sports

A sport is an organized, competitive, and skillful physical activity requiring commitment and fair play, in which a winner can be defined by objective means. It is governed by a set of rules or customs. In a sport the key factors are the physical capabilities and skills of the competitor when determining the outcome (winning or losing). The physical activity involves the movement of people, animals and/or a variety of objects such as balls and machines or equipment. In contrast, games such as card games and board games, though these could be called mind sports and some are recognized as Olympic sports, require primarily mental skills and only mental physical involvement. Non-competitive activities, for example as jogging or playing catch, are usually classified as forms of recreation. Physical events such as scoring goals or crossing a line first often define the result of a sport. However, the degree of skill and performance in some sports such as diving, dressage and figure skating...

Awards in this discipline: Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal
Halls of fame: International Motorsports Hall of Fame  Pro Football Hall of Fame  Canadian Ski Hall of Fame  Billiard Congress of America Hall of Fame  Sports Hall of Fame of New Jersey  College Football Hall of Fame  British Rugby League Hall of Fame  IIHF Hall of Fame  West Coast Stock Car Hall of Fame  Australian Racing Hall of Fame
Works Written About This Topic: The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game  The Hustler & The Champ: Willie Mosconi, Minnesota Fats, and the Rivalry That Defined Pool; Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream  The Genius: How Bill Walsh Reinvented Football and Created an NFL Dynasty  The Last Shot: City Streets, Basketball Dreams  Terry  Ainge  Fever Pitch  The Lost Generation  Mad As I Wanna Be
Books In This Genre: Gipp at Notre Dame: The Untold Story  Win One for the Gipper: America's Football Hero  Safe At Home: Confessions of a Baseball Fanatic  Hover Car Racer  And The Big Men Fly  Now I Can Die in Peace  Never Give Up: My Stroke, My Recovery, and My Return to the NFL  Tarnished Heisman  When Nothing Else Matters  The Great American Baseball Card Flipping, Trading and Bubble Gum Book
Periodicals: The New York Times Magazine  The Onion
Content: WXYT  WJFK-ESPN Radio 1300  WIP Sports Radio  WFNZ Sports Radio  WFAN  SportsAvengers.com  KILT-AM Sports Radio  ESPN Radio  CSTV Radio  WQYK
Organizations in this industry: Rocket Racing League  Forum Snowboards  Hyperlite  Upper Deck Company  Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment Ltd.  Cricket Australia  Tasmanian Cricket Association  Geibeltbad Pirna  Yoursports  Federazione Cricket Italiana
Journals in this discipline: http://olourde.canalblog.com/
Organizations: Gryffindor Quidditch Team  Slytherin Quidditch Team
Films of this genre: Journey of the African-American Athlete  Trapped in a Purple Haze  Alley Cats Strike  Ready to Run  Extreme Days  Road to Paris  New World Disorder II  When Billie Beat Bobby  The Luck of the Irish  Go Tigers!
Websites of this genre: Yahoo! Sports  Beach Volleyball Database  Foxsports.com  Squashsite  Wrestling Talk  Sherdog  AFL Dream Team  Supercoach  WikiBaseball  MMAjunkie.com
Quotations About This Subject: There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and it is no more ignoble to attend a wrestled performance of suffering than a performance of the sorrows of Arnolphe or Andromaque.; I don't think I can be expected to take seriously any game which takes less than three days to reach its conclusion.; Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.; Sports do not build character. They reveal it.  Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence. The mounting of this illusion defines the purpose and accounts for the immense wealth of American sports. It is the ceremony of innocence that the fans pay to see -- not the game or the match or the bout, but the ritual portrayal of a world in which time stops and all hope remains plausible, in which everybody present can recover the blameless expectations of a child, where the forces of light always triumph over the powers of darkness.; Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting.; Skiing: the art of catching cold and going broke while rapidly heading nowhere at great personal risk.; So you wish to conquer in the Olympic games, my friend? And I too, by the Gods, and a fine thing it would be! But first mark the conditions and the consequences, and then set to work. You will have to put yourself under discipline; to eat by rule, to avoid cakes and sweetmeats; to take exercise at the appointed hour whether you like it or no, in cold and heat; to abstain from cold drinks and from wine at your will; in a word, to give yourself over to the trainer as to a physician. Then in the conflict itself you are likely enough to dislocate your wrist or twist your ankle, to swallow a great deal of dust, or to be severely thrashed, and, after all these things, to be defeated.; The man loves danger and sport. That is why he loves woman, the most dangerous of all sports.; Sport in the sense of a mass-spectacle, with death to add to the underlying excitement, comes into existence when a population has been drilled and regimented and depressed to such an extent that it needs at least a vicarious participation in difficult feats of strength or skill or heroism in order to sustain its waning life-sense.;
Organizations in this sector: The Club  Vosta Volleybal  EuroThrowers  IKTHOF  Pesäpalloliitto
Organizations of this type: Vosta Volleybal
TV programs of this genre: Pot Black  Missing Link  The Contender Challenge: UK vs. USA  Inside Sport  ESPN First Take  The George Michael Sports Machine  SportsCenter Asia  Hard Knocks  Nokia Football Crazy  CFL on CBC
Related Web Pages: Wikipedia

Web Results:
Yahoo! Sports
Yahoo! Sports is your portal to scores, news, standings, stats, schedules, and fantasy sports, with coverage and analysis for the NFL, NBA, MLB, NCAA, NHL, soccer, ...

sports.yahoo.com

Comments

ESPN
Read the latest ESPN coverage, scores, and news headlines for all professional and college sports. Includes fantasy leagues, games, and chat rooms.

espn.go.com

Comments

Fox Sports
Fox Sports online provides live scores, player and team news, rumors, stats, schedules, standings, and fantasy sports for sports leagues including the NFL, MLB, ...

msn.foxsports.com

Comments

SI.com
Sports Illustrated offers up-to-the minute, comprehensive sports coverage. Includes news, scores, commentary, chats, and more.

sportsillustrated.cnn.com

Comments

Sports Betting at Sports.com Sportsbook
Sports has been at the forefront of sports betting since 1992. Sports.com online sportsbook, casino, poker room and racebook, features up-to-the minute sports odds ...

www.sports.com

Comments

Sport - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sport in childhood. Association football, shown above, is a team sport which also provides opportunities to nurture social interaction skills. ...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sport

Comments

NY Sports News - Newsday - Scores, Schedules, News & Standings
Keep up to date with news, scores and schedules from New York teams including the Yankees, Mets, Rangers, Islanders, Giants, Jets, Knicks & High School Sports

www.newsday.com/sports

Comments

Sports - List of Sports on ESPN
List of all sports covered on ESPN.com, with links to top news stories and scores.

espn.go.com/sports

Comments

Yahoo! Fantasy Sports
Yahoo! fantasy sports offers free fantasy NFL, NBA, MLB, NCAA, auto racing, and golf games, with news, stats, and analysis to help you hone your fantasy team.

sports.yahoo.com/fantasy

Comments

MSN Sports

go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=68921

Comments