DaMarcus Beasley wants to stick around soccer when he retires at the end of the MLS season.
He just wants to move upstairs.
Beasley has no interest in coaching, but he wants to try the management side of the sport he has played for decades. And the captain of the Houston Dynamo thinks he has something to offer, too.
“I would love to learn the business side of football,” Beasley told The Associated Press. “What it takes to put a team together day-in, day-out. That part of it intrigues me a lot.”
Considering what the alternative diagnosis could have been in his visit with Dr. James Andrews, Red Sox ace Chris Sale was relatively encouraged about his health while talking to reporters at Fenway Park on Tuesday.
Andrews didn’t detect any ligament damage, instead seeing just the inflammation in the left elbow that Sale’s first MRI with Boston’s medical staff revealed a couple of days earlier. Sale received a platelet-rich plasma injection during his visit with Andrews.
“I mean, obviously pitchers in general have arm issues sometimes. When it’s something new, you want to find out what’s going on and that’s why we were so quick to go down there and get his opinion because he can do this blindfolded,” said Sale. “He checked it out and we got some better news obviously, not great news, but about as good as we could get. We rest, I think maybe four to six weeks, get on a throwing program and get back to it.”
… Some Bio 212 students knew that Herbert projected as a Heisman Trophy candidate. Others just needed to understand iron regulation in animals, and their homework was due the next day.
At 6-foot-6 and nearly 240 pounds, Herbert is more the archetype of an NFL quarterback than the stereotype of an undergraduate biology tutor. Yet as his football profile rose at Oregon, Herbert relished his secret life as a biology TA – one of the highest academic recognitions in his major – as much as his public life as a starting quarterback. “He could have that part of his life where he wasn’t Justin Herbert the quarterback,” said teammate Calvin Throckmorton, who shared multiple science classes with Herbert. “That meant a lot to him.”
Aaron Bates has a dual role with the Dodgers. The 35-year-old former first baseman serves as the team’s assistant hitting coach, and he’s also the director of hitting for the minor leagues. Now in his fifth year with Los Angeles, he works in conjunction with big-league hitting coach Robert Van Scoyoc, and hitting strategist Brant Brown. … Bates sat down to talk hitting when the Dodgers visited Fenway Park in mid-July.
Chase Griffin doesn’t need his heart rate monitored or hydration level checked to know that his coach’s sports science program is working.
All he has to do is wake up.
“I feel fresh and renewed every morning,” the UCLA freshman quarterback said Saturday.
Coach Chip Kelly is as guarded about his sports science program as he is about his playbook, refusing to divulge any specifics, but his players rave about the impact of the team’s nutrition, sleep and recovery efforts.
Phil Neville has a photograph in his office showing the heartache of defeat by USA in the World Cup semi-finals and the image is driving his “dream” to stay beyond his 2021 contract and lead England to the 2023 tournament.
“Coaching hasn’t given me that feeling before so to go to 2023 would be another dream,” the England manager said, quashing speculation over his long-term commitment. “This summer gave me everything and more that I wanted in my career.
“The players need to be excited and challenged. I’ve got to make sure after the Euros that my players are still listening to my messages, that they’re still challenged by me and that the FA look at me as the right person to take this team forward.
Fifth-generation cellular networks and devices are still in the earliest stages of launching across the world, but research on the next generation — 6G — is already underway. Today, researchers at the University of California, Irvine’s Nanoscale Communication Integrated Circuits Labs announced that they’ve created a tiny radio chip that can send and receive data in the 100GHz frequency range, which is expected to be the basis for future 6G communications standards.
Though it seems early to be discussing 6G, leading wireless researchers in the United States, Finland, and South Korea have been focusing on the potential of “sub-millimeter wave” spectrum for roughly a year; the FCC opened a swath of 95GHz to 3THz spectrum for experimentation in March. Thanks to their unique characteristics and the lack of competing uses of the same spectra, the ultra-high-frequency radio signals are expected to quickly carry almost inconceivable quantities of data — enough to transmit human brain-level computing power from servers to pocket devices in real time.
… USA TODAY Sports examined what popular fitness-tracking hardware and app companies such as Apple, Fitbit and Strava state in those privacy statements and terms of service. Some share information with third parties.
Fitbit, for example, said it “may share non-personal information that is aggregated or de-identified so that it cannot reasonably be used to identify an individual.”
“We may disclose such information publicly and to third parties, for example, in public reports about exercise and activity, to partners under agreement with us, or as part of the community benchmarking information we provide to users of our subscription services,” Fitbit said in a statement to USA TODAY Sports. “We never sell personal data, and we do not share customer personal information except in the limited circumstances described in our privacy policy.”
… Researchers at the University of Washington have used machine learning to develop a new system that can monitor factory and warehouse workers and tell them how risky their behaviors are in real time. The algorithm divides up a series of activities — such as lifting a box off a high shelf, carrying it to a table and setting it down — into individual actions and then calculates a risk score associated with each action.
… Eight million children compete in high school athletics but only a 495,000 are able to compete in college, according to the NCAA.
The process of becoming one of those lucky few athletes was opaque and challenging for parents and students to navigate, he learned. It reminded [KC Chhipwadia] of trying to become an astronaut. So, from the shards of his own broken dreams, he set out to build a startup to help students make their own dreams come true in sports. He named it Athlete Foundry.
“That was the first piece of the puzzle that led me to start Athlete Foundry,” said Chhipwadia, who is now 47 years old. “It was this anger toward outdated, broken processes that are not empowering kids who have a passion.”
Mobile ECG maker AliveCor has ended sales of KardiaBand, its FDA-cleared ECG wristband designed for use with Apple Watches, a representative of the company confirmed to MobiHealthNews today.
The company appears to have pulled down the device’s purchase page sometime after June 12, according to cached versions of the site collected by archive.org, and at some point before July 7 updated its frontpage menu dropdown to highlight just the KardiaMobile and KardiaMobile 6L products. The wristband device is also unavailable for purchase through AliveCor’s Amazon vendor profile.
To assist sideline medical staff and to augment detection of concussion in National Football League (NFL) players during preseason and regular season games via the use of athletic trainer certified (ATC) spotters. BACKGROUND:
Detecting concussive injury in contact sport athletes can be a challenging task for health care providers on the sideline. Over the past 8 years, professional sport leagues have begun to use additional sets of eyes (medical spotters along with video review) to help identify athletes with possible concussive injury. DESCRIPTION:
The NFL first began a program using spotters in 2011, and the ATC Spotter Program has undergone systematic enhancements each year. This article describes the evolution of the ATC Spotter Program, the requirements and training of its participants, and the program data available to date. Directions for future improvement and research are addressed. CLINICAL ADVANTAGES:
The use of ATC spotters stationed in the broadcast booth has enhanced the real-time detection of concussed players in the NFL.
Which position epitomizes football? The answer most certainly depends on an individual’s age and personal experience playing the game or watching from afar, but a few positions stick out more than others. Middle linebacker, what with the Ray Lewises, Dick Butkuses, Chuck Bednariks and other aptly named human brick walls, surely embodies the gridiron soul. Quarterback, of course, but those guys get enough of the glory.
When I think “football,” I think of the players who do the dirty work — who clear the way for their more famous backfield mates and love the feel of dirt on their knuckles because the low man always wins. I’m talking fullbacks, particularly the grittiest, most agile neck roll–wearing human wrecking ball that there ever was and ever will be: Mike Alstott.
Moneyball-like statistical tools have already changed baseball, basketball and football. But bringing such methods to the ice has proved challenging. That might soon be changing.