… You see a lot of kids play. What is it that you saw in him that got you that wound up?
Outside of the talent, the skill — all those things were there — there was decent athleticism, clearly he could shoot. But he was competitive.
It’d be in an open gym, right, where nobody is going to see this. He’s like diving on the floor for the loose ball to make sure his team won the game. It’s something you just generally don’t see in a pickup run.
And his mind — I mean, very serene, very calm. In difficulty, [he’s] able to rise and make plays.
After spending nine weeks in California getting ready for an NBA Draft with no set date, Daniel Oturu returned home to Minnesota recently with a better idea of what the process is moving forward.
It’s only a matter of time before the 6-foot-10 Woodbury product becomes the first Gophers player drafted since Kris Humphries in 2004.
As he drilled jump shots from long distance Friday at his old gymnasium at Cretin Derham-Hall, Oturu’s face lit up when mentioning he now knows draft day is officially Nov. 18.
“Definitely think I’m a first-round pick,” Oturu said. “I just need to continue to work hard and to prove it. That’s one goal, but my mindset is to play in this league for multiple, multiple years.”
… I’ve been working as a technique analyst for both senior and junior national teams in Finnish Swimming since 2013. My job is to provide feedback on national team camps through biomechanical analysis to give athletes and coaches information on each swimmer’s strengths and weaknesses as related to international level performance. In my time as a technique analyst for those teams, we have used video, speed measurements, and Trainesense SmartPaddles as tools to analyze a swimmer’s performance. Of these tools, the SmartPaddle is the newest addition to our arsenal.
The Trainesense SmartPaddle measures hand force, hand speed, and the direction of the force in water, which provides us with useful information about our athletes’ strengths and weaknesses. Traditionally, power in water has been measured with a wire attached to the swimmer’s hip—thus giving the total force produced by the swimmer’s movements—but there hasn’t been an easy way to go into details regarding which parts of the swimmer’s stroke produce that power and which parts should be further developed to swim even faster. Using SmartPaddle, we have access to all that data.
What started at Jay Dix Park with a few agility ladders, resistance bands and a tractor tire nicknamed “Big Bertha” has become Athletes Performance Institute, a fitness enterprise founded by two former MU and NFL players.
“From those three types of equipment we were able to consistently grow clientele,” co-owner Jerrell Jackson said.
Today Athletes Performance Institute on Nifong Boulevard is a full-service gym with group fitness, sports performance and personal training available.
“It wasn’t until we moved into the gym that we got actual legit equipment,” Jackson added. “Just thinking about how creative we were to make clients want to come back with a lack of equipment … to this day I’m still surprised at how far we’ve come.”
According to new research in the journal Nature Communications, running regularly trains your central nervous system.
This is important because the nervous system can learn over time to activate your muscles in a manner that produces energetically efficient forms of running.
This season, the New England Revolution has unveiled a new aspect to its youth development program, creating a more sustainable path for players in the Revolution Academy to reach the first team club.
In its first year as part of USL League One – the third division of professional US Soccer — Revolution II has debuted 19 players at the professional level, including 12 current or former Academy players.
On Sept. 9, Revs II debuted 15-year-old Isaie Louis, of Everett, who became the youngest player in club history to play professionally, surpassing Diego Fagundez’s age 16 debut in 2011.
“Since this Academy started, age has just been a number for us,” said Bryan Scales, the Revolution’s Director of Youth Development and U-19 coach. “If they’re good enough, they’re old enough.”
The Big Ten’s decision to play a shortened football season starting in late October highlighted the fluidity of sports during COVID-19, and the hosts of college football’s all-star games find themselves facing similar uncertainty. As a number of players still won’t play football this fall, showcase games have taken on increased importance this year given the exposure they bring pro prospects.
As hosts try to plan during an unprecedented year—figuring out protocols, changes to the games or connected events, fan attendance (there were 38,252 spectators at last year’s Senior Bowl, almost 13,000 attended the East-West Shrine Bowl), and potential moves in the NFL’s draft calendar—they’re also trying to figure out what to do for players facing canceled or delayed seasons. To that end, the Reese’s Senior Bowl is looking at expansion options that include bringing those athletes to Mobile, Ala. a week early for the 2021 game, slated for Jan. 30.
“We plan on having all of those guys in our game,” said Jim Nagy, Senior Bowl executive director and a former NFL scout.
Nearly five years after the inception of Sydney FC’s Academy, Technical Directory – Youth Kelly Cross has revealed the keys behind the club’s youth success.
With a raft of junior titles to Sydney FC’s name, Cross said there are three key principles underpinning the Sky Blues’ Academy as the premier youth setup in the country.
Cross is one of Australian Football’s most successful developers of young talent, and the former Assistant National Technical Director of Australia has described how he built Sydney FC’s Academy from the ground up.
1. Teach people to listen, not just talk.
2. Train employees to practice empathy.
3. Make people comfortable getting feedback.
4. Teach workers to lead and follow.
5. Speak with clarity.
For years, the lidar business has had a lot of hype but not a lot of hard numbers. Dozens of lidar startups have touted their impressive technology, but until recently it wasn’t clear who, if anyone, was actually gaining traction with customers.
That’s starting to change. This summer, three leading lidar makers have done major fundraising rounds that included releasing public data on their financial performance.
… The company conducted a clinical trial to assess the ECG algorithm’s ability to accurately detect atrial fibrillation from normal sinus rhythm and to create a recording of the heart’s electrical rhythm. The study’s results demonstrated the algorithm could detect over 98% of atrial fibrillation cases and was 100% accurate in identifying participants with normal sinus rhythm.
Wearable ECG sensors like this give people a way to take on-the-spot readings of their heart rhythm at any time. To use FitBit’s app, users hold their fingers to the stainless steel ring on the watch and stay still for 30 seconds while the watch conducts a reading that can be shared with a doctor.
Two recent developments could significantly impact the future of health care in America. The first was widespread attention to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data showing that 94 percent of all COVID-19 deaths included other health conditions as a cause of death. The second was the news that a San Diego-based health system, Sharp, would start distributing Amazon’s new health and wellness tracker to some of their health plan members, and would work toward integrating the data into patient’s health records.
These two developments would not seem to be connected, but they may end up being significant building blocks in the transformation of America’s health care system from one that is focused almost exclusively on treating disease to one that gives equal importance to staying healthy.
The coronavirus pandemic is causing people to be much more conscious about their health. A survey of American adults by Samueli Integrative Health Programs and The Harris Poll showed that 80 percent of participants intended to be more mindful of their health practices after the pandemic.
Barcelona are looking to assist their coaches and also bring fans all over the world closer to the action thanks to innovative artificial intelligence technology.
In July, the Catalan club signed an agreement with Pixellot, a sports technology company that specialises in audiovisual technology, to develop a system for automated recording and processing of images of the ordinary sporting activities that take place on the club’s premises.
The partnership will see Barca become a testing laboratory for developing new products for automated artificial intelligence-based viewing and recording of training sessions and matches, with the aim of offering an improved experience to fans and also to aid technical and tactical analysis by the managers of different professional sports at the club.
The idea of smart tennis courts is to place technology on the court to track the game as well as the players’ performance. They were initially developed for officiating matches and subsequently found their way into training and coaching applications. There are a number of products and technologies out there and we look at the different solutions, technology types and roughly how they work. It is an interesting space with a lot of potential for growth as developers and coaches continue to work out more productive ways to use technology.
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Athletes and Agents rarely know anything about how a shoe from a company offering sponsorship will affect their individual feet.
There is probably no more important piece of individually selected equipment that an athlete will wear!
None compares to Teague when we talk about designing interiors of Boeing commercial airliners. So, how could they resist the temptation to craft the interiors of a Boeing 787 Dreamliner tailor-made for pro athletes? The Seattle-based cross-discipline design firm collaborated with Nike to come up with the Athlete’s Plane that keeps athletes in top playing condition, even when they traverse three timezones to play a crucial away game. Specifically designed for a basketball team, the airborne facility has everything a player needs to be 100 percent mentally and physically fit to negate the “away disadvantage.” To extract the best performance out of players, when it matters, the quality of travel is important – for the team staff as well. To this end, Teague closely interviewed professional players, coaches, and operational staff to conceptualize this athlete-centric Boeing 787 Dreamliner’s interior.
After shutting down in the spring, America’s empty gyms are beckoning a cautious public back for a workout. To reassure wary customers, owners have put in place — and now advertise — a variety of coronavirus control measures. At the same time, the fitness industry is trying to rehabilitate itself by pushing back against what it sees as a misleading narrative that gyms have no place during a pandemic.
If a person rests while they are ill and during recovery, most of the time the inflammation recedes and the heart muscle heals on its own. But strenuous activity while the heart is weakened can cause swelling in the legs, dizziness, shortness of breath, and—in serious cases—irregular heartbeat, cardiac arrest, and sudden death.
These more extreme outcomes are seen most often in competitive athletes. That’s why cardiologists have been urging caution about the return of sports mid-pandemic. Just last month, former Florida State basketball player Michael Ojo died of apparent heart complications while playing in a pro league in Serbia, shortly after the 27-year-old had recovered from Covid-19.
To prevent the pandemic from leading to similarly tragic heart injuries among student athletes, doctors at Ohio State University developed a new protocol, says Saurabh Rajpal, a cardiologist and assistant professor of internal medicine at OSU. The protocol requires any player diagnosed with Covid-19 to receive a clinical examination, blood test, electrocardiogram, and MRI—a costly and sparingly used imaging technology—before returning to play.
… “I’m in no position to judge someone who wants to move forward with it or someone who doesn’t feel it’s smart to do it,” Louisville coach Karen Ferguson said. “Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. At the end of the day, I have a job to do. It is to keep our kids safe and healthy, first and foremost, and then win soccer games. If we don’t feel like it’s safe or we’re healthy, and we haven’t put forth the right protocols, then we won’t play. We flat out won’t play.”
For much of the spring and summer, the ACC traveled the same uncertain path toward fall as every other conference. By the time the coronavirus pandemic effectively shut down college and pro sports in March, only a few women’s soccer teams had played even a game in what the NCAA labels the sport’s non-championship segment, encompassing a handful of spring exhibition games. Virginia midfielder Taryn Torres expected to go home to Texas for a week when the school’s spring break began on March 7, then return to Charlottesville for the first of the Cavaliers’ spring games. She went home, but it would be four months before she returned.
Leeds can finally call themselves a Premier League team once more. FFT retraces an extraordinary journey of upsets, angst and unruly ownership with ex-bosses, players and a famously tearful fan