Sentences with phrase «on local athletes»

Just as the Olympic broadcast includes fluff pieces on local athletes excelling in the events and small profiles of local culture, the media for London 2012: The Official Video Game is also filled with fluff pieces.

Not exact matches

In the meantime, if you see your favorite local athlete at the horse track with a limping dog on a leash, he's not there to bet the trifecta, he's looking for the vet.

The summer camps, featuring big - name players and coaches, have always provided a come - on, but the strength of the program lies in the local Huddles, where an older athlete meets with younger ones.

We didn't get a national wave of follow up front page stories on local youth coaches who abused athletes or coaches who didn't report child sexual, physical or emotional abuse to their local police or child protective agencies.

Interestingly, just days before the NFL's decision to suspend the use of impact sensors was announced, my local paper, The Boston Globe, came out with a powerful editorial in which it urged college, high school, and recreational leagues in contact and collision sports to consider mandating use of impact sensors, or, at the very least, experimenting with the technology, to alert the sideline personnel to hits that might cause concussion, and to track data on repetitive head impacts, which, a growing body of peer - reviewed evidence suggests, may result, over time, in just as much, if not more, damage to an athlete's brain, as a single concussive blow, and may even predispose an athlete to concussion.

In that speech (a full copy of which you can view by clicking here), I offered some suggestions on how each of us — whether we be parent, coach, official, athletic trainer, clinician, current or former professional athlete, sports safety equipment manufacturer, whether we were there representing a local youth sports program, the national governing body of a sport, or a professional sports league, could work together as a team to protect our country's most precious human resource — our children — against catastrophic injury or death from sudden impact syndrome or the serious, life - altering consequences of multiple concussions.

Despite an increase in media attention, as well as national and local efforts to educate athletes on the potential dangers of traumatic brain injuries, a new study found that many high school football players are not concerned about the long - term effects of concussions and don't report their own concussion symptoms because they fear exclusion from play.

Less than a week after President Donald Trump called for the firing of NFL players who protest during the national anthem, some student - athletes on the local level are now also taking a knee during the anthem.

The 2016 State Winter Games will commence on February 19th with Opening Ceremonies, including a ceremonial parade of athletes, motivational speeches, local entertainment, and the Law Enforcement Torch Run at the Mid-Hudson Civic Center in the City of Poughkeepsie.

First and foremost, my former grad student and current employee Leo Thornley has taken on the bulk of the actual day - to - day sport science support with our existing local stable of teams and athletes.

The local environment can sometimes affect characteristics like this — for example, human athletes can actually show different types of bone growth depending on what sports they play.

As an endurance athlete, you want to be building local muscular endurance and full body stability - exercise choice depends on what your sport is.

While the true CrossFit experience will take place at your local box with a team of athletes sweating right alongside you, it's possible to get in on the action just about anywhere on your own — even at home.

That same summer, my sister Abigail, in those days still known as the baby, even though just a bit more than a year younger than I, made the local paper, the Vineyard Gazette, when she won something like eight different prizes at the county fair on a muggy August night by throwing darts at balloons and baseballs at milk bottles, and so solidified her position as the family's only potential athlete — none of the rest of us dared try, for our parents always preached brains over brawn.

Four hundred local athletes, Royal Resorts members and visitors to Cancun are competing in the First Royal Resorts Foundation Race for charity on February 21, 2016.

Visitors and locals alike line the streets to cheer on and celebrate the thrilling excitement of watching top athletes to compete in this grueling 140 - mile roundtrip race from Belize City in the east to San Ignacio Town in the western part of the country.

Those contributors include local skiers, foodies, and pro athletes who provide helpful information on where to shop, where to eat, and where to go after spending a long day on the slopes.

Mr. Ahern is a sought after speaker on the local, state and national levels and is a competitive endurance athlete and fly fisherman.