By now you know Patrick Mahomes received but three offers to play college quarterback, and what you may not know is that it was a TCU assistant coach who predicted the exact moment the attention was going to come for the kid from Whitehouse.
By the second week of September 2012, the junior three-sport athlete from Whitehouse, just outside Tyler, was still regarded as more of a baseball prospect.
Derrick Jenkins, like many others, noticed something special about Patrick Mahomes at a young age.
Jenkins, now the head baseball coach at Alto High School, was the head baseball coach at Whitehouse High School from 2010 to 2019.
Mahomes was a freshman during the 2010-11 school year.
“I saw him throw a football, and I said he would start for me as a freshman from Day One,” Jenkins said. “There was not even a question. He was that good.”
… Ostensibly, The Inner Game of Tennis is a book about tennis. But dig beneath the surface, and it teems with techniques and insights we can apply to any challenge. The book is really about overcoming the external obstacles we create that prevent us from succeeding. You don’t need to be interested in tennis or even know anything about it to benefit from this book.
One of the most important insights Gallwey shares is that a major thing which leads us to lose the Inner Game is trying too hard and interfering with our own natural learning capabilities. Let’s take a look at how we can win the Inner Game in our own lives by seeing the importance of not forcing things.
… So, as I head into this new year—one in which I have some big goals—I’m focusing on simple steps. Mostly, my plan is to run often. How often? As often as I can, both making a daily hour’s run a priority in the midst of a chaotic schedule (like yours, I’m sure), and being opportunistic to grab extra runs whenever possible—a quick 30 minutes at lunch, a couple of mental shake-out miles before dinner, an extra 7 or 8 miles stolen by getting up an hour earlier on a weekend morning. I want to make even more true what my wife has long said of me, that “a run is always imminent.” I’m embracing junk miles.
Sporting Kansas City has announced the promotions of two members on the club’s technical staff, appointing Joey Harty (pictured above) as Director of Sports Performance and Science and Alphonso Thompson (pictured below) as Head of Strength and Conditioning.
Harty, formerly Sporting’s assistant fitness coach from 2018-2019, will manage all aspects of the club’s performance department from the academy to the senior team. He will also oversee day-to-day training plans on and off the field, including work in the weight room, soccer session planning, on-field movement training, data analysis and more, aiming to optimize player health and performance
Competitive sports can mean professional and financial success — if they don’t compromise your mental health first. ‘Cheer’ and ‘Killer Inside: The Mind of Aaron Hernandez’ show how athletics can hurt as much as they can heal.
… Through the new venture, called Real Madrid Next, the football club will look to collaborate with start-ups across six industry sectors – e-health, fan engagement, audio-visual content generation, cybersecurity, business performance and technological and social infrastructures.
The club will offer start-ups access to its resources and expertise, while working together with new companies to develop their products and services which could benefit the club – and the wider economy.
“We look for excellence and the best technological advances possible, which helps to create our own, exclusive tools adapted to our way of working,” a spokesperson for the club said.
The sport is built on shoe companies as the sole sponsor of athletes.
That’s where the initial question of “fairness” came into play: if the professional sport is built on & sustained by contractual ties to shoe companies, one brand’s shoe is not “reasonably available to all”
ASICS Corporation was founded in Japan over 70 years ago. In 2016, it acquired the running tracker app, Runkeeper, and evolved the team into ASICS Digital. Based in Boston, home to the iconic, eponymous marathon, ASICS Digital is the hub of the company’s digital transformation.
According to Alessandra Binazzi, Director of Localization, ASICS Digital powers the company’s “entire digital consumer world” comprising four brands: ASICS.com; customer membership program OneASICS; virtual workout app ASICS Studio, and the Runkeeper app. In Binazzi’s words, “We improve our users’ lives through fitness and make ASICS the most helpful fitness brand in the world.”
… The agreement facilitated by Soccer United Marketing (SUM), U.S. Soccer’s partner for more than 15 years, grants Stats Perform the right to exclusively collect, analyze and distribute official ultrafast data and player data to global broadcast, media, betting and professional teams for all MLS, U.S. Open Cup and Men’s and Women’s National Team matches. For the first time, MLS and U.S. Soccer will also offer an official ultrafast data feed optimized for sports betting operators from all MLS, and select U.S. National Team and U.S. Open Cup matches.
The blue medical tent on each NFL sideline is a place no player ever wants to go, and everyone else would love to sneak inside for a peek.
Yes, it’s a basic pop-up tent anchored by a metal rectangle frame on the ground around an exam table. When a player is suspected of having a concussion or an injury where a little privacy is helpful, someone pulls the tent into place and people disappear inside, away from prying eyes.
“Probably one of the first things you notice is it’s actually a lot more roomy in here than you might think,” Dr. Allen Sills, the NFL’s chief medical officer, said Tuesday.
In December 2019, the National Football League (NFL) announced a partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to apply the data collected from the league’s Next Gen Stats technology to artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies to prevent player injuries during games. The new program will be used to develop what the NFL calls the “Digital Athlete” platform, a simulation of an NFL player that will be used to model scenarios in the game environment without any risk to athletes.
The announcement comes in an era of increasing injury incidents; According to the NFL’s latest injury data reports, an average of 6-7 injuries occurred per game in the 2018 season. The NFL plans to employ the new technology to specifically address factors such as game rules, equipment, and rehabilitation and recovery strategies. Key players are hoping the partnership will enable the NFL to predict player injuries and prevent them before they happen.
Collegiate football players who started playing tackle football before age 12 years did not show worse neuropsychological test performance than those who started playing tackle football after age 12 years. It is unknown if beginning other contact sports, such as lacrosse, at a younger age is associated with worse neurocognitive performance, greater psychological distress, or worse postural stability in collegiate student athletes. Objective
The purpose of this study was to examine the association between estimated age of first exposure (eAFE) to repetitive head impacts (RHI) and these outcome measures in collegiate student athletes. Methods
1891 female and 4448 male collision/contact (i.e., football, ice hockey, lacrosse, wrestling, soccer) and non-contact (i.e., golf, rifle, rowing/crew, swimming, tennis) sport athletes completed baseline testing, including the Immediate Post-Concussion Assessment and Cognitive Testing (ImPACT), Brief Symptom Inventory 18 (BSI-18), and Balance Error Scoring System (BESS). Results
For women, the eAFE-by-sport interaction was associated with ImPACT Verbal Memory and Visual Memory, whereby earlier eAFE to contact sports was associated with higher composite scores (B = − 0.397, B = − 0.485, respectively). For men, the eAFE-by-sport interaction was associated with BSI-18 Depression and Global Severity Index and symptom severity scores, whereby earlier eAFE to football was associated with lower psychological distress and symptom severity [Depression, Exp(B) = 1.057; Global Severity Index, Exp(B) = 1.047; Symptom Severity, Exp(B) = 1.046]. Parameter estimates were small suggesting these results may have minimal practical relevance. Conclusion
Findings suggest that RHI during early adolescence is unrelated to brain health as measured by these specific outcome measures in collegiate student athletes.
Precision data is key to unlocking long-term health, a World Economic Forum (WEF) report says, as its authors think combining microbiome biodata with emerging technologies will result in new ways to address health risks.
It’s easy to imagine sports commentators have moved on from the sort of offensive comments that received widespread attention in the 1980s. But AI analysis shows how an old bias endures in language differences