professional Brand on Social Media
Many employers are using social media sites to screen potential job candidates, and this can either help or hinder you in your quest for a job. A candidate might have a shining resume, but one quick...
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Why Glendale Said Yes to the NHL
To paraphrase one of the most important sports authors of the 20th century, Jim Bouton, the worst people in the world to analyze the business aspect of sports is the sports writing community (and by...
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Players in Biogenesis Scandal Ready to Accept Suspensions Except for Rodriguez
The vast majority of players implicated in the Biogenesis investigation plan on accepting suspensions of at least 50 games, major league sources told Yahoo! Sports, with a notable exception: New York...
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The Los Angeles Dolphins? The Los Angeles Jaguars? Unlikely…But
Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones for some reason, maybe only known to him, has decided Los Angeles (L.A.) is ready to become the home of two National Football League (NFL) franchises. Since Al Davis...
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Children in P.E. Three Times More Likely to Participate in Sports and Fitness
Do you want to overcome the inactivity pandemic and obesity crisis? New research by the Physical Activity Council of 40,000 Americans shows children who do not have physical education are more than...
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International Doping News Roundup
While the American media remains on its 24/7 fixation with the standoff between New York Yankees superstar Alex Rodriguez and Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig over the punishment handed...
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Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig Knows Drugs Bans May Define His Legacy
So Major League Baseball has dropped the hammer on Alex Rodriguez and suspended him for 211 games, for drug use, even though it really has no proof through testing that the New York Yankees player has...
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Notre Dame’s Brian Kelly Eager to Prove 2012 was No Fluke
Now everyone wants to know if Notre Dame can do it again, get back to national contention. And not just down the road when quarterback Everett Golson is back from suspension and all these big...
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A Myth about The Great One
The 25th anniversary of the Wayne Gretzky trade from the Edmonton Oilers to the Los Angeles Kings came and went on Aug. 9 with a smattering of interest in the United States and a great deal of...
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How Exercise Can Help Us Learn
Over the past decade, in study after study in animals and people, exercise has been shown to improve the ability to learn and remember. But the specifics of that process have remained hazy. Is it...
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With Arbitration Looming, What Exactly is A-Rod’s Best Defense?
Now that Alex Rodriguez has placed a muzzle on his bulldog lawyer Joe Tacopina – though to be honest, Matt Lauer did a pretty good job of sending him whimpering to the kennel – perhaps we can get past...
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Disgraced Cyclist Lance Armstrong Reaches Settlement with London Newspaper
The Sunday Times has reached a settlement with Lance Armstrong, according to what is described as “a mutually acceptable final resolution” by the newspapers sports editor Alex Butler. The Sunday Times...
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Bach, Tokyo 2020 and Wrestling Bookmakers Favorites for Buenos Aires
London bookmakers William Hill have installed Germany’s long-serving International Olympic Committee (IOC) vice-president Thomas Bach as clear favorite to succeed Jacques Rogge as the new leader of the...
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NCAA’s Manziel Suspension Evokes Our Willing Suspension of Disbelief
For those deluded souls out there who still believe that the NCAA has any moral authority to exercise “control” over collegiate athletics, please take close scrutiny of the Johnny Manziel “scandal” –...
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NFL and Retired Players Resolve Concussion Litigation for $765 Million
Former United States District Judge Layn Phillips, the court-appointed mediator in the consolidated concussion-related lawsuits brought by more than 4,500 retired football players against the National...
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A Green and Safe Tokyo Games Question Mark
As the IOC prepares to vote on the 2020 Olympic Games’ host city in Buenos Aires on Sept. 7, experts are voicing increasing concern about the full extent of the environmental legacy of the 2011...
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Johnny Manziel: A Modern Aesop Fable
Sport has always been both a mirror and a beacon of the society from which it emerges. In America, we like our sports heroes to be emblematic of all the high ideals we purport to hold as the moral...
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NFL Concussion Settlement Changes Little for Suffering Players
I was flabbergasted at the announcement made regarding the NFL settlement decision on the concussion suit. I have been working on a settlement for several years in a California (CA) Workers Comp case...
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The Culture of Football Is the Real Danger
The NFL may have bought itself out of a concussion trial it never wanted, but that doesn’t mean the subject will go away. The critical issue has never been about finances and whether the most lucrative...
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