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Archived physical education articles in the media
President Yahya Jammeh of Gambia bans young people from playing football. "Youths in rural areas should not involve themselves with football in the coming rainy season (June to October). Failure to do so and I will send them to jail. I mean it" - President Jammeh, quoted by Sky News ...More from What The Papers SayUS Study: Black girls get less exercise. The older they get, the less teenage girls exercise, to the point where, by age 16 or 17, more than half of black girls and about one-third of white girls get no regular physical activity at all, a study says ...More from the Boston Herald
UK colleges to offer 'Beckham A level'. Around 200 colleges will be offering young footballers the chance to study for a BTEC Sport. Premier League clubs are behind the idea which hopes to persuade boys to take up the course. The new diploma will see youngsters analysing the psychology behind the success of teams like Manchester United, study the ethics of sport and learn about the science of nutrition and fitness ...More from Ananova
Pressure builds on UK playing fields. Planning applications for the redevelopment of playing fields in England are continuing to rise as different policies conflict ...More from the BBC
Geena Davis takes aim at more girls in sports. When Geena Davis takes up bow and arrow, it doesn't matter that she's an Oscar-winning actress. All that matters is that she hits the target. Davis, 45, took up archery just three years ago and was a semifinalist for the 2000 Women's Olympic Archery team ...More from USA Today The New P.E. & Sports Dimension. Working as both a coaching practitioner and as an academic, teaching and researching in the field of coaching puts me in a somewhat unusual position. Gifted or cursed, I sit at the nexus between academic and practitioner, between theory and practice ...More from Sports-media.org
British children get active. Two thirds of children now take part in organised physical activities at least twice a week, according to a survey ...More from the BBC
Girls less sporty 'from early age'. Girls are much less physically active than boys from a very early age, research suggests. Research has suggested that teenage girls are less likely to take vigorous exercise than their male counterparts ...More from the BBC
The subtle art of letting go. Simon Barnes on why ambitious parents should wave goodbye if they wish their offspring to excel at sport... More from the Times
When Soccer Moms Attack. Almost weekly, a melee breaks out as parents attending their kids sporting events violently act out with "sports rage." A new online workshop teaches adults and kids to play nicely... More from Wired News
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