"I think a lot of the corners are similar types of athletes," he said.
In all my experience playing sports, I've noticed that there are two types of athletes: those who are affected my ankle sprains and those who are not.
Not exactly a ringing endorsement, especially from a man who you can see on YouTube saying, "There's two types of athletes who go to the Olympics — those who win medals and those who don't.
Michael Hoffer, a professor of otolaryngology and neurological surgery, used goggles, equipped with two high-resolution cameras, that could detect the desynchronization of the wearer's rapid eye movements — a mark of a concussion.* Hoffer was funded, in part, by the N.F.L., but the goggles would be useful to all types of athletes.
Two very different types of athletes — Kenya's seemingly miraculous distance runners, and the trainees of China's state-run sports schools — converge in a piece by Jon Rosen, for Roads & Kingdoms, an online journal of politics and culture, about the training camp for China's national women's running team in Iten, Kenya.
E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet Two very different types of athletes — Kenya's seemingly miraculous distance runners, and the trainees of China's state-run sports schools — converge in a piece by Jon Rosen, for Roads & Kingdoms, an online journal of politics and culture, about the training camp for China's national women's running team in Iten, Kenya.
International basketball is less physical because, generally speaking, it does not have the same type of athletes that the N.B.A. offers.
But two national championships and five undefeated seasons have not quelled recent questions about the type of athletes being recruited and whether Paterno has lost control of the program.
Several players have recently been in trouble with the law, prompting questions about the type of athletes being recruited to Penn State and whether Paterno, 81, has lost control of the program.
Can soccer in the United States successfully compete for the type of athletes who now play in the N.B.A. and the N.F.L.? How the United States could have used a Kobe Bryant — or two — on Saturday.
We believe that these findings are due to the paucity of data and to the fact that the number and type of athletes varied between seasonal training phases.
