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August 18, 2022
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...
August 18, 2022
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 ...
August 8, 2022
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...
August 8, 2022
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...
August 8, 2022
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&...
August 8, 2022
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 ...
August 8, 2022
Sportsbox AI to Develop Mobile Motion Capture Coaching Tech
Sportsbox, an artificial intelligence (AI) coaching startup, has closed a $5.5 million seed funding round that will allow it to continue the development of its single-camera 3D motion capture technology and expand into more sports. A recent story ...
August 8, 2022
Texas Tech Football & Women’s Basketball Teams Sign NIL Deals
Every single player on the 2022-23 Texas Tech football team was recently signed to a Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) one-year, $25,000 contract from a local collective called the Matador Club. The deal will be for all 85 scholarship players plus 1...
More than half — 54.6 percent — of the schools surveyed said they would be interested in offering esports to students if the FHSAA sanctioned the games.
FHSAA considers adding esports to athletic offerings
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The FHSAA is considering adding esports to its athletic offerings afte...