The new era of sports science coincides with another new era, of aging athletes who bring superior performance, athletes who also transition differently into retirement than before.
The Real-Life Diet of Vince Carter (GQ, Christopher Cason)
The Unorthodox Training Behind Ichiro’s Unparalleled Longevity (STACK, Brandon Hall)
Cleveland Indians Pitcher Josh Tomlin on the “New Norm” For Pitchers (Marc Pro)
Maple Leafs clinch on back of unlikely hero (NHL.com, Amalie Benjamin)
Chipper Jones: ‘Failure like that doesn’t go away’ (ESPN, SweetSpot blog, Mark Simon)
Ryan Anderson says he’s stronger, ready to get in playoff shape (Houston Chronicle, Jonathan Feigen)
Life after soccer: The struggle for players to find peace in retirement (FourFourTwo, Matt Pentz)
A day in the life — Runner Deena Kastor’s balancing act (espnW, Amanda Loudin)
Dougherty: Can Brady, Rodgers defy Father Time? (Packers News, USA Today Network, Pete Dougherty)
While tennis heads to clay, Roger Federer heads for vacation (SI.com, AP)
‘More than just luck’: the science behind Tom Brady’s preposterous longevity (The Guardian, Ian McMahan)
Once Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi fade so will the European dominance of Barcelona and Real Madrid (ESPN FC, Simon Kuper)
Process and organizational innovations are, as one would expect, easy to spot throughout the modern sports landscape.
Seahawks Coach Pete Carroll Branches Out Into Academia With Performance Science Institute At USC (Seattle Seahawks)
Sevilla in a spin as they prepare for life after Monchi – the man who is the club (The Guardian, Sid Lowe)
The importance of club nutritionists at your Premier League club (Shoot magazine)
Where do you find a Sporting Director? (The Football Collective, Dr Dan Parnell and Dr Paul Widdop)
Jurgen Klopp reveals plan to avoid injuries damaging Liverpool’s Champions League hopes (This Is Anfield blog, Press Association)
Identifying Playing Styles with Clustering (Hockey Graphs, Ryan Stimson)
Penguins’ biometrics program helps alleviate injury woes (TribLIVE, Bill West)
The Nebraska Athletic Performance Lab (Huskers.com)
Chelsea learn to suffer with Antonio Conte and the skill is pushing them to Premier League title (ESPN FC, Gabriele Marcotti)
Analyzing student-athletes’ sleep habits the latest project for Tech sports medicine area (HokieSports.com, Jimmy Robertson)
Running dynamics finally gets its own standard (Ray Maker, DC Rainmaker blog)
The Premier League elite player performance plan – ‘not perfect but lessons are being learned’ (The Guardian, Nick Ames)
Why Professional Sports Leagues Should Launch Venture Capital Arms (Starters.co, Harry Alford)
Injuries Are the Biggest Problem in Pro Sports. This Startup Is Solving It (Inc.com, Jeff Bercovici)
A bold plan to build a statistically perfect bullpen (The Washington Post, Fancy Stats, Neil Greenberg)
Put me in coach: College to NHL is new norm for top players (Associated Press, Stephen Whyno)
Useful, interesting data analysis is another significant category in sports science media.
Improve Patient Care with Data (National Athletic Trainers’ Association, Scott Sailor)
The impact manager (21st Club Limited, Omar Chaudhuri)
Does the FIFA 11+ Injury Prevention Program Reduce the Incidence of ACL Injury in Male Soccer Players? (Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research journal)
How we can find ourselves in data (Ted.com)
Data-driven modeling of collaboration networks: A cross-domain analysis (arXiv, Physics > Physics and Society; Mario V. Tomasello, Giacomo Vaccario, Frank Schweitze)
Mount Sinai Study Reveals How Learning in the Present Shapes Future Learning (Mount Sinai Hospital, Icahn School of Medicine)
Machine Learning: the Lab vs the Real World (Medium, Towards Data Science, Stuart Feffer)
The Winner in Baseball’s “Nerds vs. Jocks” Debate? Hucksters. (Double Birds blog, Adam Felder)
The NBA’s Subtle, Vital Scheduling Factor (Basketball Insiders, Ben Dowsett)
Why Brentford ditched their academy in favour of developing Premier League outcasts (The Guardian, Ed Aarons)
English football must address speed and physicality given rise in serious injuries (ESPN FC, Tony Evans)
More things that I read and liked last week:
The memory remains: Understanding collective memory in the digital age (April 05, [Lucy Wang] Science Advances; Ruth García-Gavilanes, Anders Mollgaard, Milena Tsvetkova and Taha Yasseri)
How Emotional Intelligence Helped the North Carolina Tar Heels Win the National Championship (April 04, Inc.com, Justin Bariso)
Designing Wearables That Sense, Think, and Communicate (April 04, PDD Net, Nishant Mittal and Ronak Desai)
Social Science Research Explores Psychological Effects Of Rituals (April 04, NPR, Shankar Vedantam)
Kellyn Acosta: “It’s Time for Us to Make Our Marks” (April 04, American Soccer Now, Brian Sciaretta)