Raheem Sterling has called for more black representation in football – ‘there’s something like 500 players in the Premier League and a third of them are black’ said the Manchester City forward. ‘We have no representation of us in the hierarchy, no representation of us in the coaching staffs’. The 25-year-old referred to Steven Gerrard and Frank Lampard being in high coaching positions, while other former England stars like Sol Campbell and Ashley Cole have struggled to get such jobs [video, 1:38]
For a long time, fear of saying the wrong thing kept me from speaking out. But the fight for racial justice is too important for any of us to stay silent.
Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr said he is hopeful the NBA will grant the eight teams that did not qualify for the 22-team Disney World bubble a chance to conduct a minicamp in advance of training camp before the 2020-21 season begins.
And if that happens, he expects stars Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson and Draymond Green to all participate.
… LaFleur’s first season hardly could have gone better: 13-3 in the regular season, the NFC North title, a first-round playoff bye and a trip to the NFC Championship Game, where it all ended in a blowout loss to the San Francisco 49ers.
A year later, as LaFleur wraps up his second offseason — this one done virtually because of the coronavirus pandemic — he has to be thankful he’s not a first-year coach, given the limitations.
Sounders FC today announced the hiring of Adam Owen in a dual role of High Performance Director & Technical Advisor. Owen brings 15 years of experience as a fitness coach, assistant manager and manager to Seattle, where he now oversees sports science and performance programs for the club across all levels of the organization, while also advising the club on technical matters.
… Here’s the schedule as laid out by the Football Oversight Committee. Schools can begin to have access to their players on July 13, which would include strength workouts and coaches engaging in film study with their players. (It would be a week earlier for teams involved in Week 0, as they’ve been told they can start July 6.) According to the language discussed on the football oversight call, summer access “may begin 25 calendar days prior to the first permissible preseason practice date.”
Those eight-hour weeks would transition to a pair of 20-hour weeks on July 24, which have been added in part as a safety measure to help get players physically prepared for the season. These have been discussed by the group as being comparable to NFL OTAs, as they’d include walkthroughs and a ball.
Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp is enjoying watching his players create their own atmosphere as his side warmed up for their Premier League return with a 6-0 Anfield friendly win over Blackburn.
The match not only enabled Klopp to step up his players’ fitness levels ahead of the Merseyside derby on June 21 but also to adapt to the closed-door surroundings and the safety protocols.
On the lack of supporters, Klopp told Liverpool’s website: “Yes, it’s different, of course. You need to get used to it, but I like it. After three times, it is completely OK.
This mentally drained the students, because they were fighting the impulse to use their dominant hand, and habit performance increased. What do you do when under pressure like this?
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As more youth sports practices and games start to return, one question facing teams is how to keep track of compliance with so many new COVID-19 standards. There’s a potential new trend emerging in youth sports – the shift of online safety compliance platforms beyond concussions, SafeSport and CPR to now include COVID-19 return to play requirements.
How these platforms get used, and if they are broadly adopted, could alter the way we play youth sports for the foreseeable future. For instance, whether a team does or does not track COVID-19 compliance may be used as recruiting pitches, given that about half of surveyed youth sports parents worry that they or their child will get sick by returning to sports.
“Let’s say you’re a COVID denier and think it’s a fabrication and conspiracy. Cool, over there is the basketball club that thinks like you and has no safety precautions,” said Bill Kerig, CEO of Great Coach, which is rolling out its new Clear2Play compliance management system. “But over there, there’s this club using an app to keep track of safety precautions and doing it right. You can choose and let the market figure it out.
… According to the researchers, chronological age does not adequately measure individual variation in the rate of biological aging. “The absence of clinical tools and metrics to quantitatively evaluate how each person is aging at the molecular level represents a major impediment to understanding aging and maximizing health throughout life,” explains corresponding author Lee E. Goldstein, MD, PhD, associate professor of neurology, pathology & laboratory medicine, psychiatry and ophthalmology.
“The lens contains proteins that accumulate aging-related changes throughout life. These lens proteins provide a permanent record of each person’s life history of aging. Our eye scanner can decode this record of how a person is aging at the molecular level.”
When Pac-12 student-athletes return to campus this month, they’ll follow the same testing protocols — regardless of the program.
Student-athletes will be required to be tested for COVID-19 and will also undergo antibody testing, Pac-12 commissioner Larry Scott told 247Sports this week. Weekly COVID-19 tests will follow as well.
The conference previously announced its member programs can resume voluntary campus workouts June 15, though the state of Washington’s guidelines have yet to allow for such activities. Still, when the Huskies do eventually return to Seattle, they’ll be expected to adhere to the conference-wide testing requirements announced by Scott on Monday.
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Physiotherapists are expecting an influx of hamstring, knee and ankle injuries as professional athletes and weekend warriors return to Australian sporting fields after enforced layoffs caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
While thousands of competitors have run or cycled to keep fit during the closure of training facilities, the Australian Physiotherapy Association warned that was not a substitute for skills like tackling, kicking, sprinting and pivoting.
Sports physio Brooke Patterson, a former AFLW player and PhD candidate at La Trobe University, said four to six weeks of training with gradual increases in intensity were required for players of all levels to be match-ready.
The International Food Information Council’s annual Food & Health Survey found people still trust the safety of the food system and are turning more to plant protein for health.
