OBJECTIVE To compare the associations between weight status and different forms of physical activity among adolescents. METHODS We conducted telephone surveys with 1718 New Hampshire and Vermont high school students and their parents as part of a longitudinal study of adolescent health. We surveyed adolescents about their team sports participation, other extracurricular physical activity, act...

Understanding the principles of real-world biological multi-agent behaviors is a current challenge in various scientific and engineering fields. The rules regarding such as team sports are often largely unknown due to their inherently higher-order interactions, cognition, body dynamics. Estimation from data, i.e., data-driven approaches machine learning, provides an effective way for analysis b...

E ach spring, the editors of Sports Health have the pleasure of selecting the winning manuscripts for the annual T. David Sisk Awards. These awards commemorate the life of Dr T. David Sisk, our colleague and mentor, who chaired the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine (AOSSM) Medical Publishing Board during the development of Sports Health. Dr Sisk enthusiastically fostered the deve...

PURPOSE The purpose of this project was to determine the incidence of exercise-induced bronchospasm (EIB) among U.S. Olympic winter sport athletes. METHODS Subjects included female and male members of the 1998 U.S. Winter Olympic Team from the following sports: biathlon, cross-country ski, figure skating, ice hockey, Nordic combined, long-track speedskating, and short-track speedskating. Asse...