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Victory Lap with Jessica Lapachinski: Celebrating National Girls and Women in Sport season
02-10-2025 8:06 AM

It’s NGWSD season!National Girls and Women in Sport Day is celebrated annually to honor the achievements of women and girls in sports, raise awareness about the importance of gender equality in athletics, and encourage more participation in sports at all levels.

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On The Run with John Stifler: The action is heating up indoors
02-07-2025 4:20 PM

When I was in high school in Tennessee, I came north to visit Amherst College. Among the campus buildings that caught my attention was the Coolidge Cage. I had never seen such a thing before: a square floor plan, four-sided pyramidal roof, and space not only for basketball but for sports I associated with the outdoors, including tennis, baseball and especially track.


Fit to Play with Jim Johnson: The End of the Ice Age?
02-03-2025 5:19 PM

It’s Saturday morning and you’ve just come down on the side of your ankle while playing in the neighborhood basketball game. The pain is immediate as you limp to the sideline. “Get some ice,” someone yells. You lie down, put your leg up on a chair and wait for the ice. Upon arrival you wrap the ice tightly around the ankle. You have just satisfied the age-old rule of RICE, the recommended treatment for acute injuries for 46 years. RICE stands for rest, ice, compression, and elevation, all factors designed to reduce blood flow as well as inflammation. RICE was first proposed by Harvard physician Gabe Mirkin in his 1978 text “The Sports Medicine Book.”


Fit to Play with Jim Johnson: Backyard playground
01-06-2025 3:34 PM

Last month I wrote about the benefits of unsupervised play, that children who play outdoors with other children learn not only physical skills but how to get along with other children, how to play fair, to be creative, to learn how to get up when...


On The Run with John Stifler: Ringing in the new year at the Sawmill River 10K
01-03-2025 3:25 PM

An eccentric teacher who was the inspiration for the Robin Williams character in the movie “Dead Poets’ Society,” Sam Pickering writes essays that are as edgy as Williams’ acting. Long before the era of NIL and transfer portals, Sam wrote that the...


The Real Score: The power of service through sport
12-19-2024 4:29 PM

Sport fandom is all about building community in the professional sport industry, but most sport takes place within our communities. From a financial perspective, participatory sports accounted for 63.5% of the global sport market in 2023 and in the...


On The Run with John Stifler: Should you give the gift of running shoes?
12-06-2024 2:13 PM

Attention, shoppers! Are you thinking of gifting someone on your list a pair of running shoes?Don’t.I’ll qualify that instruction. Give someone running shoes if you (A) are giving them the exact same brand, model and size as the shoes they already use...


Fit to Play with Jim Johnson: Lessons of the playground
12-02-2024 4:01 PM

There was a vacant lot on the corner of 10th Street and Avenue H. I learned to play there, meeting up daily with other children in the neighborhood after school. There is something irreplaceable about unsupervised play; many lessons are learned. We...


Only Human: Why I’m a full-on Swiftie
11-08-2024 2:06 PM

By JOAN AXELROD-CONTRADA

Taylor Swift’s song “I Can Do It with a Broken Heart” has turned me into a full-on Swiftie. Yes, you read that right: This 60-something widow is now belting out lyrics about pain and power with a vigor that could rival any teenage girl wrapped in...


Fit to Play with Jim Johnson: Light Meat or Dark Meat?
11-04-2024 6:11 PM

Thanksgiving is almost upon us and I’m ready to carve the turkey. White meat or dark meat? I go for the white but I always remember my grandfather; he said the neck was the best part. I have yet to eat a neck, but one does wonder why turkeys have two...


On The Run with John Stifler: Busy race weekend across western Massachusetts
11-01-2024 3:40 PM

The cusp between colorful early autumn and chilly later autumn footraces is loaded with activity. This Sunday, for Valley runners who aren’t in New York for the marathon, the local running calendar offers four different races in the space of three...


The Real Score: College sports and private equity
10-24-2024 3:46 PM

When Charlie Baker left the Massachusetts Governor’s Mansion in 2023 for the last time as its resident, he presumably had a whole host of professional options to move onto as America’s most popular governor. However, few foresaw Baker choosing his...


Fit to Play with Jim Johnson: Scholar athlete to mercenary
09-30-2024 11:41 AM

By JIM JOHNSON

For years, athletic directors and coaches have referred to their college athletes as scholar athletes or student athletes. The reference is that college athletes are students first and athletes second. Meanwhile, college athletes, especially...


On The Run with John Stifler: Running through some summer events
09-06-2024 2:57 PM

Historically, American sprinters have been one of the biggest stories at the Olympics, and this summer’s excellent Games in Paris hardly altered that pattern. Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone broke the world record for the 400-meter hurdles for the sixth...


Let’s Talk Relationships: Building emotional intelligence for strong partnership
09-06-2024 11:22 AM

By AMY NEWSHORE

Part 1 of a 2-part seriesWhen you think of someone you consider to be intelligent, what comes to mind? Perhaps they are well-schooled, are good problem solvers, or are self-taught, knowledgeable and passionate about a subject. It is most common to...


Around and About with Richard McCarthy: Giving life a smooch ‘at my age’
09-05-2024 9:38 AM

By RICHARD MCCARTHY

Sometimes life teaches you things you never wanted to know.As I alluded to in a previous column, I broke my femur, or thigh bone, this past March 25th, when I went down on a patch of ice while bicycling. For those of you who do not know, the femur is...


Fit to Play with Jim Johnson: Olympic medalists are champions, not heroes
09-02-2024 11:22 AM

By all accounts the Paris Olympics were a great success. We were treated to a magnificent sport spectacle, the world’s greatest athletes at their best. The display of sportsmanship was fulfilling, a tribute to the competitors. The Olympics are for the...


The Real Score: From Paris, with Love: 2024 Olympic Games Strike Gold
08-22-2024 4:35 PM

The next time we tune in to hear the drums of NBC’s Summer Olympics coverage, the torch will be lit in California for the first Summer Olympics in the United States in 34 years. And from the perspective of those studying the business of sports, the...


The Olympic Report with Jim Johnson: Olympic Bodies
08-12-2024 1:45 PM

The last time Paris hosted the Summer Olympics was 100 years ago. If you were to walk into one of the dining halls at that time you would not be able to predict which sport an athlete participated. Swimmers looked like discus throwers and distance...


The Olympic Report with Jim Johnson: Fueling the Marathoner
08-08-2024 2:51 PM

The marathon was not part of the ancient Olympics but was introduced as a special event in the 1896 games. Seventeen participants from five nations started the race but only nine finished. One American entered but did not finish. The original race was...


On The Run with John Stifler: How should we run in the extreme heat?
08-02-2024 2:19 PM

Running in the kind of hot weather we’re having these days can be fun. It can also be uncomfortable, exhausting, depleting. In extreme cases it’s even dangerous. Seriously, how do you exercise in the heat?Part of the answer is obvious. Dress lightly....

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