There’s a moment before kickoff when everything goes quiet for the Seattle Sounders midfielder Cristian Roldan. The Lumen Field crowd is loud and the stadium feels like it is shaking. However, it is quiet inside. Roldan will know by then whether he is ready – not because of adrenaline or emotion. But because of the […]
When he’s not living the suburban life—marketing job, wife, toddler, dog—Zach Fowle is strapped to his ergometer, its rhythmic hum counting down the hundreds of miles he logs each year without leaving his basement. Fowle, 38, has been a competitive indoor rower for five years. However, he did not switch from water to machine like […]
Ja’Marr Chase may be one of the NFL’s best wide receivers, but that doesn’t mean he’s happy with where he is physically. “I feel blessed for what I was able to do this season and the records I set,” said Chase, who recently partnered with Fabletics to launch an athletics linewhich also includes GridTech pieces. […]
Talent is a given in the NFL. What separates players is not always explosiveness or potential. It’s reliability under pressure – when things don’t go as they were diagrammed during training. While injuries changed the depth charts and tested continuity for the San Francisco 49ers last season, they carried on with an unsettling calm. Their […]
When Julian Williams floats his plate in the face of a wave, the movement looks effortless – a fast doll, an explosive turnout and a smooth turn that feels more like instinct than effort. But behind that difficult display is hours in the gym that refine the type of power and precision that weekend separates […]
As the domestic Super League season comes to an end, England’s rugby players now point their focus to the Ashes affair of three games that is back after more than 20 years. To keep playing, they must rehabilitate and build in injuries better to resist the brutality that is yet to come. With this in […]