UNC gauges players' body heat

Posted Aug 12, 2009
At first, it was hard for University of North Carolina football player Kendric Burney to swallow. They handed him a pill containing a battery, thermometer and radio transmitter and told him it would lodge in his intestine, where it would stick around for one to two days to measure his core body heat. "I'm not going to lie. The thought of putting that in my stomach was just plain weird," the junior cornerback said. (Raleigh News & Observer)

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