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Pluristem Therapeutics AND Healing the Knee, and Then the Psyche AND by "David P. Dillard" jwneastro
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Sun Aug 26, 2012 11:45 pm (PDT) . Posted by:
"David P. Dillard" jwneastro
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These posts may be of interest to some members of this group:
SPORTS: MEDICINE:
Pluristem Therapeutics Shoots From The Hip,
Moving Toward The Sports Medicine And Muscle Regeneration Markets
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SPORTS MEDICINE :
SPORTS: INJURIES :
SPORTS: FOOTBALL: COLLEGE:
Healing the Knee, and Then the Psyche
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SPORTS MEDICINE :
SPORTS: INJURIES :
SPORTS: FOOTBALL: PROFESSIONAL:
Joe Theismann Has Advice And Support
for Titans Wide Receiver Marc Mariani
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Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Sun Aug 26, 2012 11:45 pm (PDT) . Posted by:
"CoachJ1@aol.com" coachj12002
One of the more interesting articles on this issue comes from Malcolm
Gladwell:
"The Sports Taboo Why blacks are like boys and whites are like girls."
Just of the few things he notes:
There is a point at which it becomes foolish to deny the fact of black
athletic prowess, and even more foolish to banish speculation on the topic.
Clearly, something is going on. The question is what. If we are to decide
what to make of the differences between blacks and whites, we first have to
decide what to make of the word "difference," which can mean any number of
things. A useful case study is to compare the ability of men and women in
math. If you give a large, representative sample of male and female students a
standardized math test, their mean scores will come out pretty much the
same. But if you look at the margins, at the very best and the very worst
students, sharp differences emerge. In the math portion of an achievement test
conducted by Project Talent-a nationwide survey of fifteen-year-olds-there
were 1.3 boys for every girl in the top ten per cent, 1.5 boys for every
girl in the top five per cent, and seven boys for every girl in the top one
per cent. In the fifty-six-year history of the Putnam Mathematical
Competition, which has been described as the Olympics of college math, all but one
of the winners have been male. Conversely, if you look at people with the
very lowest math ability, you'll find more boys than girls there, too. In
other words, although the average math ability of boys and girls is the same,
the distribution isn't: there are more males than females at the bottom of
the pile, more males than females at the top of the pile, and fewer males
than females in the middle. Statisticians refer to this as a difference in
variability. This pattern, as it turns out, is repeated in almost every
conceivable area of gender difference. Boys are more variable than girls on the
College Board entrance exam and in routine elementary-school spelling
tests. Male mortality patterns are more variable than female patterns; that is,
many more men die in early and middle age than women, who tend to die in
more of a concentrated clump toward the end of life. The problem is that
variability differences are regularly confused with average differences. If
men had higher average math scores than women, you could say they were better
at the subject. But because they are only more variable the word "better"
seems inappropriate. The same holds true for differences between the races
Take the men's hundred-meter final at the Atlanta Olympics. Every runner
in that race was of either Western African or Southern African descent, as
you would expect if Africans had some genetic affinity for sprinting. But
suppose we forget about skin color and look just at country of origin. The
eight-man final was made up of two African-Americans, two Africans (one from
Namibia and one from Nigeria), a Trinidadian, a Canadian of Jamaican
descent, an Englishman of Jamaican descent, and a Jamaican. The race was won by
the Jamaican-Canadian, in world-record time, with the Namibian coming in
second and the Trinidadian third. The sprint relay-the 4 x 100-was won by a
team from Canada, consisting of the Jamaican-Canadian from the final, a
Haitian-Canadian, a Trinidadian-Canadian, and another Jamaican-Canadian. Now it
appears that African heritage is important as an initial determinant of
sprinting ability, but also that the most important advantage of all is some
kind of cultural or environmental factor associated with the Caribbean."
Ken Jakalski
Lisle HS
Lisle, IL USA
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Gladwell:
"The Sports Taboo Why blacks are like boys and whites are like girls."
Just of the few things he notes:
There is a point at which it becomes foolish to deny the fact of black
athletic prowess, and even more foolish to banish speculation on the topic.
Clearly, something is going on. The question is what. If we are to decide
what to make of the differences between blacks and whites, we first have to
decide what to make of the word "difference,
things. A useful case study is to compare the ability of men and women in
math. If you give a large, representative sample of male and female students a
standardized math test, their mean scores will come out pretty much the
same. But if you look at the margins, at the very best and the very worst
students, sharp differences emerge. In the math portion of an achievement test
conducted by Project Talent-a nationwide survey of fifteen-year-
were 1.3 boys for every girl in the top ten per cent, 1.5 boys for every
girl in the top five per cent, and seven boys for every girl in the top one
per cent. In the fifty-six-year history of the Putnam Mathematical
Competition, which has been described as the Olympics of college math, all but one
of the winners have been male. Conversely, if you look at people with the
very lowest math ability, you'll find more boys than girls there, too. In
other words, although the average math ability of boys and girls is the same,
the distribution isn't: there are more males than females at the bottom of
the pile, more males than females at the top of the pile, and fewer males
than females in the middle. Statisticians refer to this as a difference in
variability. This pattern, as it turns out, is repeated in almost every
conceivable area of gender difference. Boys are more variable than girls on the
College Board entrance exam and in routine elementary-school spelling
tests. Male mortality patterns are more variable than female patterns; that is,
many more men die in early and middle age than women, who tend to die in
more of a concentrated clump toward the end of life. The problem is that
variability differences are regularly confused with average differences. If
men had higher average math scores than women, you could say they were better
at the subject. But because they are only more variable the word "better"
seems inappropriate. The same holds true for differences between the races
Take the men's hundred-meter final at the Atlanta Olympics. Every runner
in that race was of either Western African or Southern African descent, as
you would expect if Africans had some genetic affinity for sprinting. But
suppose we forget about skin color and look just at country of origin. The
eight-man final was made up of two African-Americans, two Africans (one from
Namibia and one from Nigeria), a Trinidadian, a Canadian of Jamaican
descent, an Englishman of Jamaican descent, and a Jamaican. The race was won by
the Jamaican-Canadian, in world-record time, with the Namibian coming in
second and the Trinidadian third. The sprint relay-the 4 x 100-was won by a
team from Canada, consisting of the Jamaican-Canadian from the final, a
Haitian-Canadian, a Trinidadian-
appears that African heritage is important as an initial determinant of
sprinting ability, but also that the most important advantage of all is some
kind of cultural or environmental factor associated with the Caribbean."
Ken Jakalski
Lisle HS
Lisle, IL USA
[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Sun Aug 26, 2012 11:46 pm (PDT) . Posted by:
"CoachJ1@aol.com" coachj12002
From Race and Sport:
"The concept of race has become meaningful only as a broad sociological
concept. This is not to say that genetic makeup is unimportant as a basis for
athletic excellence. This also does not infer that groups of people
distributed around the world do not have advantages in certain athletic
endeavors, as environment, culture, and heredity may be advantageous, in certain
instances, for producing individuals with optimal height, weight, muscle
structure, and temperament for excelling in a particular activity (e.g., Kenyans
and distance running or Norwegians and cross-country skiing). The point,
however, is that such groupings do not represent what is traditionally
believed to be racial groups.
It can be argued that even when certain groups of people scattered around
the world do have predisposing advantages for excelling in particular
activities, individuals who reach world class levels represent the extremes
within group distributions rather than its central tendency. This probably
distorts general perceptions of a group's attributes and makes differences
appear greater than they actually are."
Ken Jakalski
Lisle HS
Lisle IL USA
[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
"The concept of race has become meaningful only as a broad sociological
concept. This is not to say that genetic makeup is unimportant as a basis for
athletic excellence. This also does not infer that groups of people
distributed around the world do not have advantages in certain athletic
endeavors, as environment, culture, and heredity may be advantageous, in certain
instances, for producing individuals with optimal height, weight, muscle
structure, and temperament for excelling in a particular activity (e.g., Kenyans
and distance running or Norwegians and cross-country skiing). The point,
however, is that such groupings do not represent what is traditionally
believed to be racial groups.
It can be argued that even when certain groups of people scattered around
the world do have predisposing advantages for excelling in particular
activities, individuals who reach world class levels represent the extremes
within group distributions rather than its central tendency. This probably
distorts general perceptions of a group's attributes and makes differences
appear greater than they actually are."
Ken Jakalski
Lisle HS
Lisle IL USA
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Sun Aug 26, 2012 11:46 pm (PDT) . Posted by:
"JRTELLE@AOL.COM"
well of course not G -- will google it a bit though
JTelle
Lakewood CO USA
-----Original Message-----
From: Giovanni Ciriani <Giovanni.Ciriani@Gmail.com >
To: Supertraining <Supertraining@yahoogroups.com >
Sent: Sat, Aug 25, 2012 7:27 am
Subject: Re: [Supertraining] SPORTS BLACK SPRINTERS
Do you have the link for the post please?
Giovanni Ciriani - West Hartford, CT - USA
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 8:15 PM, <JRTELLE@aol.com > wrote:
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> Greetings,
> Black athletespeed.
> I just finished replying to a post on T nation about black sprinters. Has
> anyone else read about this?
> I don't know how anyone couldeven anecdotally believe they(the ones that
> do) do not have superior speed genetics. I recently read a great article
> which added the following fact!. Not only do black athletes (many)
> havegreater proportions of fast twitch fibers but -- GET THIS -- THEY HAVE
> WORSEMECHANICAL (SKELETAL LEVERAGE) ADVANTAGE. AHH HHHMM that is -- THEIR
> MOMENTS ARE SHORTER!!!!! Shorter moments (worse mechanical leverage
> factors) requires greater #'s of fast twitch fibers (greater cross section
> size) to overcome the mechanical disadvantages. And when this manifests --
> faster skeletal arcs!
> The evolutionary result - big magnificent muscles to drive the poor!!
> mechanical factors. Whether or not this transfers to strength-low power
> (power-lifting)or strength-high power (Olympic lifting) is unresolved. Some
> really good powerlifters have been black!
> Jerry Telle
> lakewood CO USA
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JTelle
Lakewood CO USA
-----Original Message-----
From: Giovanni Ciriani <Giovanni.Ciriani@
To: Supertraining <Supertraining@
Sent: Sat, Aug 25, 2012 7:27 am
Subject: Re: [Supertraining] SPORTS BLACK SPRINTERS
Do you have the link for the post please?
Giovanni Ciriani - West Hartford, CT - USA
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 8:15 PM, <JRTELLE@aol.
> **
>
>
>
>
> Greetings,
> Black athletespeed.
> I just finished replying to a post on T nation about black sprinters. Has
> anyone else read about this?
> I don't know how anyone couldeven anecdotally believe they(the ones that
> do) do not have superior speed genetics. I recently read a great article
> which added the following fact!. Not only do black athletes (many)
> havegreater proportions of fast twitch fibers but -- GET THIS -- THEY HAVE
> WORSEMECHANICAL (SKELETAL LEVERAGE) ADVANTAGE. AHH HHHMM that is -- THEIR
> MOMENTS ARE SHORTER!!!!! Shorter moments (worse mechanical leverage
> factors) requires greater #'s of fast twitch fibers (greater cross section
> size) to overcome the mechanical disadvantages. And when this manifests --
> faster skeletal arcs!
> The evolutionary result - big magnificent muscles to drive the poor!!
> mechanical factors. Whether or not this transfers to strength-low power
> (power-lifting)
> really good powerlifters have been black!
> Jerry Telle
> lakewood CO USA
>
>
>
> .
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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