Economist: Cuba's state-run baseball doesn't go to bat for players
...ll system exploits its players, while offering its fans less-even competition between teams than in the ma...ontracts are a clear case of exploitation." Cuban fans griped so much about the exodus of baseball talent that authorities clamped down on the overseas dea...'Ding' concussions require removal from the game
... wind down and we approach the Superbowl, football fans are likely to hear announcers refer to a player as having a "ding" or "bell-ringer." However, in the high school athlete, a concussion is not a trivial event, according to a study published in the January American Journal of Sports Medicine by the Un...The Passionate Mind: Oct. 9-11 Utah Symposium in Science & Literature
...ol ofBusiness, and may be competing for space with fans attending a footballgame later in the day. The symposium is sponsored by the University of Utah's Office ofthe Vice President for Research, College of Humanities, Department ofEnglish, Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute and Utah Museum of...Preventing misuse of performance-enhancing substances a growing and difficult task
Baseball team owners, players and fans seem to agree on the importance of drug testing fo..." he notes. "It's interesting to see that baseball fans being polled support drug testing and a ban on steroids, but it will take fans of all major sports t...New book asks ethical questions about human subjects research
...h research takes place. "We (the editors) are not fans of moral relativism, but we think that the notion of an ethics of relationships in research is worth pursuing because it might bring us closer to solving some of the peripheral problems crowding our field of vision," they say. The new book includes d......entional practices like opening shelters or giving fans to poor citizens during heat waves are "not enough...e in a 'public' shelter. "(Public) money spent on fans (for poor citizens) should be redirected elsewhere" since "...fans are useless when heat and humidit...