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Indeed, the celebrated 14th-century Persian pahlavan Maḥmūd Khwārezmī was both. Contests for runners and jumpers were to be found across the length and breadth of the continent. During the age of imperialism, explorers and colonizers were often astonished by the prowess of these “primitive” peoples. Nandi runners of Kenya’s Rift Valley seemed to run distances effortlessly at a pace that brought European runners to pitiable physical collapse.

Kafka and Daboll will continue to make it a part of the Giants’ weekly game plan to utilize Jones’ prowess with his legs.
He will also start this year healthy, which he didn’t a year ago due to his shoulder surgery.
Athletes trained systematically to achieve their physical maximum.
Calisthenic exercises designed to improve health and fitness were dull and dreary compared with the excitement of modern sports.

— South Carolina tailback MarShawn Lloyd wasn’t expecting much stadium atmosphere Thursday night. He and …

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Major League Baseball has concluded its experiment of pitch clocks at the minor league level. Officials said the clocks successfully reduced the length of games. The Cincinnati Bengals beat the Miami Dolphins, one of two remaining undefeated teams, in their home stadium on Thursday night. It is a priority for CBC to create a website that is accessible to all Canadians including people with visual, hearing, motor and cognitive challenges. After reaching the semifinals for the first time since 1986, Canada faces a monumental challenge at the Women’s Basketball World Cup, where a near-unbeatable U.S. team awaits.

The widespread existence of gambling on the results of sports fixtures creates a motivation for match fixing, where a participant or participants deliberately work to ensure a given outcome rather than simply playing to win. SBJ I Factor presented by Allied Sports features an interview with Kate Johnson, a sports industry veteran who …

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No special permission is required to reuse all or part of the article published by MDPI, including figures and tables. For articles published under an open access Creative Common CC BY license, any part of the article may be reused without permission provided that the original article is clearly cited. A few players have come close but, even in a pass-heavy era of football, none have surpassed his total.

East, a three-game series against a key rival and a hurricane causing extreme weather have aligned as the regular season nears its end.
He has now explained that he has been called up to the army, and is planning to enlist next week.
Strength is one of the key physiological performance attributes related to optimal on-court basketball performance.
Sports science is a widespread academic discipline, and can be applied to areas including athlete performance, such as the use of video analysis

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Ole Miss head coach Lane Kiffin was asked about the importance of fan support as the Rebels head into SEC play, and the third-year head coach was critical of the half-empty stadium. Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh said he’s well aware of how hard it is to win at Iowa when a team is ranked in the top 5. There was a scary moment in the Miami Dolphins-Cincinnati Bengals game Thursday night when Dolphins QB Tua Tagovailoa was taken off the field in Cincinnati. The Miami Dolphins’ handling of Tua Tagovailoa was criticized by a leading concussion expert on Thursday night as the quarterback went to the hospital with a head and neck injury. The Clippers might be challenged in distributing playing time each game for the current roster throughout the season.

The last day of the County Championship season provided great drama as Warwickshire secured First Division status by the …

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Brutal as these combats were, many of the gladiators were free men who volunteered to fight, an obvious sign of intrinsic motivation. Indeed, imperial edicts were needed to discourage the aristocracy’s participation. During the reign of Nero (54–68), female gladiators were introduced into the arena. On the basis of this definition, one can devise a simple inverted-tree diagram. Despite the clarity of the definition, difficult questions arise.

Speaking at a gala ceremony at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Motera area here, he praised Indian athletes for winning medals in various international events such as the Olympics in the recent times. Having gone through the various aspects and problems of club football in the country, the delegation then sat down with the national men’s head coach Igor Stimac and had an extensive conversation with the Croatian. All the unmissable matches from an action-packed week of European football following the international break. …