Iowa Football Players' Injuries Blamed On Brutal Workouts By Report

AMES, Iowa — A University of Iowa investigative committee said Wednesday the school should scrap an intense workout that left 13 football players hospitalized, conceding that whatever triggered their injuries remains a mystery.

The five-member panel's report clears the players, trainers and coaches of any wrongdoing, saying similar workouts have been done in the past without any injuries. The January workout, however, led to the 13 football players being diagnosed with rhabdomyolysis, which breaks down muscle cells and discolors urine. All the players were treated and none show any lasting effects.

"We're not able to tell you exactly why it happened," said committee member William Hines, a law professor and dean emeritus at the university's College of Law. "We can speculate ... but that's a mystery that will have to remain unsolved."

University President Sally Mason appointed the committee, which released its findings to the Board of Regents on Wednesday.

The report lists 10 recommendations, including abandoning the strenuous workout, which includes back squats with heavy weights. It also calls for everyone associated with the football program to be educated about rhabdomyolysis.

When members of a team become ill or injured after a strenuous workout, all others on the team should be tested to make sure they're not suffering from a condition, according to the report.

Another recommendation suggests the university address long-term health needs of athletes affected by the Jan. 20 incident, including the possible need for psychological counseling. The report said communication with players, their parents and guardians and the public "were not handled well" in that incident.

Committee members said their investigation found that incidents of rhabomyolysis among student athletes happen more than people realize, but are often unreported.

"That leads to low incidence level of how many people exhibit rhabdo," said committee member Kevin Kregel, a health and human physiology professor at the university.

Football Players Iowa 'Brutal imputatur tristique fama workouts

Jacobus Iowa - Iowa Universitas percontando dixit committee Wednesday exiguo schola ut nimia Opus XIII laeva hospitalized football tibicines, concedens quicquid superest mensura iniuriis mysterium.

Quinque panel-member's purgat fama ludi magistri et omni culpa carrucis dicens simile factum workouts olim sine iniuria. The Opus January autem inducere XIII lusoribus esse dignoscitur football rhabdomyolysis cum qui suffodit decolorat cellularum musculus urina. All ludi habebantur et non diutius ostendo effectus.

"Non sumus vobis poterit veram causam cur factum, dixit Willelmus committee member Hines Legem decanus emeritus professori in universitate's College of Law. Possumus aestimare ... tamen ut 'mysterium quod erit permanere reconditis.

Sally Mason University President committee constituit, quae ad Inventiones solvit mensam Wednesday regentes.

Fama lists X commendabat etiam strenui Opus relicto, in quo sunt retrorsum cum pondera squats. Et vocat medium cohaerentia football program erudiri de rhabdomyolysis.

Membra cum infirmus team seu vulnerata Opus post fortia, cetera ut in manipulo, ut experimento facito quom patitur conditio iuxta opinionem.

Alia commendatio oratio admonet Universitatis salutem diu term athletarum eget gravem incidit XX Ianuarii, etiam possibilem necesse consiliari psychologica. Fama ait Communionem ludi parentibus tutorum publica, bene tractari non in illa erunt.

Committee dictum sodales investigando reperimus apud incident student athletae rhabomyolysis quam fieri intellegant, sed saepe unreported.

"Quae ducit ad humilitatem incidentiae gradu exhibet quot rhabdo" inquit committee member Kevin Kregel, et humana salubri professor physiologia Academicos.

Meiðsli Iowa Football Players 'kennt á Brutal Workouts By Report

Ames, Iowa - A University of Iowa rannsóknaraðferðir nefndarinnar sagði miðvikudagur skólans ættu rusl mikil líkamsþjálfun sem vinstri 13 knattspyrnumenn á sjúkrahús, conceding að allt sem kveiktu meiðsli þeirra enn ráðgáta.

Í skýrslu fimm manna pallborð er hreinsar leikmaður, þjálfari og þjálfarar af einhverju ranglæti og sagði svipaða æfingu hefur verið gert í fortíðinni án þess að meiðsl. Janúar líkamsþjálfun, hins vegar leitt til 13 knattspyrnumenn hafa verið greindur með rákvöðvalýsu, sem brýtur niður vöðva frumur og discolors þvagi. Allir leikmenn fengu og enginn sýna hvaða varanleg áhrif.

"Við erum ekki fær um að segja þér nákvæmlega hverju það gerðist," sagði Nefndarmaður William Hines, lög prófessor og prófastur emeritus í College skólans í lögfræði. "Við getum velt ... en það er ráðgáta sem verður að vera áfram óleyst."

University President Sally Mason skipaði nefnd, sem gefa út niðurstöður sínar til stjórnar Regents á miðvikudag.

Í skýrslunni er listi 10 tillögur, þar á meðal yfirgefa erfiðisvinnu líkamsþjálfun, þar sem ma er aftur stuttur með þungar þyngd. Það kallar einnig fyrir alla í tengslum við fótbolta forrit til að mennta um rákvöðvalýsu.

Þegar aðilar í lið orðið veikur eða slasaður eftir erfiða líkamsþjálfun, ættu allir aðrir í liðinu að prófa til að ganga úr skugga um að þeir eru ekki með alvarlega ástandi, samkvæmt skýrslunni.

Annar tilmælum bendir skólans heimilisfang langtíma heilsu þörfum íþróttafólks áhrifum af 20 Jan atvik, þar með talið hugsanleg þörf fyrir sálfræðileg ráðgjöf. Í skýrslunni segir samskipti við leikmenn, foreldra og forráðamenn og almenningi "var ekki farið vel" í þetta atvik.

Nefndarmenn sagði rannsókn þeirra í ljós að atvik af rhabomyolysis meðal íþróttamanna nemandi gerast meira en fólk átta sig á, en eru oft unreported.

"Það leiðir til þess að lág tíðni stigi hversu margir sýna rhabdo," sagði Nefndarmaður Kevin Kregel, heilsu og mannleg lífeðlisfræði prófessor við skólann.


آسیب دیدگی بازیکنان فوتبال آیووا 'در تمرینات وحشیانه با گزارش سرزنش

ایمز ، آیوا -- دانشگاه آیووا گفت : کمیته تحقیقی چهارشنبه مدرسه باید تمرین شدید است که سمت چپ 13 بازیکن فوتبال در بیمارستان بستری ، conceding که هر چه موجب آسیب یک راز باقی مانده ی آنها قراضه.

اساس گزارش این کمیته پنج نفره را ترک بازیکنان ، مربیان و مربیان از هر گونه خطا ، گفت : تمرین های مشابه در گذشته بدون هیچ گونه آسیب انجام می شود. تمرین ژانویه ، با این حال ، منجر به بازیکن فوتبال 13 که با رابدومیولیز ، که شکسته شدن سلول های عضلانی و ادرار رنگ خود تشخیص داده می شود. همه بازیکنان و تحت درمان قرار گرفتند هیچ کدام نشان دادن هر گونه اثر ماندگار.

"ما می توانیم به شما بگوید دقیقا به همین دلیل آن رخ داده است نیست ، گفت :" کمیته عضو ویلیام Hines ، استاد حقوق و رئيس سابق در کالج دانشگاه از قانون. "ما می توانیم حدس بزنیم... اما این یک راز است که باید به حل نشده باقی می ماند."

دانشگاه رئیس جمهور سالی میسون منصوب کمیته ، منتشر شد که یافته های خود را به هیئت Regents در چهارشنبه.

گزارش فهرست 10 توصیه نامه ها ، از جمله رها کردن تمرین های شدید جسمی ، که شامل پشت squats با وزنه سنگین است. همچنین برای همه در ارتباط با برنامه فوتبال به حدود رابدومیولیز تحصیل فرا می خواند.

زمانی که همه اعضای یک تیم تبدیل به بیمار یا مجروح پس از ورزش شدید ، همه دیگران در تیم باید آزمایش می شود تا مطمئن شوید که آنها از یک بیماری رنج می برند نه ، بر اساس این گزارش.

یکی دیگر از توصیه نشان می دهد آدرس دانشگاه بلند مدت نیازهای بهداشتی از ورزشکاران مبتلا به حادثه ژانویه 20 ، از جمله ممکن است نیاز به مشاوره روانی دارند. این گزارش گفت : ارتباط با بازیکنان ، پدر و مادر خود و نگهبان و عمومی "گمارده شده بودند نه به خوبی" در آن حادثه.

اعضای کمیته گفت : تحقیقات خود متوجه شد که حوادث rhabomyolysis در میان ورزشکاران دانش آموز رخ می دهد بیش از مردم متوجه هستند ، اما اغلب گزارش نشده.

"که منجر به بروز کم از سطح که چگونه بسیاری از مردم rhabdo نمایشگاه ، گفت :" کمیته عضو کوین Kregel ، بهداشت ، درمان و استاد فیزیولوژی انسان در دانشگاه.


Lesións xogadores de Fútbol Iowa 'culpa de adestramentos brutal Informe

AMES, Iowa - A Universidade de Iowa comisión de investigación onte a escola debe chatarra de un adestramento intenso, que deixou 13 xogadores de fútbol hospitalizados, admitindo que o que provocou as feridas permanece un misterio.

O informe do xurado de cinco membros do limpa os xogadores, adestradores e técnicos de calquera delito, dicindo que exercicios similares foron feitos no pasado, sen os feridas. O adestramento de xaneiro, sen embargo, levou os 13 xogadores de fútbol seren diagnosticados con rabdomiólise, que rompe as células musculares e orina descoloridos. Todos os xogadores foron tratadas e ningunha presentou ningún efecto duradeiro.

"Non somos capaces de dicir exactamente por que isto aconteceu", dixo o membro do comité William Hines, un profesor de dereito e decano emérito na facultade da universidade de Dereito. "Podemos especular ... pero iso é un misterio que terá que seguen sen resolver."

Sally Mason University Presidente designou a comisión, que deu a coñecer as súas conclusións ao Consello de Rexentes o mércores.

O informe presenta 10 recomendacións, incluíndo a abandonar o adestramento intenso, que inclúe a volta agachamento con pesos pesados. Tamén solicita que todos os asociados co programa de fútbol ser educados sobre rabdomiólise.

Cando os membros dun equipo estar enfermo ou ferido tras un adestramento intenso, todos os demais membros do equipo deben ser comprobados para asegurarse que non está sufrindo unha condición, segundo o informe.

Outra recomendación suxire o enderezo da universidade saúde a longo prazo as necesidades de atletas afectados polo incidente do 20 de xaneiro, incluíndo a eventual necesidade dun seguimento psicolóxico. O informe afirma que a comunicación cos xogadores, os pais e encargados de educación e do público "non foron ben tratadas" no incidente.

Os membros do comité dixeron que a súa investigación, descubriu que os incidentes de rhabomyolysis entre atletas estudantes acontecer máis que as persoas perciben, pero son a miúdo relativos.

"Isto nos leva ao nivel de baixa incidencia de rabdomiólise cantas persoas presentan", dixo o membro da comisión Kevin Kregel, de saúde e profesor de fisioloxía humana da Universidade.

Strata Allows You to Play Fantasy Football - With Scientists

SciVal Strata, a new project from Elsevier, is a web-based modeling tool that allows users to play scientists in teams in much the same way football fans do with players. Call it Madden NSF.

Dr. Lisa Colledge, project manager for Strata, identified the problem that gave rise to its creation: "At the end of the day everything comes back to resources."

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Whether you're putting together a team for a research project, applying for a grant, evaluating grant applications or looking to prove your own worth to a project or institution, a modeling tool that can quantify that worth dynamically and justify the expenses involved could be valuable.

The tool is a dynamic, customizable modeler that allows a user to add and subtract scientists and specialists to a team and anticipate the change that would make in the team's efficiency. A set of tabs allow changes to benchmarks, personnel and influence over time (on science in general, not just a specific project). The interface is very recognizable, with drag-and-drop scientists (is this the first time that phrase has ever been written?), which outputs into various charts and graphs.

In much the same way that a football player in a fantasy league or video game would be represented by his stats, so is the scientist or specialist in question. According to Dr. Colledge, the scientists are represented by a range of data, from SciVerse Scopus, an abstract and indexing database, articles from all kind of publications and references in those publications, as well as output and citation data which can be customized, and is dynamic and current.

What are the chances of those of us at home playing along? (Who wouldn't want a chance to see how Niels Bohr and Stephen Hawking would effect the development of the steam engine? Or whether Marie Curie or Richard Feynman would be more effective in helping Danny Dunn with his homework machine?)

Slight.

The tool is sold to universities and other research institutions and users will need to belong to one. If such a tool is even roughly analogous with academic journals, the cost would prove prohibitive for the Average BA-holding Joe. Maybe an academic game company could license the engine and data and give us the Max Planck-Laura Maria Caterina Bassi smackdown for which we have so long waited.

Mattison among college football's highest-paid assistants

Former Ravens defensive coordinator Greg Mattison is among the top four highest-paid assistants in college football, according to the Detroit Free Press.

Mattison, who left the Ravens to become the defensive coordinator at Michigan, signed a three-year contract that guarantees $750,000 per season. He earns $250,000 in base salary and an additional $500,000 in additional compensation for consulting, promotional activities and sponsorships.

His pay can increase through several incentives that include: $22,500 for any bowl game, $37,500 for a second- or third-place bowl, $90,000 for a championship game and $150,000 for the Big Ten title game win.

Mattison's guaranteed money puts him behind Alabama's Kirby Smart and Georgia's Todd Grantham (who each made around $760,000 last year) and Florida's Charlie Weis (who will make $833,333 per season).

In two seasons with Mattison as coordinator, the Ravens defense finished No. 3 in 2009 and No. 10 in 2010. He was replaced by Chuck Pagano.

Commentary: At least college football crime list is topical

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I’m not a big fan of list stories, but they seem to be very popular lately. I suppose that’s because they distill complicated, often arcane subjects into simplistic narratives easy to digest.
For instance, Sports Illustrated and CBS News recently completed a story in which the Pittsburgh and Penn State football programs were listed, respectively, as having the most and tied-for-fourth most-active police records among SI's 2010 preseason top 25 college football programs.
So, of course, this can be easily interpreted by readers to mean Penn State is tied for fourth in thugs who shouldn’t be in school and Pitt is at the top.
Is that an accurate appraisal? Hey, does it matter? It’s a list. How can a list be wrong? It has a nice, neat margin and numerals with bullets on the left.
I’m going to be honest with you. I was asked to write about this SI.com story. It’s not a subject that raises my hackles. When I saw it initially, I pretty much shrugged. I did read it. I found some of it interesting. Most of it was not surprising. But it’s topical.
So here’s what I think about it. In fact, I’m making my own little list. Mine doesn’t have any particular importance attached to the numerals, though. Just the way my mind works. I believe in the complexity of analog thought. Not all subjects can be digitized.
1. Lots of Ivy Leaguer editors at Sports Illustrated. It’s always been that way. The editor I reported to when I was a stringer for the magazine in the 1990s and early 2000s was from Dartmouth. A lot of the staff is that way. They love to be outraged and especially enjoy the narrative thread that "These types of kids shouldn’t be attending our colleges!" Good for them, I guess.
2. Sarcasm aside, I am glad someone has the time and the resources to examine exactly how many potentially harmful kids simply aren’t being screened before they’re recruited by major football programs. Violent crimes in high school should be red-flagged on a case-by-case basis. The story does delineate how that can be easily achieved.
3. I also applaud the examples of some kids from horrible backgrounds who have been given a chance in college football because coaches genuinely believed in their sincere desire to become better people. SI writers Jeff Benedict and Armen Keteyian make a point of acknowledging that this does happen and should happen.
4. College football is a violent, angry sport that attracts violent, angry kids. Not all, but some. These types of 18-year-olds have been attending America’s colleges for half a century or more since athletic grants began being distributed. This story will not change that unless the money machine that supports the sport demands that it change. Those are the TV networks who pay to telecast the games, including CBS. Somehow, I don’t see that happening.
4. If you have a problem with some of these types of kids being given free rides to college, maybe you should really have a problem with college football. Or about football in general, a sport whose long-lasting physical and emotional effects are just beginning to be understood by neurosurgeons. If you haven’t, do a search on "Dave Duerson" and read up.
5. Concerning the rankings: How can SI’s story be translated as apples to apples when police departments in different areas are so different? If anyone wants to make a case that the State College police and the district attorney prosecute athletes with the same zest as any other campus law enforcement, I’d be glad to listen.
6. How do we know how many first-degree felonies were committed in these crimes compared to simple assaults and petty thefts and other stuff that college kids often do? Were sexual assaults, armed robberies and felonious assaults given the same weight as shoplifting and smoking weed? It appears so. An arrest is an arrest. Another reason statistical stories often stink when they are distilled to lists.
7. The fallacy that Penn State was somehow this pristine land of only true and earnest and virtuous student-athletes who never got in beer brawls or stole things has always been just that. It was an image Joe Paterno carefully crafted through his East Coast newspaper believers who came in once or twice a year and were charmed by the master. Further, 20 and 30 and 40 years ago, Paterno had police reporting to him. Incidents were hushed up. Now it’s the opposite. I suspect it was never a Boy Scout troop to begin with.
So that’s my list. It doesn’t count anything. It doesn’t rank anything. It’s just one man’s opinions. And they’re all over the map, aren’t they?
It’ll never sell.

TV Nets' Growing NFL Headache As Football Players' Contact Nears Expiration By NELLIE ANDREEVA

While it is monitoring closely the antics of its troubled sitcom star Charlie Sheen in Los Angeles, CBS is also keeping a weary eye on Washington where another major problem is brewing. CBS is not alone on that one. CBS, Fox, NBC, ESPN and DirecTV are all following the negotiations between NFL owners and players, which are going down to the wire. The two sides met with a mediator in Washington D.C. for 4 hours today, 35 hours before their current agreement expires at midnight on Thursday night.

A failure to reach a new deal will lead to NFL's first players lockout in decades. Thankfully, the new NFL season is six months away. But a disrupted or, worse, canceled football season will have a huge impact on the networks that carry the games, especially NBC, which is relying heavily on Sunday Night Football, its strongest program at the moment, to lead its ratings turnaround. A lockout could disrupt the great momentum NFL football is enjoying on television. It is coming off its biggest TV season ever, breaking a slew of ratings records capped by the record 111 million viewers who tuned in to the Super Bowl on Fox. Getting massive viewer turnout at a time when network viewership is steadily declining explains why the current NFL-associated networks are not complaining about paying steep license fees: CBS ($3.73 billion), NBC ($3.6B), Fox ($4.27B), ESPN ($8.8B).

In other developments, a federal judge today sided with the NFL Players Association in a dispute over TV broadcast revenue the union says was negotiated by the league to help management survive a possible players lockout. NFLPA claimed that NFL's pacts guaranteed lower network fees if the league would be entitled to a $4 billion "lockout payment" in case of a work stoppage. U.S. District Judge David Doty ruled that management did not negotiate in good faith to make deals that benefit both the NFL and its players, and suggested the NFL bullied its broadcast partners into the agreements. A hearing on damages and an injunction on the TV contracts has not been scheduled.

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LAS VEGAS -- Cincinnati Bengals cornerback Adam (Pacman) Jones was sentenced on Thursday to probation and 200 hours of community service under a plea deal for his role in a 2007 strip club melee in Las Vegas.
Clark County courts spokeswoman Mary Ann Price said Jones received a suspended sentence and was also ordered to receive anger management counselling. The sentence requires Jones to undergo random drug testing.
Jones told the Las Vegas Sun after the sentencing that he's glad to finally have the case behind him and has been praying for the victims of the shooting.
"This has been a long, long haul and has affected a lot of families," Jones told the newspaper. "It has affected me personally."
JUPITER, Fla. -- St. Louis Cardinals ace Adam Wainwright will require Tommy John surgery to repair his elbow and he will miss the entire 2011 season, the club confirmed Thursday morning.
General manager John Mozeliak made the announcement at about 10 a.m. St. Louis time after a discussion with the pitcher and the team physician. All parties had been waiting on the results of a second opinion requested Wednesday evening from Dr. Lewis Yocum in the Los Angeles area.
A former member of the Manitoba Moose who turned to coaching has been banished from the Central Hockey League for the rest of the season after throwing his clothes -- almost all of them -- onto the ice in protest.
Greg Pankiewicz, a native of Drayton Valley, Alta., now an assistant coach with the Colorado Eagles, received a 14-game suspension for tossing his tie, jacket, shirt and apparently his shoes onto the ice during a game last weekend.
While his team was leading the Mississippi River Kings, Pankiewicz objected to the tactics of a linesman during an on-ice melee.
He was also fined by the league, as was his team.
Pankiewicz played for the Moose from 1996 until 1998.