Injuries prompt athlete to become concussion-prevention advocate
"Karina Forbes Bohn, chief operating officer for ASU’s Global Sport Institute, whose goal is to examine issues impacting sports, said the institute is positioning itself to take an interdisciplinary look at sports-related topics such as concussions in the next year. She said it will do that through a series of events, faculty cross talks and messaging on its multimedia website, which is in partnership with the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication."
Fictional Black Athletes And The Importance Of Representation In Film
"Kenneth Shropshire, CEO of the Global Sport Institute at Arizona State University
"Without a doubt, my favorite fictional Black athlete — from the movie 'Cooley High' (1975) — is Cochise. It's the first movie, in my opinion, in a long line of movies where there's a Black athlete who's about to make it — and, spoiler alert, gets killed off some way in the end. For those a little bit young, think 'Boyz n the Hood.' Same story has been told over and over again. But this one was really the lead in this. And for me, too, it was impactful. I saw it with a bunch of guys I had gone to high school with, and we spent the whole time afterwards talking about who was who in the movie. And me and another guy, a basketball player, were the guys who had gone off and gotten scholarships and gone off to college. So we got labeled with the Cochise title. Although I played football, not basketball."
Global Sport Institute kicks off year-long exploration of sport and the body
"The Global Sport Institute launched the 2019-2020 theme year of “Sport and the Body” on Aug. 29 with poetry, panelists and pledges to inform about issues and trends that impact the health and well-being of athletes.
Dr. Scott Brooks, the director of research at GSI and an associate professor with the T. Denny Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics at Arizona State University led a panel of distinguished researchers and an undergraduate student-athlete that reflected the broad range of body-related research topics that researchers around the world, ASU faculty, staff and graduate students are currently engaged in.
Brooks emphasized the Institute’s desire this year to expand and collaborate more with others, as well as form partnerships with new schools in order to be truly multidisciplinary."