The season has just started yet there are a number of injuries. Seems to go on all the time. It doesn't seem like they get all that tired out or are overworked. Nor very much contact. It doesn't seem to happen as much in the off season yet they train all the time. More injuries than football, hockey etc. Why?
126511
A lot of them are usually due to the fact the players try to do too much too soon.  Also as I'm sure you've noticed, there is a lot of time between plays, so unlike most of the other sports, baseball players are unable to keep their muscles warm, and then required to use them at full speed for a short amount of time.  Think of that poor RF who could conceivably go through an entire game of about 2.5 hours without having a ball hit to him, and then in the bottom of the 9th may have to make a 300+ft throw to home to save a run.  That'll kill your arm in a hurry, especially early in the season.
586611
Having sat and watch countless college level workouts, I can tell you for a fact that YES, there is a lot of the game of soccer that is psychological - and more than just faking passes or shots.  As for faking injuries.  I think the number of "faked" injuries is actually relatively low but the number of very minor injuries that are greatly embellished by melodramtics is pretty high.  Moreover, there is no question that some teams use it more than others but I don't think any team is totally exempt.
306830
Knee injury in sports takes a while to heal. Your friend may be out for the rest of the season. What's important now is for her to get well and resume her game. Patience is required, so is absolute adherence to instructions from who ever is treating her. I wish her well.
576838
When they added the last expansion teams and then resorted the divisions, they had enough teams to have a round schedule for 16 weeks.  The bye week allows the NFL to stretch the season to 17 weeks.  There has been some talk of shortening the pre-season, as most of the stars sit for risk of injury, so it's possible further changes are forthcoming.  I hope so...the season flies by!
502048
The goal posts aren't anchored very well. Most schools prohibit fans from ruching the field after big games now. The pulling down of goal posts has killed and injured many people. I don't don't know when it started. I don't know when coaches and players cut down the net either. They do it after they win the championship or other huge games. It is kind of a tradition now.
380385
I've played goal at a pretty competitive level for the past several years and I've had some really nasty bruises from slapshots that snuck under a pad or hit me in an unprotected area. I've also strained the ligaments in my knee pretty bad and aggravated an old lower back injury several times. All in all, though, I've been pretty fortunate as well. No broken bones or missing teeth!
245586
With all these star players they won't play well together. \nWhat I'm trying to say is with so many stars they each want the glory to themselves and won't play as a team.
596900
Agreed.   \n\n\n   Without a venue to vent frustration in a high paced physical game like hockey, there would be more incidents of stick swinging and potentially more violent injuries.  \n\n  Fighting is not really 'allowed' but tolerated and penaltized.
573972
All athletes face temptation in their quest to get ahead.  They are protected by their organization which is why laws need to be changed and actually enforced.  Owners are reluctant to kick them off the team because then they're not getting their money's worth, but this has to change.
201228
1.  Limit the roughness - never happen, the players enjoy the contact too much.\n2.  Some guys can still go both ways (OH!) but that will lead to more injuries which you said we needed to reduce in item 1.\n3. Since we want to keep injuries down and we aren't going with items 1 or 2, we need a larger roster.  The guys don't get paid NEARLY as much as basketball or baseball players which is ironic since their career duration is much shorter.  Remembering the good players will come naturally.  \n4.  Many people overlook the importance of special teams since it seems like a segue period of getting the ball from team one to team two; a means to an end.  Football enthusiasts (like me) see special teams as important as offense or defense and special teams players are needed as much as the other guys, most of whom just aren't special teams guys.\n\nMy suggestion would be to give the ref the ability to judge pass interference so that it wouldn't automatically be a "ball placed at point of infraction" penalty.  If it's an incidental infraction, make it 10 yards and auto first down play.\n\nAlso, holding is a crappy call that needs standardization.
194321
it takes a long time to organise and for all the nations to prepare and compete........\n\nit incidentally also reduces the chances of a successful team immediately repeating their success on the strength of players alone.....   very healthy for the competition and the sport in general.......
601088
The time added on for stoppages in play.  You know when the guy is rolling around in "pain" while all his teamates are getting a drink of water?   Well, time is money and they pay for that rest in "stoppage time' added at the end of each half.  This also prevents teams from wasting time as well.  BTW- It's not always 5 minutes, it varies with the "rolling around in pain" part.
200614
Yes atheletes are getting better. If you look at it, atheltes today have an advantage because if the get sick or hurt, we have better doctors and medicine that can help them get better. Plus, we have better teaching(like in baseball, better coaches to teach the best swing), and better ways to train. So yes, players are getting better all the time.
404867
Super Bowl hangover, it happens to nearly all Super Bowl winners. Key free agent losses and the retirement of "The Bus" cost them a lot of the leadership they enjoyed last season. Injuries havent helped and the soap opera that was Big Ben over the summer certainly didnt help. They need to regroup and re- dedicate themselves to the goals they had last year and they will be fine. There is still plenty of talent wearing Steeler black.
134683
It's a sports and cultural thing north of the Mason Dixon line and an entertainment thing south of it. In the original six NHL cities and across the Northern tier, they are all cold weather climates where you actually get a pair of skates handed down from your sib's and get a hockey stick as a gift for Christmas. Your shin pads were often a catologue from a department store. \n\nFor markets like LA, Dallas and Miami .. it's all entertainment. This is a choice for those dollars, verses clubs, movies and other sports options. Not that they are our are not viable markets for the entertainment ... but you'll never run out to your back yard, strap on skates and play shinny across a frozen lake or pond.\n\nIt is actually a regional sport and will remain so until an athlete or a team is so powerful that they capture the imagination of the marginal fan. Some say Gretsky could have ... because he was in that class with Michael Jordan and Bo Jackson.
524803
It's something to support his wrist. If you remember a few years back, he missed about 60 games because of a wrist injury. He doesn't fight like he used to, and he's starting to get better feeling in his wrist why he's able to shoot the puck so hard.
521260
u are right , indian soccer players are really indisciplined!!!!\n u know  that some of the mohamaddan players used to arrive late for practice and coach subash bhowmick would tell them  to pay fine!!!! u may also know  that some players  dont wear their  shin guards during pratice which laid to the injury of alvito some days back! & da coach & the officials r not even concerned!!!!!!!\n u should know that some days back two mohammadan players, kulutunga & faruk haider along with their friends got drunk & abused and beat their neigbours & even lalampuia 4rm Mohunbagan club did the same!!!!!!!!! so, 4rm da above examples we see that discipline in indian soccer players can be maintained by da coach & da officials till a certain limit!!!! after that the players have to manage themselves & be disciplined , which they dont do!!!!!!!!!!!! do u agree with me??????????? if u do then prove it by giving me da best answer!!!!!! BYE!!!!!!!