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Safety Eyewear Can Prevent Sports Injuries in Kids : Eye injuries are the leading cause of blindness in children in the United States and most eye injuries in school-age children are sports-related, according to the U.S. National Institutes of Health . About 100000 sports-related eye injuries occur each ...

Sports don't create racism , racists do! Sports do not create racism (contrary to some popular beliefs about football). They may reflect racist  ... View article...

Why Are Asthmatic Youngsters More Likely To Be Bullied? : The inability of asthmatic children to participate in sports, and the melancholy feelings those youngsters experience, are believed to be two of the primary reasons that they are frequently the victims of bullying , researchers from one UK hospital ...

American Sports Are the Most Homophobic and Unsafe  - The NHL has no one it can point to for an example to LGBT players. A number of pros have come out after leaving the league, and all say there are ...

Gay sports fans are more likely to attend games live : And the top ten U.S. sports sites also had a higher concentration of adult gay and lesbian visitors, according to the firm's survey of 9,000 Americans during the first three months of 2013. SB Nation had the highest concentration of gay and lesbian ...

The LGBTQ community had a lot to celebrate in the sports world in 2023. Here are the year's most-read stories from the LGBTQ sports world (we will ... View article...

Amid the many debates over gay issues, is the public more accepting of ... High-profile lesbian athletes have come out while still playing their sports, but not a single gay male athlete in major U.S. professional sports has done the same. While television's most prominent same-sex parents are the two fictional dads on ...

Hispanic children who play sports are more likely to eat healthy  - Hispanic children who play sports are more likely to eat fruits and vegetables, indicates a study from the University of Texas; however, they are also  ...

When being fair is unfair: The complexion as an inequality standard - In a spoken word performance, which highlighted the "acceptable forms of being black" in the US , American poet Jovan Mays also went into the treatment of black athletes like Serena Williams and LeBron James by the sports industry in his "Black Like: We are not black enough to leave fingerprints, we ...

Denver and the Western Australia city of Perth are in the running to host the Gay Games in 2030. It's "the biggest LGBTQ+ sports and culture event ... View article...

Newspaper series looks at homophobia in women's college sports : The issue of homophobia in women's sports is one that is pervasive and still exists even though the climate has changed. Over the years we have heard of numerous female coaches and players who are lesbians (and whose orientation is known within their ... Outsports.com (blog)

I'm a lesbian basketball player. Hateful comments are pushing people like me out of sports. - Professional athletes are among the most prominent and admired figures in American life while LGBTQ youth are among the most marginalized.

Sex abuse scandals in sports likely to continue growing Childhood sex abuse is the worst of any scandal in sports -- and it only figures to grow. (AP photos) This is a different kind of scandal in sports. There are victims. Steroids have exposed cheaters and diminished statistical achievements. ... العالم العربي (AR) | ASIA | AFRICA | English | Las Américas

Homophobia is common in schools and sports clubs …there are fewer social controls within sport than there are in other areas of life. If you were homophobic in the workplace, the repercussions would be far more severe than if you were to use the same language on a football pitch. Unfortunately, it ...

Australian sports will be ranked on LGBTQ inclusiveness  - Rankings are common practice in sports, but LGBTQ inclusivity is rarely in the mix. A health advocacy group, with the help of some of Australia's most ...

Teen drug use may not be tied to sports participation - We already knew from several of my previous studies that while athletes in general are at a lower risk of opioid use, athletes involved in high contact sports like wrestling, football, ice hockey, and lacrosse are at a greater risk of misusing prescription opioids,” said lead study author Philip Veliz of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. 

Depression in teens often goes undiagnosed, and doctors are increasingly screening for it - When most of today's parents were teens , annual visits to the doctor's office generally involved making sure they were fit for the upcoming sports season. Today, local doctors say they're also checking for something else, something beyond the physical but still integral to a child's overall health : ...

School Sports May Cut Rates of Violence, Bullying Among Teens - Philly.com "Though we don't know if boys who play team sports are less likely to be the perpetrators of bullying , we know that they are less likely to be bullied ," Coyne-Beasley noted. "Perhaps creating team-like environments among students such that they may ...

Nigeria: NSC, Unicef Develop Policy to Fight HIV/Aids in Sports : "A two-year operational policy is being developed by the National Sports Commission to fight the scourge of HIV/AIDS among youths who are potential athletes ... See all stories on this topic » "

12 Sports Benefits for Children's Health  - According to Better Health Channel, the more active the child , the more they are likely to turn to physically active adults. Aside from reducing inactivity, ...