Helping Kids On Steroids: “Big Dreams” vs. “Getting Big”

Mike Magee With the Super Bowl now in our tail lights, all that remains of this year’s NFL season are images of high performing, super-powerful, super-large, super-fast humans, and an equally large number of older retired players dealing with a range of disabilities that restrict quality of life. For a portion of this later group, […]

Is It Time For Gina Kolata To Hang Up Her Spikes?

Mike Magee Gina Kolata, science reporter for the New York Times since 1987, is one month younger then me. I turn 63 this January 20th. We both like sports and medical science. She studied molecular biology at MIT and received a masters degree in Mathematics from the University of Maryland. I studied medicine and learned […]