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View Article  How to Live the Best Life Possible with Arthritis
It may be known as the “Great Crippler” but arthritis doesn’t have to rule your life. Let Dr. Eugene Zamperion...   more »
View Article  What Women Know about NCAA Coaching That Men Don’t
Yelling? Not the best coaching tool. Not for the top NCAA coaches—the female ones. What does work? The most successful ...   more »
View Article  This Guest Tackles Americans' Obsession With Football and Sports

You don’t have to be a seer to know what you’ll be doing on Feb. 7. Whether at home or ...   more »

View Article  Who Will Score and Who Will Fumble in This Year’s Super Bowl Ads?
Super Bowl ads cost $3 million for a 30-second spot last year. How could they possibly be worth that much ...   more »
View Article  Why Playing in the NFL Requires More Character Than Physical Talent

Attention parents: pro athletes can be role models. That’s the word from 22 pro football greats.

Author Steve Below and ...   more »

View Article  How Boston Went From Loserville to the Capital of the Sports World

What makes a diehard sports town?  Acclaimed Boston Herald columnist Steve Buckley details an amazing 7 months and 20 days ...   more »

View Article  Pro Athletes Can Be Role Models

What separates good football players from great football players? Former NFL player Todd Kalis and author Dr. Steve Below interviewed ...   more »

View Article  The High Life and Low Times of One of Sports Most Successful Agents

In the 1990s, Tank Black was one of the most successful sports agents in the business. His clientele read like ...   more »

View Article  Historian Reveals the Early Violent Days of Football
Recently Cincinnati quarterback Carson Palmer predicted in Sports Illustrated that someone would die in the NFL.
The nature of today’s ...   more »
View Article  25 Hall of Famers Reveal the Influences and Circumstances That Made Them Great
There is always someone bigger, faster and stronger in the world of professional sports. What makes an athlete “the
best ...   more »
View Article  Meet the Wal-On Player Who Led the NCAA in Scoring

Matt Frantz is a true football fantasy: he became the walk-on player (cut three times, he was a fifth-string kicker) ...   more »

View Article  New Names Top the List of 2009 PGA Tournament Winners

The 2009 PGA golf season is winding down and it hasn’t been business as usual. Many could argue that this ...   more »

View Article  Are You a Good Soccer Parent?

How to Support Your Kids without Getting in Their Way

Real-life soccer mom Kerrie Paige will get you off the ...   more »

View Article  College Football is Big Business
College football is big business, attracting millions of fans and catapulting talented players into lucrative professional careers—but without great coaches, ...   more »
View Article  Why Dogs Are Good Medicine

Not only are dogs man’s best friend, they also have the ability to be saviors to mankind, in more ways ...   more »

View Article  Interview Author James Ross About the Fed Ex Cup Championship in September

It’s been called the playoffs for men’s professional golf, a 3- week intensely competitive tournament. Based on a point system ...   more »

View Article  Hunters: Nature's Appreciators or Cold-Blooded Killers?

Hunters are often viewed as mindless, blood-thirsty killers of innocent animals. But writer/outdoorsmen Joe Parry proves that those who engage ...   more »

View Article  Why This #1 NCAA Player Was ignored By the Pros

For Cliff Carter, his career as a professional baseball player was a swing and a miss. And it wasn’t due ...   more »

View Article  Coaches from Hell…
Cliff Carter was like a lot of kids: He had a passion for baseball and dreamed about playing in the ...   more »
View Article  What's Wrong with the Way We Learn to Swim?

Just because you can do a few laps of the pool doesn’t mean you’re safe in the water, says renowned ...   more »

View Article  12-Year-Old Climbing World's Highest Mountains
The song “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” certainly
pertains to tween climbing sensation Jordan Romero.
While most 12-year-olds daydream of ...   more »
View Article  Golf and Greed; Why Exclusive Country Clubs Are a Breeding Ground for White-Collar Crime

Golf season is in full swing. From the pros to weekend hackers to corporate country club events, birdies are made ...   more »

View Article  The Masters Tournament is April 9-12; Why Do 27 Million People Find Golf So Fascinating?

James Ross has golf and writing in his blood. Ross is a 5 handicap duffer and a distant relative of ...   more »

View Article  Hot Dogs and Baseball: Two of America's Most Beloved Icons

When the starting lineups of many Major League Baseball teams have changed since the celebratory champagne was corked last season, ...   more »

View Article  Guns, Drugs and Dog Fights: Learn Why More Athletes Are Playing Hardball with the Law

A professional athlete is likely breaking the law somewhere at this very moment.

Well, maybe it isn’t that bad, but ...   more »