Sentences with phrase «than the ice hockey»

«There are now almost as many gamers in the world as traditional sports fans, and eSports is set to become bigger than ice hockey during 2015,» says Lindemann.

As parents discover that lacrosse is more exciting than soccer, cheaper than ice hockey and not as dangerous as football, the game is getting a closer look.

Not exact matches

The only way to know if someone has scored, as with ice hockey, is by the reaction of the players rather than actually tracking the ball into the net.

Red Berenson, Ice Hockey Head Coach «There's been an emotional tie between Michigan and Nike longer than we know, dating back to Don Canham and Phil Knight.

As a Canadian and growing up a visible minority in small towns out east I took to (ice) hockey more out a sense of survival than anything else.

Blackburn Rovers put a more than healthy eleven point gap between them and the drop after victory over Bolton Wanderers last Sunday in a game which was had more of an Ice Hockey feel than football.

«We see more head injuries [in the pediatric emergency department] due to ice hockey and football than any other sport by far.»

That the study found concussion rates for ice hockey (10 per 100,000) and football (8 per 100,000) among younger athletes (7 - to 11 - year - olds) much higher than the overall concussion rate (1 per 100,000), were «not surprising» to lead author, Lisa L. Bakhos, M.D., a Pediatric Emergency Medicine Attending at Jersey Shore University Medical Center in Neptune, New Jersey.

Overall, reported concussions rates are more frequent among high school athletes than college athletes in some sports — including football, men's lacrosse and soccer, and baseball; higher for competition than practice (except for cheerleading); and highest in football, ice hockey, lacrosse, wrestling, soccer, and women's basketball.

It takes years to build an ice rink, though,» said Darryl Seibel, a spokesman for USA Hockey, whose nationwide membership of players, coaches and officials has more than doubled to 464,713 in the last seven years.

«It takes no more than conversation at the dinner table for a young person to decide with their parents (that) they want to play ice hockey.

The village expects the popularity of youth ice hockey around Chicago to help bring in revenue of more than $ 300,000 a year from the center after operating expenses.

High school athletes still suffer far more serious head injuries playing football and ice hockey than soccer, according to a study by RIO, which tracks concussion rates in high school sports.

The overall risk of injury in amateur boxing is actually lower than in some other collision sports such as football, rugby, and ice hockey

Restriction of body checking in boys» ice hockey games to the highest competition levels (eg, AAA, AA, Tier I, Tier II), starting no earlier than 15 years of age.

To promote ice hockey as a lifelong recreational pursuit for boys, the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends the expansion of nonchecking programs and the restriction of body checking to elite levels of boys» youth ice hockey, starting no earlier than 15 years of age.

A recent study of high school sports revealed that the concussion rate in boys» ice hockey (5.4 per 10000 AEs) was second only to football (6.4 per 10000 AEs); however, concussions accounted for a greater proportion of total injures in boys» ice hockey (22.2 %) than any of the other 20 sports, with 30 % of the concussions in ice hockey resulting from a player being body checked.

Overall, concussions are most common in football and ice hockey, followed by soccer, wrestling and other sports, and slightly more boys than girls suffer concussions.

When management forces talented, troubled hockey star Alex Crossman to help run a program for at - risk teens in order to make up for his poor sportsmanship on the ice, he's less than thrilled.

Two figures, one in disconcertingly martial camouflage, the other wearing what looks like a woolly hat, but is apparently supposed to represent his brain, were inspired by people seen at an ice hockey match in New York, while a top - knotted figure pointing a video camera hints overtly at the current impulse to photograph distressing scenes rather than intervene — as in the recent incident when American youths laughed at and filmed a drowning man.

Their two main results are a confirmation that current global surface temperatures are hotter than at any time in the past 1,400 years (the general «hockey stick» shape, as shown in Figure 1), and that while the Medieval Warm Period (MWP) and Little Ice Age (LIA) are clearly visible events in their reconstruction, they were not globally synchronized events.

It would have exposed a culture of violence and retribution within the National Hockey League that reached a crescendo on that March night more than 10 years ago when Todd Bertuzzi blindsided Moore with a punch to the head and then drove his face into the ice.