Human Eye Can&#39;t Spot Offside Soccer Players, Study Finds
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Soccer fans may be right when they complain the referee got it wrong. The human eye can&#39;t detect when a soccer player is in an offside position, according to a study in tomorrow&#39;s British Medical Journal.
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It&#39;s hard to decide whether this fixture is a quaint anachronism, a free-flowing tribute to the game&#39;s glorious, money-free past or naked commercial opportunism.
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Anyone born deaf and mute faces a challenge playing in a soccer team -- it's hard to communicate on the pitch, players cannot hear the referee's whistle and few coaches know sign language.
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NEW YORK  - College-age soccer players may show some degree of brain-tissue shrinkage, a small study has found -- adding to evidence that the sport carries a risk of long-term brain injury.
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Americans see sport as entertainment. But the British do not necessarily want to be entertained at a sporting event. We require long-term emotional involvement.
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NEW YORK  - Taking regular sips of a  carbohydrate-electrolyte sports drink during a soccer match  appears to help soccer players maintain their stamina, findings  from a new study indicate.
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A professional athlete sidelined by an injury might as well be a dead man. Harsh, but true. If you are too hurt to play, you might as well stay home. Some teammates don't even want to look at you. Reminds them of their own vulnerability. In a big league locker room, no one wants to talk about ...
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By Jeannine SteinTHOUSANDS of kids play soccer for fun, but years-long involvement with the game can have more health benefits than routine physical activity.
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A Spanish doctor believes he has discovered why offside decisions in football matches are often so controversial. Francisco Belda Maruenda, a family doctor in Murcia, said in order for the
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David Beckham plays soccer.  Sort of.  Some companies claim to be open source.  Sort of.  Here's why both are bad for the game.
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When someone is "easy on the eye," it   could also be because they are easy on the brain, according to   a new international study.
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NEW YORK  - The youngest elite female soccer players are at greater risk of being injured than their older teammates, possibly because they haven't yet developed strategies to avoid getting hurt, according to a study from France.
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LONDON -- A friendly game of soccer works off more fat and builds up more muscle than jogging, new research shows. Danish scientists, who conducted their research on 37 men, also found the soccer players felt less tired after exercising than the joggers because they were having more fun.
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Statistics in sport often tell only half  the story.
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Women&#39;s soccer is one of the fastest growing sports in America, and new research has linked knee injury to an increased risk of developing arthritis.
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The Premier league is set to test Hawk-eye technology in football with a view to remove doubts over goal-line decisions, the chief of the company that makes the product has said.
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Perhaps the biggest fallacy in sports is the hoary notion -- repeated time and again by athletes and coaches -- that they don&#39;t read the newspapers or watch TV.