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Amherst Softball Leveraging Performance Technology
New technologies have made their way into athletic practices at the college,
especially now, when safety precautions make it much easier to practice with a
machine, rather than a socially-distant person. With softball in particular,
technology has proven especially crucial. Diamond Kinetics, Blast Motion and
Dartfish are technologies that have
The NFL’s Injury Epidemic
Saquon Barkley, Nick Bosa, Jimmy Garoppolo, Christian McCaffery, Malik Hooker.
Other than being big name stars on their respective teams, these players have
another thing in common: By the second week of the 2020 National Football
League (NFL) season, they were all lost to injuries that will keep them off
Skip Bayless and Dak Prescott: A Tale of Mental Health in Sports
Content warning: Mentions of suicide
Viewers of Fox Sports’ “Undisputed” know what to expect from co-hosts Skip
Bayless and Shannon Sharpe: lengthy, polarizing sports commentary. Still, many
were shocked by Bayless’s criticism of Dallas Cowboys’ quarterback Dak Prescott
for opening up about his depression following the suicide of his
Premier League Plan to Bring Back Fans Stalled
Like nearly all professional sports leagues this year, the Premier League was
forced into a months-long hiatus by the outbreak of Covid-19. The league’s
“Project Restart” began in June, with strict rules to prevent the spread of the
coronavirus, including strict testing for players and coaches, mandatory masks
for
College Remembers Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg H’91
Over 130 members of the college community gathered over Zoom on Sept. 19 to
commemorate the life of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg H’91. One of
the most publicly esteemed justices in U.S. history and only the second female
justice on the Supreme Court, Ginsburg passed away
2020-2021 AAS Senate Candidate Statements
From Thursday, Sept. 24 to Friday Sept. 26, the Association of Amherst Students
(AAS) will hold elections for AAS Senators in each grade and transfer students.
The students below have announced their candidacies for these elections.
Students who are interested in hearing from these candidates or are interested
in running