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- 1From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 14, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedItalian baseball played by visually impaired and blind athletes is an adapted team sport which maintains the peculiar fast-moving features of this popular sport. It is also a mixed team game played together with sighted...
- 2From:Palaestra (Vol. 23, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe U.S. Association of Blind Athletes (USABA) hosted the 2007 International Blind Sports Association (IBSA) World Youth and Student Games, July 12-16 in Colorado Springs, CO. Young athletes competed in goalball and...
- 3From:Palaestra (Vol. 18, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedMany people have grown up watching on-screen action heroes such as Bruce Lee, Stephen Siegal, Jackie Chan, and other martial artists kick and punch their way through the bad guys to save the day. Few people know that...
- 4From:Palaestra (Vol. 17, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedRationale Regular physical activity benefits both physical and psychological health, and reduces risks for heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, obesity, and stress-related illnesses (U.S. Department of...
- 5From:Palaestra (Vol. 21, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe U.S. Association of Blind Athletes is pleased to announce the 2005 International Blind Sports Association World Youth Championships will be held in Colorado Springs, August 4-10. Following the success of the 2004...
- 6From:Palaestra (Vol. 23, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedMyles Porter (Toledo, OH) became just the third visually impaired judo athlete to become nationally ranked by U.S. Judo among his sighted peers. Porter finished second at the Dallas Open, a U.S. Judo Senior E Level...
- 7From:Palaestra (Vol. 19, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedSarah Wiles is an active ten-year-old who likes to try everything! She uses her musical talent by playing violin and piano and singing with the Community Music School in Springfield, Massachusetts. She ice skates,...
- 8From:Palaestra (Vol. 24, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIn previous issues of PALAESTRA, I've written generally upbeat accounts of some of my students' (and, by implication, my own) adaptations to their apparently disabling physical or mental conditions. In this issue I want...
- 9From:Palaestra (Vol. 28, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe United States Association of Blind Athletes (USABA) was pleased to play host to a National VA Adaptive Sports Conference, September 15-18, 2014, in Colorado Springs, Colorado. VA staff and community level adaptive...
- 10From:Palaestra (Vol. 7, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedOn November 21, 1990--the day before Thanksgiving--Bill Irwin, 50, arrived at the base of Mount Katahdin in Maine's Baxter State Park, thus completing a walk of the footpath known as the Appalachian Trail. Irwin's goal...
- 11From:Palaestra (Vol. 17, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedMore than 140 athletes, coaches, and officials participated in seminars, clinics, and national championship competitions during USABA's National Sports Festival and Championships, July 18-22, on the campus of the...
- 12From:Palaestra (Vol. 24, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe United States Association of Blind Athletes hosted the 2008 National Sports Festival and Championships in Colorado Springs, CO, in conjunction with the State Games of the West. The Sports Festival, held at Colorado...
- 13From:Palaestra (Vol. 21, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe U.S. Men's Goalball Team proved to be one of the best offensive teams in the world last year. During the Athens Paralympic Gaines they dominated scoring throughout the week, leading the 11 other teams in goals...
- 14From:Palaestra (Vol. 23, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedSouth Carolina and Utah are familiar with the title National Champions at the United States Association of Blind Athletes Youth National Goalball Championships, as they repeated again this year. Hosted by the Florida...
- 15From:Palaestra (Vol. 24, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedNineteen years after head injuries from a motorcycle accident robbed Cedric Hankerson of his sight, the 43-year-old was on a pair of skis at Pico (VT) ski area, January 16, looking forward to his first thrill ride in a...
- 16From:Palaestra (Vol. 14, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedBackground Although Cara Dunne recently completed her J.D. as a bioethicist at UCLA law school, her current focus is on training as a tandem cyclist. A unique motivation for Cara is the memory of a particular...
- 17From:Ophthalmology Times (Vol. 31, Issue 16) Peer-ReviewedColorado Springs, CO -- The National Industries for the Blind (NIB) joined United States Association of Blind Athletes (USABA) as an official partner for the 2008 Beijing Paralympic Games. As a partner, the NIB will...
- 18From:Palaestra (Vol. 18, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedSeventy-two golfers from Colorado Springs came to Country Club of Colorado on July 15 to participate in the Waste Management Drive to the Green Golf Classic and raised more than $25,000 for the U.S. Association of Blind...
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- 20From:Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness (Vol. 114, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedIn this series of Statistical Sidebars, I generally pick one test or analytical technique to look at in some detail to help readers understand why it was used, situations in which it can be used, or how to interpret its...