Pretlow, a Democrat from Westchester County, had long been planning a hearing on the daily fantasy sites, whose users create teams of real players (subject to a salary cap) in a variety of sports and either win or lose contests based on the real performance of the athletes on fictional teams. (politico.com)
There's quite a bit of controversy about whether static stretching should be included in the warm up, and recent studies have shown that static stretching may have an adverse effect on muscle contraction speed and therefore impair performance of athletes involved in sports requiring high levels of power and speed. (stretchcoach.com)
As Dr. Leuenberger concluded, «Different biological sources such as urine, plasma, or whole blood will provide complementary data and increase the specificity and the discriminative performance of the athlete biological passport. (sciencedaily.com)