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Calcio, a form of football that stressed the good looks and elegant attire of the players. Within the world of sports, the emphasis on aesthetics, rather than achievement, was never stronger. Folk football, a wild no-holds-barred unbounded game that pitted married men against bachelors or one village against another.

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Less than two months after Chicago Blackhawks ownership settled a negligence lawsuit filed by former player Kyle Beach, team owner Rocky Wirtz told a fan forum he would no longer look back at what happened in 2010 or discuss the player. The Canucks sit three points out of a playoff spot in the Western Conference, putting them in a tough spot with the trade deadline just days away. That's Hockey examines how the Canucks might approach the trade deadline.

The decades-long battle between Team Canada and Team USA for women’s hockey glory is, perhaps, the most prolific rivalry in the history of sport. Today, they have set aside their bitter feud to come together and push the women’s game forward. Dušan Vlahović set up one goal and scored another as Juventus eased to a 2-0 win over bottom club Salernitana in the Italian league on Sunday to move within a point of defending champion Inter Milan.

PALM HARBOR, Fla. — Sam Burns celebrated another victory Sunday at the Valspar Championship, and it was nothing like he experienced a year ago. He lowered his arms and forcefully shook his fists as raw emotion poured out of him on the 16th green, a reaction worthy under the circumstances. Early baseball gameAn early baseball game at the Elysian Fields, Hoboken, New Jersey, 1859; engraving from Harper's magazine.

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.

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“Athletics” became popular after Oxford and Cambridge held their first track-and-field meet in 1864. The Amateur Athletic Association, which emphasized track-and-field sports, was founded in 1880, the Amateur Rowing Association in 1882. Archery matches, some of which were arranged months in advance and staged with considerable fanfare. When town met town in a challenge of skill, the companies of crossbowmen and longbowmen marched behind the symbols of St. George, St. Sebastian, and other patrons of the sport.

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Sport is also a major source of entertainment for non-participants, with spectator sport drawing large crowds to sport venues, and reaching wider audiences through broadcasting. Sport betting is in some cases severely regulated, and in some cases is central to the sport. — Miami showed there's still a place for old-school basketball played by experienced players — and for the Hurricanes, that's in the Sweet 16.

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SAN DIEGO — Bennedict Mathurin has come through plenty in clutch situations for Arizona. It's no surprise he made his biggest plays of the season when the Wildcats needed him the most. The sophomore shooting guard made a 3-pointer to force overtime and then scored six more points in the extra session as the top-seeded Arizona outlasted ninth-seeded TCU on Sunday night in the second round of the NCAA Tournament. As games, chess and basketball are obviously different from leapfrog and playing house. One can win a game of basketball, but it makes no sense to ask who has won a game of leapfrog.

Watching your hard work pay off and achieving your goals develops self-confidence. Achieving a sport or fitness goal encourages you to achieve other goals you set. Rimsha Ijaz took the PGF International Ladies Amateur Golf Championship after a nerve-shredding final round at the IGC. International Women’s Day Volleyball Match being held at Pakistan Sports Complex in the presence of DG PSB, Col. M... Behind 25 against North Carolina with less than 10 minutes to play, the top-seeded Bears rampaged back, forced overtime and then lost.

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?

Pascal Siakam had 26 points and 10 rebounds, and Precious Achiuwa scored 21 points to lead the Toronto Raptors to a win over the Philadelphia 76ers on Sunday night. It Serves a wholesome daily dose of all the burning issues of the world cup T20 with comments, analysis and lively debates. The ancient Olympic Games, called the Olympiad, were held in honour of the head deity, Zeus, and featured various forms of religious dedication to him and other gods. As many Greeks travelled to see the games, this combination of religion and sport also served as a way of uniting them.