Posts made in March, 2019

Sammy Jo Bell to be on a Wheelchair for 6 weeks

Sammy Jo Bell to be on a Wheelchair for 6 weeks

It seems that Sammy Jo Bell will spend a lot more time out of the game than the expected time. This is due to the accident which occurred to her at Carlisle when a rider accidentally fractured her pelvis a week ago. She is now expected to spend six weeks in a wheelchair. Unfortunately that was the time Bell was expected to be out of activity but doctors said surgery wouldn’t be necessary as it was said that a plate would be inserted to reinforce her pelvis. This made the date on which shed be out in action unknown.

Sammy Jo Bell got injured when her mount Duchess reared, departing out of the show ring and fell on her on Thursday. Bell said that there’s nothing she could do to her problem or fasten her healing. She said that the only thing she could do at that particular time was to wait and get on with it. She also added that she will do anything she can to heal quickly as possible because she needed to get back in action. She also said that she hadn’t discussed with the surgeon what she can do and what she can’t do. This is due to the fact that she hadn’t seen the surgeon since the operation. Continuing she said that, though she knows that she can’t do anything with her legs, she doesn’t know if she can do anything with any part of her upper body so as to keep her fitness up. Bell who’s Richard Fahey`s young leaner shown last summer as she became the first female rider to be  coroneted as leading jockey during the Shergar Cup added saying that “There’s never an ideal time to get injured , but the middle of the season had to be the worst.”

She concluded by saying that she’s happy to be alive because she knows something terrible than that could have happened because it was a nasty moment. To sum up everything she assured people that once she’s out of the wheelchair shell get into rehab and try to get back to the game. She ended by saying she didn’t have a target at the moment but was only looking forward to getting better.

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A Light is shown on Crickets Loneliness curse by Monty Panesar Confession

A Light is shown on Crickets Loneliness curse by Monty Panesar Confession

Through the research done by many, it has been found that many cricket players face a lot of stress and discomfort due to their failure in the field. The players psychological problems emerge as a result of brainy fade, dismissal from the game or their batting average misses. Monty Panesar paved way to the redemption of the cricket players. By his confession of his feelings which ranged from paranoia to low esteem and seeking medical advice has helped many to know what to do if cumbered with the same burden.

Players spend a lot of time away from home and their families. This soon creates a vacuum in which a depressing state is perceived. A seed of subconscious is reached when a player fails or a batsman fails to prove that he can hit well in the game. At this moment a seed of subconscious is planted in his mind. As the player repetitively curses and get depressed, that’s when he starts breaking down from his game to his head. Bell inspired a lot of people during an interview he clearly expressed his turmoil and depression in 2012. Cricket hardly creates a room for expressing insecurities or psychological problems. It is for this reason that Monty Panesar was appointed mental health ambassador for the Professional Crickets Association. Panesar was able to move out of the depressing state only because he decided to say it out loud.

Cricket is one sport that’s said to really cause health crisis to its players. One of cricket’s players Graeme Fowler was crushed by his mental illness one time that he did not leave his home for six weeks. He even says that he almost found it difficult to make a cup of coffee. Jim Burke one of Australian Cricket layers killed himself with a gun in 1979 for going 44 innings without a duck. Cricket is a very controversial game, if the player’s frustrations aren’t monitored by medics it is clear that they can break down. Panesar is a very good reminder that anyone has a choice to make any decision without being discriminated. Monty Panesar helped many players even from other games to speak about their problems openly.

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$13M Sports Betting Fraud suspect busted

$13M Sports Betting Fraud suspect busted

Thursday was a very honorable day for the Brooklyn Attorney’s Office. On this day The Brooklyn Lawyers workplace busted a $13.2 million Net-based sport gambling activity, of which officials alleges that it was run by a Lucchese crime-household soldier. Eugene, who’s an esteemed mobster “Boopsie” Castelle and a five man work party allegedly, brought in bets on professional as well as collegiate sporting occasions all over the world. At the same time they were wring funds to another location presumed to be offshore.

The alleged suspects were impinged on with a 37 enumerate indictment on Thursday in front of Brooklyn’s Supreme Court Justice Danny Chun. The suspects were charged with a lot allegation. The allegations include: Corruption, they were also said to have promoted gambling, they were also charged to have been laundering money and unlawful conspiracy.

Authorities alleged that one of Staten Island was involved too. Castelle which is Staten’s fifty six island is alleged to have received some cash.  This additional money is said to have been a kind of corruption so as to offer security from the rivals of the busted ring. Anthony Grecco superintended the day-t0 day administration of the pack. Sixty two of Queens. He was charged with three counts of felony for running a mortgage sharking operation. On each count, he faces as much as fifteen years of imprisonment based on each account. To add on that, he also faces twenty five years in jail faced up by his cohorts.

Authorities also said that there were other agents who aide the ring. They are: Theodore Vasilakis , Gaetano Zuccarello,  Laonnis Dinos and lastly Vincent Mormile. The part they played was to protect and monitoring of the rings bets, reporting to Anthony Grecco  and taming relationships with gamblers.  DA Ken Thompson said that the defendants were charged with running a  profitable playing ring that took in tens of millions of dollars in bets and extended all the way to Costa Rica.

If the defendants will be convicted according to the crimes they’ve been caught with, they’ll face up to 25 years in prison.

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Nevada sports betting can be a $5 billion industry soon

Nevada sports betting can be a $5 billion industry soon

Back in the 1970s Super Bowl week used to experience very little attention, Jimmy Vaccaro who has witnessed four decades as a Las Vegas bookmaker explains. He was very astonished to witness massive crowds of people buying tickets for the Super Bowl game in February and March. The sports betting figures in Nevada was at $2.4 billion in 2006, $3 billion in 2012 and then went to $4.2 billion in 2015. The figures are expected to rise to $5 billion in 2016. The senior research analyst for the Gaming Control Board, Michael Lawton said that the $5 billion estimate would be very much possible with the way things were being witnessed. He said that the sports betting in Nevada was growing stronger each day, mobile phone applications and mainstream media being the major contributors to the growth.

Sports’ betting in Nevada is being aided by various factors including mobile apps, convectional and social media interest, the increase of in-game and proposition gambling fantasy sports’ popularity, the Las Vegas book advancement and the increase in some of the economical and societal factors. In the recent years, the great gaming events have been attracting so much attention. From the Super Bowl games, the NCCA Tournament and the great fight between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao. This was backed up by Matthew Holt who is the president of CG Technology sports books. Even though some of the sports betting activities such as Pinnacle are being held in America, the average person cannot wager using a credit card.

The amount of revenue generated by these underground bookmakers in the U.S is up to $400 billion. Nevada is becoming quite popular with revenue of up to $5 billion. This has been attributed to advances in technology with CG Technology and William Hill sports leading the way. The mobile phone app also increased the number of people who engage in sports betting. Vaccaro added that over 100 customers signed up for the mobile application during the NCCA Tournament. This was also backed up by Jay Kornegay who is the Westgate sports book director. In the recent times, finding a sports book with no mobile app is very difficult. According to Roxborough in the late 1990s sports books were facing challenges from casinos but this has changed.

Sports bookmakers are becoming quite noticeable in the sports betting areas in games such as baseball, golf, hockey, and military games. The state gaming rules are also slacking to elevate sports betting. The Senate Bill 443 was also signed thus allowing business premises in Nevada to allow investors to place bets in behalf of investors from all over the world.

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Studies from the Congress indicate that NFL attempted to Influence research on Concussion

Studies from the Congress indicate that NFL attempted to Influence research on Concussion

The National Institutes of Health backed up the idea of the N.F.L agreeing to contribute tens of millions of dollars to concussion research as they saw this as an opportunity of reducing the permanent effects of head injuries on players. The N.F.L agreed to this decision back in 2012 and they agreed to have no control over how the funds were to be used.  However, the N.F.L officials were overly corrupt and tried all means of hiring their own doctor according to a congressional committee which released its research on Monday. The N.F.L denied these accusations in a statement carried out by Democratic members of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.

The N.F.L has a long history of trying to mishandle concussion research which goes way back to the time when they first decided to follow up on crisis by using faulty information to come up with various studies. According to Dr. Richard Ellenbogen’s research in 2013 who proposed to carry out the research on how the funds were being used and later on petitioned to dishonor the findings of Dr. Stern who had initially being given credit on that work. Nothing much has changed over the last years, Dr. Elliot Pelliman who was the leader of the league’s concussion committee is still present though his work was dishonored since his study was suspicious and he never came out to support the permanent effects of head injuries on players.

Recent members of the committee include, Dr. Richard Ellenbogen who discredited the research findings of Dr. Robert Stern, who is a Boston neurologist. Others include Representative Frank Pallone Jr. of New Jersey who supervised the study and accused the N.F.L of trying to negatively influence research that they agreed to fund and then leave the rest to the research team. According to Mr. Pallone the disagreements between the N.F.L and the N.I.H arise due to the attempts made by the N.F.L to interfere with the research conducted on life-long effects of head injuries. ESPN were the original reporters of the results of the study, and also critiqued the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health for failing to adequately defend the relationship between N.I.H and the N.F.L.

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