Warriors guard Klay Thompson was mired in a weeks-long shooting slump that had become a recurring topic during a slow news cycle.
After a home shootaround in late December, with his 3-point clip down to a career-worst 33.7 percent, Thompson was forced to field variations on the same question: What’s wrong? Tired of the story line, Thompson got uncharacteristically indignant.
“Just because I’ve had a few bad games in a row, I’m not going to worry about not shooting the ball well,” said Thompson. “I’m one of the best shooters to ever play. I don’t really care what people say.”
Callum Hudson-Odoi has been promoted to Gareth Southgate’s England squad for the forthcoming Euro 2020 qualifiers against the Czech Republic and Montenegro despite the Chelsea winger having yet to start a Premier League game.
The 18-year-old, who has played only 119 minutes of top-flight football, becomes the second member of England’s successful Under-17 World Cup side to make the step up to senior level. He had been due to make his debut for Aidy Boothroyd’s under-21s in the games against Poland and Germany. Instead, shortly after arriving at the juniors’ camp in Bristol, he was drafted into a senior set-up denied a quartet of players through injury and duly travelled to St George’s Park afternoon.
“It’s been a crazy experience but getting my first [senior] international call-up is an amazing feeling,” said Hudson-Odoi.
Ten weeks of work in the Pacific Northwest boils down to a one-day job interview for former Syracuse football quarterback Eric Dungey.
The school’s all-time leader in total yardage has spent the past couple of months training for the NFL at Ford Sports Performance in suburban Seattle. He worked one-on-one with quarterbacks trainer Jake Heaps at the Russell Wilson Quarterback Academy.
Next comes Syracuse University’s Pro Day on Monday, one of the most important dates for Dungey and other former Syracuse football players to help their NFL stock.
Last year at this time, Quinnen Williams was an untested Crimson Tide backup, hardly on the NFL’s radar. Since then he’s climbed so high he didn’t even need to work out for pro scouts in Tuscaloosa on Tuesday. What’s behind his ascension to potential top-five pick? Plus, notes on Josh Jacobs’ 40, Trace McSorley at Penn State, and more.
… [Johnny] Carpenter thought he would be with the Mavs for awhile, but when assistant coach Ritchie McKay left Bennett’s staff to take the head coaching job at Liberty University in April 2015 (and took staffer Brad Soucie with him), Bennett came calling with an offer to return to Charlottesville.
“Being able to work for [Bennett], after seeing him as a manager, and seeing the impact he’s had on so many people’s lives, he was somebody who I knew would be a dream to work for,” Carpenter said. “He’s just an unbelievable person. He works so hard, but understands the whole big picture of life. And the college age group appealed to me because you can build lasting relationships with the guys.”
Carpenter came aboard as technology assistant – a role he held had until getting promoted to his current position after last season. As the director of player personnel, Carpenter helps with scouting, recruiting and player development. Frequently, he edits videos for players that are aimed at showing them specific things they need to work on.
Annual Review of Analytical Chemistry journal from
Sweat is a largely unexplored biofluid that contains many important biomarkers ranging from electrolytes and metabolites to proteins, cytokines, antigens, and exogenous drugs. The eccrine and apocrine glands produce and excrete sweat through microscale pores on the epidermal surface, offering a noninvasive means for capturing and probing biomarkers, which reflect hydration state, fatigue, nutrition, and physiological changes. Skin-interfaced wearable sensors capable of real-time in situ sweat collection and analytics provide capabilities for continuous biochemical monitoring in an ambulatory mode of operation. This review presents a broad overview of sweat-based biochemical sensor technologies with an emphasis on enabling materials, designs, and target analytes of interest. The article concludes with a summary of challenges and opportunities for researchers and clinicians in this swiftly growing field.
Yue Jessica Wang’s lab at UC Merced is researching the use of conductive polymers to create electronics that possess properties similar to skin on a human body.
Noah Basketball and the Pac-12 Conference today announced a partnership for the Conference to utilize the Noah Shooting System and Noahlytics data service in both of its 2019 men’s and women’s basketball tournaments. Having already tracked every shot of the women’s basketball tournament this past week from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, every shot at the men’s basketball tournament from T-Mobile Arena this week will also be tracked. The Pac-12 Conference is the first NCAA conference to partner with Noah, and the first conference to use the technology for broadcast television as the data will be featured across Pac-12 Networks coverage.
Gait analysis in unrestrained environments can be done with a single wearable ultrasonic sensor node on the lower limb and four fixed anchor nodes. The accuracy demanded by such systems is very high. Chirp signals can provide better ranging and localization performance in ultrasonic systems. However, we cannot neglect the multi-path effect in typical indoor environments for ultrasonic signals. The multi-path components closer to the line of sight component cannot be identified during correlation reception which leads to errors in the estimated range and which in turn affects the localization and tracking performance. We propose a novel method to reduce the multi-path effect in ultrasonic sensor networks in typical indoor environments. A gait analysis system with one mobile node attached to the lower limb was designed to test the performance of the proposed system during an indoor treadmill walking experiment. An optical motion capture system was used as a benchmark for the experiments. The proposed method gave better tracking accuracy compared to conventional coherent receivers. The static measurements gave 2.45 mm standard deviation compared to 10.45 mm using the classical approach. The RMSE between the ultrasonic gait analysis system and the reference system improved from 28.70 mm to 22.28 mm. The gait analysis system gave good performance for extraction of spatial and temporal parameters. [full text]
Objectives To describe: (1) how we developed a concussion module and (2) whether the concussion module is feasible (in terms of relevance, added value and suitability) and enhances knowledge and changes attitude of professional footballers about concussion.
Developing the concussion module We developed the concussion module based on two structured and systematic processes. First, our needs assessment (questionnaire and interviews) in professional football (especially players) revealed that a 5–10 min concussion module was needed, ideally disseminated during club visits. Second, the objectives were defined (from published literature and by experts) as to disseminate essential information about what concussion is (definition), how to recognise it and the importance of removing a player with (suspected) concussion from the football field. We included an introductory video featuring a high-profile professional footballer and an animated educational component on defining concussion, recognising it and removing affected players from the field.
Feasibility and effect A quasiexperimental study (pretest post-test design) was conducted among 61 professional footballers. These players were asked to complete two questionnaires related to knowledge about and attitude towards concussion and feasibility of the module: one before and one after viewing the concussion module. Potential increase in knowledge and attitude was explored by comparing the pretest and post-test scores of the Rosenbaum Concussion Knowledge and Attitudes Survey with the non-parametric Wilcoxon signed-rank test (p<0.05). The mean knowledge score of the participants was stable between tests (Z=213; p=0.16), while mean attitude score increased significantly (Z=331; p=0.01). Nearly all participants (85%–100%) were positive about the relevance, added value, duration and form of the concussion module.
Conclusion The developed educational concussion module leads to better attitude of professional footballers towards concussion. [full text]
Concussions can vary in symptoms and severity but researchers often don’t understand why. So, in an attempt to resolve a clear-cut relationship between physical trauma and concussion diagnosis, researchers at Stanford University choose to focus on one specific area of the brain — the corpus callosum, a thick bundle of nerves that joins the two halves of the brain and plays a role in coordination.
This structure, they suspect, may be the key to understanding concussions associated with symptoms of dizziness and vision problems.
“Concussion is a big, vague term and we need to start breaking it down,” said Fidel Hernandez, PhD, a former graduate student in bioengineering, in a Stanford News press release. “One way we can do that is to study individual structures that would be likely to cause traditional concussion symptoms if they were injured.”
A national concussion strategy was unveiled in Calgary on Monday and officials say the guidelines will help protect Canada’s high-performance athletes from sports-related concussions.
The Canadian Olympic and Paralympic Sport Institute Network, Own the Podium, Canadian Olympic Committee and Canadian Paralympic Committee developed the standardized sport-related concussion guidelines to help protect and assess the health and safety of athletes.
“The purpose of this is to provide a standardized approach to concussion recognition, assessment and management so a high-performance athlete will receive the same level of care across the country,” said Dr. Brian Benson, Chief Medical Officer and Director of Sport Medicine, Canadian Sport Institute Calgary and Benson Concussion Institute.
PLOS One; Paul Kattuman, Christoph Loch, Charlotte Kurchian from
Research into sports team performance has shown that across many sports and league competitions, teams that change their coaches after a decline in performance do rebound, but fare no better on average than teams that have not changed their coach in a similar situation. A similar lack of succession benefits has been reported in studies of manager and CEO succession: it has not been established that changing a team’s leader improves a declining team’s performance. We study the effect of a change of coach on the performance of a professional soccer team. Based on rarely obtained access to a whole season (one year) of daily close observation of the team and coaching staff in practice and matches, this study uses quantitative and qualitative data to go beyond the “average” pattern reported in the literature. We document in detail how, in a single team case study over an entire season, the processes in leadership behavior changed with a change of coach, the effect this had on the state of mind of the team, how the match behaviors of the players changed, and how these changes translated into improved performance. The process effects of a leadership change on the performance of a sports team may hold insights for leader succession in management: in addition to the aggregate organizational and experience fit of the new team leader, the specific leadership processes introduced by the new leader are critical for performance effects.
The Washington Post, Ben Guarino and Sarah Kaplan from
Birth order, according to conventional wisdom, molds personality: Firstborn children, secure with their place in the family and expected to be the mature ones, grow up to be intellectual, responsible and conformist. Younger siblings work harder to get their parents’ attention, take more risks and become creative rebels.
That’s the central idea in psychologist Frank J. Sulloway’s “Born to Rebel,” an influential book on birth order that burst, like a water balloon lobbed by an attention-seeking third-born, onto the pop psychology scene two decades ago. Sulloway’s account of the nuclear family claimed that firstborn children command their parents’ attention and resources, so later-borns must struggle to carve out their niche. Sibling behaviors then crystallize into adult personalities.
“I thought — and I still think — it’s very plausible and intuitive,” said Ralph Hertwig, a psychologist at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, who published a study on unequal parental investment with Sulloway in 2002.