Ohio State’s Sports and Society Initiative will host a presentation discussing research on Black hair in athletics Wednesday. The event — titled “Hair Matters: Race, Gender, and the Politics of Black ...

IIZUKA, Fukuoka -- Can getting one's hair styled lead to improved athletic performance? A sports psychologist in Japan suggested that the act can "create a state of positive emotions for a game." A ...

Aaron Judge with a beard? With the rollback of a decades-old New York Yankees team rule, that just might be possible. Yankees managing general partner Hal Steinbrenner announced Friday that the team ...

Bald may be beautiful — but not so much with the Yankees anymore. The team’s stunning change to its decades-long facial-hair policy in which the organization will now allow “well-groomed beards” has ...