Posted on · A clinical sports psychologist explains what mental health challenges young athletes in particular experience, as they begin to advance in their sport and receive more attention.
Posted on · Episode: 1876 In which Thomas Bayes mixes prior knowledge with a priori deduction. Today, we learn how to hedge bets.
Posted on · U.S. winter Olympians — whose sports can defy gravity and involve breakneck speeds on snow and ice — share some of their most common nightmares in a special NPR Up First podcast from Pyeongchang
Posted on · Houston Matters examines how technology might be used to predict crimes that haven't even happened yet. And we learn how healthcare professionals and coaches are dealing with mental health issues among athletes.
Posted on · We learned recently that many Texas high schools are failing to meet many of the national guidelines intended to protect young athletes from head injuries. Now, the organization that governs high school sports in Texas, the University Interscholastic League (UIL), is participating in a new study examining how concussions are happening to young athletes and […]
Posted on · We continue our look back at the biggest stories of 2016 by examining the year in Houston politics. Of course, the biggest story of the year was the presidential election. But there were plenty of local stories too. We talk with Andrew Schneider, News 88.7’s political reporter, about all the Houston and Texas stories stemming […]
Posted on · For years now, concerns have been raised about young athletes using steroids. Its a major focus of the Taylor Hooton Foundation out of Frisco, Texas (north of Dallas). The foundation is named for a teenager who took his own life in 2003 after using anabolic steroids. These days, the foundation is just as concerned about […]
Posted on · Local athletes get a fresh start thanks to adaptive sports.