… A podiatric physician and surgeon named Dr. Daniel Khaleel recently reached out to Mile High Huddle to provide some interesting data relative to the issue. According to Dr. Khaleel, from 2013-16, 20 different NFL wide receivers suffered a torn ACL.
Of those 20 receivers, six never returned to form. The average age of those who didn’t? 27.2 years old.
Seven receivers saw their production decline after returning from the ACL. Their average age? 28.4.
The good news? Seven wideouts saw their production improve following their rehab and recovery from an ACL. The average age of that group? 25.2.
Mike Trout says his right calf is starting to feel better, but the Los Angeles Angels superstar still doesn’t know when he will be able to return.
The time-time AL MVP went on the injured list on May 18 after straining his calf the night before against the Cleveland Indians. The Angels said at the time that Trout would miss six to eight weeks, which would sideline him through the All-Star break.
“Today was probably my best day yet, just tolerance-wise. As far as activities, I’m doing as much as I can to strengthen around the calf muscle,” Trout said before Monday’s game against the Kansas City Royals.
By focusing on high experimental control and realistic presentation, the latest research in expertise assessment of soccer players demonstrates the importance of perceptual skills, especially in decision making. Our work captured omnidirectional in-field scenes displayed through virtual reality glasses to 12 expert players (picked by DFB), 10 regional league intermediate players, and13 novice soccer goalkeepers in order to assess the perceptual skills of athletes in an optimized manner. All scenes were shown from the perspective of the same natural goalkeeper and ended after the return pass to that goalkeeper. Based on the gaze behavior of each player, we classified their expertise with common machine learning techniques. Our results show that eye movements contain highly informative features and thus enable a classification of goalkeepers between three stages of expertise, namely elite youth player, regional league player, and novice, at a high accuracy of 78.2%. This research underscores the importance of eye tracking and machine learning in perceptual expertise research and paves the way for perceptual-cognitive diagnosis as well as future training systems.
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bad makes holding onto those bright spots all the more important.
Duke women’s soccer was one of those bright spots. The Blue Devils endured a season unlike any other, doing it just for the love of the game. From the opening kickoff of the first game September 10 to the final penalty in the Blue Devils’ NCAA tournament run, 242 days elapsed—a long time in itself. But their season truly began July 21, when the team arrived back on campus.
Things have not been going well for US men’s national soccer teams at the top levels. The US failed to qualify for the 2018 World Cup in Russia, then the Under-23 team was tripped up in Olympic qualifying in March.
But the US has gained some redemption via the indoor version of soccer, thanks in part to players from Boston-based Safira FC. The US finished second in the CONCACAF Futsal Championship in May, qualifying for the FIFA Futsal World Cup in Lithuania in September.
Safira’s Alencar Junior, Everson Maciel, Daniel Mattos, and Ricardinho Sobreira played key roles as the US won its group, then eliminated the Dominican Republic and defeated host country Guatemala before losing, 3-2, to Costa Rica in the final.
… Along with Micky Mellon, who is now Tranmere’s manager, I aimed to produce a book, or a blueprint, that might ultimately result in fewer football managers being sacked, as well as helping headteachers to understand their leadership styles.
Our resulting book, The First 100 Days: Lessons In Leadership From The Football Bosses has given me clarity in my own role, as headteacher at St Bede’s School in Ormskirk, and I hope it might do the same for others.
After many hours of interviews, research and writing, Micky and I concluded that there were three key themes that top leaders get right, what we called the three Ps for success. These can be applied to any leadership role.
… 2. Being in a group affects moral reasoning – Some of the more interesting research I’ve come across lately is about how being in a group affects people’s moral decision-making. But first, a horribly over-simplified summary of ethical philosophy, in like, two paragraphs:
There are two competing modes of moral reasoning. The first mode says, “The ends justify the means.” So, if you need to steal some money from a rich person to feed a bunch of poor people, it’s worth it. The second mode says, “The ends never justify the means; every action is an end in itself.” These people say, “Stealing is wrong, therefore you should never steal, even if it creates a better outcome for more people.”
These two modes of reasoning have been arguing in circles around each other for centuries. And let’s be honest, both are partially correct. We need both in the world. If you get too much of the first mode of moral reasoning, you can easily justify doing some horrible shit for the “greater good.” But too much of the second mode and you become a draconian police state. We need a balance.
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The New Orleans Saints have become the latest client for the 3D camera technology in their workout facility which helped to propel LSU to their 2019 National Championship.
Perch co-founder Jacob Rothman recently met with the New Orleans Saints and head strength and conditioning coach Dan Dalrymple to install their 3D camera technology inside the team’s workout facility in Metairie.
Biosensors are indispensable tools for public, global, and personalized healthcare as they provide tests that can be used from early disease detection and treatment monitoring to preventing pandemics. We introduce single-wavelength imaging biosensors capable of reconstructing spectral shift information induced by biomarkers dynamically using an advanced data processing technique based on an optimal linear estimator. Our method achieves superior sensitivity without wavelength scanning or spectroscopy instruments. We engineered diatomic dielectric metasurfaces supporting bound states in the continuum that allows high-quality resonances with accessible near-fields by in-plane symmetry breaking. The large-area metasurface chips are configured as microarrays and integrated with microfluidics on an imaging platform for real-time detection of breast cancer extracellular vesicles encompassing exosomes. The optofluidic system has high sensing performance with nearly 70 1/RIU figure-of-merit enabling detection of on average 0.41 nanoparticle/µm2 and real-time measurements of extracellular vesicles binding from down to 204 femtomolar solutions. Our biosensors provide the robustness of spectrometric approaches while substituting complex instrumentation with a single-wavelength light source and a complementary-metal-oxide-semiconductor camera, paving the way toward miniaturized devices for point-of-care diagnostics. [full text]
A generous gift from the Welch Family will fund a second mental health position dedicated solely to the Georgetown University Department of Intercollegiate Athletics. This new position will continue to support GU’s more than 700 student-athletes as the Department seeks to enhance mental health offerings and programming.
In 2017, an initial gift from the Ondaatje-Mahaney Family allowed the Department to hire its first dedicated sport psychologist. While Dr. Erica Force has made an immediate impact for every team, the needs of more than 700 student-athletes cannot be met by one individual. The Welch Family has stepped in to fund this second position and provide a second professional to work with student-athletes navigating the many demands of their daily lives.
Exercise and health researchers and students from The University of Western Australia have contributed to the development and evaluation of a screening tool to prevent exercise-related risks and adverse events among children.
The newly launched Pre-Exercise Screening System for Young People aims to identify young people aged between five and 17 who may have medical conditions which put them at a higher risk of an adverse event during physical activity.
… We’re heading into the second-biggest international competition with 76 players having logged at least 5,000 minutes, 26 over 5,500 and four over 6,000: England’s Harry Maguire, Portugal’s Bruno Fernandes and Ruben Dias and Scotland’s Andy Robertson, all of whom play in the Premier League for teams that made deep runs in UEFA competitions. Maguire missed time in May due to injury and still led all comers with 6,345 minutes played. That’s the equivalent of 70.5 full matches in basically 11 months!
It’s obviously difficult to predict soft-tissue injuries and wear-and-tear problems, but it might still be instructive to look at the teams most likely to run into these issues based on these absurd minutes totals.
Until this week, the Tampa Bay Rays had played 731 straight regular season games without one of their starters throwing a complete game. When Ryan Yarbrough finished the ninth inning against the New York Yankees on Thursday afternoon, the Toronto Blue Jays suddenly had the longest complete-game drought in the major leagues.
The last time a Rays starter had thrown a complete game was May 2016, during a season in which the team finished 26 games under .500 and last in the American League East. Two months into this season, the reigning AL pennant winners — still using starters more sparingly than most, still trading the traditional for a data-driven sense of optimal — own one of the best records in baseball with one of the game’s lowest payrolls.
Tampa Bay continues to use openers as often as it does true starters, continues to shift bullpen roles and shuttle promising young pitchers from the majors to the minors and back as needed. Yarbrough had gone 24 starts without a win, a statistic that speaks far less to his success in recent years than to the ways in which the Rays pull pitchers when other teams would leave them in or use them as openers when other teams might slot them into traditional relief roles.
The Philadelphia Eagles organization told a federal court to ignore its insurer’s bid to toss a business interruption suit, saying its stadium and training facility weren’t functional due to the risks that the coronavirus posed to “physical airspace and surfaces” each time any person entered the properties.
Despite Factory Mutual Insurance Co.’s insistence that the virus that causes COVID-19 can always be cleaned away, the NFL team argued on Friday that it should be given the chance to proceed with experts and testimony to show the dangers behind the coronavirus when there isn’t a restriction imposed to slow down the spread.
“COVID-19 is a physical substance that has adhered to and altered physical surfaces and airspace within their property and rendered that property continuously unsafe, unusable and unfit for its intended purpose whenever present,” the owner of the Philadelphia Eagles said in the 58-page brief.
In the span of a few months, the Los Angeles Lakers went from the high of winning their first championship since the 2009-10 season – Kobe Bryant’s fifth and final title – to the disappointment of a first-round exit this year – LeBron James’ first in his 18-year NBA career.
Now, questions abound regarding a team that dominated the Florida bubble in 2020 before seeing its quest for back-to-back titles unceremoniously end at the hands of another team that starred in the bubble, the Phoenix Suns.
How did things go downhill so quickly for the Lakers?