NEWTON’S FOOTBALL: THE SCIENCE BEHIND AMERICA’S GAME By Allen St. John and Ainissa G. Ramirez Ballantine Books, $26, 272 pages Like many other people, one of my great passions is watching pro football ...

Scientists and sports stars are taking to the field with a 10-part video series that explains the physics and biology behind football, just in time for today's start of the NFL regular season.

The visual abilities of competitive football players are substantially better than those of healthy non-athletes, according to the first-ever comprehensive assessment of visual function in English ...

A new book is championing science backed research to help develop women’s football. Women’s Football: From Science to High Performance provides a thorough, yet straightforward and accessible, analysis ...

It’s a drama of rival against rival and a race against the clock. It’s precision, persistence, power. A gritty band of physicists and data specialists is locked in smash-mouth combat, a battle etched ...

CLEMSON — Hunter Renfrow whipped out his iPhone, scrolled through the applications on his screen, then found the one he was looking for. “Ah-ha,” the Clemson wide receiver said. “I’ll show you.” His ...

These days, a person can't talk about football without bringing up questions about the health effects of hard hits. Evidence is mounting that concussions experienced by players could lead to changes ...

The FIFA World Cup finally kicks off today! Despite my team’s recent Champions League Final defeat to Gareth Bale, this huge global tournament still excites me. The problem for me is that the Venn ...