Before Steven Plisk's message to the list, I got a three more replies
following my interim summary (below) about suggestions for best links for
2008.

First, the link to the injury site suggested by Paul Montgomery was wrong,
The link is http://injuryupdate.com.au , not injuryudate.com. I noticed also
that my 2007 version of Outlook includes punctuation following a link, with
the result that the link doesn't work when you click on it. Yet another
Bill Gates effect. I have fixed the problem in the links below by putting a
space between the link and the punctuation.

Stephen Seiler suggested http://www.ted.com as "one of the best sites on
the web for anyone with a good brain who likes to watch and listen to others
use theirs in creative, insightful, entertaining ways". Yes, but I could
find nothing there on sport or sport science.

From François Asseman: "to my point of view the site which teaches us
biomechanics easily is: http://www.volodalen.com ." It's a site in French
that, like the German site suggested by Florian Caspari, is hard going in
the Google translation.

Before Steven Plisk's message came in, I searched for sites for sport
science for kids, but most of the links to good sites in an article by
Chryssy Adamson at this site in 2000 are now defunct. The link to the
Exploratorium http://www.exploratorium.edu/sports/index.html is still live,
but the site wasn't highly rated (5/10) in that article and it looks like
the content hasn't changed.

Re the links Steven provided...

The StrongKid site looks quite good, but does anyone know if Avery
Faigenbaum has a financial interest in the medicine-ball supplier or
manufacturer that you can reach eventually from the StrongKid site? Does it
matter?

I have featured the link to the Coaches' Information Service
http://www.coachesinfo.com on at least one occasion in the past. Maybe I
should use it again.

The Center of Excellence for Sport Science & Coach Education
http://www.sportscienceed.com doesn't have much beyond a blog of events at
the Center. Its page of links doesn't include Sportscience.

Will

-----Original Message-----
From: Will Hopkins [mailto:will@...]
Sent: Tuesday, 16 December 2008 1:08 p.m.
To: 'Sportscience email list'
Subject: Interim summary: Need suggestions for best sport/science/other
links for 2008

So far only one useful suggestion for a site to feature on the Sportscience
homepage, from Paul Montgomery (a PhD scholar at the Australian Institute of
Sport): http://Injuryupdate.com , “a good site over viewing sports injuries,
treatment and rehabilitation for a range of team sports, compiled by John
Orchard”.

Louise Burke sent this reply: “My vote is very clearly for the Science of
Sport [ http://www.sportsscientists.com , the blog by Jonathan Dugas and
Ross Tucker]. Those guys do a great job!” Agreed, but I showed the link to
their site last year.

Florian Caspari suggested a German site http://www.sportwissenschaften.info
, which looks like it could be good for German speakers, but it’s hard going
in the Google translation. (If you have Google toolbar stuff installed in
Internet Explorer, right-click, Page Info/Translate into English…)

Jose Antonio put in a plug for the podcast he does with Bill Kraemer that I
featured last year: http://www.strengthpowerhour.com or
http://www.sphour.com .

Has anyone got any other suggestions?

I would feature a link to the Supertraining mailing list
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Supertraining , which has about six times as
many members as this list and about ten times as many messages per unit
time, but you have to be a member of that list to view the messages on the
Web. I asked them to change that policy some years ago, but no joy.
Anyway, it certainly is an active and useful list. It makes me wonder
whether we should do something to encourage increases in membership and
messages on this list, or pull the plug, or are you generally happy with it?
Comments?

Will