SPORTSCIENCE NEWS
The first two years of the Sportscience journal/site


See also the index pages for Frank Katch's timeless History Makers, Louise Burke's Compeat, John Hawley's TrainGain, the incomplete Encyclopedia of Sports Medicine and Science, and the defunct Ferret. To find other articles at the old site via the old navigation links in the left-hand frame, click here.
Sept-Oct 1998

History Makers: Russell Henry Chittenden · Making a Splash: VIII International Symposium of Biomechanics and Medicine in Swimming · Ferret: Basketball Home Advantage, Monitoring Ironman Performance, Acquiring Skills, Worth the Risk? · Moving Together: Universities world-wide, lecture notes, electronic journal support, disabled sports in Ontario, volleyball discussion lists...

July-August 1998
Performance Enhancement at ACSM 1998 · ACSM: Limits to Sport Performance · Ferret: African Genes; Just Do It; Ethics of Data Sharing · Cross-Training: A Misnomer · Carbohydrate Intake for Athletes: Grams or Percent? · Coaches Apply Biomechanical Tools to Evaluate Sport Techniques · Frederick Gowland Hopkins · Moving Together: Stretching videos online, health information directory, fitness/weight loss, martial arts and judo sites, PowerPoint resource links...

May-June 1998
Lift or Drag in Freestyle Swimming? · Countdown to Orlando · Ferret: Palm-top Blood Lab; Abdominal Exercises; Beefing up to Win · Pacing strategy · Pre-event Meals · Francis Gano Benedict · Moving Together: Everest on line, citation styles, research-grant sources, sport-related bibliographies, world facts, general fitness...

Mar-Apr 1998
Clapskates at Nagano · Bodybuilding as an Olympic Sport · Winter Olympics - A Tale of Two Countries · Ferret: Ketogenic Diets; Disordered Eating; Fatigue Fracas; Sit-up Put-down; Practice Strategy · William Beaumont · Moving Together: women's sports news, resources for recreation professionals, teaching gymnastics, a translation service on the Web...

Jan-Feb 1998
Ferret: Wrestlers' Deaths; Slap-skate Update; Freezing Field Tests; Reliable Rowing; Review of Sports Vision · Taper for Endurance Athletes  · Carbohydrate Depletion ·  Antoine Laurent Lavoisier · Moving Together: fitness assessment software, sport-related internet sites...

Nov-Dec 1997
Coca-Cola Preferred by Top Endurance Cyclists ·  Resistance Training and Endurance Performance ·  Swimmers: Body Fat Mystery! ·  Edward Smith ·  Video training software, top fitness web pages, and more.

Sept-Oct 1997
A report of the first annual USOC-ACSM human performance summit ·  XII FINA World Congress on Swimming Medicine ·  A report from the 10th International Conference on the Biochemistry of Exercise ·  Conditioning methods of world champion boxer Evander Holyfield ·  James Lind ·  Understand and use the glycemic index.

July-Aug 1997
The Encyclopedia of Sports Medicine and Science ·  Academic Co-operatives for Web Journals ·  Medline sites, self-teach modules about the Net, new educational sports sites ·  ACSM 97: Hard Facts on High Intensity, High Heat, and High Altitude from the Mile-High City ·  ACSM: A Peak Experience: the obesity epidemic, cycling, tapering, nasal strips, supplements and more.

May-June 1997
The Gender Gap ·  The methods of one of the great coaches, Arthur Lydiard ·  The biennial meeting of the South African Sports Medicine Association ·  Visual skills and visual awareness help elite hockey players  ·  Physiologist A.V. Hill ·  IV or not IV? ·  Climbing Everest, kids' Olympics, and a US Govt-sponsored "health finder" site.

Mar-Apr 1997
The low-down on nasal strips; making posters; making Web pages; finding sport images; a search engine for email-list messages ·  Blood Testing for Professional Cyclists ·  Speedskaters Get New Skates ·  Claude Bernard ·  Nutrition News from the Netherlands ·  Access to unpublished military reports on sport and exercise science ·  The European College of Sports Science.

Jan-Feb 1997
Welcome to Sportscience ·  Get Involved at This Site ·  Tighter Control on Skiers' Use of EPO ·  National Conference on Technology in Physical Education and Sport ·  Thinking Out Loud" in Orienteering ·  August Krogh ·  Paris conference on Periodicity of Eating.