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 ...

NBC Learn, the educational arm of NBC News, and the National Science Foundation are partnering with the NFL on a 10-part video series “The Science of NFL Football.” Designed to be used by teachers and ...

Let’s get the discouraging stuff out of the way first. For the chapter titled “Why Woodpeckers Don’t Get Concussions,” the authors of “Newton’s Football’’ spoke with Bill Simpson. For years, Simpson ...

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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 ...

Fatigue and recovery. Two words heard quite often in the world of football. But are these just words used to provide an excuse after a bad game or is there more to this? It’s been said that that ...

News reports say that 11 of the 12 game balls used by the New England Patriots in their AFC championship game against the Indianapolis Colts were deflated, showing about 2 pounds per square inch (psi) ...