Sports
Go hard science or go home
In our sports coverage, we focus on physical demands, human performance, statistics, sports medicine, modern equipment and thoughtful analyses of the players, teams and games we love. From baseball to sailing to basketball to golf, from football to tennis to running to obscure sports, we seek the revealing secrets behind these competitions.
A closer look at how studies of the surgery produced conflicting results.
A new technique may be 10,000 times more sensitive than existing methods.
After superhuman efforts, athletes often race again just days later.
Olympic athletes must consider elevation when training.
Sochi's elevation makes speed-skating world records unlikely.
A temporary tattoo containing sensors can detect levels of dehydration and exhaustion.
A new study approaches concussions and related injuries in a new way.
New technology can give warning before an injury takes a player out of the game.
Researchers are working to develop helmets and devices that will protect athletes against concussions, especially in football.
This offseason, concussions managed to find their way into the everyday discussion of football.
