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How well do they work, though? It’s hard to quantify, since there are other factors that go into an athlete’s success beyond their receptiveness to training: the quality of that training, the athlete’s other traits and, of course, the competition. Oakland Raiders cornerback TJ Carrie is having a good year so far after wearing the Halo Sport, but the Olympians who used them? Their results are… mixed. Natasha Hastings helped…

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After last season, the NFL released a report that showed an uptick in concussions, ACL sprains, and MCL sprains. It was important information, but it was hardly surprising given the nature of the NFL. Players are stronger and faster than ever before and they’re playing a game that involves smashing into each other on every single play. Football is violent and no matter how many rules the NFL changes, it’ll…

If the Tigers want to trade second baseman Ian Kinsler to a team on his limited no-trade list, he only will approve the deal if granted a contract extension, according to his agent, Jay Franklin. The Dodgers, a team in need of a second baseman, are one of 10 clubs that would require Kinsler’s permission for a trade, Franklin said Wednesday. Kinsler, 34, is coming off his best offensive season…

Former UFC champion Lyoto Machida has been suspended for 18 months after admitting use of a banned substance as well as failing a subsequent drug test administered by USADA (United States Anti-Doping Agency). Machida accepted the sanction according to USADA officials in a release sent to FOX Sports on Wednesday. “During an out-of-competition test conducted on April 8, 2016, Machida, 38, declared the use of a product containing 7‐keto-dehydroepiandrosterone (7‐keto‐DHEA)…

An out of the park home run is a feat few ballplayers ever achieve. But Shohei Otani, who plays baseball for the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters in Japan, managed to blast a home run right through the roof of the Tokyo Dome stadium. Advertisement It doesn’t appear as if the ball actually punctured a hole through the fabric material used for the Tokyo Dome’s roof, but instead found a gap between…

Baseball has only been gone for two weeks, but I know that you miss it. But more baseball is closer than you think! The tournament schedule has been released for the 2017 World Baseball Classic, which means that we get a three week jump on real live baseball. The WBC features three rounds, and Round 1 begins with four pools: A, B, C and D. Each pool contains four teams…

I’m calling it. A “baby cake” is a cute name — for a cupcake. Google the term “baby cakes” right now, the first links that come up are stories with the news that New Orleans’ Triple-A baseball team, formerly known as the Zephyrs, was renamed the New Orleans Baby Cakes on Tuesday (Nov. 15). Look up the term in traditional dictionaries and you likely will find no formal definition for…

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This is the moment Daniel Chao has been waiting for. For three years, his company’s Halo Sport headphones were sold only to pro and college teams, Olympic contenders and the military. Now, the company has ramped up production, and the super-high-end headphones are ready for public consumption. They go on sale Wednesday for $699 on the Halo Sport website. The headphones shoot electrical impulses into the brain to create more…

One of the most highly skilled and prestigious professions in Britain, university teaching, is now dominated by zero-hours contracts, temp agencies and other forms of precarious work, the Guardian can reveal. New analysis reveals that it is the richest Russell Group institutions that rely most heavily on insecure academic workers. The Guardian investigation has led trade unionists to accuse vice-chancellors of “importing the Sports Direct model” into British universities. It…

Alex Bowman is a remarkable young man. He’s handsome, well-spoken and handles himself like a true professional off the race track. To be put in the situation he was this year filling in for NASCAR’s most popular driver, Dale Earnhardt Jr., and to deliver great runs is well, once again, remarkable. My FOX NASCAR partner Jeff Gordon told me that after he had filled in for Dale Jr. at the…

Listen, we know it’s tough to catch up on everything happening in the baseball world each morning. There are all kinds of stories, rumors, game coverage and Vines of dudes getting hit in the beans every day. Trying to find all of it while on your way to work or sitting at your desk just isn’t easy. It’s OK, though, we’re going to do the heavy lifting for you each…

An everyday hero, known only as Denise, fought off a lump-of-wood wielding thief with her own baseball bat Tuesday. Denise was working at the Coorparoo Quik-e-mart in Brisbane, Australia when the would-be armed robber marched into the store. He didn’t get far before she leapt into action. In an interview with 7 News Brisbane, Denise told the reporter the perpetrator “sort of gave it to me, I just gave it…

He talked about the characters on the team, saying they were more like a “Saturday Night Live” cast than a baseball squad. He likened one of his teammates to the late, great comedic actor John Belushi. He talked about the bus rides to games. How the team even loved to practice because it gave them more time together. Mike Durkin was on perhaps the greatest baseball team in Keith Academy…