Sports Brief

The players’ union has asked for an investigation of his team’s handling of the concussion protocol. Sports science is a widespread academic discipline, and can be applied to areas including athlete performance, such as the use of video analysis to fine-tune technique, or to equipment, such as improved running shoes or competitive swimwear. Sports engineering emerged as a discipline in 1998 with an increasing focus not just on materials design but also the use of technology in sport, from analytics and big data to wearable technology. In order to control the impact of technology on fair play, governing bodies frequently have specific rules that are set to control the impact of technical advantage between participants.

  • Bruce Pearl executed a cannonball into the political pool on Thursday.
  • It is widely recognized that athletes consume oral antibiotics almost twice as often as observed in the non-sports population in order to reduce as much as possible the period of inactivity due to bacterial diseases.
  • In their struggle against “pollution,” they strictly control their diet, sexual habits, breathing, and even their urination and defecation.
  • September 22, 2022 • Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic had a three-way rivalry that made each of them better — and was awfully fun to watch.
  • Can Daniel Ricciardo tap into his good fortune over the years at Singapore to make a compelling argument for one of the three remaining 2023 seats?

Leafs sign RFA Sandin to two-year, $2.8M deal The Toronto Maple Leafs signed restricted free agent defenceman Rasmus Sandin to a two-year, $2.8 million contract on Thursday. The defenceman will carry a cap hit of $1.4 million under the new deal. In the 18th and 19th centuries, the British expelled the French from Canada and from India and extended British rule over much of Africa.

Indeed, the celebrated 14th-century Persian pahlavan Maḥmūd Khwārezmī was both. Contests for runners and jumpers were to be found across the length and breadth of the continent. During the age of imperialism, explorers and colonizers were often astonished by the prowess of these “primitive” peoples. Nandi runners of Kenya’s Rift Valley seemed to run distances effortlessly at a pace that brought European runners to pitiable physical collapse.

Feature Papers represent the most advanced research with significant potential for high impact in the field. Feature Papers are submitted upon individual invitation or recommendation by the scientific editors and undergo peer review prior to publication. An N.C.A.A. panel said Hardaway’s unique standing made it allowable for him to give moving expenses to the family of a star player. East, a three-game series against a key rival and a hurricane causing extreme weather have aligned as the regular season nears its end. Aaron Judge tied Roger Maris’s American League record with his 61st home run of the season, and Maris’s former teammate Bobby Richardson sees many parallels.

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The ancient Olympic Games were held in honour of the head deity, Zeus, and featured various forms of religious dedication to him and other gods. As many Greeks travelled to see the games, this combination of religion and sport also served as a way of uniting them. Key principles of sport include that the result should not be predetermined, and that both sides should have equal opportunity to win.

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In a race, for example, the time to complete the course is an objective measurement. In gymnastics or diving the result is decided by a panel of judges, and therefore subjective. There are many shades of judging between boxing and mixed martial arts, where victory is assigned by judges if neither competitor has lost at the end of the match time. Sport is usually governed by a set of rules or customs, which serve to ensure fair competition, and allow consistent adjudication of the winner.

The inclusion of mind sports within sport definitions has not been universally accepted, leading to legal challenges from governing bodies in regards to being denied funding available to sports. Whilst GAISF recognises a small number of mind sports, it is not open to admitting any further mind sports. They also recognise that sport can be primarily physical , primarily mind , predominantly motorised , primarily co-ordination , or primarily animal-supported .