Monthly Archive for November, 2010

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Should Student Athletes Profit From Video Game Sales?

Published on November 7, 2010 in News. 0 Comments

videogame-150x150From eCampus News

Basketball star Ed O’Bannon and quarterback Sam Keller each earned most valuable player awards during their collegiate careers. Now, years after playing their final games, they are pursuing what they consider a more significant collegiate legacy: They are attempting through federal lawsuits to force the NCAA to share its annual revenues with student athletes—including money earned through the sale of video games bearing the athletes’ likenesses.

“There are millions and millions of dollars being made off the sweat and grind of the student athlete,” O’Bannon said. “Student athletes see none of that other than their education.”

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Spaghetti, the No. 8 and Green Underwear: Rituals to Run With

Published on November 5, 2010 in News. 0 Comments

04marathon-super-blogspanBy Lix Robbins, in The New York Times

When the cannons go off on the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge on Sunday, Mary Darling will savor an instant of peace before the adrenaline charges through her. She knows that her best friend’s father has just lit a candle — timed precisely for her start of the New York City Marathon — at St. Christopher’s Church in Baldwin, N.Y., just as he does for every marathon she runs.

Darling, 44, does not normally consider herself superstitious. But the marathon brings out the quirks, the rituals and especially the obsessions in every runner. Whether it is a special kind of food a runner ingests the night before or the morning of the race, or the numbers or letters on a jersey, everyone has a routine that works.

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Study Shows Campaign for Cricket in Schools Gives Children Life Skills

Published on November 3, 2010 in News. 0 Comments

tess-kayruthjeansFrom a Loughborough University Press release:

An independent study has confirmed the educational and social benefits of a charity’s £50m campaign to regenerate competitive cricket in state schools.

The study by Ruth Jeanes and Tess Kay at Loughborough University’s Institute of Youth Sport (IYS) will be released at a press conference on 26 November. It found that Chance to shine, which works through cricket clubs to provide 50 hours of coaching and competition for each school, had brought widespread benefits on the playing field and in the classroom.

Dr Jeanes, who led the IYS research team, said “Chance to shine increased pupils’ confidence and self esteem. It also successfully involved many pupils who were previously disengaged from sport and PE and there has also been evidence that participation and involvement in cricket can be used successfully to encourage positive behaviour from some more difficult to reach pupils.”

Dr Kay commented, ‘The response we have seen to Chance to shine shows that many of the problems we face in engaging young people in sport and physical activity really can be overcome – but it takes quality provision to achieve that. The research findings are very encouraging for those who believe sport can be used to engage young people, help them be more physically active, and contribute to their broader social development’.

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