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May 27, 2021
Robert Morris Cuts D1 Men’s & Women’s Hockey
Robert Morris University announced today it will no longer field NCAA Division I men’s and women’s ice hockey teams as part of a series of strategic initiatives intended to position the university to be amongst the most agile and professionally f...
May 26, 2021
Illini Athletic Administrators Reflect on Past Year
Randy Ballard is the associate director of athletics for the University of Illinois. Jeremy Busch is the assistant athletic director of sports medicine for the university and also serves as the head athletic trainer for the Illini football team. I...
May 26, 2021
UConn Sports Medicine Adds Foot & Ankle Program
With backgrounds in athletics and 25 years in private practice, married podiatrists Drs. Karla and Michael Scanlon joined the Foot and Ankle Program at UConn Health Orthopedics and Sports Medicine in February 2020, seeing patients in Storrs and Willi...
May 24, 2021
Detroit Mercy AD Denies WBB Team Forced Players to Play Through Injuries
Last week, the University of Detroit Mercy athletic director Robert Vowels shared details into the school's internal investigation against women's basketball head coach AnnMarie Gilbert for allegations that her program disregarded COVID-19 protocol a...
May 24, 2021
HBCU Tennessee State May Add Men’s & Women’s Hockey
Tennessee State University could become the first historically black institution to have varsity men's and women's ice hockey teams. A feasibility study is exploring the possibility that would also make the university the first in the state to establ...
May 24, 2021
UConn Breaks Ground for New Ice Hockey Arena
Saturday, May 22, 2021, will mark the beginning of a new era for the UConn men's and women's hockey programs with the official groundbreaking for the brand-new UConn Ice Hockey Arena on Jim Calhoun Way. Joining current and former hockey student-at...
May 21, 2021
Former Gophers Football Employee Raises Coaching Concerns
A former University of Minnesota Golden Gophers staffer has spoken out against current head coach P.J. Fleck and garnered the attention of the National College Players Association (NCPA). The whistleblower, described by WCCO CBS-Minnesota as a for...
May 21, 2021
Liberty Announces 75,000 square-foot Multipurpose Athletic Center
This week, Liberty University announced plans to build the Liberty Multipurpose Center, a new multiuse indoor facility that will benefit the university’s NCAA, club and intramural sports programs. Liberty recently submitted construction plans to...
Teach kids to pay attention to their bodies and their own thirst, and to “drink to thirst”—that is, drink enough water so that the thirst recedes. Rehydrate between sports events/practices.
The telltale signs of heat-related illness in student-athletes
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Each year, an estimated 240 people die from heat-related illnesses, an...