The Patriots quarterback’s new book makes some dubious claims about how he has maintained his fitness into his 40s. What do the experts make of it all?Tom Brady may well be the greatest NFL player of all time. He already possesses or shares a host of quarterback records – career wins, Super Bowl wins, career playoff touchdowns – and if he continues to play as long as he has hinted, he may finish his career owning them all. But while Brady has it all, his attempt to pass on his performance secrets in his book, The TB12 Method: How to Achieve a Lifetime of Sustained Peak Performance, falls flat and contains all sorts of dubious claims. The overall message of...
Bermane Stiverne dishonoured boxing’s most important crown when destroyed by the American and with a lack of contenders the sport needs Joshua v WilderThe good news is that Deontay Wilder is making all the right “Bomb Squad” noises about putting his WBC belt up against the IBF and WBA “super” titles owned by Anthony Joshua, holding out the possibility that this most anarchic of sporting industries may soon have a universally recognised world heavyweight champion again. It’s been a while.The complicating factor is Joshua is determined to fulfil his other mandatory defences. Once he has rested properly from his 10-round win over the stubborn Carlos Takam two Saturdays ago in Cardiff, he is happy to accommodate the WBO champion Joseph...
Many scoffed when the Rams and Eagles traded up for two relatively obscure quarterbacks in 2016. But they are repaying their teams this seasonThey stood, almost anonymously, in a park by the lake on an frigid Chicago day in the spring of 2016. Jared Goff and Carson Wentz were barely more than 24 hours from becoming the top two picks of the NFL draft and there was no sense that either man was going to be anything special.They were probably the most obscure quarterbacks to stand one and two in the modern history of the draft. Few of those attending the pre-draft clinic and photo shoot had heard of Wentz just a couple months before. Quarterbacks from North Dakota State...
Japanese IT giant Fujitsu is developing a 3D sensory system that will make scoring easier. But will computers ever fully replace human judges?A light blinks on the black box alerting the gymnast to begin her routine. She launches off the vault, lands and turns to salute the robotic judge. Her score is already flashing on the big screen to the Olympics crowd and to millions of viewers at home, who have followed the live scoring as the move is dissected in real time.This is not a scene from Blade Runner 2049, but a possible vision of gymnastics future as it races to include artificial intelligence in its judging system. Related: USA's Morgan Hurd wins surprise gold in all-around final at...
The Texans quarterback had been on pace to rewrite the rookie quarterback record book until suffering a season-ending ACL tear in practice on ThursdayAn NFL season marked by big-name player injuries and declining TV ratings was dealt more of the former on Thursday when Texans rookie DeShaun Watson tore his ACL, an incident that will likely lead to more of the latter.Through eight weeks of the 2017 season, Watson proved to be the most exciting player in the NFL at the sport’s marquee position and the league’s new appointment-viewing player. Most every record for rookie quarterbacks was in his sights, too. Related: Texans' Deshaun Watson out for year as Colts deny Luck injury is 'career ending' #Clemson's Dabo Sweeney says...