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The FIBA World Cup takes place this summer, and Team USA is expected to have playoff stars Austin Reaves and Jalen Brunson on their roster.The 2022-23 NBA season is nearing its conclusion, as the Denver Nuggets and Miami Heat are battling it out in the Finals. Once that ends, then the offseason ...

FanSided's MLB Insider Robert Murray is back to grade trade fits for the Milwaukee Brewers, Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Mets.With the MLB trade deadline rapidly approaching, it's time to look at trade fits. And the early indications are that there could be a number of big name pla...

Nick Madrigal has been on fire since the Cubs demoted him to Triple-A. However, history suggests they shouldn't buy his success ... yet.For years now, Nick Madrigal has brought a very specific set of skills to a Major League Baseball field. He is a light-hitting middle infielder who has one...

After the Miami Heat took Game 2 of the NBA Finals, Gabe Vincent said that the team isn't looking to get respect, they just want to get four wins.The Miami Heat have shocked the NBA throughout these playoffs. They made it out of the play-in tournament as the No. 8 seed in the Eastern Confer...

Texas Rangers ace Jacob deGrom was placed on the injured list with right elbow inflammation, and he's not going to be returning any time soon.The Texas Rangers needed to bolster their starting rotation this past offseason, and they aimed for one of the best pitchers available in free agency...

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Patrick Mahomes saw Travis Kelce attempt to speak into the White House microphone and immediately stopped him.Never leave an open microphone in front of Travis Kelce because if Patrick Mahomes isn't there to stop him, who knows what he'll say?The White House got that lesson out of ...

Virtual reality could help footballers improve their heading without the repetitive head impacts from a ball, a new study indicates. Players involved in a study at Manchester Metropolitan University’s Institute of Sport and its Department of Sport and Exercise Sciences demonstrated greater performance in ‘real world’ heading after training with a VR headset compared to a control group who did no training. The VR group also reported greater self-confidence and efficacy in their heading compared to the control group, the study found. Our findings show that virtual reality (VR) based training can be used to improve real-world heading performance. Dr Ben Marshall, Manchester Metropolitan University Institute of Sport The study, titled: ‘A preliminary investigation into the efficacy of training soccer heading in immersive virtual reality’, has been published in the journal Virtual Reality on Tuesday. It provides some insights into how players may be able to improve heading technique amid restrictions on training. Football Association guidelines advise against any heading training in under-12s, while a trial is ongoing in the current season and next season to eliminate deliberate heading completely from matches up to and including that age group. At ages 12 and 13, heading should be limited to a single session of no more than five headers, and no more than 10 headers per session for children aged 14 to 17, according to FA guidance. Even in adult football at all levels, players are advised to perform only 10 ‘higher force headers’ per training week, such as headers from crosses, corners, free-kicks and returning of goal kicks. The exposure to heading has been limited because of concerns over the sub-concussive impact of repetitive heading on a player’s longer-term wellbeing. The 2019 FIELD Study found professional footballers were three and a half times more likely to die of neurodegenerative disease than age-matched members of the general population. “With increasing restrictions of heading exposure to professional and youth soccer, it is evident that alternative methods for training heading confidence and technique will be required while it remains an integral part of the game,” the VR paper concluded. “The work presented here provides some initial evidence suggesting that immersive VR may have a place in any new approach to training this important skill.” A group of 36 adult recreational-level players, made up of 30 men and six women, participated in the study in total. The 36 were split into two groups of 18, with 16 men and two women in the control group who did not use the VR headsets between ‘real world’ heading sessions, and 14 men and four women in the VR group. The VR group used the Oculus Quest 2 head-mounted display, with the Rezzil Player 22 application used to provide the VR football heading training. Dr Ben Marshall, Lecturer in Sport and Exercise Psychology at the Manchester Metropolitan University Institute of Sport, said: “Our findings show that virtual reality (VR) based training can be used to improve real-world heading performance and that this method is more effective than not training the skill at all. “This is important as current training guidelines recommend limiting the number of physical headers performed in training for all age groups due to the associated long-term risks to player health. “Our findings suggest the inclusion of VR-based training could play an important role in developing football heading skills whilst reducing the number of real-world headers and sub-concussive head impacts that players need to be exposed to – which is really positive.”

The Texas Rangers are a run-scoring machine heading into the first full week of June. Let's take a look at the MLB standings by run differential.The 2023 MLB season is now in June. There are still plenty of games left to go, but there is still a decent enough amount of games completed to ma...

RBC Canadian Open picks and best bets at Oakdale this week as we have an outright, Top 10 and more PGA Tour expert picks for golf.We're heading north of the United States border for a national championship this week for the 2023 RBC Canadian Open at Oakdale Country Club, where Rory McIlroy ...

Lincoln Riley just pulled in five new commitments in just over 48 hours, swiping favored recruits from rivals across the country after a mega recruiting weekend.What do Kameryn Fountain from Georgia, Manasse Itete and Dakoda Fields from California, Jarvis Boatwright from Florida and Hayden Trete...

After Aaron Rodgers spilled the beans to The Athletic about his final years of the Green Bay Packers, there could be more drama on the way.Aaron Rodgers is no longer the quarterback of the Green Bay Packers following a trade to the New York Jets. Just when you thought that this would bring an en...