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A new book is championing science backed research to help develop women’s football. Women’s Football: From Science to High Performance provides a thorough, yet straightforward and accessible, analysis ...

NEWTON’S FOOTBALL: THE SCIENCE BEHIND AMERICA’S GAME By Allen St. John and Ainissa G. Ramirez Ballantine Books, $26, 272 pages Like many other people, one of my great passions is watching pro football ...

These days, a person can't talk about football without bringing up questions about the health effects of hard hits. Evidence is mounting that concussions experienced by players could lead to changes ...

The FIFA World Cup finally kicks off today! Despite my team’s recent Champions League Final defeat to Gareth Bale, this huge global tournament still excites me. The problem for me is that the Venn ...

The results of a recently published Boston University School of Medicine and VA Boston Healthcare System study show that football players who take up the sport before the age of 12 may develop ...

Let’s get the discouraging stuff out of the way first. For the chapter titled “Why Woodpeckers Don’t Get Concussions,” the authors of “Newton’s Football’’ spoke with Bill Simpson. For years, Simpson ...

Scientists and sports stars are taking to the field with a 10-part video series that explains the physics and biology behind football, just in time for today's start of the NFL regular season. The ...