Healthy Living: Sports chronicler Lewis says stay vain and fit
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BERKELEY, California, October 2 (Reuters Life!) - Author Michael Lewis, who has written about bond trading, venture capital and baseball, returns to bookshelves this month with a new look at the evolution of professional football.
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PUBLIC-health campaigns regularly plug exercise as a sure-fire way to avoid an early grave. But that message may be too simplistic.
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&quot;I wanted him to stay outside,&quot; US boxing coach Basheer Abdullah would say later, &quot;and use his speed.&quot;. But when it mattered most Friday night - in the closing seconds of the Olympic light-heavyweight
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The evolution of a physique for long-distance running is what made humans look the way we do now. The crucial role of running in human evolution, overlooked in previous research, is being proposed in an article
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Many athletes exude ideals of Games, from embraces in the pool to a fencing timeout. By Mark Sappenfield | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor.
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Expectations come with a noose. In a sport where the need to live one day at a time is always reinforced, not living up to long-range projections often tightens that noose.
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Even the most health-conscious corporate executive sometimes struggles to balance professional and social commitments with a regular exercise regimen. The bottom line is this: The healthier you are, the more productive you will be; the fitter you become, the fewer work days you will miss, the less...
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Troy Allen was an elite athlete in his day, a baseball player at George Washington University whose pro career was cut short by a shoulder injury. For the past decade he has purposefully avoided exercise, but now he is coming back from his "de-training" with an ambitious goal in view: San Diego's...
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The old adage that there is no such thing as bad publicity for a celebrity is getting a workout these days -- and so far appears to be holding true.
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How the diagnosis of a serious heart condition turned a jock into a beauty queen.
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Legg Mason's Mary Chris Gay explains how a seasoned team can boost success.
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ATHENS -- Weightlifting&#39;s aggressive pursuit of drug cheaters will continue even if it jeopardizes its future in the Olympics, its top official said yesterday after six more positive doping cases in what is again becoming the Games&#39; dirtiest sport. Five ...
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After a season plagued by injuries and a bad attitude, Glenn Robinson recognized it was time to get serious, get in shape and get ready to prove he still has some bite in his game.
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Public-health campaigns regularly plug exercise as a sure-fire way to avoid an early grave. But that message may be too simplistic.
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ORLANDO, Fla. -- Most of America's weekend-warrior athletes know the bitter truth about their personal skill levels: They're getting slower, weaker, and creakier every year and no new gizmo will reverse that.
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Reports of substance abuse by top competitors in the baseball and cycling worlds remind us once again that it is important to keep athletic heroics in their proper perspective.
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Running the country is no game. It just sounds like one sometimes. In the Bush White House, sports are a metaphor for life. Better keep up if you want to play.