Sentences with phrase «athletes in a football game»

The athletes in a football game are people with personal lives, beliefs, convictions and an array of experiences influencing them.

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Founded in the 1960s by Florida scientists to help college football players restore electrolytes during games, Gatorade is, according to a company spokesperson, «the most thoroughly researched beverage in the world and is scientifically engineered to help athletes maintain their best performance.»

and sad truth is we only need a couple more real quality signings... but seems wenger is already digging his heals in... i think he still believes that diaby is the man for defensive midfield, that arteta can still run the mid field that grioud will finally come good in epl or that sonogo will bully other defences... none of these assumptions is grounded in reality (that s the problem with having an economist as a football manager)... and there is no excuse for overpaid professional athletes to be exhausted after a couple of competitive games..

They didn't play professional sports, but they were all great athletes that King played with growing up — whether it was with a bottle top covered in tape to make a ball or the little footballs passed out at Macon Knights games.

In an era where YouTube, Snapchat and Twitter are filled with horrible breakdowns of athletes behaving badly, Sacramento recently hosted a brilliant display of sportsmanship where character and compassion overshadowed competition in a make - up football game Amador High of Sutter Creek and Capital Christian - SacramentIn an era where YouTube, Snapchat and Twitter are filled with horrible breakdowns of athletes behaving badly, Sacramento recently hosted a brilliant display of sportsmanship where character and compassion overshadowed competition in a make - up football game Amador High of Sutter Creek and Capital Christian - Sacramentin a make - up football game Amador High of Sutter Creek and Capital Christian - Sacramento.

The purpose of the Cascade Team Camp Corp. is to provide a fundamental camp for high school athletes to learn the game of football from their own coaching staffs and to allow teams to meld together and spend quality team time for activities in a non-contact setting.

One way, I believe, to address the problem of under - reporting and increase the chances a concussion will be identified early on the sports sideline may be to rely less on athletes themselves to remove themselves from games or practices by reporting concussion symptoms (which the most recent study shows occurs at a shockingly low rate, [9] or on game officials and sideline observers to observe signs of concussion and call for a concussion assessment, but to employ technology to increase the chances that a concussion will be identified by employing impact sensors designed to monitor head impact exposure in terms of the force of hits (both linear and rotational), number, location, and cumulative impact, in real time at all levels of football, and in other helmeted and non-helmeted contact and collision sports, where practical, to help identify high - risk impacts and alert medical personnel on the sideline so they can consider performing a concussion assessment.

I wanted to ask them for their reaction to a recent survey of college athletes in contact and collision sports at the University of Pennsylvania which found that, despite being educated about the dangers of continuing to play with concussion symptoms, most are still very reluctant to report symptoms because they want to stay in the game, and to comment on reports that the N.F.L. players» union was against putting sensors in helmets that would alert the sideline to hits of a sufficient magnitude to cause concussion, which may be the technological solution (or, in football parlance «end - around») to the chronic under - reporting problem.

When I finally had a chance to speak, we were already running over the 2 1/2 hours allotted for the roundtable, so I was only able to briefly touch on two of my many message points: one, that the game can be and is being made safer, and two, that, based on my experience following a high school football team in Oklahoma this past season - which will be the subject of a MomsTEAM documentary to be released in early 2013 called The Smartest Team - I saw the use of hit sensors in football helmets as offering an exciting technological «end around» the problem of chronic under - reporting of concussions that continues to plague the sport and remains a major impediment, in my view, to keeping kids safe (the reasons: if an athlete is allowed to keep playing with a concussion, studies show that their recovery is likely to take longer, and they are at increased risk of long - term problems (e.g. early dementia, depression, more rapid aging of the brain, and in rare cases, chronic traumatic encephalopathy, and in extremely rare instances, catastrophic injury or death.)

On the one hand, there appears to be a growing body of research suggesting that playing contact or collision sports for a long period of time likely has, at least for some unknown percentage of athletes, serious adverse health consequences, not just from concussions but from the cumulative effect of sub-concussive blows to the head, blows which athletes in youth football, lacrosse, and, until recently, hockey, suffer on an almost constant basis in both games and practices.

Once attached to a player's helmet (a hockey version is available now, versions for football, lacrosse, and ski and snowboard helmets will be introduced in 2012) The ShockboxTM sensor measures the G - Force of a hit to the helmet from any direction, and then sends the data wirelessly via Bluetooth to the athletic trainer, coach or parent's smart phone to alert them when the athlete suffers a traumatic head impact that may be concussive so they can be removed from the game or practice for evaluation on the sideline using standard concussion assessment tools, such as the Standardized Assessment of Concussion, Sports Concussion Assessment Tool (SCAT2) or King - Devick test.

Based on data showing that, while youth football players sustained concussions at about the same rate in practice and overall as high school and college athletes, they were injured at a rate 3 to 4 times higher than older players during games, the UPMC researchers predicted that Pop Warner's new rules «may not only have little effect on reducing on reducing concussions but may also actually increase the incidence of concussions in games via reduced time learning proper tackling in practice.»

Following a season of grueling practices and hard - fought games, football and ice hockey players who had no outward sign of head trauma showed worrisome changes in brain structure and cognitive performance that weren't shared by athletes who competed in varsity sports such as track, crew and cross-country skiing, according to a report published Wednesday in the journal Neurology.

If you go to a college or high school football game, you'll see dedicated athletes giving their all in a pastime that in some cases, unfortunately, leads to tragic injuries.

Since adopting the program in 2013, total injuries spanning practices and games among our football - playing student - athletes have decreased 23.9 percent and concussions have decreased 43.3 percent.

An estimated nearly 2.7 million reported concussions occurred during that time — an annual average of 39.8 concussions per 100,000 times a player hit the field for practice or games — among athletes in nine sports: football, basketball, soccer, baseball or wrestling for boys, and basketball, soccer, softball and volleyball for girls.

Loaded with exercises used by the most prolific tight end in the game of football today, Six Star athlete Rob Gronkowski, this program will not disappoint!

It works wonders with athletes who usually have to give all - out efforts in a sporting event for a short amount of time, while tak - ing planned or unplanned rest periods throughout the game (football play - ers, MMA fighters).

ACL tears in young female athletes are far too common, and we see «noncontact» ACL tears in football games, where the ligament ruptures while the player is running.

In development by EA Tiburon, the same folks behind Madden, NFL Blitz promises to be the only football game this year that allows you to set players on fire, and play with your choice of athletes, zombies, robots and apes as demonstrated in the above traileIn development by EA Tiburon, the same folks behind Madden, NFL Blitz promises to be the only football game this year that allows you to set players on fire, and play with your choice of athletes, zombies, robots and apes as demonstrated in the above trailein the above trailer.

So this may not end up being the first step in lucrative career of appearing in video games for our nation's collegiate athletes, but CBS Sports reports that every player who has appeared in one of EA's college football or basketball games is eligible to make some money off of this settlement, so that's a pretty sweet deal at least.

That seemed to be the end of it, and in 2014 we would get the same great - tasting football game in a brand - new package, but it turns out that EA also had a legion of disgruntled student - athletes knocking on its door.