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gambling
gambling or gaming, betting of money or valuables on, and often participation in, games of chance (some involving degrees of skill). In England and in the United States, gambling was not a common-law crime if conducted privately. Even in colonial America, however, gambling was liable to rankle ... Read more
sports medicine
sports medicine branch of medicine concerned with physical fitness and with the treatment and prevention of injuries and other disorders related to sports. Knee, leg, back, and shoulder injuries; stiffness and pain in joints; tendinitis; "tennis elbow" ; and dehydration are some common condition... Read more
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 indi... Read more
Zermatt
Zermatt , village (1989 est. pop. 4,000), Valais canton, S Switzerland. Near the Matterhorn, Zermatt is a popular resort for mountain-climbing and winter sports. ... Read more
Pierce Egan
Pierce Egan 1772-1849, English sports writer. He was the author of Life in London, a lively account of the sporting gallants of the Regency. With its rough humor and colloquial style, it was popular from its first installment (1820). He also wrote (1812-24) Boxiana, a classic work on boxing. ... Read more
Jean Charest
Jean Charest , 1958-, Canadian politician. A lawyer and member of the Progressive Conservative party, he was been a member of parliament from Quebec since 1984. From 1986 to 1993 Charest served in cabinet positions—as minister of state for youth (1986-90) and fitness and amateur sport (1988-90... Read more
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Paul Laurence Dunbar , 1872-1906, American poet and novelist, b. Dayton, Ohio. The son of former slaves, he won recognition with his Lyrics of Lowly Life (1896)—a collection of poems from his Oak and Ivy (1893) and Majors and Minors (1895). His humorous poems employing African-American f... Read more
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
curling
curling winter sport, similar in principle to bowls and quoits (see horseshoe pitching ), played on an ice court by teams of four. Each player hurls a squat, circular stone—weighing 38 lb (17.2 kg), dished on bottom and top and having a top handle for the player's grip—at the tees, o... Read more
Jasper
Jasper city (1990 pop. 13,553), seat of Walker co., NW central Ala.; inc. 1889. Jasper is a trade and processing center in a coal and timber area. There is agriculture and the manufacture of sporting goods and furniture, as well as bottling and poultry processing. ... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "Minor Sports"

Sports Injuries
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, 3rd ed. ...thirds of childhood sports injuries occur during...sports injuries are minor soft tissue traumas...usually result from minor stresses that repeatedly...for 5-6% of all sports injuries. The bones...primary cause of fatal sports-related injuries...result from even minor blows to ...
blood sports
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Irish History blood sports have taken various forms in...Concern at the cruelty of some sports began to be voiced from the...legislation to control cruel sports was enacted in 1835, and animal...legislation, with some relatively minor later amendments, remains...
Sports, School
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Education ...role was attributed to interscholastic sports in meeting the needs of boys in this...Hansot, p. 166). Interscholastic sports spread rapidly from the 1930s through...communities were opposed to competitive sports for elementary and junior high, and occasionally high school, students. Sport ...
SIC 7941 Professional Sports Clubs and Promoters
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of American Industries SIC 7941PROFESSIONAL SPORTS CLUBS AND PROMOTERS This category...Nonresidential Buildings. Amateur sports and athletic clubs are classified...than 100 cities are home to minor league franchises. Salaries...Another large professional sports organization, the National...commissioner of the entire ...
Ripken Jr., Cal
Encyclopedia entry from: U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography ...professional athletes in all of sports. Growing up with the Orioles...Baltimore Orioles baseball team as a minor league catcher since 1957...coach and manager at both the minor and major league level. During...was employed by Baltimore's minor league team in Bluefield, West...
Cal Ripken Jr
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...professional athletes in all of sports. Calvin Edwin Ripken, Jr...with the Baltimore Orioles as a minor-league catcher since 1957...coach and manager at both the minor and major-league level. While...finally managing the Orioles minor-league team in North Carolina...
Mickey Mantle
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...the days of low salaries in professional sports. Mantle reported to the Yankees' minor league team in Independence, Kansas...hitting shortstop. After two years in the minor leagues, the Yankees invited him to their...x2014; and was sent back briefly to the minors. Mantle's first year in the ...
Wesley Branch Rickey
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...football and later coaching both sports. Upon graduation in 1904 he...league club to control a chain of minor league franchises through which...selling older stars and creating a minor league chain like that of St...at lower levels of the Dodger minor leagues. Rickey's elaborate...
Rotator Cuff Injury
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, 3rd ed. ...frequently in athletes practicing sports that require the arm to be moved...supraspinatus, infraspinatus, teres minor, and subscapularis. The tendons...resting the shoulder and, for minor tears and inflammation, applying...prognosis for recovery from minor rotator cuff injuries is excellent...
Laos
Encyclopedia entry from: Cities of the World ...added to increase coverage of minor cities, facts have been updated...are not available locally. Minor repairs to stereo equipment...brought from home for active sports. Sweaters and jackets are useful...Shorts are useful at home and for sports, but are not worn on the street...

Dictionary entries related to "Minor Sports"

minor
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English ...scale. ∎  ( Minor ) Bell-ringing a system of...using six bells. 3. ( the minors ) the minor leagues in a particular professional sport, esp. baseball: he's been pitching in the minors for six years. 4. a college...
minor league
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English ...league in a particular professional sport, esp. baseball: he hit a lot of home runs in the minor leagues | [as adj ] a minor-league outfielder . ∎...of lesser power or significance: a minor-league villain. DERIVATIVES: mi...
Bragg, William Henry
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...tall, strong, and good at competitive sports. Having outstripped his schoolmates...atheism. Bragg entered Trinity College on a minor scholarship, obtaining a major scholarship...1886 – 1904) he published three minor papers on electrostatics and the energy...
Cam'ron
Dictionary entry from: Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Popular Musicians Since 1990 ...chair, reminders everywhere / How we pull up in whips, the minors stop and stare." Released in July 1998, Confessions of...long-term romantic commitment. "Feels Good" became a minor hit, helping Confessions of Fire sell some 500,000 copies...single from his second album, S.D.E., which stands for "Sports, ...
Soccer
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...capitalist nations, American "sport space" was established and...soccer remained distinctly minor league until 1975, when the...mirage. Audiences tired of a sport in which fading foreigners...establish soccer as an amateur sport among the white middle class...from America's mainstream ...
track
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English track 1 / trak / • n. 1. a rough path or minor road, typically one beaten by use rather than constructed...Formula One Grand Prix track. ∎  the sport of running on such a track. ∎  (usu...
option
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English ...something): his second script will have been optioned by the time you read this. ∎  Sports transfer a player (to a minor league team) with an option to recall him. PHRASES: keep (or leave ) one's options open not commit...
Griffith, Nanci
Dictionary entry from: Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Popular Musicians Since 1990 ...with the country division of MCA Records, where she enjoyed minor hits such as "Lone Star State of Mind" (1987) and "I Knew...categorization. Flyer (1994), a collection of original material, sports a rock-oriented sound through the use of electric guitar and...
Byrne, David
Dictionary entry from: Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Popular Musicians Since 1990 ...recorded in an edgy, new wave rock style, in evidence on the minor 1978 hit, "Psycho Killer." But through the influence of...classical composers such as Steve Reich, while "The Revolution" sports an affectingly spare arrangement of acoustic guitar and strings...
Baseball
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...more so than in any other sport. After the Civil War, baseball...and brought money into the sport. The first professional team...popular culture celebrated the sport in poems such as "Casey at...1899, Ban Johnson, a former sports editor who influenced baseball until the 1920s, transformed a ...

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Tipperary minor.(Sport)
Newspaper article from: The Mirror (London, England); 11/20/2007; 273 words ; FORMER Tipperary minor hurling selector Vincent McKenna has been appointed as manager of Toomevara's senior hurlers. McKenna takes over the reins from...
Aussie club look to lure Carlow minor.(SPORT)
Magazine article from: Evening Herald (Dublin, Republic of Ireland); 7/18/2007; 645 words ; Byline: Frank Roche CARLOW minor footballer Brendan Murphy has been approached by an Aussie Rules...Herald. Rathvilly clubman Murphy was freed to play in last Sunday's minor decider after his red card -- arising from a mass brawl in Carlow...
A MINOR SPORT IS MAJOR TO VALENCIA.(News)
Newspaper article from: Daily News (Los Angeles, CA); 4/9/2006; 700+ words ; ...Oh, it's definitely a minor sport. Volleyball will never...would all agree it's a fun sport. There aren't a lot of accolades. It's a sport that has its own rewards...have much background in the sport, you might not realize there...1) is No. 7 in Cal-Hi Sports' state rankings, while ...
Desailly injury is minor.(Sport)
Newspaper article from: Daily Post (Liverpool, England); 11/15/2001; 389 words ; ...Hutchinson believes he will be available for the game against Blackburn a week on Saturday. Hutchinson said: "He has got a minor Achilles problem. He is not available on Sunday so with our permission he is staying in Paris and receiving treatment from...
Dynamic chance in Minor.(Sport)
Newspaper article from: Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England); 9/29/2006; 472 words ; Byline: Graham Turton , Huddersfield hit the West Riding County FA Minor Cup trail on Sunday. And as they prepare to face Leeds at Leeds Road Playing Fields (2.00), they do it with a new temporary...
Millward double sparks Tarleton fightback over Ormskirk; CRAVEN MINOR.(Sport)
Newspaper article from: Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England); 10/6/2009; 671 words ; ANOTHER super series of games in the Peter Brown Craven Minor Junior Football League saw the under-10s of Formby FC Blue overcome Ainsdale Juniors in a 3-1 victory. Formby's early opener...
Football: Athletic hold on to march through; WALSALL MINOR.(Sport)
Newspaper article from: Birmingham Evening Mail (England); 11/20/2002; 399 words ; WALSALL Minor League side Ryecroft Villa went out of the Staffordshire Cup at the second round stage when they were beaten 2-1 by Sutton Athletic...
Canada announces new system for payment of minor sport-fishing fines.
PR Newswire; 8/22/1984; 532 words ; ...system for the payment of fines for minor sport fishing violations in Canada was...charges under the British Columbia sport fishing regulations of the Federal...Officer Tom Moojalsky. "Firstly, sport fishermen may now pay fines by mail...
Football: Southport Nick it - thanks to Toblin; CRAVEN MINOR.(Sport)
Newspaper article from: Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England); 1/18/2005; 385 words ; ...Matty Price, tom Kenningley, Tom Booth) ran out 5-1 winners over Southport Trinity in the under-13s division. Craven Minor under-12s League Representatives progressed to the Semi Final of the FA Cup thanks to a 2-0 win over Bootle and Netherton...
Rangers blast back in style; ALL PICTURES BY GEOFF DAVIES CRAVEN MINOR.(Sport)
Newspaper article from: Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England); 3/4/2008; 416 words ; ...s early goal to take the score to 5-4. Town Green's under 16s progressed to the Liverpool Cup Final after Mike King's solitary goal was enough to beat St Helens' Clock Face Minors. Town will play Bootle in the final on April 1.