Interviews with 17 former college athletes, insights from previous investigations, and input from experts suggest an alarming pattern of abuse.

By Lindsay Dodgson

Hillary Dole’s first Toque Friday ended with a broken nose and a bloody face.

The event, she told Insider, was an annual tradition for the Cornell University softball team when she joined as a freshman in 2017. All new recruits were instructed to pull beanie hats over their eyes and stand in a line. Then, while they were effectively blindfolded, their teammates and coach yelled at them to run.

“It was confusing, chaotic, intimidating, and I didn’t know what to do,” Dole told Insider. “I ran because the culture [in sports] is such that you just kind of do what you’re told — that’s just how it is when you play on a team. And so I ended up running 40 yards face-first into a brick wall.” …

Tina’s colleague gave her permission to park in their backyard in Pennsylvania, but still, she lived in fear of eviction.

By Frank Olito

When an art teacher in Pennsylvania moved into a tiny house, she wasn’t prepared to live her new life in secret.

The teacher, who wishes to be identified only as Tina, said she regularly changed school districts because her programs were often nixed during budget cuts. Instead of dragging her husband and daughter around with her from school to school, she decided to build a tiny house (not pictured above) and live in it by herself.

In 2018, she was offered a teaching position in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, but she couldn’t find an RV park in the area that was tiny-house friendly. Luckily, a colleague at the school offered up their backyard as a place for Tina to park, but there was still was a problem: Bucks County does not allow tiny houses on wheels, like Tina’s, to be parked in backyards nor can they be lived in full-time. …

It’s nearly always better to lose weight slowly, however there are certain situations where a brief, rapid weight loss phase could be a good start.

By Rachel Hosie

This story is a part of Insider’s Working It Out series.

Dear Rachel,

I have had the unfortunate experience of losing weight and then gaining it all back, so I’d love to know if it’s better to lose weight fast or slowly to avoid regain. I thought it would be doable to lose weight quite slowly (like two pounds a month) and keep that up, but I have found that it is quite hard to keep up motivation. …

See every TV show announced by the streaming service set to premiere in 2021. If you’re looking for something new to watch, start here.

By Kim Renfro

Netflix released more than 100 new TV shows in the last year, and has even more planned for 2021. So far, we know details on at least 13 upcoming series.

Insider will be tracking all the brand new shows coming to Netflix in this article as they’re announced. If you want a list of the best movies available to stream on the platform this month, read our picks here.

Keep reading to see all the brand new shows arriving on Netflix this year (in chronological order). …

Our meeting was full of helpful advice about surprising laws and how prenups work. Here’s everything we learned from a divorce lawyer before marrying.

By Jen Glantz

Immediately after getting engaged, I had a panic attack.

I’d been dating my fiancé for over three years and even though I knew him well and loved him dearly, I worried about how our relationship would change.

You can’t walk into marriage without paying attention to the most popular statistic surrounding it: Around half of married couples in the US will get divorced, according to the American Psychological Association.

That lingered in my brain as I began to choose a wedding venue, draft a guest list, and pick out items for our registry. It haunted me so much that one night, after being engaged for five months, I sat my fiancé down and told him how I felt. …

Christine Saldana and Kathy Mariscal renovated a school bus, which features bright colors, a comfy couch, and an overall mid-century modern design.

By Monica Humphries

Christine Saldana, 28, and Kathy Mariscal, 34, weren’t inspired to live on a bus because of travel. They also weren’t eager to live a minimalist lifestyle.

Instead, the couple was motivated by money.

For Saldana and Mariscal, a bus meant cheaper living costs. And cheaper living costs meant more savings for their future.

“We could save up a lot of money, get married, and use the money to start a family,” Mariscal told Insider. …

An Insider reporter hoped to benefit her mental and physical health by practicing yoga every day, but it wasn’t as easy as she’d hoped.

By Caroline Fox

The last time I did yoga I got a nosebleed.

In a dimly lit room filled with steam, I noticed droplets of blood hitting my mat as I folded myself forward. I jolted to my feet and began weaving through sweaty bodies, eventually slipping out of the studio while gripping a white hand towel speckled with blood.

About a week later, on March 15, 2020, that same yoga studio emailed to inform me that all of their New York City locations would be closing until further notice due to the coronavirus. Since March, dozens of yoga studios have closed permanently, from chain locations to smaller, boutique studios, the New York Times reported in September. …

I’m a beginner cook who made 83 recipes from celebrity chefs. From pancakes and cookies to margaritas and scrambled eggs, here are the best ones.

By Paige Bennett

In 2020 I spent more time in the kitchen than ever before.

I tested countless recipes, from Mountain Dew-infused grilled cheese sandwiches to Martha Stewart’s Insta-famous baked potato. But one of the most interesting series I worked on this year involved testing celebrity-chef recipes.

I was able to find amazing new ways to prepare some of my favorite foods and see just how accessible these recipes were to normal, everyday home cooks like myself. …