Reading Time: 4 minutes 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
Tag: Sport/Performance
Danhausen poised to powerslam pro wrestling
Reading Time: 4 minutes The 31-year-old pro wrestler has quickly become one of sports entertainment’s most intriguing phenomena
Professionalization of youth sports hurts our kids and society
Reading Time: 3 minutes Kids become performers in a spectacle, under the authoritarian oversight of the head coach
Head injuries and football go hand in hand
Reading Time: 4 minutes Modern helmets prevent skull fractures but don’t address the problem of a brain crashing against the side of the skull
How athletes can stay motivated when they can’t compete
Reading Time: 3 minutes Athletes can find opportunities amid the challenge of cancelled sporting events, say U of A master’s student and sport psychology researcher
The smartest things ever said about sports
Reading Time: 4 minutes Despite what Vince Lombardi said, if winning’s the only thing in sports, you’re going to be miserable a lot of the time
Sports world can lead the way to equality, fairness, justice
Reading Time: 4 minutes This athlete-led movement needs a face – or two. Ideally, we have one Black sports figure and one white sports figure taking the lead
Mazda3 just keeps getting better and better
Reading Time: 4 minutes This is a nice little car that’s fun to drive, nimble and nice looking
Jack Dempsey and the birth of the Roaring ’20s
Reading Time: 4 minutes The boxer was a prime example of the ascension of celebrity, perhaps rivalled only by baseball’s Babe Ruth
Is today’s baseball player better than yesteryear’s?
Reading Time: 4 minutes They may well be, but the game certainly isn’t as compelling or entertaining as it once was