Tim Cahill wants to join an elite list of World Cup scorers to sit alongside Pele, Uwe Seeler and Miroslav Klose.
After making the cut for Australia’s 23-man squad, the 38-year-old Cahill has a good chance of becoming just the fourth player to score in four consecutive World Cups.
When Australia needs goals it turns to Cahill, its all-time leading scorer. The veteran forward has scored almost half of the team’s World Cup goals: 5 of 11.
Sleeping fur seals toggle between two brain patterns: one while at sea, the other on land. Researchers suggest that R.E.M. sleep serves to warm the brain.
For 10 years, Andre Iguodala slept terribly. Back in college, the Golden State Warriors forward would play videogames late into the night. Eventually he’d crash, sometimes as late as 4 am, only to wake up a few hours later for practice. Then came class. When he was lucky, he’d squeeze in an afternoon nap. Later that night, it’d be back to videogames—either that or Fresh Prince reruns.
Iguodala’s brutal sleep habits followed him to the NBA. Only in 2013, after joining the Warriors, did he manage to connect with Cheri Mah, a physician scientist at the UC San Francisco’s Human Performance Center.
“Sleep duration is important, but we also focused on the quality and timing of Andre’s sleep,” says Mah, who consults with teams in the NFL, MLB, NHL, and NBA—including the Warriors—on sleep and recovery strategies. “We worked on his caffeine intake, his nutrition, his wind-down routine. Big picture, we worked on his whole approach to sleep, to make it more of a priority.”
Did it work? Sample size of one and all that, but boy, did it ever seem to: With more sleep, Iguodala’s three-point-shot percentage doubled.
Not only will this article provide the more efficient way for improving conditioning for pitchers, but it will also provide counter arguments for two common misconceptions.
Pitchers, I’m sure if you ask your coach why they make you run poles they will say one of two things: 1. You need to be conditioned or 2. You need stamina to go deep into a game.
To provide the clearest answer for all pitchers and coaches reading this article, let’s tackle these two arguments.
… “She might be the best high school runner ever already,” said Jim Mitchell, a Bronxville High School coach who has guided dozens of elite female distance runners during his 40-year career, including, briefly, the last great phenom, Mary Cain.
Now comes the hard part, though, and that doesn’t mean this weekend’s New York State Public High School Athletic Association state championships in Cicero, where Tuohy won the girls’ 3,000 meters on Friday with a time of 9:09.71, breaking her own previous state record of 9:15.20. She will run the 1,500 on Saturday. She set the girls’ high school record in the 3,200 last month.
No, the real challenge for Tuohy is solving one of the cruelest puzzles of youth sports: Why do so many gifted teenage female distance runners fizzle out by their early 20s, unable to capture the speed of their youth?
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… So, you’re playing baseball and there’s probably some weekend tournaments and three-to-five games a week. Now, football guy has lifting and conditioning in the morning. This is where they take the baseball players and work their legs so they’re not worth squat in that night’s ballgame or they’re pushing tires to the point of exhaustion. Somewhere in there, they may find a ball and chuck it around some which is productive but deceiving in that no muscle-bound defenders are chasing them around in full pads.
Football does a lot of team-building and I support it. Every team has a mantra and there are tremendous life lessons to be learned. However, all of the “rope holding, wood chopping, next man in representing, etc.” won’t sink in if the athlete is not mentally dialed in and devoted.
For the heck of it, let’s throw some basketball in there. June is a team month, where high schools can take groups to tournaments and play other teams.
A new system developed at EPFL can detect and analyze molecules with very high precision and without needing bulky equipment. It opens the door to large-scale, image-based detection of materials aided by artificial intelligence. The research has been published in Science.
Infrared spectroscopy is the benchmark method for detecting and analyzing organic compounds. But it requires complicated procedures and large, expensive instruments, making device miniaturization challenging and hindering its use for some industrial and medical applications and for data collection out in the field, such as for measuring pollutant concentrations. Furthermore, it is fundamentally limited by low sensitivities and therefore requires large sample amounts.
However, scientists at EPFL’s School of Engineering and at Australian National University (ANU) have developed a compact and sensitive nanophotonic system that can identify a molecule’s absorption characteristics without using conventional spectrometry. The scientists have already used their system to detect polymers, pesticides and organic compounds. What’s more, it is compatible with CMOS technology.
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Positron emission tomography (PET) is very good at creating three-dimensional images of tissues, and it can detect changes in tissue behavior better than computed tomography (CT) or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Neurologists use PET to map fine alterations in the brain, and oncologists use it to measure the spread of cancer and treatment effects. Yet PET is far less commonly used than other imaging technologies, in part because PET machines are more expensive and are useful for only a small array of clinical problems.
But a handful of engineers are seeking to create nimbler, more versatile PET scanners that would allow for a broader range of possible uses and provide quicker, more revealing images.
Japan’s National Institute of Radiological Sciences, for instance, has been working on designs for a PET scanner that could operate inside an MRI—this would not only help save valuable space but might eventually reduce PET scanners’ exorbitant costs. Yet while a few such combination machines have recently become commercially available, they are more expensive than the combined cost of purchasing separate PET and MRI scanners, says professor and imaging physics team leader Taiga Yamaya at Chiba University—and the resolution of the PET images produced by the machines is about the same as standalone PET scanners.
With just about every World Cup, there seems to be grumbling about the ball, which Adidas has designed for the four-yearly FIFA tournament since 1970.
Already, this year’s offering, Telstar 18, has been criticised by some goalkeepers for being too flighty and hard to grip.
But scientists say the new sphere is actually quite stable — certainly more so than Jabulani, the much-denigrated official ball for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.
Golden State coach Steve Kerr learned the importance of proper work-life balance from two of the coaches he played for in the NBA – Phil Jackson and Gregg Popovich.
“When I was a player, I kind of wondered if coaches were like holed up in their office all night sleeping on the cot,” Kerr said. “I wasn’t exactly sure how it worked. Both those guys had such diverse interests outside of the game. You know all the stories about both of them.
“Seeing how interesting they both were and how devoted to their families they were and their kids, and how interested they were in our lives besides just what was going on in basketball, I think they really influenced me.”
Health and wellness of NBA coaches is on center stage in this season’s Finals between Golden State and Cleveland. For different reasons, the coaches for both teams – Kerr and Cleveland’s Tyronn Lue – took time off during a season.
Thank goodness for oxygen. Without it, you wouldn’t be able to run very far. The body consumes vast amounts of oxygen during sustained running—up to 15 times more than at rest. The body uses it to release energy from metabolic fuels, mainly glucose and fat, and power muscle activity.
But oxygen has a downside. A highly volatile molecule, it has a tendency to generate free radicals, a diverse array of chemicals that wreak havoc in the body. In the mind of the average person, free radicals are associated with oxidative stress, a type of damage to body tissues that over time may cause chronic disease and accelerated aging. Everyone who breathes is subject to oxidative stress. But because the body consumes so much more oxygen during running, it also produces many more free radicals, some of which contribute to muscle fatigue and to the muscle damage and inflammation that make it hard to run again the next day.
Some information is beneficial; it makes people’s lives go better. Some information is harmful; it makes people’s lives go worse. Some information has no welfare effects at all; people neither gain nor lose from it. Under prevailing executive orders, agencies must investigate the welfare effects of information by reference to cost-benefit analysis. Federal agencies have (1) claimed that quantification of benefits is essentially impossible; (2) engaged in “breakeven analysis”; (3) projected various endpoints, such as health benefits or purely economic savings; and (4) relied on private willingness-to-pay for the relevant information. All of these approaches run into serious objections. With respect to (4), people may lack the information that would permit them to say how much they would pay for (more) information; they may not know the welfare effects of information; and their tastes and values may shift over time, in part as a result of information. These points suggest the need to take the willingness-to-pay criterion with many grains of salt, and to learn more about the actual effects of information, and of the behavioral changes produced by information, on people’s experienced well-being.
Mexicans can never be sure who will be playing for the national team under Juan Carlos Osorio.
A different lineup has been deployed by Osorio in all 46 games in charge and now players are starting to question the tactical tinkering going into the World Cup.
“It’s time to stop with the experiments,” Mexico goalkeeper Guillermo Ochoa said. “We have to focus on how we play as a team.”