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  • April 2008

    • Road to NFL Often Starts at High School Bowl Game

      Wall Street Journal  |  Apr 25, 08 1:35 PM CDT

      Road to NFL Often Starts at High School Bowl Game

      (Newser) - For many of the top prospects in this year’s NFL draft, the path to stardom didn’t begin in college. Instead, it started at the US Army All-American Bowl, an annual high-school all-star game that’s been remarkably good at spotting future NFL talent. Since 2005, 69 participants have reached the pros; this year, 28 are expected to go, with seven projected as first-rounders. More »

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      football  • athlete  • athletics  • NFL draft  • high school sports

    • Cheerleading's Brave New World Raises Safety Worries

      ABC News  |  Apr 19, 08 1:11 PM CDT

      Cheerleading's Brave New World Raises Safety Worries

      (Newser) - As cheerleading has become a spectacle of acrobatic feats with its own events, injuries—some of them deadly—have been on the rise, ABC News reports. In the latest example, a 20-year-old woman died after being accidentally kicked in the chest during a Massachusetts competition last weekend. She suffered damage to her lungs more often seen in car crashes. More »

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      sports  • athlete  • gymnastics  • cheerleading  • sports deaths

    • US Athletes Reject Boycott of Beijing Games

      Christian Science Monitor  |  Apr 17, 08 4:32 PM CDT

      US Athletes Reject Boycott of Beijing Games

      (Newser) - Many US athletes aren’t swayed by winds of boycott surrounding the Beijing Olympics, the Christian Science Monitor reports. “What's going on is important and we should pay attention to it,” says a 2004 gold medalist, but “we need to be athletes first.”  Despite a 1980 boycott of the Moscow Games, "the invasion continued,” notes a wrestler of the Soviets' takeover of Afghanistan. More »

    • Behold the Mighty Medicine Ball

      ESPN  |  Apr 14, 08 12:22 PM CDT

      Behold the Mighty Medicine Ball

      (Newser) - The thunk of a medicine ball may evoke images of football players doing strength and resistance training, but its history reaches far beyond the advent of modern fitness regimens. ESPN the Magazine chronicles the medicine ball through the ages, from gladiators' workouts to Renaissance medical texts to the earliest days of the US Military Academy. More »

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      athlete  • history  • fitness  • Matt Ryan  • military training  • Romans  • strength training

    • Track Doping Witness Will Give 2 Dozen Names

      New York Times  |  Apr 13, 08 11:35 AM CDT

      Track Doping Witness Will Give 2 Dozen Names

      (Newser) - Angel Guillermo Heredia, the main witness for the federal case against elite track coach Trevor Graham, is prepared to give the names of about two dozen athletes to whom he supplied performance-enhancing drugs. Among the 12 Olympians on the list is Maurice Greene, a two-time gold medalist who has never failed a drug test, reports the New York Times. More »

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      athlete  • track and field  • Marion Jones  • BALCO  • sports doping  • Trevor Graham  • Maurice Greene

    • For Olympians, Conscience Battles Wallet

      New York Times  |  Apr 1, 08 2:24 PM CDT

      For Olympians, Conscience Battles Wallet

      (Newser) - The Beijing Olympics will be rife with protesters, but athletes may be reluctant to be among them, reports the New York Times. Olympic rules forbid protests or propaganda at Olympic sites, and sponsors are sure to frown on such activity. Even Team Darfur, a protest group with many Olympian members, understands. For many sports, “This is their one time every four years to make money,” said a group co-founder. More »

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      2008 Beijing Olympics  • Darfur  • athlete  • Olympic protests  • Team Darfur

  • March 2008

    • Sports Stars Endorse Little League Facebook

      New York Times  |  Mar 26, 08 8:49 AM CDT

      Sports Stars Endorse Little League Facebook

      (Newser) - Want to see Peyton Manning’s Pop Warner games? Derek Jeter playing Little League? They’ll be on WePlay.com, alongside some game film from a lot of other not-yet-famous players. WePlay, which is launching today, is a youth sports social-networking site—a kind of little league Facebook. Athletes, coaches, and parents will all be able to network, coordinate schedules, and share game videos. More »

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      Facebook  • social networking  • sports  • athlete  • Peyton Manning  • Derek Jeter  • Little League

    • Dykstra Takes A Hack at Publishing

      New Yorker  |  Mar 18, 08 11:52 AM CDT

      Dykstra Takes A Hack at Publishing

      (Newser) - Once tough-as-nails former baseball star Lenny Dykstra is still as irrepressible as ever, and soon his characteristic voice will be reaching pro athletes across the nation—if they subscribe to his magazine. The Players Club offers personal and financial guidance to its readership, and will be "the world’s best magazine," Dykstra told the New Yorker. More »

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      baseball  • New York Mets  • Philadelphia Phillies  • athlete  • Lenny Dykstra

    • HGH Builds Muscles, Not Strength: Study

      San Jose Mercury News  |  Mar 18, 08 10:15 AM CDT

      HGH Builds Muscles, Not Strength: Study

      (Newser) - Human growth hormone certainly builds muscles, but it may not make athletes faster or stronger. "What we found suggested that it didn't help—and at some point, it might hurt," said the lead investigator on the Stanford research study. So why, the San Jose Mercury News wonders, do sports stars risk their careers by turning to HGH? More »

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      athlete  • human growth hormone  • Stanford University  • muscle mass

    • Harvard Begins Women-Only Gym Hours

      Associated Press  |  Mar 5, 08 10:49 AM CST

      Harvard Begins Women-Only Gym Hours

      (Newser) - Harvard is trying out women-only gym hours at one of its facilities to make exercising easier for Muslim women. Six of the 70 hours a week that the Quadrangle Recreational Athletic Center is open will be barred to men so that Muslim women feel free to dress appropriately for working out, reports the AP. But some students complain that the new policy is sexist or unfair. More »

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      Islam  • athlete  • exercise  • Harvard  • sexism  • Muslim  • Muslim women  • gym  • Muslim Americans

    • Star Gymnast Attracts Fans and Sponsors

      Washington Post  |  Mar 1, 08 7:18 PM CST

      Star Gymnast Attracts Fans and Sponsors

      (Newser) - Corporate sponsors like Adidas and Coca-Cola are latching onto a tiny gymnast with a towering talent named Shawn Johnson, the Washington Post reports. The smiling 16-year-old shares "brand attributes" with Coca-Cola like "genuine" and "fun," one exec says. She is also the world's reigning gymnastics champion and gold-medal favorite in Beijing this year. More »

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      2008 Beijing Olympics  • Iowa  • athlete  • gold medal  • gymnastics  • gymnast  • Shawn Johnson

  • February 2008
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