LOS ANGELES — On an overcast morning this week, with close-cropped hair and week-old stubble framing his face, Tim Tebow arrived at the University of Southern California’s baseball stadium. No one looked surprised to see the one-time football star standing next to a baseball field more than 2,000 miles from his home in Jacksonville, Fla.
Tebow is a regular here.
He has been visiting off and on for almost two years in hopes of reviving his NFL career, which he essentially put in the hands of two retired baseball pitchers steeped in science and novel training techniques: Pitchers throw footballs, quarterbacks throw baseballs and, during morning lectures that can feel like physics lessons, athletes are quizzed on subjects like “kinetic awareness,” “biomechanical variables” and “proprioception.