MLS/General Concussion puts Suarez out - Press-Enterprise Suarez still feels effects of injury - Long Beach Press-Telegram Still fighting with Fire - Naperville Sun Metros out to catch Fire - NY Daily News Perkins helps net success for United - Washington Times Injury bug stings Revolution - Boston Herald RSL Notes: Fitzpatrick fits in right away - Salt Lake Tribune Bogyman eyes A-League - Melbourne Herald Sun Honda Super Classico Darby Cup It's a Game Idea, but This Rivalry Needs Some Action - LA Times GOTL Replaying 'The Game of Their Lives' - Washington Postp Other Give U.S. soccer greats their due - New Bern Sun Journal, NC Soccer players 'suffer most' - Reuters Setanta Residential?!? - PRNewswire (Make sure to check this one out) Other than that, doesn'tseem like much today with most of the sports coverage being dominated by the NBA Playoffs and NFL Draft.
File this one under "No ******** Sherlock". Who would have guessed that those involved in contact sports would have more injuries than swimmers and tennis players?
Yeah, the Chron's date/time stamp is a little misleading. For example, this column has an April 20 time stamp, but it's printed in today's (April 21) paper. I think their time stamp usually indicates when the piece was posted on the web page rather than when it was published in the paper. In general, they print a Glenn Davis column on soccer in every Thursday and Sunday sports section. They also print a full page devoted to soccer on Tuesday. Thanks very much for finding all these articles. This daily thread is easily the best part of this site.
I have hated those eejits at Setanta ever since I started going to Summers to watch games 10 years ago. The do appear to have gone somewhat crazy: The channel is dedicated to distinctly European football (soccer) from enormously popular football countries such as England, Ireland, and Scotland and also carries an increasing number of European and world-class rugby events. A-hem. PS Why not just call it the "Old Firm and Manchester United Channel"?
I thought this was pretty interesting in my morning paper: Santa Ana Makes Deal for Soccer Academy - LA Times
I think that the ESPN2 games are apart of the WC package that SUM sold to ESPN. ESPN probably got a discount because they are airing the MLS games, so in essence, MLS is still paying for air time through lost revenues.
Doesn't Ryan Suarez have an endorsement deal with the Full 90 folks? Nice how he managed to plug the product: "I don't much care for what people have to say about wearing the headgear ... but that thing, the Full 90, saved my dome from getting split wide open." Ryan if you want to go around wearing some piece of underwear on your head thinking that it will protect you from concussions more power to you. However, I for one feel it made no difference in the severity of your injury.
"Soccer players are more likely to suffer injuries in their sport than gymnasts, tennis players and swimmers, researchers said on Thursday." They needed a study to tell them this? It's a contact sport. The other three are not. I need to get one of those cush university jobs that receives big grants to study common sense issues.
Didn't he get hit in the back of the head? How would the headgear, with it's pad in the front protect him from that?
I agree. His injury certainly isn't a ringing endorsement for the product (unless you include the ringing in Suarez's ears).
I almost said clowns like Suarez should wear these things. If he's going to pull people down in the box, and then try to avoid the penalty by diving headlong into his own goalkeeper (WHAT A ********ING **************!), perhaps he needs "special" protection. But then, this has been one of the criticisms of these stupid things all along: that players wearing them might play more aggressively goonish. Look how grid football evolved along with its equipment - you're a lot less likely to "spear" someone without the helmet.
Finally, a great program that will most definitely prove fruitful. If Chivas or the Galaxy were smart, they could set up a successful minor league team in Santa Ana. The city residents go nutsNUTS!! about their local leagues, which are semi-semi-pro. (A player can earn about 200 bucks a month.) LA Times had an article about it roughly a year ago. (Santa Ana is a predominantly Latino city.)
Actually, the article doesn't tell much of anything. Of the half of the 203 athletes, which sports had the greatest representation 10 years later? It doesn't say. It just mentions that half of them are still playing. There could be almost zero gymnasts left. It is possible that injuries which occur are more performance threatening to the gymnast then the soccer player. A better question: How many soccer players come back from ACL surgery and how many gymnasts comeback after the same procedure? Perhaps I am saying that the severity of injuries is different than the frequency.
They could team up with this one and plow more resources into it. But you're right, this is a different kind of deal that I've seen. Good on 'em.
I saw a bit about the Full 90 on Fox Soccer USA which made it sound like it wasn't that lame. It reduces the severity of the impact, thus reducing the likelihood that any given impact would cause a concussion. Suarez might well have split his skull otherwise, or had a far worse concussion. And I think they're padded all around, not just in front.