Priscila Uppal landed in London earlier this week armed with pen and notepad, laptop and backpack ready to commit the Summer Olympic Games to verse. Once again, the York English professor is bridging the arts-sports divide as poet-in-residence. Sponsored by Canada Athletes Now (CAN) and other benefactors, she will make poetry of the games and the Olympians […]
The hockey enforcer gives his team a sense of security in the heat of battle – a debt that people should think more about repaying in civilian life. Certainly, the deaths this past summer of three National Hockey League players who excelled in that taxing job, the latest, Wade Belak, taking his own life on […]
The Ontario Hockey Federation’s decision to ban bodychecking will likely draw more players to the game and keep others from dropping out, wrote The Canadian Press May 6 (via Global Toronto): The federation is making the change – which affects players between the ages of 6 and 21 – in an effort to create a […]
A minor injury, as the saying goes, is an injury to someone else. When it’s your knee, back, shoulder or, in my case, groin that hurts, there is nothing trivial about it. Especially if said injury is keeping you from working out consistently for the first time in years, wrote Lenny Bernstein of the Washington […]
A Montreal Gazette story on six tips for fostering a love of sports in children mentioned a York study that examined how to keep children engaged in sport. The Nov. 29 story quotes the work of Professor Jessica Fraser-Thomas: You signed your kids up for organized sport in hopes of keeping them active. But there’s […]
Professor Joe Baker in the Faculty of Health’s School of Kinesiology & Health Science spoke to the Vancouver Sun about whether children gain advantages by specializing early in one sport: The era of sports specialization at a young age is upon us, despite alarm bells sounded by medical professionals who say we are putting young […]
Sports and poetry aren’t usually thought of as intertwining, but York English Professor Priscila Uppal is almost as much a sports fan as she is a poet. Given that she was the Canadian Athletes Now Fund (CANFund) poet-in-residence during the Vancouver 2010 Olympics and Paralympic Games, it’s not surprising that her poems have made their way […]
New research from York University is the first to show how several distinct brain areas control eye and hand movements – explaining, for example, how a quarterback can make a split-second play with pinpoint accuracy. The study, recently published in The Journal of Neuroscience, examined the inner workings of the posterior parietal cortex (PPC), located […]
Alyn McCauley knows a thing or two about concussions. The retired National Hockey League player suffered several concussions, some almost career-ending, during his hockey career, which spanned more than a decade. McCauley will talk about his experiences as an athlete tomorrow at Blow by Blow: Sport Concussion Management, the Donald Sanderson Memorial Symposium on Sport Concussion. […]
Research funded by Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), Medtronic Canada and Can-Am Care A new study led by York University researchers finds that young athletes with Type 1 diabetes may experience a marked decrease in performance as a result of their blood sugar levels. The study, published in the International Journal […]