ANAHEIM, Calif. — Shohei Ohtani has provided Angels fans with plenty of highlights this season. The reigning AL MVP pitched no-hit ball into the eighth inning and extended his hitting streak to 14 games as Los Angeles pushed its winning streak to four with a 4-2 victory over the Oakland Athletics. Germany failed to win over their national press in Monday’s pulsating 3-3 draw with England at Wembley, where their two-goal collapse left the country’s top publications fearing the worst ahead of the Qatar World Cup. Hansi Flick’s side rescued a late point against the Three Lions thanks to a blunder from goalkeeper Nick Pope, who cost the hosts what would have been a sensational victory with three minutes remaining in London.
- After Tua Tagovailoa was hospitalized on Thursday night, the NFL world had mixed reactions – mostly prayers, but a lot of anger after last week’s injury.
- The game was painted by miniaturists and celebrated by Persian poets such as Ferdowsī (c. 935–c. 1020) and Ḥāfeẓ (1325/26–1389/90).
- There is no high-quality evidence that shows the effectiveness of interventions to increase sports participation of the community in sports such as mass media campaigns, educational sessions, and policy changes.
- Tua Tagovailoa went off on a stretcher and straight to hospital with head and neck injuries after recoiling in pain and needing lengthy treatment from a heavy tackle in the game with his Miami Dolphins and the Cincinnati Bengals on Thursday night.
- Until recently the GAA continued to ban the playing of football and rugby union at Gaelic venues.
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Rules are in place to ensure fair play, but participants can break these rules in order to gain advantage. Artifacts and structures suggest sport in China as early as 2000 BC. Monuments to the Pharaohs indicate that a number of sports, including swimming and fishing, were well-developed and regulated several thousands of years ago in ancient Egypt. Other Egyptian sports included javelin throwing, high jump, and wrestling. Ancient Persian sports such as the traditional Iranian martial art of Zoorkhaneh had a close connection to warfare skills. Among other sports that originated in ancient Persia are polo and jousting.
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Like the highly evolved civilizations of which they are a part, traditional Asian sports are ancient and various. From the Islamic Middle East across the Indian subcontinent to China and Japan, wrestlers—mostly but not exclusively male—embodied and enacted the values of their cultures. The wrestler’s strength was always more than a merely personal statement. More often than not, the men who strained and struggled understood themselves to be involved in a religious endeavour. Prayers, incantations, and rituals of purification were for centuries an important aspect of the hand-to-hand combat of Islamic wrestlers. It was not unusual to combine the skills of the wrestler with those of a mystic poet.
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The ancient Olympic Games were held in honour of the head deity, Zeus, and featured various forms of religious dedication to him and other gods. As many Greeks travelled to see the games, this combination of religion and sport also served as a way of uniting them. Key principles of sport include that the result should not be predetermined, and that both sides should have equal opportunity to win.
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Exercise is an important tool against the deleterious effects of aging. Among the possibilities of exercise, bodyweight training has been highlighted in the last years as a safe option to improve the health of older people. Exercise-induced fatigue is a multi-origin physical and mental phenomenon. Efforts to diminish the above predisposition may contribute to endurance, along with athletic well-being, while development of nutritional strategies to optimize condition and exercise performance are essential issues for athletes and trainers. This type of paper provides an outlook on future directions of research or possible applications. Sport was an important form of worship in Ancient Greek religion.
JACKSON, Miss. — Davis Riley got off to a hot start and kept bogeys off his card to the end for a 6-under 66 and a share of the lead Thursday with Will Gordon in the Sanderson Farms Championship, the PGA Tour event he considers his fifth major. ATLANTA — Two months into the season, it looked like the New York Mets were headed for an NL East runaway. Albert Pujols joins MLB royalty as the newest member of the 700-home-run club. Star Australian mare Verry Elleegant will miss Sunday’s Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe after an embarrassing episode for French racing which has left her trainer Francis-Henri Graffard fuming.