In January, the NCAA added STUNT, a team sport that uses cheer skills but removes the crowd-leading aspect, to its DII list of Emerging Sports for Women. A similar program, Acrobatics and Tumbling, had already made the list. What are the similarities? What are the differences? And where are both headed? Here are the answers, courtesy of each sport.

Sandwiched between the conference championships and the Super Bowl, the NFL Pro Bowl has long suffered from declining ratings. This year, the league debuted a new format for the event, removing tackle football in favor of flag and throwing in skill tests and other fun events. What was the ratings outcome: cheers or crickets? (Hint: chirp, chirp).

While the world waits to find out which sports will be added to the Olympics in Los Angeles, let's remember that over the years, we've seen our fair share of sports added into the Games, only to be dropped later. In honor of this great occasion, SDM presents ski ballet (remember Suzy ChapStick?), poodle clipping and of course, live pistol dueling.

The same weekend the athletes of the CIAA Men's and Women's Basketball Tournament were on final approach to Baltimore, where their event would play out, a different but no less special announcement was being made in Milwaukee. And both had strong ties to the Historically Black College and University (HBCU) community and to Black History Month.

In recent years, golf has been experiencing a boom with tens of millions of Americans having used the sport as both therapy and as an escape during and following the pandemic. At the same time, adaptive golf has become the next great growth segments of the game. Here is how to make a venue ready to host a tournament for those with physical challenges.

The law is a useful tool in sports. Although we've seen some crazy stuff (like parents trying to sue coaches to give their kids more playing time), one state wants to use the law constructively. In Kansas, a bill moving through the House of Representatives would make it a crime to abuse a referee in any way. Can it pass? More importantly, can it help?