The NBA regular season is often plagued by star player absences by way of either injury or “load management,” and Brooklyn Nets star Kevin Durant has a theory as to why that’s gotten worse of late.
During the latest edition of his “The ETCs” podcast, Durant and his former Golden State Warriors teammate Draymond Green discussed why the regular season has gotten harder to watch over the past few seasons.
Durant was prompted by his podcast co-host Eddie Gonzalez, who noted that “we end up with these weird mid-season games that don’t seem as competitive and guys are out,” and that “basketball is in a weird space,” before asking Durant if he agrees with that assessment.
… The topic on Saturday was Morneau’s perspective on what he’s seeing from Byron Buxton — later in the stardom process, slowed greatly by long stretches on the injured list and woes vs. big-league pitching but extra special in these early days of his 27-year-old season.
Morneau packed it in during the 2016 season as a White Sox irregular, the same season that Buxton was batting .225 and striking out at a horrendous rate before being sent to the minors.
“When he came up, I don’t think Byron knew what he was as a hitter,” Morneau said. “He was the fastest guy in baseball, and those players traditionally were leadoff hitters.
As he screamed in pain, Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James no longer appeared indestructible.
Nearly three weeks ago, Atlanta Hawks guard Solomon Hill dove for a loose ball and struck James’ right ankle. Moments after staying on the floor and making a 3-pointer, James left the floor, limped toward the locker room and winced with every step. The Lakers diagnosed James with a high ankle sprain, and he has not played since.
Does this mean that Father Time has finally delivered a knockout punch to the 36-year-old James during his 18th NBA season? Some pundits suggested so immediately following James’ injury. On Thursday, however, James posted a cryptic Instagram message with various weather metaphors possibly related to his eventual return, “the weatherman says the weather is changing soon and it predicts a thunderstorm.”
Daryl Dike might have known his time in Yorkshire was destined to be something special from how it began. The day after his first cap for the US men’s national team, the Orlando City striker was flying out to Barnsley to complete a move to the English Championship side. Ten days later he was taking to the field for the first time against Chelsea, the club he grew up idolizing from Edmond, Oklahoma.
“You go through training really hard so you can play in your first national team cap and then all of a sudden you’re flying out to Barnsley to start a new life, a new experience,” Dike tells CBS Sports. “It was great. It is great.
“For me, it’s something that changed my life, and it’s something that I’m super thankful for. It’s just, I don’t know, it’s just crazy, because think about how much happened in such a short period.
… An uncommon path for a rare blend of size and speed at the corner position. At 6’3″ and 202 pounds at his Pro Day, St. Juste posted a 4.51 40-yard dash time and 4.00 shuttle drill and 6.63 3-cone time.
St. Juste credits that lateral quickness to his base in playing hockey growing up and also for introducing him to the physicality that he would also see on the football field.
“For me, hockey really helped me with my agility, going side to side, stopping and braking and being quick on my feet,” said St. Juste. “That’s how I was able to put up great numbers in the short area drills.”
Former UConn coach Kevin Ollie has joined a new basketball league designed to provide elite high school players another potential pathway to the NBA.
Ollie will serve as coach and director of player development for Overtime Elite, which markets itself to players between 16 and 18 years old with promises of academic education and a six-figure salary.
According to new research, you can reduce your training volume by a third and still maintain your endurance fitness for up to 15 weeks.
You can maintain your VO2 max with just two sessions a week, so long as your overall volume and intensity remains the same.
Additionally, you can keep your muscles strong with just one session of strength training per week and one set per exercise, as long as you’re lifting at least as much weight as you typically do.
In the last 15 years, there has been a remarkable increase in the early sports specialisation of children and young people.1 Some factors explaining the parents’ and coaches’ desire to encourage the choice of a single sport have to do with (i) the hope of giving the young athlete an edge in competition, (ii) obtaining a grant or financial support, (iii) facilitating their way into professional elite sports and (iv) labelling the athlete as “elite” at an early age. In spite of these apparent advantages, research suggests that early sport specialisation does not lead to a competitive advantage over other athletes who take part in many sports simultaneously. Early sport specialisation can even lead to an increased risk of abandonment or burnout. Burnout is usually defined as a cognitive-affective syndrome characterised by a state of emotional and physical fatigue, loss of sports performance and a reduced perception of the ability to achieve success in the planned task. Burnout is characterised by the lack of physical or mental energy to perform sports activity at the athlete’s regular level, the loss of performance translated into a decrease in the athletes’ passion and their desire to keep on improving. Lastly, the reduced sense of success is characterised by a negative perception of athletes about their own performance in order to fulfil their tasks.
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The idea of implantable sensors that continuously transmit information on vital values and concentrations of substances or drugs in the body has fascinated physicians and scientists for a long time. Such sensors enable the constant monitoring of disease progression and therapeutic success. However, until now implantable sensors have not been suitable to remain in the body permanently but had to be replaced after a few days or weeks. On the one hand, there is the problem of implant rejection because the body recognizes the sensor as a foreign object. On the other hand, the sensor’s color which indicates concentration changes has been unstable so far and faded over time. Scientists at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) have developed a novel type of implantable sensor which can be operated in the body for several months. The sensor is based on color-stable gold nanoparticles that are modified with receptors for specific molecules. Embedded into an artificial polymeric tissue, the nanogold is implanted under the skin where it reports changes in drug concentrations by changing its color.
… You’re most likely familiar with this sort of chair — for much of the early 2000s, tech lifestyle brands like Brookstone liked to position the priciest versions just a few feet into the shop. The cheaper, everyman’s options could be found in a line next to the mall’s water fountain, $3 for 10 minutes. Massage chairs never quite sniffed the level of ubiquity seen in Japan (the product’s ancestral home), where a reported 20% of households still own one, but for a while, you could generally count on Phil Dunphy-esque dads to burn a chunk of the bonus and bring one home.
Looking back, though, it’s worth wondering: Were massage chairs potentially more useful than we gave them credit for? From a wellness perspective, were they even ahead of their time? Recovery tech represents the present and future of the fitness industry; over the last few years, a steady supply of biometric-tracking wearables and relief-giving gizmos have underscored a central point — if we’re going to ask a lot of our bodies, we owe them a little care in return.
Football boots could be made in labs, get recycled between matches and let fans know who is on a yellow card. James Robinson went to find out more about the future…
Start-up HIT, has developed wearable technology which measures and tracks head impact force in sport and recreational activities in order to aid research and support informed decisions on the risk of brain injury.
Based at the Edinburgh Business School (EBS) Incubator within Heriot-Watt University, HIT was set up two years ago as a university project by founder Euan Bowen.
In recent months, the San Francisco 49ers executive vice president restructured the team’s salary cap, allowing them to trade up to the pricey third slot in the NFL Draft. As president of the team’s business arm, 49ers Enterprises, he closed a deal to boost the team’s ownership of English soccer’s Leeds United. Then he was appointed as vice chairman of Leeds. He was reelected as chairman of USA Cricket and joined a SPAC seeking a fitness technology buy. In May, he takes over as treasurer of the Sequoia Hospital Foundation and is on the board of two eating disorder nonprofits, too. Come Tuesday, he’ll be teaching his class on negotiating at Stanford’s business school.
“In any successful enterprise, it’s all about the people around you,” Marathe, 44, said in a recent video call. While the northern California native is quick to give credit to others, the reality is he’s built his career by being the person successful people want to have around them—most notably, the York family, the majority owners of the storied NFL franchise.
The analytics crowd isn’t accepting blame for baseball’s big slowdown.
“I plead not guilty,” statistics pioneer Bill James said on Friday. “I don’t have nothin’ to do with this.”
As baseball games get longer and less action-packed, the sport has been looking for ways to reverse the fan-unfriendly trend. Among the biggest targets: infield shifts, and batters who swing for the fences — both tactics encouraged by analytics.
But James said on Friday that the trend toward inaction predated new philosophies like pursuing the “three true outcomes” — home runs, strikeouts and walks — that drag out the games.
Thank divisional play through the first two rounds of the playoffs for a little extra spice at the NHL trade deadline.
As much as hockey executives like to say they worry only about making their own team better, several of the big moves executed Monday turned out to be important responses to division rivals. The arms races heated up in the East, Central, West and North right down to the wire, and because of this season’s format, only one team will come out of each division to compete for the Stanley Cup.
“I think teams are trying to do what’s best for their team and trying to make their team better to compete in the playoffs here and win a Stanley Cup,” Washington Capitals general manager Brian MacLellan said.