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High school students
CHAPTER 6 COLLEGE AND HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS College athletics function as a minor, or preparatory, league for some professional sports, particularly football and basketball, but there is nothing minor about Americans' passion for them or about the sums of money intercollegiate sports generate. Just as... Read more |
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Blood Sports
Blood Sports Sources Old World.Sports which resulted in the death or injury of animals were part of European recreational life. Bulls, badgers, and bears were tethered so they could not escape and then set upon by dogs. Men on horseback chased foxes with the aid of... Read more |
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Shirley Muldowney
Shirley Muldowney 1940- American race car driver Professional drag racing driver Shirley "Cha Cha" Muldowney is not just "good for a girl." Though she was the first woman to accomplish many feats in the sport, many of her records and claims are for the sport as a whole, regardless of... Read more |
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Sports injuries
Sports injuries Definition Sportsinjuries result from acute trauma or repetitive stress associated with athletic activities. Sports injuries can affect bones or soft tissue such as ligaments, muscles, and tendons. Description Children are more likely to suffer sports injuries... Read more |
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sports
sports athletic games or tests of skill undertaken primarily for the diversion of those who take part or those who observe them. The range is great; usually, however, the term is restricted to any play, pastime, exercise, game, or contest performed under given rules, indoors or outdoors, on an... Read more |
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Sports cars
N EWA UTOMOTIVED ESIGNS The Look The family sedan was just one of many popular designs in the 1990s, but Americans also bought everything from bulky sport utility vehicles (SUVs) to the rounded Volkswagen Beetle to sleek, luxury roadsters. Designers... Read more |
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Alken
Alken. Family of British sporting artists of Danish origin. The family tradition was begun by Samuel Alken, Sen. (1750–1815), who engraved hunting and sporting landscapes in the manner of Stubbs. Four of his sons became artists, including Samuel, Jun. (1784–c.1825), and most... Read more |
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Robert Smith Surtees
Robert Smith Surtees , 1803-64, English novelist. He created John Jorrocks, the sporting grocer, who appears in Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities (1838), a series of humorous sketches first published in the New Sporting Magazine, which Surtees had helped to found in 1831. The novel Handley Cross ... Read more |
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Phil Knight
Phil Knight Phil Knight (born 1938) is the founder and head of Nike, Inc., the number one athletic shoe company in the world. Already a legend in the retail and marketing worlds, Knight has turned into something of a mainstream hero, the subject of admiring articles in popular magazines. It is a... Read more |
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Winter Sports
Winter Sports Sources Sleigh Racing.Winter sports were especially popular among the Dutch and Swedish settlers who came to the Middle Colonies (New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware). Frozen lakes and rivers provided not only easier access to neighbors... Read more |
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