Every day, thousands of sports organisations, associations, clubs and competition organisers have to schedule fixtures for leagues and tournaments all over the world. Who is playing who, and when? A Norwegian company is aiming to become a world leader in fixture scheduling for handball, football and volleyball tournaments.
NCAA tackling rule changes that penalize head to head contact, and encourage tackling of the lower extremity have had some proven impacts in collegiate football. However, according to researchers an unintended consequence of these rule changes may be higher rates of knee, ankle and thigh injuries.
NCAA athletes need more coaching on the long odds of playing professionally and the importance of academics to their future success, according to a new study.
The more of a certain kind of passion varsity athletes have for their sport, the more favourable their attitudes towards the use of performance enhancing drugs, or PEDs, according to a recent study. The paper is the first to show that passion levels can help predict a collegiate athlete's attitude towards performance enhancing drugs.