By Tim Lightfoot on 5/17/2013 12:44 PM | Filed Under [sports medicine], [concussion] Popular tags: concussions, athletic care, football, money, greed, incompetence, NFL, Penn State
Then there are the weeks in sports where you think: “How can this stuff really happen? Are people really this maniacal and self-serving?” Unfortunately, there are times when your naivety is stripped and it really appears that even decisions about appropriate health-care for athletes are decided by incompetent idiots on power trips. Two extensive investigative reports this week dealing with the health of football athletes show convincingly that unfortunately, this incompetence, greed, and politics can and do dictate care for athletes.
By Tim Lightfoot on 4/18/2013 11:00 AM | Filed Under [Uncategorized], [exercise], [education], [cycling], [death rates] Popular tags: cycling, exercise, activity, safety, death
By Tim Lightfoot on 3/8/2013 3:53 PM | Filed Under [sports medicine], [Uncategorized], [human performance], [performance enhancing drugs] Popular tags: runner's high, cannabinoid, marijuana, exercise, activity, opioids
Studies now suggest that the compounds that trigger and sustain runner’s high are compounds called ‘cannabinoids’. You may recognize that term, especially if you are familiar with some of the synonyms for marijuana.....
By Tim Lightfoot on 3/1/2013 2:29 PM | Filed Under [Uncategorized] Popular tags: Huffines, Director, changes, website, podcast
By Tim Lightfoot on 10/17/2012 2:11 PM | Filed Under [Uncategorized], [activity], [exercise], [human performance], [performance enhancing drugs] Popular tags: Lance Armstrong, PEDs, USADA
I’ve purposively not touched the Lance Armstrong story because it is so tragic on so many levels. While there has always been a lot of ‘smoke’ (allegations), there never has been the amount of evidence that was released a week ago by the...
By Tim Lightfoot on 9/7/2012 3:19 PM | Filed Under [Uncategorized]
For many of us in Aggieland, fall really starts tomorrow (Saturday, Sept. 8) with the start of A&M football. Tomorrow’s game is historic in many ways – most them having been commented on over the past 14 months since A&M decided to move to the SEC. But it continues to fascinate me that football....
By Tim Lightfoot on 8/7/2012 11:58 AM | Filed Under [Uncategorized], [Olympics] Popular tags: Olympics, blog, tape-delay
A shrinking majority of us remember the phrase “Live or Memorex?” from an audio tape commercial where when used, the sound from these tapes was touted as being as good as live. More and more, given all of the instant sources of information we have access to, we are facing the same decision that we did back in the 70’s with our audio tape: do you look for ‘live results’ or wait for ‘the tape’?
By Tim Lightfoot on 7/27/2012 12:25 PM | Filed Under [Uncategorized], [Olympics]
By Tim Lightfoot on 7/20/2012 12:44 PM | Filed Under [sports medicine], [Uncategorized], [activity], [exercise], [human performance] Popular tags: exercise, fatigue, activity, human performance, sled dogs
By Tim Lightfoot on 7/13/2012 9:08 AM | Filed Under [Uncategorized], [human performance], [military]