Sports science is in its early immature stage. Progress involves developing people (athletes and sports management mostly), and developing ideas (training, sports medicine, technology).
How to mold athletic talent is global issue. Every sport in every corner of the world thinks hard about what to do with the best young athletes in their midst.
Loan sharks: How English clubs are ruining their young talent (theScore, Daniel Rouse)
The Danish way of creating champions (Medium, Nicklas Pyrdol)
Tottenham must learn from last season’s title run-in, says Mauricio Pochettino (The Guardian, Richard Gibson)
Yankees and Cardinals managers talk about developing your young athlete (The Washington Post, Jennifer Wallace and Lisa Heffernan)
Everton’s Romelu Lukaku is a traditional No9 who could play in any era (The Guardian, Jonathan Wilson)
They Can Hit 400-Foot Homers, but Playing Catch? That’s Tricky (The New York Times, Bill Pennington)
Should My Child Play Up? The Do’s and Don’ts of Moving Kids to Older Age Groups (Changing the Game Project, John O’Sullivan)
Ask the Expert – Dr Jonathan Griffin (Fulham FC) (Jonathan Griffin, Athletic Evolution)
The effect of a sequential structure of practice for the training of perceptual-cognitive skills in tennis (PLOS One; David P. Broadbent et al.)
Christian Pulisic: a journey of education from Hershey to Dortmund via Tackley (These Football Times)
The ‘small town’ effect on youth athletic development: insights from New Zealand ‘touch’ (Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health)
In praise of the late developer (The New Statesman, Ed Smith)
Christian Pulisic was grown in the United States – Bruce Arena (ESPN FC, Jeff Carlisle)
Los Angeles Dodgers Corey Seager leads a new generation of shortstops (ESPN The Magazine, Robert Sanchez)
Sport organizations chase talent too, looking for staff as they also look for athletes.
How Dodgers GM Farhan Zaidi became one of the most coveted minds in baseball (Los Angeles Times, Andy McCullough)
With Everyone in Tune, Boston Celtics Are a Virtuoso Rebuilding Act (The New York Times, Harvey Araton)
British managers are overrated by English clubs – and the stats back it up (The Guardian, Sean Ingle)
Expected goals and Big Football Data: the statistics revolution that is here to stay (The Guardian, Paul MacInnes)
Joe Maddon: ‘If you’re only focused on winning, I promise you’ll screw up more’ (CoachingSearch, Chris Vannini)
Raised by Theo Epstein, the Diamondbacks’ new brain trust tries to copy his success (Yahoo Sports, Jeff Passan)
How Burnley boss Sean Dyche is shaping team’s future (BBC Sport, Rachel Brown-Finnis)
Baseball’s next Moneyball concept: Turning internet writers into prospect scouts (CBSSports.com, R.J. Anderson)
Developing ideas is also important. The work is different from developing people. Ideas for injury prediction and prevention currently rank high.
Prediction of Future Injury in Sport: Primary and Secondary Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injury Risk and Return to Sport as a Model. (Journal of Orthopaedic & Sports Physical Therapy)
Training load–injury paradox: is greater preseason participation associated with lower in-season injury risk in elite rugby league players? (British Journal of Sports Medicine)
Star athlete %E2%86%92 injury %E2%86%92 opioids %E2%86%92 addiction %E2%86%92 death (Yahoo Sports, Eric Adelson)
Do Functional Movement Screen (FMS) composite scores predict subsequent injury? A systematic review with meta-analysis (British Journal of Sports Medicine)
NBA Teams Are Resting Players Earlier And Earlier (FiveThirtyEight, Todd Whitehead)
Chicago Bears eliminate joint practices in 2017 training camp (ESPN NFL, Jeff Dickerson)
Giants embrace sports science as secret weapon against fatigue (The Mercury News, Bay Area News Group, Daniel Brown)
Abandon all movement assessments… A guest blog by Stuart Wright (The Sports Physio, Stuart Wright)
How Loss of Key Player Increases Value of Recovery Data for Tottenham Hotspur (Firstbeat, Herman Bonner)
New technology development also goes on. Most of the public information is chatter, offering not much technical detail. Products are, for the most part, immature. They are likely to improve but it will take work.
NFL offering research to help find safer and position-specific helmets (ProFootballTalk, Darin Gantt)
CourtsideVC Partner Deepen Parikh Has ‘Reservations’ About Investing In Wearable Sports Industry (SportTechie, Mark J. Burns)
More things that I read and liked last week:
Circadian Rhythms Influence Treatment Effects (April 01, The Scientist Magazine®, Jyoti Madhusoodanan)
How football’s richest clubs fail to pay staff a real living wage (March 30, The Conversation, Tony Dobbins and Peter Prowse )
Laziness Is Contagious, Scientists Find (March 30, Live Science, Cari Nierenberg)
Exploiting Variance in the NHL Draft (March 28, Hockey Graphs, Namita Nandakumar)
The Legal & Ethical Nutrition Scope of Practice For Personal Trainers (March 27, Dr. John Rusin blog, Dr. Trevor Kashey)