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No limits to a mother’s love, a wrestler’s determination
Judy Robles was 16 when she found out she was pregnant with her first child, who would later be born with only one leg. As Anthony Robles grew, his mom realized that he defied limitations — "he was going to figure things out." Anthony went on to become an NCAA champion wrestler at ASU, and his life story is now the focus of a new Amazon Prime movie, “Unstoppable."
This month marks the 10th anniversary of ASU announcing that its club hockey team would be moving to the NCAA Division I level.
When Natasha Adair drove to the basket for a layup one October night in 1990, her future was right in front of her. She was a high school senior being recruited by more than 200 college coaches. But as she landed on the court and heard the pop in her knee, everything changed. Adair couldn’t have known then, but that injury headed her down a path that would eventually lead her to become the women’s basketball coach at ASU. “People often ask me if I would change what happened,” she said. “No. It made me who I am.”
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Betting big on sports betting
Legal sports betting is coming to Arizona this week, but is this a good thing for fans? Daniel McIntosh, a senior lecturer with ASU's W. P. Carey School of Business, talks about this about this new phenomenon, which promises to enhance the fan experience and add to state coffers. But only if done correctly, he says.
Do sports police femininity?
In an ASU Project Humanities virtual talk, professional transgender athlete Veronica Ivy and ASU scholar Scott Brooks offered their lived experience and research perspectives on transgender athletes in sports.
Incoming journalism major leads a sporting and academic life
Noah Furtado, an incoming first-year student from Kaneohe, Hawaii, hopes to add another name to the legion of great sports journalists and broadcasters ASU's Cronkite School has produced over the decades — his.
Partnership with youth sports club brings community into new ASU research facility
Talk about a win-win situation: The Wexford Innovation Center in downtown Phoenix recently hosted members of the SC del Sol soccer club as College of Health Solutions Associate Professor Jason Siegler and a crew of ASU students recorded the players’ physical measurements as part of a new community partnership between the club and the university that aims to give the players a chance to improve their game while also providing hands-on research opportunities for Siegler and his students.
Olympics trivia with ASU athletes (and actual Olympians)
To get into the Olympic spirit, we quizzed some of our favorite Sun Devil athletes.
Heat and humidity will be a major factor for Olympic athletes
The Tokyo Olympics will be remembered for three things: a complete lack of spectators, being postponed a year because of a pandemic and searing heat. ASU News talked to Jennifer Vanos, an ASU biometeorologist, who has been studying the latter for more than two years, about what athletes can expect.
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