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...study looked at the blood of 488 runners in the 2002 Boston Marathon. An astonishing 13% of them showed clear signs of hyponatremia, and three were at the danger level. The condition is most likely to strike novice runners, as élite athletes don't want to lose seconds by slowing down at the water stations that line race routes--and they know from experience that they don't have...
Over the past month, Harvard’s Department of Athletics has launched on offensive against Junior Varsity (JV) athletic teams of all ilks. Told that their “commitment level[s]…[fall] below the standard that the Department expects of JV programs,” according to Assistant Director of Athletics Nathan Fry, the JV teams have been encouraged to downgrade themselves to club programs. Despite the Department’s assertion that it is merely responding to a decline in dedication among JV athletes, two reasons lead us to believe that more mercenary motivations...
Many were unsure how Pizzotti was going to respond to stepping into the starting role, so Winters was on call if the senior faltered. And even though Pizzotti played well, the rookie still managed to get his first few snaps at the collegiate level...
...inexcusable. SCHIP was founded in 1997 to help provide subsidized insurance for poor children. As the number of uninsured adults has climbed in the past decade, SCHIP has helped cut the rate of uninsured children whose families’ incomes are less than double of the federal poverty level from 23% in 1997 to 16% today. The proposed expansion of SCHIP would have added an additional 4 million children to the 6 million already enrolled, cutting the number of uninsured American children nearly in half. Although SCHIP isn’t perfect–a recent study revealed that almost...
...confidence boost when the squad competes in the Albany Invitational on Oct. 13, its final tuneup before the Ivy League Heptagonal Championships. “I’m excited for next week,” Saretsky said. “Our people are performing at a high level...