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NBA Remains At Forefront Of Sports’ Diversity and Inclusion Efforts

From the George Floyd protests to Bubba Wallace’s noose controversy, people like LeBron James and Stephen Jackson have not held back any discussing these sensitive issues. While Kenneth Shropshire, CEO of the Global Sports Institute at Arizona State University, has seen diversity and inclusion become a more important topic for sports leagues, he is still waiting to see how it plays out.

When it comes to longevity, here’s why any exercise is good exercise

In their study, which was funded by a grant from ASU’s Global Sport Institute, Sheehan and Li used data collected by the National Health Interview Survey of 26,727 American adults ages 18 to 84 to examine the effect of 15 different exercises on mortality rates. The survey participants were asked once in 1998 what type of exercise they engaged in, then followed for all-cause mortality through the end of 2015.