Our podcast guest today - 2013 National High School Athletic Director of the Year Kevin Ozee, from the Southlake Carroll Independent School District - chats with us about the challenges, rewards, and motivation for providing great athletic programs for students.  This is a great conversation with one of our country's leaders in this area.

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Dr. Judy Sandlin joins us in the podcast today to discuss USADA's anti-doping educational efforts.  This is a fun conversation that highlights the other - and mostly unknown - side of the anti-doping efforts in the world.

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We are pleased to have Dr. George Cunningham from here at Texas A&M join us in the podcast to discuss the issues surrounding sports and sexual identity.  The world of Sports and sports medicine is not exempt from discussion, conversation, and research into the role that sexual identity plays in Sports.  In particular, how transgendered athletes should be allowed to participate in sports and any accommodations required is a difficult, but necessary discussion to have.

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You've been waiting for it and here it is:  the 100th Podcast from the Huffines Institute for Sports Medicine and Human Performance!  We do all things 100 today:  We talk to Mr. Mike Dillingham - Aggie Class '35 who is 100 and is the oldest living Aggie - about his time on the Texas A&M baseball team from 1931-1935.  We welcome back to the podcast one of the world's elite ultramarathoners Dr. Mike Sandlin who runs (and wins) 100-mile foot-races for fun! (really).  And for our 100th guest, we're pleased to welcome College Football Hall of Fame Coach (and winningest Aggie Football Coach of all time) RC Slocum.

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Every so often, there is a great book that comes along that reveals a bit more about why we play and have sports in our society.  Such is the case with a new book - The Ball - that was recently released.  Dr. John Fox is the author and we are pleased to have him with us in the podcast to talk about his book and the topics he covers within. 

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We are especially pleased to welcome Dr. Claude Bouchard from the Pennington Biomedical Research Center with us today in the podcast.  Dr. Bouchard is one of the most prominent Exercise Physiologists in the world with over 1000 scientific publications.  Dr. Bouchard has been forerunner in working to discover the genetic regulation of both obesity and exercise capacity. 

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We are pleased to have Bryan Minniti, the Asst. GM of the 2012 MLB National League East Champions Washington Nationals on the podcast today.  We cover quite a few topics, including the somewhat controversial decision by the Nationals to shut-down their star pitcher before the season was completed.

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This is the audio-only podcast of the 2012 Huffines Discussion Talks.   This week's 2012 Huffines Discussion Scholar is Dr. Dennis Bramble from the University of Utah whose talk is titled "Can Grandma Run? An Evolutionary Perspective on Human Exercise, Aging and Endurance Performance".

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Today's podcast is the last of our Olympic themed podcasts.   Today is a special podcast with another speculative piece from Ian Creasey that considers what happens when we get to the limit of human performance.  

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Today's podcast is the third of our Olympic themed podcasts.  Dr. Ed Coyle from University of Texas Austin is with us in advance of the London Olympic Marathon to talk about whether a human will ever run a sub-2 hour marathon. 

 

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