… “I did not expect this at all when I went pro,” Davis told The Associated Press. “I was not looking to come back to the amateurs. I was happy with my decision. I was a happy fighter. I could make my own schedule, travel wherever I want and make good money. But when the Olympics came back to me, it was a no-brainer to go back.”
Davis, Ragan and Isley are joining a still-undetermined number of boxers allowed to fight in Tokyo after turning pro because of rule changes enacted before the Rio de Janeiro Games allowing professional prizefighters into the Olympic field.
Initial concerns about an influx of seasoned veterans fighting amateurs have proven unfounded, and the pros headed to Tokyo are almost exclusively young prospects like Davis who got a jump on their professional careers while staying prepared for Olympic competition.
A year ago, tight end Cole Kmet was stuck in a virtual orientation to the Chicago Bears, unable to practice on the field with his new coaches and teammates until training camp because of COVID-19.
This offseason is a little more normal, and with a year of NFL experience, the 2020 second-round draft pick is feeling better about his place in the Bears offense during the second week of organized team activities at Halas Hall.
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“After being a year in the offense and understanding what Coach (Matt) Nagy and Coach (Bill) Lazor are doing with this offense, I’m a lot more comfortable with it,” Kmet said on a video call with reporters Wednesday. “I’m stronger. I feel like I’m quicker and faster right now. Just a lot of confidence going in with the offense and in myself.”
Kmet built that confidence over a promising stretch at the end of the 2020 season after a slow buildup in his first eight games.
His offensive snaps more than doubled by the end of the year — he played at least 85% of the snaps in each of the final four regular-season games — and he also became a bigger threat in the passing game. Over the final five games, he had 20 of his 28 catches for
… “Change in hockey, and opening up the game for all, is something that is growing but needs to be accelerated,” said [Bryant] McBride, per a release. “And we believe that the time to do that has never been better. There are so many efforts going on, both big and small, to help expand the game, and our goal is to shed light on those communities, as well as help those still being marginalized, change problems that exist. We will do it holistically and without any bias.”
“IT was very transactional – ‘do as you’re told or else’ – and not very supportive or caring,” recalls Luke Hussey, Bristol City’s Head of Schoolboy Coaching, as he looks back on his experiences at school.
He left at 16 with no qualifications, only to discover a love of learning later in life. Now he has a degree in sports studies, a Masters in coaching science and is midway through a doctorate.
His research topic? The adolescent brain and learning in an elite environment.
“Knowing what I do now about the adolescent brain I realise I wasn’t naughty at school, I just needed some support and guidance.”
New research shows that you can learn to be a better decision maker by watching other people navigate their choices. Reading about rules and strategies is one thing, but observing someone else apply them in real life is far more effective. And who better to model the process for young people than their parents and teachers?
When it came time to raise my own children, my husband and I gave them a front-row seat to our decision making. No, we didn’t make family decisions by referendum. But yes, we listened to what our kids had to say if they wanted to share their point of view.
Don’t make all of life’s big decisions behind closed doors.
… Injuries are a growing problem in elite-level European soccer, with players starring in dozens of games and competitions throughout competitive seasons. Now, [Ismael Fernandez] Cuevas—the CEO of his company and brainchild ThermoHuman—is leading the charge to implement thermographic technology in clubs’ medical departments in the Spanish first division and other European leagues.
Of course, injuries can dent campaigns, as Liverpool discovered last season. In Spain, Barcelona was without teenage sensation Ansu Fati for almost every match, while Real Madrid suffered multiple absences. Atlético Madrid was lucky enough to keep its stars fit en route to the league title.
The far-infrared sensing technology generally detects far-infrared heat radiation with a wavelength that ranges from 5µm to 15µm. By converting energy into temperature through an algorithm, the far-infrared sensor can contactlessly measure the temperature of objects, allowing it to be applied to a wide variety of day-to-day temperature sensing applications.
The exceptional features of PixArt’s Far Infrared series are shown in Figure 1. PixArt’s FIR (Far Infrared) SoC sensors not only detect heat radiation sources but can be customized to compensate for temperature variation according to customers’ target application to boost accuracy. With the highly integrated SoC, PixArt’s FIR product writes the calibrated temperature parameter value of the detected object into its memory, which can be directly read and converted to temperature for specific applications. Such design is conducive to simplifying our customers’ subsequent system polling process.
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While the 2021 NAB Show has been moved to October, the spring season will still feature a cavalcade of new product releases and groundbreaking news coming out of the broadcast technology sector. In an effort to keep the video-production community informed, SVG is hosting a series of SportsTech On Demand video interviews throughout April, May, and June with executives from the industry’s top technology vendors.
FUJITSU is committed to pushing the boundaries of technology to not only benefit media companies, but everyday people. In this interview, Director of Sales and IP Business Development Richard Harvey explains recent products that have been released over the past year, how the company is providing remote athletic training over 5G in Japan’s Hiroshima Prefecture, and how the industry will rebound after the COVID-19 pandemic.
Meet #WaveLight, an electronic pace-setter built in at your track, that sets a different time dimension and guides runners on their time, speed and interval. Approved by @WorldAthletics
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… I talked to a bacon maker who makes bacon from mycelium, and they consider it whole-cut protein. And they’re planning to sell their material, this kind of amorphous, fluffy, squishy stuff, to CPG companies to make other products. And there’s other other companies working to make chicken breasts and to make this whole-cut food, because ground beef isn’t going to move the needle on production.
But I think Impossible and Beyond see it as the quickest way to our hearts. If they could have made pizza, they would have made pizza, right? So they went after burgers. It makes absolute sense as far as marketing and branding and sales: Go for the burger. The other things are harder.
The United States Department of Agriculture keeps track of food availability for over 200 items, which can be used to estimate food consumption at the national level. They have data for 1970 through 2019, so we can for example, see how much beef Americans consume per year on average and how that has changed over four decades.
So that’s what I did.
How long will chicken reign supreme? Who wins between lemon and lime? Is nonfat ice cream really ice cream? Does grapefruit ever make a comeback? Find out in the charts below.
As much as I am enthralled by the NBA playoffs, I am also worried by the growing prominence of betting in professional basketball. Wagering on the sport is becoming more important than the sport itself, and to the detriment of the competition.
I don’t think sports betting should be illegal, as I believe consenting adults should be free to engage in capitalist acts — and besides, black-market betting would occur anyway. But increasingly betting is an integral part of the NBA fan experience, in much the same way it is the main reason people go to the racetrack.
Representatives from Mexican clubs have been to Blaine to see how Minnesota United operates. If those executives didn’t know already, Loons coach Adrian Heath said the U.S. men’s national team’s dramatic, late 3-2 victory over Mexico on Sunday in Concacaf Nation’s League final is a reminder where American soccer is headed.
“It’s a fair reflection where we are now,” Heath said. “I know from going down to Mexico to watch games, and speaking to a lot of agents, they know the gap is closing by the day virtually. It didn’t surprise me.”
So, you’ve probably heard of the Kelly Criterion in the context of gambling or maybe also in the context of investing. When gamblers talk about the Kelly Criterion they are often referring to the idea of sizing your bets, which is the very intuitive idea that if you bet too much of a percentage of your total wealth, you will eventually go bust. The typical example here is that of the confident entrepreneur who wants to sell his house to fund his business, because he knows he has a sure thing. His wife, who doesn’t know a single thing about Kelly, knows that selling her house is a risk that she isn’t confident taking: “You’re betting too much on this idea” – she might tell her husband.
But Kelly is not just about sizing your bets, its also a way of distributing bets among favorable options. You might have heard your grandmother say “Don’t put all your eggs in one basket”. Phoenician traders, importing goods from one port to another were known to split their cargo between ships so that if one of the ships sunk, they wouldn’t loose all their investments.
So you could say that the Kelly Criterion is a combination of both ideas, of smart bet-sizing and of diversification.