Sports
Go hard science or go home
In our sports coverage, we focus on physical demands, human performance, statistics, sports medicine, modern equipment and thoughtful analyses of the players, teams and games we love. From baseball to sailing to basketball to golf, from football to tennis to running to obscure sports, we seek the revealing secrets behind these competitions.
A short conversation with circadian rhythms researcher Ravi Allada
Drivers’ bodies overheat, their hearts race, and they face extreme G-forces.
The telltale tau proteins present in the disease known as CTE display distinctive features.
How well future pros sprint, jump and lift weights at the NFL Scouting Combine may tell us only a little bit about their career success.
Performing artists sometimes need the same injury prevention and treatment as athletes.
Data science and machine learning are helping basketball players up their game.
New study suggests at least one in 10 NFL players could eventually develop the brain disease.
Research suggests most North American college and professional hockey players don't specialize as youngsters.
New safety rules pose challenges for players and officials.
New research suggests that despite being tired, athletes can still sprint at top speed near the end of a long match.
Goal-line technology and a “VARification” system could reduce the number of controversial refereeing incidents during the tournament in Russia.
