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Current NFL Safeguards Won’t Help Jason Witten’s Spleen

The Program in Sports and Society at NYU September 3, 2012 0

BY ARTHUR CAPLAN, ARTHUR MILLER, & LEE IGEL In the first game of the NFL season last Wednesday night, Dallas Cowboys tight end Jason Witten had two catches for 10 yards in his team’s

Did Molestation Continue Because Sports Are Too Important?

The Program in Sports and Society at NYU August 26, 2012 0

BY ARTHUR CAPLAN Hi. I am Art Caplan and I am at the New York University (NYU) Langone Medical Center. I head the Division of Medical Ethics here. I am going to talk to you

Wayne McDonnell on Be Your Own Fan TV

Jason Aron August 19, 2012 0

NYU Clinical Associate Professor Wayne McDonnell talks hot stove baseball with Be Your Own Fan host Tyler Tumminia. This episode aired before the 2010 baseball season

Bob Boland: Inside the NFL Combine Interview Sessions

The Program in Sports and Society at NYU August 19, 2012 0

When most folks watch and read about the NFL Combine, they’ll be checking out the fastest times, the highest jumps and all of the other workouts that take place. However, the cameras are never

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Our mission is to understand society through sports. In doing so the NYUSSP has three key audiences (1) academics including especially students and young people (2) influencers, movers and shakers in the world of sports and (3) fans and the interested public.

To achieve its mission the program has three objectives:
1) Engage in the public examination of sports from multiple academic, cultural, legal and business perspectives,
2) Connect with key decision makers and influencers in the sports sector to initiate conduct a broad and timely dialogue on what sports mean to our and other societies and determine what the range of its potential is as an instrument of social change,
3) Create opportunities for both rapid and sustained analysis that demonstrates sports’ capability as both a learning tool and a topic for interdisciplinary research.