The Phoenix Mercury star has played year-round since 2004, when she was the No. 1 pick in the WNBA draft. She spends winters playing overseas and summers helping the Mercury chase WNBA titles. In addition, there were three gold-medal runs with Team USA in 2004, 2008 and 2012.
But when Taurasi announced Tuesday that she has decided to sit out the 2015 WNBA season at the request of her Russian Premier League team, it wasn’t just about rest; it was also about money. Sure, Taurasi has been going full speed for more than a decade, but she wouldn’t sit out this upcoming season if the move didn’t make financial sense.
He’s widely renowned as the perfect footballing specimen, with the superb physique, the magnificent pace and power, and the unquenchable thirst for hard work that has seen him develop into the game’s greatest athlete.
But as Cristiano Ronaldo turns 30, new challenges appear on the horizon.
Chicago Bulls swingman Jimmy Butler has been on a good run. Entering Wednesday’s play, Butler is averaging career highs in points (20.5), rebounds (6.0) and assists (3.2). He was also selected as a reserve for the All-Star Game on Feb. 15. Once a little-known junior-college player, Butler has built himself into one of the better players in the NBA.
But there is something else that has set the 25-year-old up-and-comer apart: his running.
Butler has covered 126.8 miles on court this season—a distance greater than if he were to run from Chicago to Milwaukee.
Brooklyn Nets point guard Deron Williams talks about his experiences at HSS as well as the close relationships he developed over the years with Drs. Riley Williams & Martin O’Malley, Orthopedic Surgeons & Team Physicians for the Brooklyn Nets. The procedure that was performed corrected inflammatory-related issues in the ankles to reduce pain & optimize his performance on the basketball court.
With World Cup qualification secured, U.S. U-20 coach Tab Ramos now turns his full attention to this summer’s competition in New Zealand. ASN’s Brian Sciaretta spoke with the coach about what lies ahead.
Sure, you run a lot. You probably think you’re pretty fit. But, then again, it’s likely you also know plenty of runners who couldn’t lift a dumbbell or survive a game of tennis if their life actually depended on it. Exactly how does running fitness translate to other sports? And, how does what we do in other sports translate back to running?
“Running, in a way, is a very specialized sport,” says Jeff Horowitz, a running coach and author of the book, Quick Strength for Runners. Running only moves in one direction. That doesn’t necessarily prepare you for other types of movement. What running does do is build your engine, “which is why you hear about professional athletes of all types having a base of running,” he said.
… Though the Eagles finished 10-6 and made the playoffs, Chung struggled. The Eagles released him after the season. “It was hard not to interpret his release after one season as a sign that Chung was a big part of the Eagles’ problems in 2013. Their secondary led the NFL in touchdown passes allowed,” said Phil Sheridan on ESPN.com.
So the Patriots invited Chung, now a player without a team, to camp last summer. And Chung entered his offseason training aiming to revive his NFL career–and once again be a key piece in a team’s roster puzzle.
“He didn’t quite have the season he’d wanted to have,” recalls Brett Bartholomew, the trainer with EXOS (formerly Athletes’ Performance) who worked with Chung this past offseason. “But he came in here and worked.”
… research has found that focusing on values that are personally important — such as helping a family member — can help people act on advice they might otherwise find too threatening.
The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, scanned people’s brains as they were given typical advice about exercise you might get from any doctor (Falk et al., 2015).
It’s an overused word, particularly among Millennials and Dick Vitale. But it has its moments, like when visitors first enter the Hatfield-Dowlin Complex at the University of Oregon.
“It’s awe, really, when people walk in,” senior associate athletic director for marketing and public relations Craig Pintens says of the typical reaction, having personally guided close to a hundred tours of the 140,000-square-foot football facility. “It exceeds expectations every time.”
With any new to market product, the responsibility falls on the company to educate consumers and validate the accuracy of its product. The aim of this blog post is to prove without a shadow of a doubt, that BSXinsight is everything we say it is, and hopefully teach you something along the way.
As a quick overview, the manner in which BSXinsight works is by using NIR LEDs to shine light into your gastrocnemius (calf muscle) and measure the relative change in your muscle oxygenation and deoxygenation, both at a subcutaneous and muscle “belly” level. With the data captured by BSXinsight during a standard graded exercise lactate threshold test, our patented algorithm is able to predict an athlete’s lactate threshold. But how did we get the algorithm to calculate this and how do we know the number is accurate?
There’s been a ton of interest as of late in using drones within sports. This interest comes from many different angles. First is the more traditional approach of simply using the unmanned aerial vehicle as a platform for videography and photography. We already see this in various forms today. The 2014 Olympics in Sochi being probably the most visible and earliest mainstream example of that, but more recently ESPN utilized this technology in certain events last week at the X Games. Similarly, within the endurance sports world, the Norseman Triathlon annually produces some epic race videos using drone technology.
While this first area is no doubt interesting and will continue to grow – it’s actually not what I think is as applicable to readers here. Rather, I suspect folks here are much more interested in drones that follow you during your sport. Within this realm, the drone is effectively operated by you while you ride, run, or do whatever adventure sport you choose.
It’s this second area that I’m focusing on in this post. It’s not that the first area isn’t interesting (it is), it’s just that there are countless drone manufacturers out there producing untold models to take care of that. Whereas within the ‘follow-me’ realm, it’s a much smaller group with rather diverse implementations.
The NHL has signed up with Seattle based X2 Biosystems to kit out all 30 teams with the company’s Integrated Concussion Evaluation (ICE) system.
X2 ICE is the world’s first fully integrated, cloud-based concussion management software system and ticks all the boxes from the SCAT-2, SCAT-3, and NFL concussion assessment protocols used by the medical teams who treat the athletes on the sidelines.
The X2 sensor is worn inside the athlete’s helmet and connects to an app to provide real time information to analyse post-injury deficiencies that help to determine if a concussion has been suffered or not.
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“What I learned through the years is that you don’t differentiate between kids,” he said. “One may be a better athlete than the other, but what you do is you see potential in every single kid you come in contact with. I had a parent tell me on a recruiting visit, ‘Coach, the thing I observed about you all in the whole process was how you treated every kid equally. It didn’t matter if this guy was supposed to be a star, or if that guy is supposed to be. Every kid, no matter where he was from, you all treated equally.’
“That’s how you miss talent in junior high. Little Billy can’t run, Bob can’t jump, so we’re going to throw him to the side. But Little Billy may end up being the best athlete out of all of them. It takes patience and perseverance.”