By Ian McMahan — 2017
While there are lifelong benefits to college sports, former athletes are also at risk for chronic injuries later in life.
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Individuals with disabilities frequently encounter workplace discrimination, bias, exclusion, and career plateaus—meaning their employers lose out on enormous innovation and talent potential.
New research has found nine meaningful reasons that prevent people with disabilities from seeking work.
“Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it.” ~ Bruce Lee The premise of his philosophy was efficiency—complete and utter efficiency of the soul.
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There’s no right or wrong trajectory for adapting to disability.
The Paralympics had not yet been invented. These veterans were sports trailblazers. They were medical miracles as well.
More than 600,000 Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans have been left partially or totally disabled from physical or psychological wounds received during their service. Some of them compete in the Defense Department Warrior Games and find a place to continue to overcome.
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Discrimination in sports is never acceptable. By quickly and thoroughly investigating harassment and discrimination claims, sports organizations can make their workplaces more inclusive and diverse.
Even though in 2015 the FIFA Women’s World Cup Final between the US and Japan was the most-watched soccer game in US history with over 25 million viewers, female athletes still face harassment and discrimination in sports.