Phoenix gym offering all inclusive Zumba class
"PHOENIX (3TV/CBS 5) -- In celebration of National Family Health & Fitness Day on Saturday Sept. 28, the Global Sport Institute at Arizona State University has partnered with the Ability360 Sports and Fitness Center in downtown Phoenix for Sport for an event called Every Body.
This free community event invites participants to tour the facility, join in on an adaptive Zumba class and visit activity stations for wheelchair rugby, basketball and rock climbing.
The event was created in conjunction with the launch of the Global Sport Institute’s new theme Sport and the Body, which aims to defy typical perceptions of what an “athletic body” looks like and to share with the community a fun and inclusive opportunity for all body types to participate in sport."
New study: Minority coaches still fare worse during NFL hiring process
African Americans and other minorities don’t have the same opportunities as white people to become head coaches in the NFL or get rehired after leaving a head coaching position, according to a recent working paper.
While the 2003 enactment of the league’s overhauled hiring guidelines and mandates, dubbed the “Rooney Rule,” have led to more coaches of color leading teams on a yearly basis, researchers found that minorities still fare worse when it comes to hiring, retaining their positions and being granted “second chances” at head positions.
The working paper, which studied the race, prior experience and future experience for head coaches and offensive and defensive coordinators over 10 years (2009 through 2018), was conducted by the Global Sport Institute at Arizona State University along with the Paul Robeson Research Center for Innovative Academic & Athletic Prowess at the University of Central Florida College of Business.
Life-changing ventures win investment at ASU Demo Day competition
"While pitching to the judges, several of the entrepreneurs shared how they learned hard lessons during the startup process. Ricky Johnson, an ASU alum, is CEO of Barrage Training Tech, and invented a pressure-sensitive sleeve that wraps around a punching bag so workouts can be done without a trainer. He described how he took the first prototype to some local boxing gyms for boxers to try out.
“It was horribly ugly and it had duct tape and hot glue on it and batteries were flying everywhere,” he said.
So Johnson, who earned a degree in computer engineering at ASU in 2017, spent months and a lot of money to refine his prototype, and on Friday, he won $3,000 in the Global Sport Venture Challenge competition."