Axial back pain in the athlete: pathophysiology and approach to rehabilitation

Back pain in athletes is common. Proper management of an athlete with back pain who is trying to return to competition must take into account the probable biomechanical contributors and incorporate these into a comprehensive rehabilitation program that moves steadily forward towards defined goals. This study will attempt to discuss pathological commonalities of low-back pain in athletes and how these can be applied to an evidence-based rehabilitation approach

A Tale of Two Tournaments: The Red Cross Games and the Early NCAA-NIT Relationship

The purpose of this article is to explore the relationship between the National Invitational Tournament (NIT) and National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). To do so, the author explores the Red Cross War Benefit Games, which pitted the champions of the two tournaments against one another, with the proceeds benefiting the Red Cross. These contests represented the only times the two tournaments or their teams interacted. The author explores the Games’ significance and the manner in which they helped propel the NCAA men’s basketball tournament to preeminent status

Recent Results from the USU Plasma Impedance Probe for the NASA E-Winds Sounding Rocket Campaign

The new plasma impedance probe built by Utah State University was °own on July 1, 2003 as part of a NASA sounding rocket cam- paign to investigate midlatitude plasma layers and neutral winds. The instrument provided measure- ments of absolute and relative electron densities for the mission. The instrumentation technique is brie°y introduced, along with the plasma param- eters that the technique is capable of measuring. Relative electron densities from the DC Langmuir probe for the mission are presented along with a comparison of the relative density data to the ab- solute density provided by the plasma frequency probe

Basketball’s Forgotten Experiment: Don Barksdale and the Legacy of the United States Olympic Basketball Team

The 1948 United States Olympic basketball team has largely been fotgotten in the annals of American history despite taking a major step toward racial integration in American sports. Don Barksdale, the first African American to represent the US on the hardwood in the Olympics, joined nine players from the American South and legendary University of Kentucky coach, Adolph Rupp - a man notoriously identified as a racist. While Barksdale experienced very little racial mistreatment during the London Olympics, the lead-up to the Games reveals America\u27s ambiguous views on race relations. During training in the segregated states of Oklahoma and Kentucky, Barksdale experienced varying levels of treatment from his teammates, coaches, and citizens of the two southern states. His experiences paralleled those of another racial pioneer, Jackie Robinson, who mentored Barksdale throughout his basketball journeys. Today, Robinson stands as a household name for breaking baseball\u27s color barrier while Barksdale, whose feat occurred just one year after his mentor\u27s, has been all but forgotten within America\u27s collective memory

THE REALITY OF FANTASY SPORTS: A METAPHYSICAL AND ETHICAL ANALYSIS

Fantasy sports have become a major sector of our sport industry. With millions of participants worldwide and billions of dollars generated, fantasy sports have become a fixed part of our sport spectatorship. However, this prevalence has come without much intellectual investigation. Therefore, in this paper I discuss the metaphysics and ethics of fantasy sports. After providing arguments for the consistency of fantasy sports with prominent descriptions of play and games, I compare fantasy sports to other genres of play and games – sports, card games, ‘cybersports’, and spectatorship. After this juxtaposition, I delineate how fantasy sports are different from their real sport correlates. Fantasy sports are second-order games that are parasites of their real-sport counterparts. The differences between fantasy and real sports change our collective cultural views of the correlating real sports. While much good comes from the popular participation in fantasy sports, there are also drawbacks. That is, while fantasy sports participants tend to be more engaged spectators of sports, they also tend to only focus on particular, sensationalized aspects of the sports to which their fantasy ownership correlates