Sentences with phrase «practiced as a sporting»

Dog obedience is practiced as a sporting activity that demonstrates a handler and dog's ability to work as a team.

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But this isn't a sport, it's business — the Great Game of Business, as practiced by Springfield Remanufacturing Corp. (SRC), the midsize Missouri company that may be having more effect on American management than any 10 of the nation's business schools have.

While many viewers complain about NBC's tape - delay tradition, the network maintains that the practice is better for ratings as NBC claims female viewers (who actually make up the bulk of the Olympics» audience) watch sports differently than men do, with women investing more in coverage showing athletes» journeys to the games than in the actual results.

With KPMG stepping up and paying Lewis in full, it could encourage her other sponsors to follow suit, and hopefully lead to it becoming standard practice across the sport of golf, as well as other sports where athletes compete as individual contractors, such as tennis.

Organizations, movements, and practices as different as «secular» environmentalism, academic economics, and sports spectacles have religious dimensions.

There are many illustrations of their nostalgic attachment to the old ways, such as their tendency to escape into the desert for sports and physical and spiritual refreshment, the practice of sending their children to be reared in Bedouin encampments to protect them from the effects of city life, and the legends of the desert which beguile their evening hours.

On the other hand, various Hellenistic practices, such as gymnastic sports which involved nudity were a danger to traditional behavior.

The recipient of several national accolades, including selection as America's Next Top Restaurant Franchise, as well as recognition among Entrepreneur Magazine's Top 500 Franchises of 2018 and Full Service Restaurant magazine's Top 50 Emerging Restaurant Chains, Arooga's Grille House & Sports Bar continues to charm the industry with its commitment to utilizing the latest technology in enhancing the guest experience and improving operational practices, creating unique and delicious menu items with fresh natural, ingredients, and observing environmentally responsible operation methods in their restaurants as part of their certification by the Green Restaurant Association.

The goal of the All American Sports Academy is to train and educate all student athletes on the correct physical skills and mechanics needed to compete at all levels, as well as understand the proper practice habits and time management skills needed to improve their game.

This is why on the Friday before the Kansas race everyone in the sport — owners, crew chiefs, pit crews, engineers — will closely monitor the speed chart as the first practice begins at noon CDT.

WATER POLO As a member of the University of Rhode Island water polo team from 1976 to» 80, I found that your article about the 1988 U.S. Olympic water polo team (Dunking a Tough Foe, July 18) brought back fond memories of the hours I spent practicing and playing this wonderful sport.

As I watched games and practices each week and spent extended time around the coaching staff, it was clear to me — as it has been to many others who have had the same opportunity — that the pro- gram is much less about athletes and sport and much more about people and growtAs I watched games and practices each week and spent extended time around the coaching staff, it was clear to me — as it has been to many others who have had the same opportunity — that the pro- gram is much less about athletes and sport and much more about people and growtas it has been to many others who have had the same opportunity — that the pro- gram is much less about athletes and sport and much more about people and growth.

It's not until the hot days of August that Northern California football teams will start official practices, but for us at Cal - Hi Sports the kickoff of preseason for many years has been the annual Nike - sponsored camp for Northern California's top college prospects that is now known as The Opening Regionals.

«º» º FOLLOW FOOTBALL - SPECIFIC CONDITIONING «'' Practice movements, forms and techniques, such as proper pivoting, specific to your sport.

'' FOLLOW FOOTBALL - SPECIFIC CONDITIONING — Practice movements, forms and techniques, such as proper pivoting, specific to your sport.

Captain Eric is as strong a leader as there is in All Sports Series and there's no doubt this crew will be practicing even harder in the off - season.

You'll be practicing or playing over every vacation break, and you'll be expected to be 100 percent committed to each sport — and you'll get pressure from each coach to work on their sport as much as you can.

Palmer has previous experience in the media, having been a co-commentator for the GP2 Series and several F1 Free Practice sessions with Sky Sports F1 during his stint as Lotus's third driver in 2015.

Also of note is the finding that the best performing young footballers who will go on to play the sport professionally display superior dribbling skills, endurance capacity and tactical awareness compared to their peers, from as early as 14 years of age.9 17 These differences appear well before it is possible to accumulate 10 000 h of practice, but allow predictions of which players will go on to achieve best performances in adulthood, suggesting that the effectiveness of and response to training, rather than simply training, determines success.

While this is partially explained by football's broadcasting boom, the internationalisation of the clubs» commercial operations, their investment into privately - owned and modern facilities, and overall more sustainable management practices, are also key reasons for this growth,» Andrea Sartori, KPMG's global head of sports and the report's author, was quoted as saying by BBC.

Sporting activity is focused on achievement in one sport and practice also begins to incorporate other activities such as weight lifting.

The Illusionary Treatment Option» by Gary Reinl, a former personal trainer and the developer of an electronic stimulation device, in which he argues that ice delays healing from a sports injury, quoting no less an authority than Dr. Gabe Mirkin, who, it says, is credited with developing the rehabilitation acronym RICE (rest, ice, compression, and elevation), as now being against the practice because, he claims, icing «decreases circulation, so it slows healing.»

Touted as the first of their kind, the guidelines, however, largely mirror best practice recommendations that MomsTEAM Institute has long advocated that independent sports programs adopt as part of a holistic approach to safety using a process spelled out in the International Safeguards for Children of Sports, which MTI played a part in developing as part of a 38 - member global coalition of sports safety NGO's, and that is embodied in its SmartTeams prsports programs adopt as part of a holistic approach to safety using a process spelled out in the International Safeguards for Children of Sports, which MTI played a part in developing as part of a 38 - member global coalition of sports safety NGO's, and that is embodied in its SmartTeams prSports, which MTI played a part in developing as part of a 38 - member global coalition of sports safety NGO's, and that is embodied in its SmartTeams prsports safety NGO's, and that is embodied in its SmartTeams program.

Getting an active child to sit down for a meal of any kind, much less a well - balanced, made - from - scratch meal with the entire family, as he rushes off to or home from school, sports practices or games, or other activities that cram virtually every nook and cranny of a child's day, has become virtually impossible for many families, especially those headed by single parents.

• Does driving to / from practices and games and watching youth sports «count» as family time?

The day - long event will take a holistic approach to youth sports safety which addresses not just a child's physical safety, but emotional, psychological and sexual safety as well, and will show how, by following best practices, youth sports programs can stem the rising tide of injuries that have become an all - too - common and unfortunate by - product of today's hyper - competitive, overspecialized, and over-commercialized youth sports environment.

In an editorial accompanying the study, Russell Pate and Dr. Jennifer O'Neil of the Department of Exercise Science at the University of South Carolina said the study showed the «need to learn ways in which the doses of physical activity provided during youth sports and activity programs can be most effectively increased by modifying the manner in which the practices and contests are conducted... [such as] by changes in instructional practices that produce greater emphasis on keeping youth active while they learn individual skills and team strategies.»

Concussion or Sports - Related Head Injury: Code 20 -2-324.1 (2013) requires each local board of education, administration of a nonpublic school and governing body of a charter school to adopt and implement a concussion management and return to play policy that includes the following components: 1) an information sheet to all youth athletes» parents or legal guardians informing them of the nature and risk of concussion and head injury, 2) requirement for removal from play and examination by a health care provider for those exhibiting symptoms of a concussion during a game, competition, tryout or practice and 3) for those youth that have sustained a concussion (as determined by a health care provider), the coach or other designated personnel shall not permit the youth athlete to return to play until they receive clearance from a health care provider for a full or graduated return to play.

She is a member of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, Northern Virginia Dietetic Association where she serves is the current Social Media Chair and past Council on Practice chair, Virginia Dietetic Association, School Nutrition Association where she serves on the Young Professionals Taskforce, School Nutrition Association of Loudoun County where she serves as President, Nutrition Entrepreneurs Dietetics Practice Group, Sports and Cardiovascular Nutrition Dietetics Practice Group, Dietitians in Business and Communications Dietetics Practice Group, and is an active member of the Young Professionals Committee for the Loudoun County Chamber of Commerce where she serves as Social Media Chair.

In the end, it all comes back to education: In the ideal world, a parent's decision about whether to allow a child to start playing or continue playing collision sports before high school under current rules of play (which are evolving in the direction of safety, fortunately, as seen, for instance, in USA Hockey's ban on body checking at the Pee Wee hockey level and below, and limits on full - contact practices instituted at every level of football, from Pop Warner, to high school, college, and the NFL), will be a conscious one; a decision in which the risks of participating in a particular sport - provided it is based on the most up - to - date information about those risks and a consideration of other risk factors that might come into play for their child, such as pre-existing learning disabilities (e.g. ADHD), chronic health conditions (e.g., a history of history of multiple concussions or seizures, history of migraines), or a reckless and overly aggressive style of play - are balanced against the benefits to the child of participating.

And as my kids get older, their schedules get even more hectic - during what I find to be the dinner «witching hour» of all sports practices and meal time hitting between 5 - 8 pm!

«Mommy will still buy food and make dinner for you» and «Daddy will still take you to school in the mornings and to sports practices on the weekends» as these kind of concrete events are what mark a child's world as predictable and understandable.

It brings everyone together which is important as we are all usually off doing something personal like sports practice or assorted errands.

There's «Dad's Taxi Service» which is on call 24 hours for trips to music lessons, gymnastics, sports practices, as well as the other necessities of life like the dentist, orthodontist, haircuts, etc..

This certification program provides general youth sports information as well as sport - specific drills, skills and practice plans.

An informative guide that covers a variety of youth sports topics such as effectively dealing with parents, tips for building self - esteem & confidence in children, tips for teaching sportsmanship, organizing quality practices, strength and conditioning, flexibility, plus much more!

You may find it becomes more and more difficult to sit down as a family for meals, thanks to music lessons, sports practices and events, and your child's blossoming independence and desire to hang out with friends.

All of us involved in youth sports - from parents, to coaches, from athletic trainers to school athletic directors to the athletes themselves - have a responsibility to do what we can to make contact and collision sports safer, whether it by reducing the number of hits to the head a player receives over the course of a season (such as N.F.L. and the Ivy League are doing in limiting full - contact practices, and the Sports Legacy Institute recently proposed be considered at the youth and high school level in its Hit Count program), teaching football players how to tackle without using their head (as former pro football player Bobby Hosea has long advocated), changing the rules (as the governing body for high school hockey in Minnesota did in the aftermath of the Jack Jablonski injury or USA Hockey did in banning body checks at the Pee Wee level), or giving serious consideration to whether athletes below a certain age should be playing tackle football at all (as the American Academy of Pediatrics recomsports - from parents, to coaches, from athletic trainers to school athletic directors to the athletes themselves - have a responsibility to do what we can to make contact and collision sports safer, whether it by reducing the number of hits to the head a player receives over the course of a season (such as N.F.L. and the Ivy League are doing in limiting full - contact practices, and the Sports Legacy Institute recently proposed be considered at the youth and high school level in its Hit Count program), teaching football players how to tackle without using their head (as former pro football player Bobby Hosea has long advocated), changing the rules (as the governing body for high school hockey in Minnesota did in the aftermath of the Jack Jablonski injury or USA Hockey did in banning body checks at the Pee Wee level), or giving serious consideration to whether athletes below a certain age should be playing tackle football at all (as the American Academy of Pediatrics recomsports safer, whether it by reducing the number of hits to the head a player receives over the course of a season (such as N.F.L. and the Ivy League are doing in limiting full - contact practices, and the Sports Legacy Institute recently proposed be considered at the youth and high school level in its Hit Count program), teaching football players how to tackle without using their head (as former pro football player Bobby Hosea has long advocated), changing the rules (as the governing body for high school hockey in Minnesota did in the aftermath of the Jack Jablonski injury or USA Hockey did in banning body checks at the Pee Wee level), or giving serious consideration to whether athletes below a certain age should be playing tackle football at all (as the American Academy of Pediatrics recomSports Legacy Institute recently proposed be considered at the youth and high school level in its Hit Count program), teaching football players how to tackle without using their head (as former pro football player Bobby Hosea has long advocated), changing the rules (as the governing body for high school hockey in Minnesota did in the aftermath of the Jack Jablonski injury or USA Hockey did in banning body checks at the Pee Wee level), or giving serious consideration to whether athletes below a certain age should be playing tackle football at all (as the American Academy of Pediatrics recommend).

Applying ice to an injured ankle is universally accepted as best practice by athletic trainers and other health care professionals immediately after acute ankle injury (1), among other sports injuries.

A March 2013 review of current risk - reduction strategies in the British Journal of Sports Medicine [11] reminds state high school athletic associations and legislatures that, in enacting rules, such as limits on full - contact practices, they «need to carefully consider potential injury «trade - offs» associated with the implementation of injury - prevention strategies, because every change may have certain advantages and disadvantages.

The NCAA Sport Science Institute and leading scientific and sports medicine organizations have developed recommendations for athletics departments and coaches to use as they plan their year - round football practice sessions.

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.

Between work and school, music lessons, and sports practice, there is less and less time to connect as a family.

Best practices need to be identified, and child protection programs implemented to combat the physical, emotional and sexual abuse of our children in sports, as is done in Great Britain.

As a tween, though, your child has more autonomy, or the ability to take charge of many of her own responsibilities, like due dates for school projects and when she needs to leave for sports practice.

Under this policy members are covered while acting in their capacity as administrators in youth sports activities if they become legally obligated to pay for claims arising out of wrongful acts in the running of the league or team, employment practices, person injury or publishers liability.

In the sport - specific training coaches learn how to teach the basic skills and fundamentals of the particular sport they are coaching, as well as effective drills to use during their practices.

Using the existing studies as a foundation, we highlight areas for future research and practice to help create youth sport settings that are more consistent with obesity prevention goals.

Five months after Rory Lamont, the former Scotland full - back, lifted the lid in an exclusive Scotsman interview on a culture within sport that treated concussion as a temporary, minor injury, rugby unions, leading sports medics, government officials and other sporting bodies have begun to accept that some of their practices in managing head injuries were inadequate.

Studies have shown that certain sports cause higher numbers of concussions, as does competing in actual games or matches rather than practice.