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TV Tonight: Fencing Masters!

Set your DVRs for Universal Sports tonight at 7:30pm for the Fencing Masters event! Here’s the press release from Universal Sports: EN GARDE! FENCING MASTERS:

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9 Fencers in Fox’s 99 Sexiest Olympic Athletes

Fencing is a sexy sport. At least that’s the implication as 9 fencers made Fox’s list of 99 Sexiest Athletes of the 2012 Olympics.

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Do Youth Competitions Hurt Athlete Development?

Many schools this month are engaged in CRCT or other standardized testing of students, which makes the latest blog post by Stanford researcher Carol Dweck

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Review: Leon Paul SR-71 Epee Blade

Now that Leon Paul’s SR-71 FIE epee blade has been out for a while, I wanted to explore how it has lived up to the

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Yale Researchers affirm the Hot Hand in Sports

Having a “hot hand”, going on a run, being “on fire”. Across all sports there are examples where an athlete seems to suddenly be unstoppable – hitting every action, or nailing every shot from the field. The idea of the “hot hand” in sports is something widely believed, but there has not been any scientific or statistical proof to back it up.