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Student warned over Facebook site wooing prospect
Apr 11, 2009 |
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(AP) -- College sports fans, be careful of the company you keep on Facebook. You might get yourself - and the program you support - in trouble.
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Some cell phones to get live NCAA tournament games
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Mar 18, 2009 |
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(AP) -- March Madness is in the air. To be more specific, it's on airwaves that certain AT&T and Verizon Wireless phones can pick up, letting them show live NCAA basketball tournament games this season.
Athletes with asthma need more help from their team trainers
Apr 28, 2009 |
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Very few athletic trainers associated with National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) programs said that they were following best practice standards for managing asthma among their athletes, according to a new study.
Computer system consistently makes most accurate NCAA picks
Technology / Computer Sciences
Apr 03, 2008 |
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Sports professionals and fans get pretty emotional about their picks for the NCAA basketball tournament each year, and that emotion often clouds their judgment.
Odds are, seedings don't matter after Sweet 16, professor says
Mar 16, 2009 |
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For budding "bracketologists" busily weighing picks for their annual March Madness office pool, a University of Illinois professor has some advice on how to pick winners: In the later rounds of the tournament, ...
Two-thirds of severe sports injuries to female students due to cheerleading
Aug 11, 2008 |
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A new report on severe sporting injuries among high school and college athletes shows cheerleading appears to account for a larger proportion of all such injuries than previously thought.
Study takes next step -- Why women suffer more knee injuries
Mar 07, 2007 |
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Female athletes are up to eight times more likely to suffer knee injuries during their careers than males, and now researchers may be closer to understanding why.
Web bookies not worried by NCAA underdogs
Mar 30, 2006 |
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Although heavy underdog George Mason University, who once sat at 400-1 odds, is two victories away from winning the NCAA Basketball Tournament, it's not the team that has online betting sites most frightened.
All bets are off: Office pools lead to unhappiness
May 30, 2008 |
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Office pools for the NCAA basketball tournament or Oscar contests are fun, right? Not according to the Journal of Consumer Research. A recent study suggests that betting on the outcome actually reduces people's enjoyment of the ...
Twitter gives fans access to athletes' lives, so long as the tweets are real
Jun 11, 2009 |
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The tweet in question might have been one of the shortest did-he-really-say-that comments in a long line of sports figures saying dumb things.
Research: Male, female reporters cover sports differently
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Jun 23, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Male and female reporters differ in the way they cover sports, especially in regard to the athleticism of female athletes, according to a recent study.
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