SB Nation, Lookout Landing blog, Kate Preusser from
… Potential five-tool talents like Mitchell don’t usually get to college, especially when one of the loudest of those tools is elite speed, a tool that only worsens with age. However, the hit and power tools are twin kings in scouting, and there were concerns about Mitchell’s swing path (described, charitably, by MLB as “not the prettiest”) and the fact that Mitchell seemed to have trouble translating his raw power into game power. The southern California kid also had a strong commitment to UCLA, which he described as his “dream” school. Further complicating Mitchell’s profile was the fact that he is a Type 1 Diabetic who wears an insulin pump at all times, and seeing how 2017 was only three actual years ago but [checks calendar] also apparently three hundred years ago, that could have been a factor in teams going in other directions.
Since it came up, let’s go ahead and explore what a diagnosis of diabetes means in baseball, since I didn’t get into that too much in the last article and also have lots and lots of time to read medical journals right now.
… Gauld’s earlier rise makes “rapid” appear an understatement. The Messi comparisons came after he broke through at Dundee United as a 16-year-old in 2012. Sporting paid £3m for him two years later on a six‑year deal with a €60m exit clause. After a promising start in Lisbon – Gauld played 90 minutes for the first team in December 2014 – things turned sour. Still only 24, Gauld is up to speed with the ugliness of the beautiful game.
“There’s a good side and a bad side, that people don’t really see,” he says of Sporting. “One thing I came away from Sporting having not enjoyed was the way I was dealt with. The positive side is they are a huge club, known all over Europe, and to be a part of that for a few years was an honour.”
Sports Illustrated, Bama Central blog, Christopher Walsh from
The Alabama football program never had much of a chance to hold a press conference following their addition, so it found a different way to introduce the new heads of the Crimson Tide strength staff to its fans.
In a video, titled “Meet The Strength Staff: Part One,” on Alabama Football’s Instagram, David Ballou and Dr. Matt Rhea said hello late Wednesday.
Indianapolis Star, South Bend Tribune, Eric Hansen from
… Notre Dame shifted quickly in March to resistance bands as the go-to, at-home conditioning remedy and Zoom-coordinated instruction from Balis and his staff during a time, under normal circumstances, the ND players would have been participating in spring practice. But then that new template had to be altered dramatically.
The NCAA’s eventual response to DIY/remote training was that not only must it be voluntary, but unmeasured and unmonitored as well by Balis and his peers. Instagram offers only glimpses of progress or lack of it.
What Balis saw in the Notre Dame weight room, though, in January and February, before it was shuttered during spring break, gives him solace that whenever the 2020 Irish football team reassembles it will be ahead of the curve, because its leaders in the player ranks will have demanded it.
When the Kansas City Royals learned that spring training was over and they were headed home, with questions swirling around if and when they might start the season, Mike Matheny sent them each a copy of a book called “Legacy.”
Author James Kerr tells the story of the All Blacks, the famed New Zealand rugby team that has won more than 75% of its matches going back a century. Kerr breaks down the Kiwis’ success and teases out lessons for individuals and teams that have to do with accountability, leadership and developing a winning culture.
It’s something that Matheny, who was hired this past offseason to replace the retired Ned Yost, wouldn’t have been able to do during the regular season, when the daily grind chews up everybody’s day.
Collecting and tracking meaningful information regarding an individual’s response to training is important when making actionable decisions when considering load prescription.
In this study, the associations between accumulated external load variables and changes in body composition, isokinetic strength, and aerobic capacity over a 10-week pre-season and in-season period were analysed
For decades, biology textbooks have stated that eyes communicate with the brain exclusively through one type of signaling pathway. But a new discovery shows that some retinal neurons take a road less traveled.
New research, led by Northwestern University, has found that a subset of retinal neurons sends inhibitory signals to the brain. Before, researchers believed the eye only sends excitatory signals. (Simply put: Excitatory signaling makes neurons to fire more; inhibitory signaling makes neurons to fire less.)
Yesterday morning digital health and fitness company Pear Sports announced its purchase of artificial intelligence exercise-coaching platform Performance Lab.
Performance Lab specializes in using AI to gain insights into athletic performance and then develop a personalized exercise program. Pear Sports plans to use this technology in its real-time interactive coaching tool.
“The mission at Pear Sports is to leverage increasingly pervasive activity data from wearables, interpret it and apply it in ways that can impact the effectiveness of digital coaching and even human touch coaching,” Bob Allison, founder of Pear Sports, said. “Adding Performance Lab’s science and AI algorithms to PEAR’s real-time coaching technology means we will be able to offer the only truly intelligent, custom adaptive-training solution on the market. We are thrilled to welcome the experienced team at Performance Lab to [Pear Sports] and to work together to create a powerful player in the digital health and fitness arena.”
Powercast Corporation, the leader in radio-frequency (RF)-based long-range over-the-air wireless power technology, and Liquid X, an advanced manufacturer of functional metallic inks with prototype-to-production design and manufacturing capabilities, today announced a printed electronics venture to enable garment manufacturers to easily integrate wireless power functionality into durable, flexible, high performance and washable e-textiles.
Utilizing Liquid X’s proprietary ink technology, manufacturers can print circuitry directly onto a garment, add Powercast’s wireless power technology and a battery, and seal this all into the garment during the manufacturing process. The two companies’ goal is to enable cost-effective manufacturing of durable e-textiles, with battery-powered features such as health and wellness, movement monitoring, or LED-based illumination embedded directly into garments, that consumers can conveniently recharge over the air, and wash, without having to remove a battery pack.
… One NBA general manager, speaking on the condition of anonymity, pointed to the age of the team’s head coach and others on the staff and said he would feel uneasy about those coaches being present for games, given the factors that place some people at a higher risk for serious issues because of the virus.
“I don’t want to put them in harm’s way,” the general manager said.
We look forward to seeing the NBA up and running again. But recent conversations with people involved in those decisions make clear just how incredibly difficult Adam Silver’s task is. The issues are profound and like nothing from the league’s history. Here are just some of the questions to be answered between here and normalcy:
The NBA was one of the first major social institutions to be hit by the coronavirus. When Rudy Gobert tested positive for COVID-19 in March, the entire season was forced to shut down. Leagues and businesses followed suit. More players, like Donovan Mitchell and Kevin Durant, have tested positive as well, and the sport as a whole is now in a holding pattern as the world grapples with this pandemic.
Fortunately for everyone, clinics and labs around the world are researching the disease in an effort to either cure it or create a vaccine that provides immunity to the populace. One such effort is taking place at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, and according to Shams Charania of The Athletic, the NBA and its players are supporting it. The study, according to Charania, will focus on antibodies in recovered players to understand the prevalence of the disease in and around the NBA.
This is not the first such study that has been supported by the NBA.
Here are seven ways in which the NBA is completely different now than it was two decades ago:
• Jordan propelled the league to new heights, resulting in today’s players making a lot more money. But while paychecks are up across the board, some kinds of players are doing better than others.
Early professional experience is key to succeed in football. Great discrepancies exist between clubs and leagues in the opportunities given to young players to prove their talent. Issue number 294 of the CIES Football Observatory Weekly Post presents the percentage of minutes played in the current season or the last completed one by U21 footballers from 1,292 clubs and 93 top divisions worldwide.