Monday, September 6, 2010
Ice Hockey
X Games
Baseball
Basseball is the national sport of the United States. It is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. Just like cricket, the team with the most runs at the end of the game wins however, rules of baseball are completely different than that of cricket. in baseball , runs are made by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot square, or diamond. Players on one team (the batting team) take turns hitting against the pitcher of the other team (the fielding team), which tries to stop them from scoring runs by getting hitters out in any of several ways. A player on the batting team can stop at any of the bases and later advance via a teammate's hit or other means. The teams switch between batting and fielding whenever the fielding team records three outs. One turn at bat for each team constitutes an inning and nine innings make up a professional game.
Cricket
Cricket was first played in southern England in the 16th century. By the end of the 18th century, it had developed to the point where it had become the national sport of England. The expansion of the British Empire led to cricket being played overseas and by the mid-19th century the first international matches were being held. It is a bat-and-ball team sport.One team bats, and will try to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the runs scored by the batting team. Run is scored by touching the crease at the opposite end of the pitch while the ball is not dead. The teams switch between batting and fielding at the end of an Innings.
Basketball
Basketball is one of the most popular and widely viewed sports in the world. Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing a ball through the top of a basketball hoop within a set of rules.The team with more points at the end of the game wins, but additional time may be issued when the scores of both teams are the same. The ball can be advanced on the court by bouncing it while walking or running (dribbling) or passing it to a teammate. It is a violation (traveling) to walk with the ball, carry it, or to double dribble (to hold the ball and then resume dribbling).It has been adopted by various social groups, which have established their own environments and sometimes their own rules. The popularity of basketballl has emerged globally in very short period of time.
Soccer
Soccer is the world's most popular sport . It is played on a rectangular field of grass by eleven players each of two different teams. The object of the game is to score by driving the ball into the opposing goal.The team that scores the most goals by the end of the match wins. If the score is tied at the end of the game, either a draw is declared or the game goes into extra time or a penalty shootout, depending on the format of the competition. Football is governed internationally by FIFA which organises the World Cup every four years.Soccer is also known as football in English-speaking countries and sameway, non-English-speaking-countries predominantly use a variation of football, such as Spanish fútbol, Portuguese futebol or German Fußball.Today, football is played at a professional level all over the world. Millions of people regularly go to football stadiums to follow their favourite teams, while billions more watch the game on television or on the internet.It has the highest global television audience in sport history .
Sunday, September 5, 2010
Introduction Of Sports
The History of Sports has started since time immemorial however, the concept and importance of sports has been intrtoduced and accepted world wide from the nineteenth century only. "Sport" comes from the Old French desport meaning "leisure." The Persian word for "sport" is based on the root bord, meaning "winning". A sport is an organized, competitive, entertaining, 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).
Despite the social, econonic and political differences between each country, today, there is no boundary betwen the countries on the ground of sports . Basically sports is construed as physical interaction between two parties or individual but in includes both mental and physical activities as well. It is a fair challenge/opportunity of ability and performance. There is no discrimination of colour , race , religion, nationality, sex etc. for sport . The most famous, loved and well played sports of the century are Soccer, Cricket, Basketball, Volleyball, Martial Arts, Electronic Games, Rugby, Ice Hockey , the X - Games , and so on. It is regarded as an art of expression and fun by some people while it is also taken as strict discipline for lifetime by the professionals.
Despite the social, econonic and political differences between each country, today, there is no boundary betwen the countries on the ground of sports . Basically sports is construed as physical interaction between two parties or individual but in includes both mental and physical activities as well. It is a fair challenge/opportunity of ability and performance. There is no discrimination of colour , race , religion, nationality, sex etc. for sport . The most famous, loved and well played sports of the century are Soccer, Cricket, Basketball, Volleyball, Martial Arts, Electronic Games, Rugby, Ice Hockey , the X - Games , and so on. It is regarded as an art of expression and fun by some people while it is also taken as strict discipline for lifetime by the professionals.
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