Bianca Andreescu, Denis Shapovalov and Félix Auger-Aliassime, who arrive at Roland Garros seeded and poised to make an impact, are the faces of a Canadian revolution
The spectacular rise of Mary Fowler, the youngest player at the upcoming FIFA Women’s World Cup, can be traced back to one particular stretch of Trinity Beach in far north Queensland.
It’s a grassy hilled area, just in front of the sand and surf, right next to one of the vinegar dispensers which are scattered along the Cairns coastline for the treatment of box jellyfish stings.
This is where Mary and her four siblings laid the bedrock for what could be long, successful careers in football. You could set your watch to it – parents Kevin and Nido would drive Mary (now 16), Quivi (20), Ciara (17), Louise (15) and Seamus (13) in their van to the same spot on the esplanade at the same time after school, almost every single day.
… the 6-6, 260-pound Washington rookie linebacker, selected No. 26 overall in the first round after previously being pegged as a top 10 pick, sat folded up in a chair at a station near the locker room with wires connected to his fingertips and an elastic band wrapped around his forearm.
What in the world?
No panic. This was not an emergency medical episode.
“It’s a sweat test,” Sweat told USA TODAY, smirking as if he knew someone could get the wrong idea.
Zdeno Chara and Rod Brind’Amour overlapped in the NHL as players for 12 seasons, and Brind’Amour spent most of that time resenting the 6-foot-9 defenseman.
“Not too many fond memories, that’s for sure,” Brind’Amour said earlier this month. “A lot like Scott Stevens for me. He was the kind of player you knew when you were in the corner that you were either gonna get crushed or something was gonna happen.”
If you’re trying to reduce injury by using a more favorable technique, then jump training ideally starts with the young players. While there is ample debate over the “best” volleyball jump technique, I will reference an article from USA Volleyball on protecting knees. Any jump training should involve landing with slightly bent hips, knees and ankles that are lined up without allowing inward collapse of the knees. This also means paying attention and correcting limitations in ankle, hip and knee range of motion. In particular, limited ankle dorsiflexion (ability to bring foot towards shin) can place abnormal stresses on other joints.
What happens when an elite marathoner, a U.S. Army Special Forces operator, a cognitive neuroscientist, an entrepreneur and a shaman sit down to discuss where the limits of human performance lie? A rare collision of ideas that, through new collaborations, could help people push those limits.
That was the takeaway from the first Human Performance Summit, which drew nearly 250 participants from the military, athletic, investment, scientific, academic and entrepreneurial communities to CU Boulder’s Champions Center earlier this month.
“We wanted to bring together a group of radically different people who don’t usually cross paths to ask: How can we reach our full potential when it comes to physical and mental performance, and what new tools could we develop to help us get there,” said Mike Traxler, program manager for CU’s Office of Industry Collaboration.
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Our in-house injury expert, Aaron Borgmann, recently had the opportunity to experience the Breakfast Club, which is changing the game for former pro football players.
Big-time soccer has come to the Naval Academy this week, and it’s pretty darn cool.
Head coach Gregg Berhalter has brought the United States Men’s National Team to the Naval Academy for a week of training. An initial wave of American players arrived Monday to begin eight days of training at Navy in advance of next Wednesday’s “friendly” against Jamaica at Audi Field in D.C.
I had just sat down on the bleachers at the Glenn Warner Soccer Facility when I looked down on the field and spotted none other than Landon Donovan, arguably the greatest soccer player in United States history.
Donovan, who made 157 appearances for the U.S. National team and played in three World Cups, is attending this week’s training sessions as an “observer” while naturally using his vast experience to help mentor the many young players now in the program.
A. “Sugar is sugar,” says Alice H. Lichtenstein, DSc, senior scientist at the HNRCA and executive editor of Tufts Health & Nutrition Letter. “All sugar is made by extracting juice from sugar beet or sugar cane plants, then cleaning, crystallizing, and removing molasses. The final product may differ in crystal size or molasses content, but, chemically and nutritionally, all of these sugars are the same. When it comes to digestion and metabolism, your body cannot tell the difference between raw sugar, white sugar, and any other kind of sugar.”
Every one of these players ran slower-than-average 40 times at their respective NFL combines. But collectively—and led by Tom Brady—they would make a competitive NFL roster.
… In Klopp’s first full year with Liverpool, they conceded 42 goals in the league. Last season, it was 38, and this year, it was 22. Their pressing rate (passes per defensive action) was second in the league (7.23) in 2016-17, fourth last year (9.55), and sixth (9.99) this season. Guess what went in the other direction? 76 points in Year One, 75 in Year Two, and 97 this time around. It took a couple years, but Liverpool finally found their best pace.
And really, can it get any better than this? That’s the third-most Premier League points in history — and a European Cup. No one’s ever hit that many points and paired it with the Champions League. In fact, the previous-high points total in a Premier League season for a European champion was Manchester United in 2007-08 with 87. This is, quite literally, unprecedented.
