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CFA: Sport Studies Symposium

Call for Abstracts 1st Annual Rockford College Sports Studies Symposium: An interdisciplinary conference on the study of Sport. Date: April 28, 2012 Rockford College 5050 E. State. St. Rockford, IL 61108 Whether one is a participant, a casual spectator, a die-hard fan, or a critic, sport, in all its varieties and forms, play a significant role in the lives of most people through out the world. Sports and competitions have long been a part of human civilization and raise a wide range of important philosophical and ethical issues. This symposium will bring together a panel of scholars to discuss philosophical themes or issues arising in the study of Sport. The focus of the panel will depend, in part, on the submitted abstracts. Each presenter on a panel will have 20 minutes for their presentation. This will be followed by 10-15 minutes for panelists to respond to each other and then 15 minutes or more for audience Q&A. There will also be a panel on the Rhetoric of Sport...

Death to the scoreboard.

"Death to the scoreboard." Dean Hood, Eastern football's head coach, spoke that phrase to his players earlier this week in practice. It's an odd phrase when it first rolls off the tongue. But when taken into context the way Hood preached it to his team, those four words make perfect sense. And maybe, just maybe, Hood is on to something. "I told the guys if I had one wish, it would be to put that scoreboard to death," Hood said in an Ohio Valley Conference teleconference Tuesday. "Because that really shouldn't be the standard. The standard should be excellence. I think it's a much better thing to live by than the scoreboard because that will help them more in life, as a dad, as a husband, as an employee and as a neighbor." What? For more, see this link: http://www.easternprogress.com/sports/real-life-lessons-from-the-gridiron-1.2644728#.TqW0uHIbUaA

Hope, Socccer, and Haiti

A nice story at CNN.com.