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10-Apr-13 09:50
By Brian Holding
April 10, 2013
In the book Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power, Pulitzer Prize–winning author John Meacham writes about Jefferson’s commitment to fitness, describing his long walks, canoeing, or horseback riding purely as exercise. Given the awareness of this founding father in the late 1700s, it is disappointing to read the February 4 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) and learn that today’s baby boomers are less fit than their parents.
Unlike Jefferson’s generation, when education was limited to the affluent, baby ... [read more]
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13-Mar-13 03:55
Donna lopiano received the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s President Gerald R. Ford Award at the 2013 NCAA convention in January. The Ford Award, named in recognition of Gerald Ford, the 38th president of the United States and a member of two national championship football teams at Michigan, honors an individual who has provided significant leader- ship as an advocate for intercollegiate athletics over the course of his or her career.
Donna served for 18 years as the University of Texas at Austin director of women’s athletics and is a past president of the Association ... [read more]
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13-Mar-13 03:29
In August 2012, when news of an audacious bid to bring the Grande
Départ of the 2014 Tour de France to Yorkshire first emerged, Human Kinet- ics was among the first companies in the region to back the initiative.
We reasoned that if the bid were to prove successful, the Prèmier Étap, or first stage of the world’s most famous road cycle race, would start from Leeds, home city of Human Kinetics Europe. That was something worth supporting.
Leeds and Yorkshire were seen as the rank outsider in the face of strong rival bids from Edinburgh, ... [read more]
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22-Jan-13 07:26
By Brian Holding
January 22, 2013
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