Related News ItemsAuthor, journalist details how Roosevelt saved footballTue, 21 Feb 2012 08:23:56 -0800
Football’s troubled history and Theodore Roosevelt’s love of the game will be the subject of “The Big Scrum — How Teddy Roosevelt Saved Football,” an event hosted by Grand Valley State University’s Hauenstein Center for Presidential Studies tonight at 7:30 p.m. The event will be held at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum in Grand Rapids. John J. Miller, an author, journalist and professor ...
Read More... Psychology Professor Studies Science of MotivationTue, 21 Feb 2012 10:36:04 -0800
Social psychologist Tory Higgins, who earned his Ph.D. at Columbia in 1973 and has been on the faculty since 1989, has spent nearly 30 years conducting research on motivation and has written a new book on the topic. In Beyond Pleasure and Pain: How Motivation Works , he details his findings and conclusions, drawing upon more than 1,000 experiments, including more than 250 he and his ...
Read More... California Stuck with $2 Million Bill After Failed "Violent Video Game" LawWed, 22 Feb 2012 07:28:13 -0800
Former Governor Schwarzenegger was a driving force behind the numerous appeals
Read More... Chinese VP Xi Jinping attends Lakers gameFri, 17 Feb 2012 23:02:37 -0800
Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping wrapped up his four-day U.S. visit in Southern California style -- in a box seat at the Los Angeles Lakers' game against the Phoenix Suns on Friday night. Expected to become president of the world's most populous nation next year, Xi began the final day of his U.S.
Read More... Video Game Sales Plummet in JanuaryMon, 13 Feb 2012 13:25:27 -0800
January 2012 video game industry sales figures revealed that it has not yet recovered from the 2011 slump.
Read More... Live updates from the Michigan basketball game at NorthwesternTue, 21 Feb 2012 15:53:51 -0800
With an emotional win over Ohio State behind it and a senior day game against Purdue looming this weekend, the Michigan basketball team is at Northwestern for a mid-week road contest tonight (8 p.m., BTN). The classic "trap" game?...
Read More... Look inside All-Star mind game: What makes a champion? | VideoMon, 20 Feb 2012 20:37:04 -0800
Fans might expect that the basketball stars heading here for Sunday's NBA All-Star Game are going to extremes to prepare for game day, but chances are, they're not doing anything special. Or they shouldn't be, say sports psychologists. "Rule No. 1 for a champion is to do what you always do. The body loves a routine," said Jim Loehr, an Orlando sports psychologist and performance coach.
Read More... From Mao Zedong to Jeremy Lin: Why Basketball Is China's Biggest SportWed, 22 Feb 2012 05:51:07 -0800
Long before the NBA arrived, missionaries, revolutionaries, and communists helped make the game ubiquitous here.
Read More... A contraception game-changerTue, 21 Feb 2012 13:47:42 -0800
Presidents, politicians and physicians are fighting over who should pay for contraception, and women are getting hurt in the process.
Read More... Michael Green: Ending the Toxic Shell GameWed, 22 Feb 2012 09:18:29 -0800
In California we recently won a victory when BPA was banned from baby bottles and sippy cups. Even before the ban, some producers were eliminating BPA from their products. My daughter's pink sippy cup, for example, was labeled "BPA-free." So why would I still worry?
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