News tagged with players
Online poker advocates lobby Congress to lift federal ban
Jul 22, 2009 |
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Poker players are gambling on Congress seeing things their way.
ACL reconstruction doesn't harm NFL career length, study suggests
Jul 11, 2009 |
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Knee injuries are a common problem in collegiate and professional football, often hindering an individual's career length and future. A study presented at the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine's Annual Meeting ...
Motion analysis helps soccer players get their kicks
Jul 09, 2009 |
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As soccer continues to grow in popularity, injuries to soccer players are likely to increase as well. Certain injuries fall into gender-based patterns and new research at Hospital for Special Surgery suggests some underlying ...
Yahoo, NFL players union settle lawsuit
Jul 07, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Yahoo Inc. and the NFL Players Association have reached a settlement over use of players' statistics, photos and other data in Yahoo's popular online fantasy football game, but details were not immediately available ...
Group says poker winnings are frozen
Jun 10, 2009 |
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(AP) -- An advocacy group for online poker said Tuesday that the federal government has frozen more than $30 million in the accounts of payment processors that handle the winnings of thousands of online poker players.
New technique developed to evaluate basketball players
Jun 05, 2009 |
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A team of Spanish and American researchers has developed a method to evaluate basketball players that will, they say, better meet the requirements of the sport's trainers and experts. The technique uses mathematical models ...
Yahoo sues NFL Players Association over data (Update)
Jun 03, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Yahoo Inc. has sued the NFL Players Association, claiming it shouldn't have to pay royalties to use players' statistics, photos and other data in its popular online fantasy football game because the ...
New study finds lowfat chocolate milk is effective post-exercise recovery aid for soccer players
Jun 01, 2009 |
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Soccer players and exercise enthusiasts now have another reason to reach for lowfat chocolate milk after a hard workout, suggests a new study from James Madison University presented at the American College of Sports Medicine ...
Minor league hockey players unable to identify concussion symptoms, study says
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
May 27, 2009 |
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When Chicago Blackhawk's leading scorer Martin Havlat returned to the ice for game four of the Western Conference Final after sustaining a concussion only two days earlier, questions were raised surrounding his swift return. ...
'Curve ball' wins international illusion contest
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
May 26, 2009 |
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Science has proven what baseball players have known for more than a hundred years, the curve ball is more powerful than the brain.
NFL players promoting improved physical education
Mar 19, 2009 |
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(AP) -- NFL players are coming to Capitol Hill to tackle an important issue - physical education in schools.
Grand prizes might help induce sports 'hot streaks'
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Mar 17, 2009 |
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Dangling a lucrative financial carrot at the end of a professional sport season can cause certain players to exert the effort necessary to put together a string of successful performances, sometimes known in sporting circles ...
Download, install and drive -- the future of automotive software
Feb 18, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Computers, mobile phones and other electronic devices regularly download software updates to keep obsolescence at bay. That’s not the norm for cars. But that could change thanks to an automotive ...
New iPod listening study shows surprising behavior of teens
Feb 18, 2009 |
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A new study involving iPods and teenagers by the University of Colorado at Boulder and Children's Hospital Boston indicates teenagers who receive pressure from their peers or others to turn down the volume of their iPods ...
Surprising results: Virtual games players stick close to home
Feb 14, 2009 |
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In the real world, tracking a person's social network -- which could include hundreds of contacts that serve different purposes -- is nearly impossible.
