Sports
Making a Difference: Volunteers and Sports Programs for the Disabled
Everyone hears about the benefits of volunteering. During almost every presidential inauguration, the president speaks about the need to serve one’s community through volunteerism. The people who end up making the decision to volunteer their time are indeed able to do their part to improve their communities. Volunteers at sports clubs for athletes with disabilities [...]
Grassroots Special Needs Program Seeks the Paralympic Dream
On any given Saturday morning, there are countless 5K races going on around the country. Dan Renahan, a recent college graduate of Long Island University, won one of these 5K races in 16 minutes and 20 seconds on a Saturday in September. As usual, a local newspaper reporter wrote a short article on the event [...]
Paralympian Resolve: Intellectually Disabled Athletes Return After 12-Year Ban
In the Sydney Paralympic Games in 2000, the Spanish basketball team competing in the intellectually disabled classification easily won the gold medal. In the group stages, they outscored their opponents 254-126, and in the medal round they won both of their games by more than 20 points.1 Three days later, after having received the praise [...]
Gaming: Harnessing the Cognitive Surplus
Harnessing the Cognitive Surplus By James Scott-Brown How do you spend your free time? If you were an average American, you would spend 20 hours a week watching television, and another 3 hours playing games [1]. Clay Shirky has written about how, after the Second World War, enormous changes in society occurred, so that “society [...]
Brawn and Brains: Looking at NFL Head Injuries
Any football fan watching a Sunday afternoon game will most likely witness at least one slow‐motion replay of a running back lowering his head as he faces off against a safety, or a defensive end’s helmet colliding with another player’s during a tackle. Fans of professional football bear witness to repeated head trauma during every [...]
Is All Fair in Love and Sport?
In the world of competitive sports, one hundredth of a second – the time it takes for lightning to strike – can define an athlete. One hundredth of a second can mean the difference between winning or losing, fame or anonymity, millions of dollars in endorsements or none. Because we handsomely reward strength, speed, and [...]
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