With the third round of the hallowed FA Cup kicking off in January, many of the minnows of the English soccer game will be looking to Lincoln City for inspiration following its historic run in the competition last year. The club, which was in the lowly fifth tier of English soccer last season, was the […]
NEW YORK — The classic eye chart adorning the wall in nearly every vision care provider’s office hails from the work of Dutch ophthalmologist Herman Snellen in 1862, a continent and century away from modern baseball. Snellen’s concoction is black print on white paper with a bottom line whose minute typeface rarely poses a challenge […]
Ben Hoffman and Sarah Piampiano are two of the best Ironman triathletes in the world. They train and compete through a grueling schedule that lasts almost all year, culminating in the Ironman World Championship in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii in October. It takes an unwavering competitive fire to prepare for the 140.6-mile race, but a little device […]
Sparta Science, which has technology aimed at predicting and preventing injuries, has announced its first partnership with an English Premier League club in Stoke City F.C. The deal means that Stoke City will use Sparta’s software platform, SpartaTrac. This platform is paired with a force plate, which is used to scan athletes within 60 seconds. […]
NEW YORK — For more than a month during the snowless summer and fall, the U.S. ski and snowboard jumpers were still out on the slopes of the Utah Olympic Park practicing their jumps all thanks to the recent installation of a ramp lined with an innovative artificial snow and giant downward sloping air bag. […]
