The willingness to fail is key to success in sports
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Accepting that you can fail leads you to handling failure during a competition
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Category: Sports
Rich Strike strikes it rich at the Kentucky Derby
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This year’s Kentucky Derby produced a great moment in horse racing history
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Why don’t Canadian broadcasters love the beautiful game?
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Being a true football fan in Canada has been a pretty lonely existence
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College sports faces a growing mental health crisis
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Athletes often feel that if they admit to struggling with mental or emotional problems, it shows a weakness in character and endangers their spot on the team
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Baseball showed how racism can be overcome
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Racism is pointless and will inevitably fail, as it did in baseball. But it is part of our history
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Pull the 2022 Olympics out of China
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We would not have held the Olympics in Rwanda as Tutsis were being slaughtered and it’s an absolute farce to think we should hold them in Beijing now
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Life skills needed for long NHL career are learned in minor hockey
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In a study aimed at helping youth develop mental health skills, seasoned pro players offer insights into early lessons that helped them stick around in the big leagues
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World’s Longest Hockey Game moving cancer research closer to goal
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Annual fundraising effort to support clinical trial of precision drug developed at U of A
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How student athletes stay mentally healthy
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So that they can switch it into a maintenance mode when the games start to count
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Major League Baseball has a sexual harassment problem
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What constitutes manhood in sports culture is archaic. As if the sports world has been frozen in time – Neanderthal time
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Concussions affect elite athletes’ mental health, new research suggests
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U of A study shows anxiety, depression more likely among football players after a concussion than after other body injuries
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Sports sponsorship builds our sense of community
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Sports sponsorship represents an organization’s values, including the investment we make in our collective culture, education and heritage — not just wealth for its own sake.
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