basic strength in your muscles to be able to walk or swing a club but not strength as far as lifting weights. Tiger is in phenomenal shape and is very strong but that's not why he was great.
its a recreational sport. I'm an avid Golfer. Try walking 18 holes with clubs on your back. You are tapped for the rest of the day. The thing about golf is that once you start fatiguing your form gets stightly off and even a slight bit off makes the ball go all over the place.
Yea I was counting on the Pats going 15-1 cause they played @The Ravens now looks like another 16-0 regular season for them
I just heard on the radio that Suggs said he expects to be back mid-season and it wasn't a full tear.
is it just me or does it seem as though there are a couple guys a year tearing the achilles? i dont EVER remember anyone tearing their achilles in the 80s, rarely if ever even in the 90s. but now for some reason its literally 3 or 4 guys a year across the different sports.
Dominique Wilkins and Dan Marino were more famous players who tore their Achilles prior to Testaverde doing so.
am i missing it though cakes, do i just not remember more guys doing it back then? i mean it was something that was strange and oh wow that might be a career ender when they did it back then. now it really seems to occur all the time. i dont even remember wilkins doing it... maybe its just my memory not serving me well. vaguely if anything is my memory of it, was that the injury that ended his career? yeah i think i remember he took a year off or something and then came back and tore the achilles?
Well now a days with media you are going to be punched in the face about injuries when back in the day there wasn't as much if any 24/7 coverage of sports
Wilkins ruptured his Achilles tendon in January 1992 in a game televised by TBS. He returned the following season. Seven and a half years later, arguably the most important player on one of my other favorite teams suffered the same injury. I am not sure if this injury is occurring more frequently these days, but it seems it might be the case.
I think Baltimore has drafted so well over the years that this won't hurt them. They draft Upshaw and Suggs gets injured. Lucky or smart? I dunno. To the crowd that might say he should do nothing until game day to avoid injuries... ugh. Look at Mariano. Should he not practice baseball? A pick up basketball game.. yeah not the best but you need to find ways to stay in shape and practice being an athlete. What if it was weight lifting or karate? Would that be better? Sure Rapistburger crashing a motorcyle without a helmet was stupid and that's in the contract usually. But you can't tell an athlete not to be athletic until gameday. I'm actually surprised at the low level of these incidents. I've slipt on ice a few times and hurt myself. I've cracked a few toes on a late night trip to the bathroom. I've wacked my head on a kitchen cabinet. Food poisoning, etc. Yet the incidents don't often hold players out. Its before my time, but I recall a Mets pitcher that missed alot of time due to a shrub trimming accident. I think two other Mets players got injured in taxi cab incidents. Can't recall who, but their was a broken wine glass incident. Everyone I know gets hurt occasionally on a stupid freak accident. I'm surprised it doesn't happen more.
I'm with you on that. Darts, bowling, pool, cup-stacking; all of these things require talent, coordination, muscle memory and the like, but I don't think you would call them sports.
