College football season is almost here! (Yea!)  So, this week's "Best Of..." podcast is with Texas A&M Football Coach Mr. Mark Hagen.  Coach Hagen, after a stint at Interim Defensive Coordinator, is now a Defensive Line Coach.  He shares his insights today on football, how the college game is changing, and what to look for when those games begin.  Here we go!

This week's news that the Arizona Cardinals had hired a female for a coaching intern position triggered quite a bit of discussion regarding females in football.  So, we've got a "Best Of.." podcast with Lydia Dubuisson from the Texas A&M HLKN department who has both played and coached football.  This is a great podcast with a different perspective than what you may have heard in the news and certainly a perspective that is germane this week!

Football season is almost here!  As we all count down toward the football season, our "Best of..." podcast series is just going back to the spring, when we interviewed former Aggie Football Player Ben Compton.  This is a fun podcast with a great individual - that will give you some insight into what football players are starting to go through at this time of year.  Enjoy! 

We have a special podcast today.  In our continuing effort to help folks understand what it is like to be a student athlete in a large University, we have on the podcast today, Mr. Ben Compton.  Mr. Compton is a Senior and just finished all of his football eligibility and probably played more positions on the football team than anyone else.  This is a great story about what it takes to not only get your degree, but also to participate in a high-profile sport like football.  Also, there is an ins...

For more information about this week’s Human Performance Minute, check out the links listed below. Be sure to check out future weekly Huffines Institute Human Performance Minute broadcasts at TexAgs SportsRadio (The Zone 1150 AM) every Wednesday morning at 10:45am. If you missed it you can listen to it here!

Today is the sixth video and audio-only rebroadcast from the 2014 Huffines Discussion.  Up today in our series is Dr. Kevin Guskiewicz from Univ. North Carolina Chapel Hill.  Dr. Guskiewicz has been a long-time leader in the field of sports concussions as related to football and in honor of his work, was named a MacArthur Genius (look it up - it is impressive!).  Dr. Guskiewicz's talk is called "Sports Related Concussion: Legitimate Concern or Paranoia?  This is the talk to see if you w...

Today is the third video and audio-only rebroadcast from the 2014 Huffines Discussion.  Up today in our series is a leader in the research being done on concussions is Dr. Ann McKee from Boston University. Dr. McKee's talk is titled "Sports and military TBI: Pathways to Neurogeneration".  Concussion prevalence in sports is a huge health and safety topic and Dr. McKee has been one of the leaders in understanding what is happening - especially in football. This is great talk that is ...

Sports medicine, when applied at the level of a University, is a complicated and multi-faceted enterprise.  We are pleased to have Mr. Phil Hedrick, Head Athletic Trainer for Athletics at Texas A&M University in the podcast today to talk about the complexity of providing sports medicine care for 600 athletes.  We also talk about some of the changing paradigms in sports medicine, especially in how it relates to health insurance.

Human performance includes many different types of human activity, including sports, exercise, and the performing arts.  We are pleased that joining us in the podcast today is Ms. Elizabeth Ahearn who is a faculty member in the Dance Department at Goucher College, the Vice President of Regional Planning for the American College Dance Association, and the founding Director of The Pilates Center at Goucher.  We chat about the origins of Pilates and what makes it different than other types of exerc...

We're in the midst of college football season and once again, we're seeing high octane offenses challenging quickly evolving defenses.  To talk about this, we've got Coach Terry Price, Defensive Line Coach for the Texas A&M Football team and former NFL player, in the podcast today.  Coach Price has had extensive coaching and playing experience and this is a great conversation about how the game has changed and the challenges that coaches and players face.  This is a fun podcast to li...