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Many sports leagues make an annual champion by arranging games in a regular sports season, followed in some cases by playoffs. Behind this epochal transition from Renaissance to modern sports lay the scientific developments that sustained the Industrial Revolution. New games, such as basketball, volleyball, and team handball, were consciously invented to specifications as if they were new products for the market.

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In this episode of Breaking Ice Ethan shares the joys and obstacles of growing up in Ochapowace. He also details the blatant hate and racism he has unfortunately experienced throughout his life, even in the pros. Ethan is trying to stand proudly as an Indigenous man, speaking out against that hate, to create a better future for himself and other Indigenous athletes. Wendell Carter Jr. scored 10 of his 30 points in the fourth quarter and the Orlando Magic handed the Oklahoma City Thunder their ninth straight loss with a victory Sunday night. Luis Amarilla scored a pivotal goal in Minnesota United’s 1-0 win over the San Jose Earthquakes on Saturday. Barcelona’s losing run against Real Madrid is finally over as the Catalan club enjoyed a stunning 4-0 win Sunday and showed its title hopes in the Spanish league maybe aren’t finished just yet.

Pakistan made one change after an epic draw at Karachi last week, when Babar Azam’s marathon knock of 196 in more than 10 hours led the hosts to 443-7, falling short by 63 runs. — Mike Krzyzewski’s emotions began to flow with a few seconds left on the clock, when it was finally certain Duke would extend his last NCAA Tournament run. He whirled around to face the section where his family was sitting behind him and extended both arms to point their way in celebration. Pausanias wrote of races for girls at Olympia, but these events in honour of Hera were of minor importance. Britannica Quiz Bull’s-eye Sports You may know that billiards involves a long wooden stick, but how long must a billiard cue be?

Reuters provides business, financial, national and international news to professionals via desktop terminals, the world's media organizations, industry events and directly to consumers. Both amateur and professional sports attract spectators, both in person at the sport venue, and through broadcast media including radio, television and internet broadcast. Both attendance in person and viewing remotely can incur a sometimes substantial charge, such as an entrance ticket, or pay-per-view television broadcast. Disabled sports also adaptive sports or parasports, are sports played by persons with a disability, including physical and intellectual disabilities. As many of these are based on existing sports modified to meet the needs of persons with a disability, they are sometimes referred to as adapted sports. However, not all disabled sports are adapted; several sports that have been specifically created for persons with a disability have no equivalent in able-bodied sports.

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That’s not disrespectful to his mom Kim - it just means he is thankful year-round. They talk daily, she is his best friend and, according to him, she is half the reason he made it to the NHL. She told him to “dream, work hard and believe” and he took those words to heart.

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Activists for education and the war on drugs encourage youth sport as a means to increase educational participation and to fight the illegal drug trade. According to the Center for Injury Research and Policy at Nationwide Children's Hospital, the biggest risk for youth sport is death or serious injury including concussion. These risks come from running, basketball, association football, volleyball, gridiron, gymnastics, and ice hockey.

Seeking status as well as diversion, middle-class employees of British firms followed the upper-class lead. From the gamut of games played by the upper and middle classes, the industrial workers of Europe and Latin America, like the indigenous population of Africa, appropriated football as their own. Basketball, invented in 1891 by James Naismith, and volleyball, invented four years later by William Morgan, are both quintessentially modern sports. Both were scientifically designed to fulfill a perceived need for indoor games during harsh New England winters. In the 18th and 19th centuries, the British expelled the French from Canada and from India and extended British rule over much of Africa. To the ends of the earth, cricket followed the Union Jack, which explains the game’s current popularity in Australia, South Asia, and the West Indies.

The competition element of sport, along with the aesthetic appeal of some sports, result in the popularity of people attending to watch sport being played. Participants may cheat in order to unfairly increase their chance of winning, or in order to achieve other advantages such as financial gains. The widespread existence of gambling on the results of sports fixtures creates a motivation for match fixing, where a participant or participants deliberately work to ensure a given outcome rather than simply playing to win. Key principles of sport include that the result should not be predetermined, and that both sides should have equal opportunity to win.