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Gators Football Unveils Heavener Football Training Center
The Florida Gators football program got a sneak preview of their brand new $85 million Heavener Football Training Center over the weekend. The Gators entered the 142,000-square foot, $85 million Heavener Football Training Center, a facility the sc...
IOC Launches Long-Term Study of Olympians to Help Physical & Mental Health
As part of its ongoing efforts to promote athletes’ safety and well-being, the International Olympic Committee (IOC), along with the University of Edinburgh, has launched the IOC Olympians Health Cohort, a new long-term research project aimed at re...
IV Nutrition Becoming the Norm for Athletes, Despite Any Evidence It Works
Intravenous (IV) nutrition, which used to be considered a treatment of "last resort," is threatening to become the norm for competitive athletes, despite no scientific evidence that it works or that it is safe, warn experts in an editorial, published...
Vanderbilt Using Motion Capture Technology to Assess Movement Patterns
It starts as persistent and irritating pain in the foot or lower leg, then it gets more intense, maybe with swelling, and soon a runner knows she’s being sidelined by one of the most common running injuries: a stress fracture. These tiny cracks in ...
Michigan Hockey Parts Ways with Coach Mel Pearson
The University of Michigan men's hockey team will no longer be coached by Mel Pearson. Last Friday, Michigan athletic director Warde Manuel said the decision "has been weighed heavily and for some time," according to a report from the Associated P...
DI Board of Directors Adopts Student-Athlete Benefit Legislation
The Division I Board of Directors adopted the first group of Transformation Committee recommendations aimed at allowing schools to provide more benefits to student-athletes. While generally supportive of elements of the transfer package, the board to...
Texas Tech Announces $200M Jones AT&T Stadium Upgrades
Texas Tech recently announced its largest investment into the Red Raider football program to date as the athletics department unveiled plans for an approximate $200 million facilities project to construct a new south end zone building to Jones AT&...
Ecore Revolutionizes Realistic Wood Offerings with First Performance Vinyl Tile
The future of performance vinyl tile (PVT) has arrived with the introduction of Heritage Motivate, a new high-performance and visually stunning flooring surface from Ecore, a company that transforms reclaimed materials into high-performance products ...
