Harvard engineers think they've found the reason basketball shoes squeak, and it's due to pockets of friction between the rubber and the court.

Basketball shoes on a gym floor, bicycle brakes in need of a tune-up, or the squeal of tires are everyday examples of squeaking sounds. Such sounds have long been attributed to stick-slip friction, or ...

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Troy Proctor's Foundation filed litigation on Friday in an attempt to void the LDC's negative environmental declaration of ...

A roar went up from the crowd with 6:24 left in the first quarter when Handley's Will Braun-Duin checked in for his first ...

Iowa City West girls basketball advanced to the state basketball tournament with a 61-54 win over Iowa City Liberty on Feb. 24.

They spring into action when the machines leave the ice, skating out to the painted blue lanes and squatting down to affix the rubber blocks into place. They are meant to make the lines more visible ...