What does concussion do to the brain?
Feb 18, 2016 04:32 am UTC| Health Sports
News that actor Will Smith will boycott the Oscars has overshadowed promotional coverage of his latest film, Concussion, which examines the effects of repeated head injury. In the film, Smith plays the real-life...
Explainer: what is FPV drone racing?
Feb 15, 2016 00:31 am UTC| Sports Technology
The new sport of drone racing sees small but very fast robots fly around a circuit littered with obstacles. Unlike motorsports we are familiar with, the course of a drone race can be three-dimensional, with obstacles they...
Concussion: horror of sports-related brain damage is only now emerging
Feb 07, 2016 15:43 pm UTC| Sports Health
Not so long ago, it was a diagnosis that was barely mentioned. Now it feels like theres a plague of concussion in modern sport, with endless news articles and commentaries on the injury and its consequences. There are...
Can the Super Bowl help the NFL get over its millennial problem?
Feb 07, 2016 15:29 pm UTC| Sports
American footballs Super Bowl Sunday is the biggest annual event in US sport, and one of the biggest in the world. Some of the Super Bowls typical numbers are mind-blowing: a domestic TV audience of 114m people; 25m tweets...
If football is deadly, why do we still watch?
Feb 07, 2016 15:12 pm UTC| Health Sports
Right in the middle of footballs biggest party week, there was more tragic news on the head injury front. Ken Stabler, the flamboyant Oakland Raiders quarterback who led his team to a Super Bowl victory in January 1977,...
Super Bowl advertisers spend $5 million for 30 seconds: is there a better use for that cash?
Feb 07, 2016 15:04 pm UTC| Insights & Views Sports
The Super Bowl is not just the biggest and most-watched event of the year in the United States, its also one of the most important for advertisers, who shell out an estimated US$5 million for every half-minute of air...
Super Bowl 50's data deluge: How much is too much?
Feb 07, 2016 15:01 pm UTC| Insights & Views Sports
Do you remember the Announcerless Game? On December 20, 1980, an otherwise insignificant game between the New York Jets and Miami Dolphins, teams trudging toward the end of dreary seasons, became famous or infamous ...
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