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New concerns over soccer ball head

Photo Credit Heading a soccer ball can, on the plus side, score goals and impress fans. But it can also hurt a player’s thinking skills, according to a new study of high school soccer players. Physical education Gretchen Reynolds on the science of fitness. Fitness Tracker Marathon, half marathon, 10k and 5k training plans to […]

Soccer ball

Harvard women build smarter soccer ball

“We just don’t want people to think they have to play 16 hours of football for this to work. “ Soccket is the brainchild of two Harvard alumni in 2010, Jessica Matthews and Julia Silverman, neither of whom majored in engineering during their undergraduate studies. Matthews, from Poughkeepsie, NY, and Silverman, from Chicago, enrolled in […]