Researchers at the University of Stirling explored the true impact of steering a soccer ball, identifying small but significant changes in brain function immediately following routine steering practice. The Scottish University for Sports Excellence study published in EBioMedicine is the first to detect direct changes in the brain after players are exposed to daily impacts […]
Month: October 2016
This young girl was kicked out of a football game for wearing beaded braids
When a nine-year-old walks towards the soccer field, the only thing she’s probably thinking about is trying to score the most bragging goal. What is she not think about: getting kicked out of the game for wearing beaded braids. But that’s what happened to Aubrey Zvovushe-Ramos, an African-American girl who was kicked out of an […]
Jessica O. Matthews passes the soccer ball to MORE
Jessica O. Matthews is a lot of things: a Harvard graduate, an American, a Nigerian, a black woman, an inventor and a CEO. What she isn’t is the typical Silicon Valley tech sibling – and she wears him as a badge of honor. “I’m kidding now that I was always trying to be the perfect […]