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It’s NGWSD season!National Girls and Women in Sport Day is celebrated annually to honor the achievements of women and girls in sports, raise awareness about the importance of gender equality in athletics, and encourage more participation in sports at all levels.

It’s Saturday morning and you’ve just come down on the side of your ankle while playing in the neighborhood basketball game. The pain is immediate as you limp to the sideline. “Get some ice,” someone yells. You lie down, put your leg up on a chair and wait for the ice. Upon arrival you wrap the ice tightly around the ankle. You have just satisfied the age-old rule of RICE, the recommended treatment for acute injuries for 46 years. RICE stands for rest, ice, compression, and elevation, all factors designed to reduce blood flow as well as inflammation. RICE was first proposed by Harvard physician Gabe Mirkin in his 1978 text “The Sports Medicine Book.”

Good morning!In 2016 the late Garry Brown published a collection of his favorite columns — Garry Brown’s Greatest Hits — that appeared in the Springfield Republican. The book is a compendium of local and regional information about bygone days, from Eddie Shore’s Springfield Indians to Nun’s Day at Fenway Park.

Christmas is over and here we are, a week beyond New Year’s Day. That’s right folks, we’ve made it through and enjoyed another season of merry and bright, the ball has finally dropped propelling us into another New Year followed by a period of resolutions thrust upon us again — which is traditional, right?

Last month I wrote about the benefits of unsupervised play, that children who play outdoors with other children learn not only physical skills but how to get along with other children, how to play fair, to be creative, to learn how to get up when...

Good morning!UMass athletic director Ryan Bamford has released a four-page memo to season ticket holders titled “A Vision for UMass Football” that promises a phoenix will rise from the ashes of a broken program.The 2,666-word document reads at times...

Good morning!Sports betting ads are ubiquitous on media platforms from radio to television to podcasts. Online betting companies pay good money for the airtime and nobody wants to kill the golden goose. Consequently it took a British periodical to...

Good morning!The Boston University hockey team arrived in their peppermint stick jerseys on Wednesday and worked the Cole mine in front of 4,649 fans at the Mullins Center. Cole Hutson, an 18-year-old defenseman from Chicago, scored two goals and...

Good morning!Last week in this space UMass money man John Kennedy defended embattled athletic director Ryan Bamford, who I blamed for the football team’s terrible record (18-82) since he was hired.Kennedy’s comments didn’t go over well on social...

Every year when whitetail deer season approaches, I’m again reminded of a story that was one of my best hunts ever. It culminated in a better understanding of the purest essence of deer hunting, rather than the emotion of any success or failure we...

There was a vacant lot on the corner of 10th Street and Avenue H. I learned to play there, meeting up daily with other children in the neighborhood after school. There is something irreplaceable about unsupervised play; many lessons are learned. We...

Good morning!On a sunny day at McGuirk Alumni Stadium, a dark cloud hung over the UMass bench. Finish strong or you’re gone, the staff had been told, and the team was hanging on for dear life against heavily favored Liberty.The visitors had chartered...

A few weeks back a reader of the Recorder, we’ll call her Joanne, sent me an email commenting on a recent On the Ridge column. In the content of the email, she asked, “would you include a hunting calendar in your columns? It will help all the...

Good morning!Politics is sport, and on Election Day I visited two New Hampshire voting locations for a glimpse of what to expect after the polls closed.At the entrance to Hinsdale High School a woman held a large sign that said, Roe, Roe, Roe Your...

Thanksgiving is almost upon us and I’m ready to carve the turkey. White meat or dark meat? I go for the white but I always remember my grandfather; he said the neck was the best part. I have yet to eat a neck, but one does wonder why turkeys have two...

I watched the Canadian geese moved high overhead, winging toward a destination that I could only imagine. They were so far up that I could barely hear their mournful voices, yet I wondered how far this flight would go before rest would finally...

By JIM JOHNSON

For years, athletic directors and coaches have referred to their college athletes as scholar athletes or student athletes. The reference is that college athletes are students first and athletes second. Meanwhile, college athletes, especially...

Ah, the scent of autumn is in the air, and for freshwater anglers, this signals the last chance to “home in” on their favorite underwater creatures before they depart to their cold-water havens. This also means the last hurrah before rods and reels,...

Historically, American sprinters have been one of the biggest stories at the Olympics, and this summer’s excellent Games in Paris hardly altered that pattern. Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone broke the world record for the 400-meter hurdles for the sixth...

By AMY NEWSHORE

Part 1 of a 2-part seriesWhen you think of someone you consider to be intelligent, what comes to mind? Perhaps they are well-schooled, are good problem solvers, or are self-taught, knowledgeable and passionate about a subject. It is most common to...

By all accounts the Paris Olympics were a great success. We were treated to a magnificent sport spectacle, the world’s greatest athletes at their best. The display of sportsmanship was fulfilling, a tribute to the competitors. The Olympics are for the...