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...VARIETY Encourage your kids to switch from one sport to another during the year. Be sure to choose activities that don't stress the same muscles and joints...
Specializing in one sport and playing it year round is an obvious way to court trouble. But young athletes can also be tripped up by playing different sports that put stress on the same parts of their body over and over again. For example, swimming, water polo and volleyball put a great deal of strain on the shoulders, so athletes wouldn't really give themselves a rest by switching among those sports. For the same reason, softball pitchers shouldn't swim competitively in the off-season or play football. They would be better off doing something dissimilar like bicycling, which...
...Each sport comes with characteristic dangers. Whereas volleyball players and swimmers are prone to overuse injuries of the shoulder, basketball and soccer players often have trouble in one or both of the knees. Divers, cheerleaders, gymnasts and football linemen, meanwhile, are susceptible to stress fractures of the lower back. Indeed, lower-back pain is normally uncommon in adolescents. If it shows up, parents should schedule an immediate visit to a doctor...
...founder of the networking site Facebook, in response to protests about a new feature that updates users' home pages with fresh information that their friends have posted. Users called it an invasion of privacy. Facebook is "aggressively evaluating" the feature Sources: U.S. Newswire; whitehouse.gov New York Times; Gazzetta dello Sport; Philadelphia Inquirer...
CLEARED. Marion Jones, 30, champion sprinter; of using the endurance booster erythropoietin, for which she tested positive in June; in a follow-up, or B, test; by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency; in Colorado Springs, Colo. The five-time Olympic medalist, who faced a two-year ban from the sport, said she was "ecstatic." She is expected to resume racing at this week's World Cup in Athens...