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The 18th Annual Pat’s Run — a 4.2 mile run/walk celebrating the legacy of former NFL player, Sun Devil and Army Ranger Pat Tillman — returned to Sun Devil Stadium on April 23 after two years of virtual running due to the pandemic.

To be a student-athlete is to be busy. Much of their days must be spent training and competing on the field, and student-athletes have to balance that with time needed for classes and homework. Luckily, they have help. The Watts Center for Academic Excellence and Championship Life is home to the Office of Student-Athlete Development (OSAD), a vital component of the Sun Devil Athletics experience that provides academic and professional development support to student-athletes.

The Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University will host “On The Clock & In the Media: Race, Hiring and the NFL,” a panel discussion focusing on the complex challenges in the NFL.

The crack of the ball, the roar of the crowd and the smell of roasting peanuts make for a lovely afternoon of baseball. But behind the scenes, the business is anything but a day at the park. Tom Harris, ASU alum and executive vice president and chief financial officer of the Arizona Diamondbacks, recently spoke to the Economic Club of Phoenix about the business of baseball.

Work smarter, not harder: The ASU triathlon team is using science to do just that, and Arizona State University’s newest biomedical facility in downtown Phoenix is playing a part. ASU’s Translational Research Center at 850 PBC — part of the Phoenix Biomedical Campus — was the site of recent intensity training and lactate-threshold testing for the athletes, conducted by College of Health Solutions staff and students.

A former hockey player that took pride in his battle scars, Dave MacKinnon can now brag about more substantial things — like being inaugurated as one of four Regents Professors for 2022 for his work in quantitative psychology.