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ANAHEIM, Calif. — Los Angeles Angels phenom Shohei Ohtani took a no-hitter into the eighth inning Thursday night against the Oakland Athletics before Conner Capel singled with two outs to break it up. PROVO, Utah — BYU survived another slow start to avoid a potentially damaging loss to an instate rival. Jaren Hall threw for 273 yards and three touchdowns to help the No. 19 Cougars to a victory over Utah State on Thursday night. LAHORE, Pakistan — Pakistan fast bowler Naseem Shah will travel with the team to New Zealand next week after completing two-day isolation at home because of COVID-19, the Pakistan Cricket Board said on Friday. Mel Kiper digs into his list of the top 25 prospects and the top 10 players at every position for the 2023 NFL draft. With seven games remaining, Aaron Judge has 61 home runs and needs only one to break Roger Maris’ American League record.

Cricket and rugby seemed to require British rule in order to take root.
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Among the many games of North Africa was ta kurt om el mahag (“the ball of the pilgrim’s mother”), a Berber bat-and-ball contest whose configuration bore an uncanny resemblance to baseball.

For them, gymnastic festivals were grand occasions at which tens of thousands of disciplined men and women demonstrated nationalistic fervour. Behind this epochal transition from Renaissance to modern sports lay the scientific developments that sustained the Industrial Revolution. Athletes trained systematically to achieve their physical maximum. New games, such as basketball, volleyball, and team handball, were consciously invented to specifications as if they were new products for the market. As early as the late 17th century, quantification became an important aspect of sports, and the cultural basis was created for the concept of the sports record. The word record, in the sense of an unsurpassed quantified achievement, appeared, first in English and then in other languages, late in the 19th century, but the concept went back nearly 200 years.

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Advancements in sport technology have made quantifying match-play external load (e.g., total distance, sprint distance, number of sprints) a popular option for athletics personnel. These variables of volume and intensity are useful for both objectively monitoring training in field-based sports and for designing […] Read more. The purpose of the study was to verify the criterion-validity of an existing and reliable, submaximal wheelchair Rugby field test by examining the correlations of selected measures of physical performance between the field test and real games.

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The last day of the County Championship season provided great drama as Warwickshire secured First Division status by the skin of their teeth and sentenced Yorkshire to last-gasp relegation. Harry Kane’s lucrative boot deal with Nike has been put ‘on hold’ because of Erling Haaland’s blistering start to the campaign, according to reports. Reports suggest that the most likely concept would take the form of a combined Premier League team that would take on counterparts from other top European leagues.

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To the ends of the earth, cricket followed the Union Jack, which explains the game’s current popularity in Australia, South Asia, and the West Indies. Rugby football flourishes in other postcolonial cultures, such as New Zealand and South Africa, where the British once ruled. It was, however, association football’s destiny to become the world’s most widely played modern sport. From the British Isles, modern sports were diffused throughout the world.

Seeking status as well as diversion, middle-class employees of British firms followed the upper-class lead. From the gamut of games played by the upper and middle classes, the industrial workers of Europe and Latin America, like the indigenous population of Africa, appropriated football as their own. Zulu football players rely not only on their coaches and trainers but also on the services of their inyanga (“witch doctor”). Sports, physical contests pursued for the goals and challenges they entail. Sports are part of every culture past and present, but each culture has its own definition of sports. The most useful definitions are those that clarify the relationship of sports to play, games, and contests.