Sacramento Kings rookie forward Harry Giles will be out until at least January in an effort to make sure his knees are healthy before taking the court in an NBA game.
The Kings released a statement Friday afternoon in which they announced that the training staff will “focus on a measured and sustained progression plan designed to improve physical strength in his surgically repaired knees.”
Giles, who tore both of his ACLs in high school, had another procedure on his left knee that kept him out of the first 11 games of his freshman season at Duke.
… Being named in Boothroyd’s squad is a reward for his steady progress under former Arsenal and Manchester City midfielder Patrick Vieira, who gave him the good news before the 1-1 draw with Chicago Fire on Sunday.
Born in Stoke but raised in Bolton, the bold decision to quit Manchester United’s academy at the age of 14 appears to have been vindicated. After taking a scholarship at the Berkshire School in Sheffield, Massachusetts, he then studied at Wake Forest University before joining New York City two years ago, shortly after the MLS club was founded.
“My mum [Debbie] came up with the idea of me going to boarding school in America to improve my education while I played football,” he said.
“I was really apprehensive at first and didn’t want to leave because everyone in that system is just tunnel-visioned and just think about making it to the first time and a lot of players don’t.
When Steve Nash started working with Rick Celebrini, he was already an NBA All-Star in Dallas. One of their major working points was to help get Steve’s left side to fire so he could get square to the hoop. He was suffering from spondylolisthesis which affected the way his muscles were firing, ultimately leading to the (small) gap in his game.
Steve and Rick repeatedly did exercises to help get his left side around and square to the hoop, no matter what direction he was coming from. The goal was for Steve to be able to go left or right to shoot/pass/dribble with equal skill – it becomes a tough thing to scout when you know he can score, pass or dribble just as effectively going any direction…
This was the original purpose of CoreVYO: to rehabilitate athletes with pelvic and spinal conditions. This has shifted and grown over time to support uses well beyond rehabilitation. The harness has opened up a whole new approach to training comparatively healthy individuals and athletes. The important thing is that it’s about constant experimentation around using different stimuli to garner various responses from our athletes.
… [David] Sills has remarkably re-emerged, reinventing himself into one of the top receivers in college football, tied for the national lead in touchdown receptions.
“My story, if you want to say, is nothing I would’ve pictured,” he says. “But I’m having so much fun now. The most fun I’ve ever had playing football.
… professionally, he views injuries as a disciple of Vern Gambetta. Gambetta is a functional-training guru who has worked for numerous professional sports teams in the U.S. and internationally, and for a decade has run a highly respected sports-performance clinic called GAIN (Gambetta Athletic Improvement Network) that features coaches from all over the world.
“Most of these non-contact (injuries) are preventable,” Marshall said in a telephone interview this past week.
Now, it turns out the hamstring injuries that sidelined Bakhtiari and landed Spriggs on injured reserve don’t fall cleanly into the preventable category – both were hurt by contact that forced their leg to stretch to the point of injury.
Regardless, there’s still the larger issue: Pulled hamstrings and non-contact ACLs remain prevalent, even epidemic, in the NFL.
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In this project, we implement a multiple object tracker, following the tracking-by-detection paradigm, as an extension of an existing method. It works by modelling the movement of objects by solving the filtering problem, and associating detections with predicted new locations in new frames using the Hungarian algorithm. Three different similarity measures are used, which use the location and shape of the bounding boxes. Compared to other trackers on the MOTChallenge leaderboard, our method, referred to as C++SORT, is the fastest non-anonymous submission, while also achieving decent score on other metrics. By running our model on the Okutama-Action dataset, sampled at different frame-rates, we show that the performance is greatly reduced when running the model – including detecting objects – in real-time. In most metrics, the score is reduced by 50%, but in certain cases as much as 90%. We argue that this indicates that other, slower methods could not be used for tracking in real-time, but that more research is required specifically on this.
Paris-based FeetMe, which is creating smart, connected insoles, raised $2.28 million (1.95 million euro) in seed funding. The round was led by Kurma Diagnostics. Other investments came from the Paris Saclay seed fund, Idinvest Partners, Seventure, and SOSV.
“This seed round will help us pursue the development of our product to target therapeutics areas in collaboration with market players,” Alexis Mathieu, founder and CEO of FeetMe, said in a statement. “The connected insole allows patient and physician to manage and evaluate, in realtime and remotely, treatments’ efficacy to adapt them more precisely and without constraints for the patient. Creating new digital biomarkers will reinforce existing therapeutics with a companion diagnostic and monitoring solution.”
FeetMe’s insoles contain pressure sensors and motion sensors. They communicate via Bluetooth with an app, and the companion software includes algorithms that can use that data to analyze patients’ walking and running gait.
The first thing Colgate University did was purchase a sophisticated $14,000 machine that used ozone gas, not water or detergent, to disinfect all its athletes’ gear. An ice hockey player had come down with a staph infection, and Colgate, fearing the severe and sometimes fatal form of it known as MRSA, was not going to take any chances.
The university didn’t stop at gassing gear.
Out went the shared bars of soap in the Colgate showers. Water bottles were sterilized nightly. Athletes in contact sports got two or three sets of equipment so one set could always be sanitized. Even the university’s furry mascot costume was regularly blasted with ozone gas.
That was a decade ago, and Colgate, like many schools, is still fighting the germ. This year, among other measures, it unveiled plans for a cutting-edge system that would zap locker rooms with a decontaminating fog of hydrogen peroxide and silver to leave an anti-bacterial coating on every surface.
… Just 5½ months after ACL reconstruction surgery in his left knee, the 6-foot-1, 214-pound junior safety at Iowa is amazingly set to play in a physical Big Ten Conference football game. Head coach Kirk Ferentz said on his radio show Wednesday that Snyder would “definitely” make his season debut when Iowa hosts Illinois at 11 a.m. Saturday.
When the Hawkeyes arrive via bus two hours prior to kickoff at Kinnick Stadium, Tim and Sheri Snyder will be among the line of fans waiting to greet the players. They’ll try to share a quick hug with their oldest son, as they traditionally do.
Except this one will feel different.
“There will be some tears,” his father says. “I know how hard he’s worked to get back.”
A simple decision theoretic model shows the doping incentives for a member of a professional sports team. Depending on the detection probability and the punishment, a sportsman dopes not at all, at a medium or at the maximal level. The whole team has a higher incentive than an individual team member that at least some of its members dope. That there are not many proven cases of doping in team sports could be because doping is less effective or because the incentives to cover it are higher than in individual sports.
WHY IS GUT HEALTH IMPORTANT? The gastrointestinal system plays the primary role in absorbing nutrients from the foods we eat, which means that poor GI health results in our bodies not getting the nutrients it needs. Perhaps more obvious is the importance of GI health to your comfort during training and racing. I think we have all experienced discomfort associated with an unhealthy gut, be it gas pain or worse, and it’s not fun, to say the least. Avoiding this issue is reason enough to read on.
A healthy gut allows you to apply and absorb training stress. We have all tried to train and race with an unhappy GI system. It isn’t pretty: even when you’re not spending your time in the woods or in the Porta-Potty, you are extremely limited in what you are able to do. It takes a healthy gut to handle the fuels required for the sport, especially at the longer distances.
… Director of Sports Performance Marc Proto and Director of Sports Medicine Chris Horschel work hand-in-hand with Caperton-Kilburn. More and more, colleges and universities at the Power 5 and mid-major levels are valuing the importance that nutrition plays in student-athlete performance, their well-being and injury prevention.
“It is a huge piece,” said Proto, who has served in his strength & conditioning role at College of Charleston the last five years. “I would say it is just as important as sports performance.”
Student-athletes may come into the weight room to workout for an hour, but Proto says the most important part is, “what are they doing for the remaining 23 hours of the day to get the recovery process going? How do they start to rebuild and start to prepare themselves for the next workout or next practice?”
… “Genetically we are behind,” [Gordon Stachan] said. “In the last campaign we were the second smallest, apart from Spain.
“We had to pick a team to combat the height and strength at set-plays. Genetically we have to work at things, maybe we get big women and men together and see what we can do.
“But it is a problem for us because we have to fight harder for every ball and jump higher than anyone else.
… For the third season since the reconstruction began in 2015, the Coyotes will debut a fresh lineup Thursday in Anaheim against the Ducks after a summer’s worth of revisions were carried out amid an in-house objective of setting a standard of excellence to build a winning culture.
There’s no guarantee this iteration will be better than its predecessors, especially in a division and conference that continues to get more competitive.
What is clear, though, is that this version has a genuine chance to be the catalyst the Coyotes have been seeking – a leap that’s sustainable.
“We think we improved this team and this organization,” defenseman Oliver Ekman-Larsson said. “I think that’s the right step. We have to take that step.”