Lionel Messi is back at the World Cup, trying to help Argentina defend its title. At some point in the tournament, he’s going ...

In a world where sports are dominated by youth and speed, some athletes in their late 30s and even 40s are not just keeping up – they are thriving. The sustained excellence of these athletes is not ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Repeated hits to the head in contact sports can harm the brain long before symptoms show up, according to new research reported by ...

NIH-supported researchers found a 56% loss of specific neurons in athletes exposed to repeated head impacts. Brain changes appeared even without the tau protein buildup typically linked to chronic ...

Research, led by teams at Trinity College Dublin and the FutureNeuro Research Ireland Center, has pinpointed the mechanism linking some sports injuries to poor brain health in retired athletes. The ...

If you’ve played a sport anytime in the last century, there’s a chance you’ve heard some variation of these phrases. No matter the level of play, it’s been common to ask athletes to push past an ...