A new study, published in the Journal of the International Society of Sports Medicine, has shown that carbohydrate and protein supplementation strategies may help athletes deal better with the muscle damage that comes from endurance exercise. But they don’t seem to increase runners’ endurance capacity directly.

In a perfect world, every coach would have experience as an official, and every official would have experience as a coach. By understanding both points of view, they would avoid or mitigate many of the confrontations that lead to technical fouls, ejections and other penalties.

Improve your team practice sessions with this infield drill series with repetitions from Coach and Athletic Director

One of the more familiar formations in lacrosse at any level is the 2-3-1, but just because it’s familiar doesn’t mean it’s fully understood. Here are some tips.

Throughout the year, Coach & Athletic Director will go back 25 years to share some of our best articles from 1994. This article — “7 steps to good hitting” — was written by Jim Gabella while he was an instructor with the Cleveland Indians. Today, Gabella is a scout for the San Francisco Giants.

Villanova men’s basketball coach Jay Wright shares the Wing and Pop plays that have been effective in his four-out, one-in motion offense.

In the world of high school athletics, change is a constant. Athletic directors need to be prepared with a plan for how their programs will respond in times of transition.

A.D.ministration columnist Dr. David Hoch offers his best tips.

If you combine the elements of defining a safe, productive training philosophy, working within the confines of your educational background, facility resources, available equipment and time restraints, there’s no dearth of possible complications that can surface.