The roller styles retail for $1,995 and are available at Saint Laurent’s boutique
Saint Laurent has made the roller skate somewhat of a signature. In addition to these new, heeled styles, the brand has also shown sneaker roller skate styles, which are new interpretations of its Court Classic high-tops. You can still find the sneaker rollers on
The auction of photos Leifer owns taken by other photographers will be sold Friday in New York City by Guernsey’s. Pictures that Leifer took and owns will be sold Saturday.The piece expected to go for the most money is the shot taken at Ali-Liston II in Lewiston, Maine, in May 1965.
The 11-by-14 inch photo was made through the expensive dye transfer process and is signed by both Ali and Leifer. Ali wrote under the photo: “To Neil Leifer, Thank you for such a great picture.” The picture is mounted and comes with Leifer’s credentials for the dressing room, the weigh-in and the fight and the original envelope they came in.
The bidding for the piece started online at $160,000. There have not been any bidders thus far, but Guernsey’s president Arlan Ettinger said he believes the piece could sell for at least $500,000.Leifer was 22 at the time.
Seen as the most single most ubiquitous shoe of fashion’s Olympic Games – the four-city international collection circuit that ended two weeks ago – didn’t have a designer label, nor a five-inch heel. It wasn’t uncomfortable, for the most part, and it wasn’t particularly expensive. Yet it was in the front row of all the major shows in every capital, through sun, snow and sleet (God bless British weather). It looking as good on men as on women, and age not an issue.
During the 2009 and 2010 football seasons, 20 cameras were set up around the Green Bay Packers’ hallowed stadium to test the next phase of analyzing football.
Using optical recognition technology, the cameras tracked each player as he flew around the field, collecting information and quantifying what has long been a cliché thrown around the league.
The tracking cameras had figured out game speed. It was capable of placing a number to the tiny marginal differences in speed barely picked up by eye. It could put a time span on a running back’s burst from the snap to the line of scrimmage, or a linebacker’s recognition of a run play to the moment he swarmed to the play.
Now a longtime game statistics provider to the NFL — is ready to bring these cameras to the football field. SportsVU is being used by 15 teams in the NBA, according to reports, and there is a clamor for the NFL to join in. The NFL does not even let teams use computers in the coaches’ box during games — perhaps at the risk of one team gaining a competitive advantage. By tracking the X, Y and Z coordinates, every object on the field can be quantified. Where advanced analytics have already gained a foothold in the league, its merger with scouting and game action may be the next step in its evolution.
The NFL does not give individual teams the option to decide whether the technology is appropriate for them like the NBA It is all or nothing. For now, it is nothing, after the camera tracking program came in front of the league’s competition committee in 2010 but did not pass. This past season, they had tracking cameras in several stadiums, but only on an experimental basis.
As the NFL begins to integrate technology, injury analytics could be one of the most important points. It is a difficult field, with accurate data hard to come by. Teams have tried fighting the injury scourge in crude ways. Some develop injury profiles, scouring through large numbers of injury reports and players’ injury history to come to an assumption about which ones should be avoided. Older defensive ends that have had knee injuries are an example of a profile that should be avoided, because they are often unable to come back with the requisite amount of explosiveness. The Jaguars have already been using their own practices. They have GPS units that they can use during practice and accelerometers to track stress on a player. It allows them to not only keep track of the amount of miles walked or run by a player.
But technology allows for a more acute picture. The Jaguars use it while watching players rehab from injuries, tracking how much stress and workload they undergo to ensure that they receive the proper amount.
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