Home-schooled basketball players score points.
Many people not familiar with home schooling think that it means the students will miss out on the social activities and athletics that make for precious school memories. In reality, however, as more and more students are schooled at home, their parents have organized many student activities usually associated...

NexxNow Gets Rights to PBL Games for China.
ENTERTAINMENT CLOSE-UP-29 June 2008-NexxNow Gets Rights to PBL Games for China(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com NexxNow, a sports media and marketing company, announced that its wholly owned subsidiary NexxNow China has secured the media rights of the Premier Basketball League (PBL) for the delivery of US Minor...

Social connections at sporting events: attendance and its positive relationship with state social psychological well-being.
The current investigation examined the state social psychological health (i.e., social life satisfaction and loneliness) of individuals while they attended a sporting event and while they were at their place of residence. Based on the Team Identification--Social Psychological Health Model (Wann, 2006), it was hypothesized that the participants (who...

Wazoo Sports Secures Funding.
ENTERTAINMENT CLOSE-UP-24 June 2008-Wazoo Sports Secures Funding(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Wazoo Sports, a High School Sports Broadcast Network based in London, Kentucky, announced it has received a $2.0 million equity funding commitment from Meritus Ventures, a London, Kentucky based venture capital fund. "We are...

XM's Expanded Coverage of SEC Sports Begins in Fall.
ENTERTAINMENT CLOSE-UP-3 July 2008-XM's Expanded Coverage of SEC Sports Begins in Fall(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com XM Satellite Radio, the official satellite radio provider of the Southeastern Conference (SEC), announced that the University of Alabama, Auburn University, University of Florida, and Vanderbilt University will join XM's line-up...

Wolverines restoring city's hoops supremacy.
BUFFALO -- As players from Niagara Falls High School and Jamestown lined up for the opening tip-off of Saturday night's Section VI, Class AA boys basketball championship game at Buffalo State, it looked like one of the teams had shown up at the wrong gym. Members of...

Boxing season looming locally.
The Buffalo Bills don't play a game that counts for six months. The Sabres are playing as if they gave up on their season months ago. Niagara University got bounced from the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference men's basketball tournament last weekend, ending the Purple Eagles'...

William Mark Armstrong, MD: a conversation with the editor.
Mark Armstrong (Figure 1) is the John Binion Professor of General Internal Medicine and chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine at Baylor University Medical Center (BUMC). He has held these positions since 1993. Dr. Armstrong was born in Cullman, Alabama, and grew up in Scottsboro, Alabama. He...

Nothin' but net.
He shoots! He scores! And scores and scores and scores ... College freshman Dan Loriaux recently earned a spot in the Guinness World Records for scoring the most three-point shots in one minute. He sank 25 baskets, breaking the 20-shot record set by Washington Wizards shooting coach...

Managing heteronormativity and homonegativity in athletic training: in and beyond the classroom.
The athletic trainer (AT) provides health care for a highly diverse population, including athletes in secondary schools, colleges and universities, and professional sports and for physically active individuals in rehabilitation clinics and industrial settings. Traditionally, the word diversity has been used to define different characteristics, including race, sex, gender,...