Abe Mickal was born in Talia, Lebanon in 1912 and moved to the United States in 1920 to live in McComb, Mississippi. Among his accomplishments, he was an outstanding high school and college football player at Louisiana State University. He was named all-southeastern conference and second-team all-American in 1934. In 1967 he was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame. He was also elected ...

In 1994 Joseph S Blatter, President of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), asked: “What can medicine and science do to improve the game of football?” Although a simple question, it led to the founding of the FIFA Medical Assessment and Research Centre (F-MARC) during the 1994 FIFA World Cup USA. The objective of F-MARC was to reduce football injuries at all levels of p...

An analogy is made between two rather different domains, namely: logic, and football (or soccer). Starting from a comparative table between the two activities, an alternative explanation of logic is given in terms of players, ball, goal, and the like. Our main thesis is that, just as the task of logic is preserving truth from premises to the conclusion, footballers strive to keep the ball as fa...

The sight of oneself on a stadium screen when filmed as part of the crowd at a football game comes as a pleasant surprise to most people and usually does not cause any confusion. The brain recognizes the artificial nature of the image and deals adequately with the apparent conflict caused by seeing a visual representation of its own body where it should not be. However, when a carefully designe...

The NFL and NCAA Football are multi-billion dollar industry. Despite this, the process of preparing to face an opponent is a relative anachronism. Coaches watch and take notes of their opponents' game footage the week before game day. When it comes time to call plays, they rely on their memory and instincts in order to call the proper play. A defense would be at a distinct advantage if their co...

the aim of the present research was to study the effective factors of corruption in sport organizations and football federation of iran was selected as the case study. research method was descriptive application survey and all staff of football federation of i.r. iran (n=131) were considered as the population while the sample equalled the population. to collect data, a questionnaire (khodadad h...

The importance of incentives and socially based motivation for metadata generation should not distract attention entirely from the need to design tools for metadata generation that use every means available to maximize the efficiency and intrinsic motivation of the individual annotator. The popular application domain of (individual) photo management has recently given rise to a number of strate...

approximately a decade ago, the fifa medical assessment and research centre (f-marc) developed an injury prevention program so-called “the 11” which was aimed to reduce injuries among male and female amateur football players aged 14 years and older. the “11” was designed on the basis of information and data which was available of research on injury and structured as warm-up program to reduce an...