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November 30, 2005
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November 23, 2005
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There's been an alrming rise in the number of hernias football players are getting.
Dungy, who has been coaching in the NFL since 1981, finds these injuries baffling. He doesn’t remember them from his playing days in the 1970s and wasn’t even familiar with the term until about five years ago.
Today, the injury is as familiar in football terminology as high ankle sprains and turf toes, and Dungy wonders whether teams should – or could – be taking precautions to reduce sports hernias.
“We’re seeing it all the time, at all positions,” Dungy said, shaking his head. “We’ve seen it in defensive linemen, quarterbacks. I don’t have an answer for what’s going on.”
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FIFA is having second thoughts on the goal line technology.
FIFA president Sepp Blatter gave a strong hint on Tuesday that he does not support the use of goalline technology in football and suggests people in the game should "live with" errors.
"I am very conservative when it comes to the laws of the game," he told Reuters in an interview after the launching of a sponsorship deal with Coca-Cola in South Africa.
"I would say we shall live with the errors, not only the errors of the players and the coaches but we shall also live with the errors of the referees."
"So, let the game be as it is," Blatter said.
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November 11, 2005
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Another voice says no to Robo-refs.
Firstly, what makes football exciting is the controversy over refereeing decisions and the talking points they generate for fans for years to come.
Was it a goal or was it not? Did a player dive or was he tripped?
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November 07, 2005
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I lived in Canada for a few months during the winter Olympics one year, and I got deep into curling. Yeah, the weird game with the big stones and the brooms. Anyway, I'm happy to see curling is adopting some cool training technologies:
Loaded with sensors and a memory card, the 'sweep ergometer' allows curlers to measure how well they are performing one of the game's crucial tasks: sweeping the ice in front of the stone to help guide it perfectly to the target.
The downward force exerted by the sweepers, how far the brush travels across the path of the stone and details on the fitness of the players are all collected by the broom and fed into a computer for analysis.
The development is a milestone in the world of curling, where the exact effects of sweeping have long been debated and continue to be a matter of guesswork for most of the game's 1.4 million players.
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November 02, 2005
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According to this piece:
There's a buzz that Nike and Bausch & Lomb are developing sport-tinted contact lenses for sports played at night under artificial lights.
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