Topic “Athlete”

By Jack Kelly (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

Adolescent male athletes are less likely to abuse the girls they date if their coaches tell them they should respect women, new research shows.

The researchers, led by Elizabeth Miller, chief of the division of adolescent medicine at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, studied more than 2,...

By Melissa Rohlin (Los Angeles Times/MCT)

LOS ANGELES — Alyssa Kitasoe studied herself in the mirror, and the image was shocking.

She had been standing near the bathroom sink, vomiting into a plastic container. When she looked up, through eyes blurred with tears, she was disgusted by what she saw.

“It was like seeing a ghost of yourself, or a monster,” Kitasoe recalled. “...