SEC champion and College Football Playoff entrant Georgia has been using MuscleSound for assessments of players’ game readiness this season. MuscleSound is a Colorado-based company that uses ultrasound imagery to measure glycogen and determine muscle fuel by sending photos to its cloud for computation with its proprietary algorithms. Low readings can be a precursor to […]
Advancements in technology are transforming the sports science space for professional athletes and their coaches, who are utilizing groundbreaking new methods to ensure their players get an extra 1-2% edge over the competition. From eye-tracking technology that aims to boost performance in critical situations, sleep science programs to improve recovery and virtual reality technology that can help […]
Sports is chock-full of seemingly unbeatable records. Joe DiMaggio’s hit streak, Cal Ripken’s consecutive-games streak and Wayne Gretzky’s 2,857 career points all represent mind-boggling figures. These are the numbers that keep us watching. An elusive mark from the running world is the 2-hour marathon. The closest anyone has come (and the current world record) was […]
NEW YORK — The Nebraska men’s basketball team was ranked No. 13 out of the 14 Big Ten teams in the unofficial conference media poll in the preseason, but coach Tim Miles was not discouraged. “Lucky 13, I like it,” Miles quipped last month at media day. “Right where we need to be. We’ve got […]
Researchers have published a study which, they say, confirms the presence of chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, in a living person for the first time. CTE — a degenerative brain disease that is thought to be caused by repeated brain trauma including concussions and sub-concussive hits — can currently only be diagnosed through direct examination […]
