… Lampard has now confirmed that Pulisic will miss the Blues’ latest Champions League outing at home to Rennes on Wednesday after being struck down with another hamstring problem, but hasn’t ruled out the possibility of him being available again in time for a meeting with Sheffield United at the weekend.
“Christian had a scan yesterday that showed a very, very minor injury to his hamstring, very minor. So he’s already back outside. He won’t be fit tomorrow, but we’ll see after that,” the 42-year-old told a press conference.
“It is obviously a relief for the injury to be minor. He made the right decision in not attempting to play the game, because he could have made it worse. So it’s clearly a relief that he will be back very soon, because he’s an important player for us.
A person with knowledge of the situation says the NBA’s players are planning to vote on whether they would prefer to start the coming season in December or wait until January, with that decision expected before the league’s board of governors meets to potentially formalize some plans on Friday.
The vote by members of the National Basketball Players Association will show how many prefer a 72-game season that starts on Dec. 22, or a season of perhaps 58 or 60 games that would start on Martin Luther King Day on Jan. 18, said the person who spoke Tuesday to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the plan has not been publicly announced.
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on an earlier incident, when Chargers QB Tyrod Taylor was hurt during routine medical care
Trent Brown was hospitalized after suffering a mishap with an IV prior to the Raiders’ 16-6 victory over the Browns on Sunday. Brown, who was taken to a hospital before the start of the game, had air enter his bloodstream and it required immediate medical attention, according to NFL Network’s Ian Rappoport and Tom Pelissero. Brown will reportedly remain hospitalized overnight.
Brown, who recently came off of the team’s reserve-COVID-19 list, tested positive for the virus less than two weeks ago. The six-year veteran, who last season was selected to his first Pro Bowl, was slated to start on Sunday before the mishap with the IV.
“We’re just going to say that he got ill here in the locker room and he’s being evaluated right now,” Raiders coach Jon Gruden said of Brown after the game.
In a study that debuted at the National Athletic Trainers Association virtual meeting and was subsequently published later, a multidisciplinary team of clinicians sought to analyze the effects of visual gait biofeedback along with impairment-based rehabilitation on gait biomechanics in a group of patients with chronic ankle instability (CAI).1
CAI is associated with several known deficits: diminished range of motion (ROM), postural control, and strength. Studies using traditional rehabilitation protocols have typically examined a single domain, such as balance, ROM, or strength and the improvements in that single domain have been validated. Impairment-based rehabilitation protocols are customized to individual patient deficits and studies have shown improvements in various CAI outcomes measures.
The authors had found only 2 previously published studies that had looked at biofeedback gait training to address CAI deficits. In both cases it was demonstrated that individuals with CAI can alter their gait mechanics in response to biofeedback, specifically reducing ankle inversion. How long the effect would last was not known. However, reducing ankle inversion during walking has the potential to reduce the risk of recurrent ankle injury in individuals with CAI leading these authors to suggest that offering gait training with an impairment-based rehabilitation program could improve an individual’s overall condition
… The bubble-like environment and COVID-19 testing necessary for the team to gather in Colorado were just the latest challenges in 2020. The changes that both delayed the Olympics by a year and created an unprecedented cycle in which the U.S. can play three major tournaments in the span of four years, afforded Andonovski an opportunity to get to work on the future.
“Going into the first year, I knew where I wanted to be for the Olympics in 2020,” Andonovski told ESPN. “But as soon as the Olympics were canceled, we evaluated everything and looked at where the team is at and started adding layers in terms of where we think the team can be in 2021 for the Olympics and how we can evolve the team to get to that point.”
The question whether the muscle hypertrophy induced by resistance training, hormone administration or genetic manipulation is accompanied by a proportional increase in muscle strength is still open. This review summarizes and analyses data obtained in human and rodent muscles in studies that have monitored in parallel changes in muscle size and changes in muscle force, measured in isometric contractions in vivo, in isolated muscles ex vivo (in rodents) and in single muscle fibers. Although a general positive relation exists among the two variables, a number of studies show a clear dissociation with increase of muscle size with no change or even decrease in strength and, vice versa, increase in strength without increase in size. The possible mechanisms of such dissociation, which involves neural motor control and/or cellular and molecular adaptations of muscle fibers, are briefly discussed. [full text]
Kinduct has exited and have done so in a significant way too, in fact the largest exit for a sports technology company in Canada.
In September, the Halifax, Nova Scotia based athlete management company sold to Silicon Valley headquartered sensor technology company mCube and are moving into the next phase of their journey with a partner to help each other grow their global footprint in human performance and scale the company into healthcare and digital health spaces.
A ten-year journey has ended in one respect and another one has begun. So in this conversation we talked to Kinduct’s CEO Travis McDonough to look back on the journey and we discussed his philosophies, values and leadership style as the company enters a new phase.
Even conservative epidemiological modeling from Washington State University shows an increase in COVID‑19 cases is likely in small college towns from sporting events with fans in the stands.
The WSU research team created a series of mathematical models that found in-person sports like football and basketball games created increased COVID‑19 cases among students by 25% in the best-case scenario to 822% in the worst. The analysis is detailed in a pre-print scientific paper, meaning it has not yet been peer-reviewed, on the medRxiv server.
“What we found is that even in really optimistic scenarios, where you have a fairly controlled outbreak on campus, and the visitors are coming from places that don’t have a lot of COVID‑19 cases already, you still see a pretty serious increase in the number of cases on hand, around 25%,” said lead author Eric Lofgren, a WSU epidemiologist. “That’s a big deal.”
… It’s a long way until opening day on April 1, and a lot can happen over the next five months.
Players will change teams. Managers will be hired. Billionaire owners will continue to lay off employees and complain about lost revenues. No one knows what the future holds or whether MLB will start the season on time.
But we learned a lot over these nine months, from the start of spring training to the end of the World Series, including the following seven things.
1. Analytics are spoiling fans’ enjoyment.
The strong history of women in sports leadership at the UO is gaining traction as the university partners with Wasserman Media Group for “The Collective Think Tank,” an initiative dedicated to advancing women in sports that launches this fall.
The partnership, which includes 10 schools in the United States, Canada and Europe, will leverage the UO’s research power by engaging students in programs like the Warsaw Sports Marketing Center at the Lundquist College of Business. It also will tap a pool of faculty experts who will be matched with research funding through Wasserman’s industry partners to look at issues such as pay equity, product design, maternity in sport and other topics that affect women.
A sports marketing and talent management company, Wasserman’s goal with founding the initiative is to study inequities women face in sports and publish insights based on data and research that will inform new approaches in the industry. Wasserman officials also want to raise awareness of the issues among fans, consumers and participants.
A looming CBA dispute, owners crying financial hardship, minor league contraction, and the ever-present specter of the pandemic have baseball looking at a hot-stove season more unsettling than we’ve ever seen
