… That’s 17 goals in 26 professional games. With that sort of goalscoring, output comes attention from many quarters. For fans of the USMNT, Dike’s rise as a goalscorer makes him an intriguing possibility for important games later this year. Orlando City fans can dream of Dike returning to Central Florida and contributing to the Lions’ push for an MLS Cup championship this season.
Obviously, that depends on Dike returning to MLS. Dike’s incredible run in England has drawn interest from richer clubs in the country. Even before his recent run of goals, the Orlando Sentinel reported that Orlando City turned down a $10 million transfer offer for him.
Logic says that the more goals that Dike scores, the higher the price will go. At the moment, Orlando’s choice to pass on the first offer looks like a wise one. Dike’s transfer value is clearly on the rise.
Maybe calling it a “modified” six-man rotation is wrong. It might be better to call it a modifiable six-man rotation, or a six-man flex.
Tigers manager AJ Hinch and pitching coach Chris Fetter are kicking around the idea of flipping roles again for Michael Fulmer and Tarik Skubal.
Tigers pitcher Michael Fulmer owns a 3.32 ERA and 0.84 WHIP in 19 innings this season.
“We’re talking about what we’re going to do in the New York series,” Hinch said before the series finale with the Royals on Monday. “We’re considering putting Fulmer back and making him available in Chicago out of the bullpen again – and going to a five-man rotation with Tarik being in it.”
… [Marvin] Lewis thought that a player who sees the entire board wouldn’t be dumb enough to be aggressive in that situation. But Sherman – a former wide receiver who understands offensive situations and concepts as well as most offensive coordinators – saw the entire board, and he saw the people behind the board too.
Sherman had been playing corner for only two years, and he knew that his rep going into this game was that he struggled with speed and might not cut it. He was only even at this game as an injury replacement after another cornerback got hurt. For the childhood math whiz, the calculation was simple: The chance to snag his second interception and the attention of potential employers was worth the risk of giving up a big play in an exhibition game.
“I needed to make plays,” Sherman remembered. “I was just trying to get noticed.”
It is well-known that the risk of injury in professional soccer players increases with fatigue. A recent study (1) demonstrates that the capacity to rapidly produce force is one of the key factors associated with the risk of injury.
MLS pledged a year ago to fill the void left when the U.S Soccer Development Academy disappeared. In numbers, the pledge is about to get fulfilled.
When U.S. Soccer Development Academy folded mid-April last year, MLS immediately promised to fill that void, and then some. Skeptics questioned whether MLS would continue youth focus on only the most promising prospects.
But MLS countered that, certainly, the league would continue to hunt and develop prospects. But any youth wanting to learn and play would get the chance. That chance would come in the new league youth organization called MLS Next.
… Fitbit plans to continue exploring more advanced sensors on its bigger watches, while letting sensor tech trickle down over time into more optimized, smaller, lower-cost bands. “Because they have a larger battery, and kind of more mass, it’s easier to try out brand new sensors in them and learn,” Friedman says of last year’s sensor-studded Fitbit Sense — which added temperature, a stress-sensing electrodermal sensor and an electrocardiogram, or ECG — compared to the much more pared-down new Fitbit Luxe, which leans mostly on its optical heart-rate sensor for things like sleep and stress measurements.
Friedman makes the comparison to where heart rate on wearables was years ago, living mainly on big watches while smaller bands just measured steps. The optical heart-rate sensor is also where the most evolution has happened, adding a lot of extra algorithm-based insights that didn’t exist before. “When we first launched heart rate in our smartwatch, it was really about a kind of workout experience,” Friedman says of where things were seven years ago. “But as things progressed, we started to be able to tease out more and more from heart rate.”
… Regardless of the mechanical quantities of interest, there is presently no set of standard protocols that provides adequate accuracy and reliability for the complexity of movements and variety of sensor placement, biomechanical models, and anatomical calibration procedures for specific measurement outputs (Poitras et al., 2019). Finally, invalid data can also arise during data processing due to inappropriate selection of cut-off frequencies, and/or from not using ad hoc algorithms to compensate for drift errors or ferromagnetic disturbances (Ligorio & Sabatini, 2016; Mendes Jr. et al., 2016).
Watford have never been afraid to go their own way, and are no different when it comes to GPS.
The Hornets, who returned to the Premier League at the first attempt with a 1-0 win over Millwall on Saturday, are the only club in the UK to use gpexe, a wearable tech system created by Italian firm exelio.
Gpexe is a market leader in Italy, where it’s used by 12 Serie A teams, including league leaders Inter Milan, but is still practically unknown in this country.
Sport scientist Lee Stafford has used gpexe throughout his five years at the club and describes it as “fast, reliable and accurate.” He uses seven main metrics, including traditional ones such as maximum accelerations and speed zones, and more unusual ones focused around metabolic power, which has always been a key focus for gpexe.
… Researchers at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology have developed a prototype of a contact lens that continuously monitors changes in intraocular pressure, the pressure within the eyeball. The prototype is based on the fact that the shape of the eyeball varies in response to changes in intraocular pressure. As this happens, the contact lens undergoes commensurate change in shape. A thin capacitor embedded within the contact lens correlates changes in shape to variations in intraocular pressure.
The continuous monitoring provided by the contact lens could come in handy for people suffering from glaucoma. This lens can monitor changes in intraocular pressure throughout the day, and can responsively release drugs to alleviate the glaucoma. A similar lens, called Sensimed Triggerfish, has received regulatory approval in the United States and Japan.
Tokyo Olympic organizers and the IOC are to unveil new plans this week to explain how 15,400 Olympic and Paralympic athletes can compete in Japan when the games open in three months in the midst of a pandemic.
The rollout of the second edition of the “Playbooks” — an IOC guidebook explaining how the games can be pulled off — comes as Tokyo, Osaka and several other areas have been placed under a third state of emergency as coronavirus cases surge.
Japan, which has attributed about 10,000 deaths to COVID-19, has also been slow with local vaccination with about 1% so far getting shots.
… In this article, we discuss macronutrient and micronutrient needs of athletes and look at calories, meal timing, and how to tailor requirements to specific sports. We also give meal examples for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
As the sports nutrition category pushes further into the mainstream and product offerings diversify beyond basic protein powders, flavor choices are becoming more important in delivering a competitive edge.
According to a new report from Innova Market Insights, 41 percent of sports nutrition shoppers still consider flavor to be an important factor when choosing food and drink, although it falls into third place behind health aspects and cost.
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The foods people buy at a workplace cafeteria may not always be chosen to satisfy an individual craving or taste for a particular food. A new study by researchers, including sociologist Mark Pachucki at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, has found that when co-workers are eating together, individuals are more likely to select foods that are as healthy—or unhealthy—as the food selections on their fellow employees’ trays.
“We found that individuals tend to mirror the food choices of others in their social circles, which may explain one way obesity spreads through social networks,” says Douglas Levy.
Two rinks in the outskirts of Dallas will be the center of the hockey universe the next week and a half for both NHL executives preparing for the draft and many of the top prospects they haven’t gotten a chance yet to see in person.
The International Ice Hockey Federation’s under-18 world championships is an important annual tournament featuring some of the best players eligible for the draft. It’s under the microscope even more this year because of how the coronavirus pandemic wreaked havoc on developmental leagues, some of which didn’t have a season.
The tournament is the last chance this year to see what Columbus Blue Jackets general manager Jarmo Kekalainen called “the cream of the crop” of draft prospects. Unlike most years, it’s also the only chance for GMs and scouts to see some of the best players in person before the draft this summer.
Personnel from the NFL teams in attendance at the 2021 Senior Bowl in late January were spaced 30 feet apart inside the convention center in Mobile, Alabama. Tested for COVID-19 in advance, they were separated from draft prospects by walls of Plexiglas, with each meeting lasting only 15 minutes.
That’s just one example of NFL scouting during the coronavirus pandemic, described once as “visiting someone from jail [because of the dividers]” while going through a “speed dating” process.