Modern footballs 'not much safer'
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Heading a modern-day football is not significantly safer than an old-style leather ball, ballistics experts find.
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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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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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The extra point is supposed to be a routine play. When you think about it, a lot of it is muscle memory. Snap, hold and a short kick by a former soccer player.
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EUROPEAN football could be rocked by proposals setting the minimum number of homegrown players clubs must field. Under new Uefa guidelines, it could be that all clubs in Europe are forced into having between
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For most of us these days, football is nothing more than a TV show, a snappy montage of familiar uniforms, highlight plays and stat lines.
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Middlesbrough manager Gareth Southgate has warned his defenders they must be more resilient if they want to survive in the Premiership.
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Kevin Everett's life-threatening spinal injury raises anew concerns about the dangers of the gridiron
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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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They're all the same when they get hit too much. Tom Brady is better than most quarterbacks when it comes to being patient, avoiding mistakes, and giving his team a chance to win no matter what the situation, but when you get knocked around the way he was being knocked around last night at Semi-Pro Player Park, there's ...
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In the NFL, it used to be the object of the game was to get into the end zone. Now, the object of the game is to get into the end zone and act like a fool.
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Kicking is more likely to cause serious injury than fists or weapons in fights, a study shows.
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The fall tradition needs an overhaul, starting with that whole 'kicking the ball' thing.
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For rabid fans of the New York Giants and New England Patriots, this Sunday's Super Bowl won't be just a game. It may be a health hazard. Heart attacks and other cardiac emergencies doubled in Munich, Germany, when that nation's soccer team played in World Cup matches, a new study reports.
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Mondayâs Links Ryan Wilson at the FanHouse points out that your team is in bad shape when the best thing that happens to you all day is a car accident that youâre not injured in. The Consumerist reports on how the Patriots, unable to spy on opposing teams, now have taken to spying on their fans. [...].
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Many players are uncomfortable that, for the first time in 35 years, the N.B.A changed the only piece of equipment it uses: the ball.
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Everybody at the NFL Players Association is very concerned. They told us so yesterday when the subject of aging and down-on-their-luck former players with minimal pension benefits and poor disability coverage was raised at a union press conference. It came five hours after a small group of former players ripped the union and the league for doing too ...