Sport is aphysical activity orgame, oftencompetitive andorganized, that maintains or improves physical ability andskills. Sport may provide enjoyment to participants andentertainment to spectators. The number of participants in a particular sport can vary from hundreds of people to a single individual.
Sport competitions may use ateam or single person format, and may beopen, allowing a broad range of participants, or closed, restricting participation to specific groups or those invited. Competitions may allow a "tie" or "draw", in which there is no single winner; others providetie-breaking methods to ensure there is only one winner. They also may be arranged in atournament format, producing achampion. Manysports leagues make an annual champion by arranging games in a regularsports season, followed in some cases byplayoffs. (Full article...)
McDonald was selected by the Maple Leafs as the fourth overall pick in the1973 NHL Amateur Draft and established himself as an offensive forward with three consecutive 40-goal seasons in Toronto in the mid-1970s. His trade to the Rockies in 1979 resulted in Toronto fans protesting the deal in front ofMaple Leaf Gardens. He played parts of three seasons in Denver, before he was sent to Calgary in 1981 where he spent the remainder of his career. Heco-captained the Flames to aStanley Cup championship in his final season of1988–89. (Full article...)
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Wilfred Rhodes bowling in 1906
Wilfred Rhodes (29 October 1877 – 8 July 1973) was an English professionalcricketer who played 58Test matches forEngland between 1899 and 1930. In Tests, Rhodes took 127wickets and scored 2,325runs, becoming the first Englishman to complete the double of 1,000 runs and 100 wickets in Test matches. He holds the world records both for the most appearances made infirst-class cricket and the most wickets taken. He completed thedouble of 1,000 runs and 100 wickets in an English cricket season a record 16 times. Rhodes played forYorkshire and England into his fifties, and in his final Test in 1930 was, at 52 years and 165 days, the oldest player who has appeared in a Test match.
Beginning his career for Yorkshire in 1898 as aslow left arm bowler, Rhodes quickly established a reputation as one of the best slow bowlers in the world. However, by the First World War he had developed his batting skills to the extent that he was regarded as one of the leading batsmen in England and had established an effectiveopening partnership withJack Hobbs. The improvement in Rhodes's batting was accompanied by a temporary decline in his bowling performances, but the loss of key Yorkshire bowlers after the war led to Rhodes resuming his role as a front-line bowler. He played throughout the 1920s as anall-rounder before retiring after the 1930 cricket season. His first appearance for England was in 1899 and he played regularly in Tests until 1921. Recalled to the team in the finalAshes Test of 1926 aged 48, Rhodes played a significant part in winning the match for England who thus regained the Ashes for the first time since 1912. He ended his Test career in the West Indies in April 1930. (Full article...)
WSNS-TV began broadcasting in 1970. Originally specializing in the automated display of news headlines, it evolved into Chicago's third full-fledgedindependent station, carrying movies, local sports, and other specialty programming. This continued until 1980, when WSNS became the Chicago-area station forON TV, an over-the-airsubscription television (STV) service owned byOak Industries, which took a minority ownership stake in the station. While ON TV was successful in Chicago and the subscription system became the second-largest in the country by total subscribers, the rise of cable television precipitated the end of the business in 1985, with WSNS-TV as the last ON TV station standing. (Full article...)
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The1920–21 season wasBurnley's29th season in theFootball League, and their 4th consecutive campaign in theFootball League First Division, thetop tier of English football. Burnley were confident of success ahead of the season, having finished as First Division runners-up in1919–20. After losing their first three games, Burnley embarked on a 30-match unbeaten league run from 4 September 1920 until 26 March 1921, winning the First Division and becomingEnglish champions for the first time in their history. Burnley's unbeaten run stood as a single-season Football League record for over 80 years, until it was bettered byArsenal in the2003–04 season. Burnley ended the 1920–21 season on 59 points, having won 23 games,drawn 13, and lost6.
The crews were announced on 25 March 2021. It was the first time in the history of the event that both the women's and men's races were officiated by female umpires, Judith Packer andSarah Winckless respectively (They were the original umpires for the 2020 race). Cambridge's women's crew were considered strong favourites to win their race. Oxford's women's crew took an early lead but Cambridge responded to win. Oxford's men were favourites to defeat Cambridge, but failed to do so: Cambridge won by just under one length. The reserve races took place three weeks later on 25 April 2021: Cambridge completed a clean sweep for a third consecutive year afterGoldie won the men's andBlondie won the women's reserves race. (Full article...)
Archibald Jackson (5 September 1909 – 16 February 1933), occasionally known asArchibald Alexander Jackson, was an Australian internationalcricketer who played eightTest matches as a specialistbatsman between 1929 and 1931. A teenageprodigy, he playedfirst grade cricket at only 15 years of age and was selected forNew South Wales at 17. In 1929, aged 19, Jackson made his Test debut againstEngland, scoring 164runs in the firstinnings to become the youngest player to score a Testcentury.
Renowned for his elegant batting style, he played in a manner similar to the great Australian batsmenVictor Trumper, andAlan Kippax, Jackson's friend and mentor. His Test andfirst-class career coincided with the early playing years ofDon Bradman, with whom he was often compared. Before the two departed for England as part of the 1930 Australian team, some observers considered Jackson the better batsman, capable ofopening the batting or coming in down the order. Jackson's career was dogged by poor health; illness and his unfamiliarity with local conditions hampered his tour of England, only playing two of the five Test matches. Later in the year, in the series against theWest Indies, Jackson was successful in the first Test inAdelaide, scoring 70 not out before a poor run of form led to his omission from the fifth Test. (Full article...)
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James Onque Scott Jr. (October 17, 1947 – May 8, 2018) was an Americanboxer and convicted murderer. He became the second-highest-ranked contender in theWorld Boxing Association's (WBA)light heavyweight division while incarcerated atRahway State Prison inAvenel, New Jersey. Scott fought a total of 22 professional fights, 11 of which were contested while he was in prison. Scott earned pay and WBA rankings from many of those fights, which was considered controversial.
Scott was born inNewark, New Jersey, and spent much of his life in prison from the age of 13. After taking up boxing as an amateur inTrenton State Prison, he was granted parole to work as a boxer for a manager in Florida. He fought 11 professional fights in Miami. While on a visit to New Jersey, he was arrested and charged with the murder of Everett Russ, as well as armed robbery. Convicted of the robbery but with ahung jury on the murder charge, Scott was sent back to prison in New Jersey. After being transferred to Rahway State Prison, Scott formed the Rahway State Boxing Association with prison warden Robert Hatrak, and was allowed to continue boxing professionally at Rahway after connecting with promoterMurad Muhammad. (Full article...)
TheMetacomet Ridge,Metacomet Ridge Mountains, orMetacomet Range of southernNew England is a narrow and steepfault-block mountain ridge known for its extensive cliff faces, scenic vistas,microclimate ecosystems, and rare or endangered plants. The ridge is an important recreation resource located within 10 miles (16 km) of more than 1.5 million people, offering four long-distance hiking trails and over a dozen parks and recreation areas, including several historic sites. It has been the focus of ongoing conservation efforts because of its natural, historic, and recreational value, involving municipal, state, and national agencies and nearly two dozen non-profit organizations.
The Metacomet Ridge extends fromBranford, Connecticut, onLong Island Sound, through theConnecticut River Valley region ofMassachusetts, to northernFranklin County, Massachusetts, 2 miles (3 km) short of theVermont andNew Hampshire borders for a distance of 100 miles (160 km). It is geologically distinct from the nearbyAppalachian Mountains and surrounding uplands, and is composed of volcanicbasalt (also known astrap rock) andsedimentary rock in faulted and tilted layers many hundreds of feet thick. In most cases, the basalt layers are dominant, prevalent, and exposed. The ridge rises dramatically from much lower valley elevations, although only 1,200 feet (370 m) above sea level at its highest, with an average summit elevation of 725 feet (221 m). (Full article...)
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Manchester United Football Club, commonly referred to asMan United (often stylised asMan Utd) or simplyUnited, is a professionalfootball club based inOld Trafford, Greater Manchester, England. They compete in thePremier League, the top tier ofEnglish football. Nicknamed the Red Devils, they were founded asNewton Heath LYR Football Club in 1878, but changed their name to Manchester United in 1902. After a spell playing inClayton, Manchester, the club moved to their current stadium,Old Trafford, in 1910.
The second child and eldest son ofQueen Victoria andPrince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Edward, nicknamed "Bertie", wasPrince of Wales andheir apparent to theBritish throne for almost 60 years. During his mother's reign, he was largely excluded from political influence and came to personify the leisured elite. Hemarried PrincessAlexandra of Denmark in 1863; the couple had six children. As Prince of Wales, Edward travelled throughout Britain performing ceremonial public duties and represented Britain on visits abroad. His tours of North America in 1860 and of theIndian subcontinent in 1875 proved popular successes. Despite this public approval, his reputation as a playboy prince soured his relationship with his mother. (Full article...)
Bernard Hinault (pronounced[bɛʁ.naʁi.no]; born 14 November 1954) is a French former professionalroad cyclist. With 147 professional victories, including five times theTour de France, he is often named among the greatest cyclists of all time. In his career, Hinault entered a total of thirteenGrand Tours. He abandoned one of them while in the lead, finished in 2nd place on two occasions and won the other ten, putting him one behindMerckx for the all-time record. No rider since Hinault has achieved more than seven.
Hinault started cycling as an amateur in his nativeBrittany. After a successful amateur career, he signed with theGitane–Campagnolo team to turn professional in 1975. He took breakthrough victories at both theLiège–Bastogne–Liège classic and theCritérium du Dauphiné Libéré stage race in 1977. In 1978, he won his first two Grand Tours: theVuelta a España and theTour de France. In the following years, he was the most successful professional cyclist, adding another Tour victory in1979 and a win at the1980 Giro d'Italia. Although a knee injury forced him to quit the1980 Tour de France while in the lead, he returned to win theWorld Championship road race later in the year. He added another Tour victory in1981, before completing his first Giro-Tour double in 1982. (Full article...)
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The1983 World Snooker Championship (also known as the1983 Embassy World Snooker Championship for the purposes of sponsorship) was a professionalsnooker tournament that took place between 16 April and 2 May 1983 at theCrucible Theatre inSheffield, England. This was the third and finalworld ranking event of the1982–83 snooker season following the1982 Professional Players Tournament. Sixteen seeded players qualified directly for the event, with an additional sixteen players progressing through a two-round qualification round held at the Romiley Forum inStockport, and Redwood Lodge inBristol. The winner of the event received £30,000, and the tournament was sponsored by cigarette companyEmbassy.
Alex Higgins was the defending champion, having won the1982 championship, but he lost 5–16 toSteve Davis in the semi-finals. Davis, the 1981 champion, won the event for the second time, defeatingCliff Thorburn 18–6 in the final. A total of 18century breaks were made during the tournament. The highest was made by Thorburn in the fourthframe of his second round match againstTerry Griffiths, where he compiled amaximum break of 147 points, becoming the first player to make such a break in a World Championship match. (Full article...)
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Masako Katsura (桂 マサ子,Katsura Masako; listen; 7 March 1913 – 20 December 1995), nicknamed "Katsy" and sometimes called the "First Lady of Billiards", was a Japanesecarom billiards player who was most active in the 1950s. She was the first woman to compete and place among the best in the male-dominated world of professional billiards. First learning the game from her brother-in-law and then under the tutelage of Japanese championKinrey Matsuyama, Katsura became Japan's only female professional player. In competition in Japan, she took second place in the country's nationalthree-cushion billiards championship three times. Inexhibition she was noted forrunning 10,000 points at the game ofstraight rail.
After marrying aU.S. Armynon-commissioned officer in 1950, Katsura emigrated to theUnited States in 1951. There she was invited to play in the 1952 U.S.-sponsored World Three-Cushion Championship, ultimately taking seventh place at that competition. Katsura was the first woman ever to be included in any world billiards tournament. Her fame cemented, Katsura went on an exhibition tour of the United States with eight-time world championWelker Cochran, and later with 51-time world championWillie Hoppe. In 1953 and 1954, she again competed for the world three-cushion crown, taking fifth and fourth places respectively. (Full article...)
This was Manchester United's 18th Charity Shield appearance to Arsenal's 14th. Manchester United began the game more strongly, but Arsenal took the lead whenMarc Overmars scored 11 minutes before half-time. They extended their lead in the second half, as Overmars andNicolas Anelka foundChristopher Wreh, who put the ball into an empty net at the second attempt. In the 72nd minute, Arsenal scored a third goal, when Anelka got aroundJaap Stam in the penalty box and shot the ball past goalkeeperPeter Schmeichel. (Full article...)
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Robey in the 1910s Sir George Edward Wade,CBE (20 September 1869 – 29 November 1954), known professionally asGeorge Robey, was an English comedian, singer and actor in musical theatre, who became known as one of the greatestmusic hall performers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. As a comedian, he mixed everyday situations and observations with comic absurdity. Apart from his music hall acts, he was a popular Christmaspantomime performer in the English provinces, where he excelled in thedame roles. He scored notable successes in musicalrevues during and after the First World War, particularly with the song "If You Were the Only Girl (In the World)", which he performed withViolet Loraine in the revueThe Bing Boys Are Here (1916). One of his best-known original characters in his six-decade long career was the Prime Minister of Mirth.
Born in London, Robey came from a middle-class family. After schooling in England and Germany, and a series of office jobs, he made his debut on the London stage, at the age of 21, as thestraight man to a comic hypnotist. Robey soon developed his own act and appeared at theOxford Music Hall in 1890, where he earned favourable notices singing "The Simple Pimple" and "He'll Get It Where He's Gone to Now". In 1892, he appeared in his first pantomime,Whittington Up-to-date inBrighton, which brought him to a wider audience. More provincial engagements followed inManchester,Birmingham andLiverpool, and he became a mainstay of the popular Christmas pantomime scene. (Full article...)
Sandboarding is aboardsport similar tosnowboarding, but competitions take place on sand dunes rather than snow-covered mountains. Here, a member of the US Navy sandboards down a dune inJebel Ali,Dubai.
Cynthia Woodhead (born February 7, 1964) is an American former competitive swimmer, world champion, Olympic medalist, and former world-record holder. At the age of fourteen, she won three gold medals at the1978 World Aquatics Championships, and set seven world records during her career.
Photograph: D. Bernard & Co; restoration:Adam Cuerden
Eugen Sandow (1867–1925) was a pioneering Germanbodybuilder. Born inKönigsberg,Prussia, he joined a circus to avoid military service. Fellow strongman Ludwig Durlacher urged Sandow to travel toLondon and take part in astrongman competition, which he handily won. Sandow rose rapidly to fame and was soon touring Europe and the United States, being featured in ashort film series that depicted him flexing. After a bout of ill health, Sandow focused on opening public gyms, inventing or improving exercise equipment, and training would-be military recruits as well asKing George V. Sandow is now known as the "father of modern bodybuilding".
A man engaged inwaterskiing, a sport in which an individual is pulled behind aboat or acable ski installation on a body of water, skimming the surface. Waterskiing is a relatively young sport, having been invented in the early 20th century. The skis this person is wearing are specialized forski jumping.
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Boxing is asport where two participants of similarweight attack each other with theirfists in a series of one to three-minute intervals called "rounds". Modern boxing began in 1867 with theMarquess of Queensberry rules. Currently, there are two distinct branches of boxing: Professional and Olympic, which have different rules, but are similar in execution.
Fencing is the sport of fighting with swords; in modern usage the word usually denotes competitive fencing, rather thanclassical fencing. Here,Fabian Kauter (right) hitsDiego Confalonieri (left) with aflèche attack at the final of the Challenge Réseau Ferré de France–Trophée Monal 2012.
Motocross is form ofmotorcycle orATV racing held on enclosed off-road circuits. The tracks are often quite large, natural, terrains with very few man made jumps, unlikeSupercross, a sport that was originally derived from Motocross and is executed on a smaller track with many more extreme man made obstacles.
Alessandro Martinelli (born 30 May 1993) is a Swiss professional footballer who plays as amidfielder forSerie B clubBrescia. Born inMendrisio,Ticino, he moved south to Italy to begin his professional career in 2009. Martinelli then left the reserve team ofSampdoria in 2012 forPortosummaga. After returning to Sampdoria in 2013, he was signed byVenezia later that year and then byModena in 2014. Martinelli left for Brescia in 2015 and joined the club on a permanent basis in 2017. From 2008 to 2013, he also played for variousSwiss national youth football teams.
This picture, taken in 2015, shows Martinelli playing for Modena in a match againstTernana.
Richèl Hogenkamp (born 16 April 1992) is a professional tennis player from the Netherlands. Her highestWTA singles ranking is 94, which she reached on 24 July 2017. On theITF Women's World Tennis Tour, she has won 16 singles and 14 doubles titles. This photograph depicts Hogenkamp competing at the 2015Madrid Open.
Maddison Elliott (b. 1998) is an Australian swimmer. She isS8 classified, having right sidecerebral palsy as a result of aneonatal stroke. At the2012 Summer Paralympics in London, she became the youngest Australian Paralympic medallist by winning bronze medals in the women's 400 m and 100 m freestyle S8 events. She then became the youngest Australian gold medallist when she was a member of the women's 4×100 m freestyle relay 34 points team.
Every kid around the world who plays soccer wants to be Pelé. I have a great responsibility to show them not just how to be like a soccer player, but how to be like a man.
Yao, who was born in Shanghai, started playing for theShanghai Sharks as a teenager, and played on their senior team for five years in theChinese Basketball Association (CBA), winning a championship in his final year. After negotiating with the CBA and the Sharks to secure his release, Yao was selected by theHouston Rockets as the first overall pick in the2002 NBA Draft, becoming the first international player ever to be selected first overall without having previously playedU.S. college basketball. Yao was selected to start for theWestern Conference in theNBA All-Star Game eight times, and was named to theAll-NBA Team five times. He reached theNBA Playoffs four times, and the Rockets won a first-round series in the2009 postseason, their first playoff series victory since 1997.
However, in his final six seasons, Yao missed 250 regular-season games due to foot and ankle injuries. He retired in 2011, citing his injuries.Shaquille O'Neal said Yao "was very agile. He could play inside, he could play outside, and if he didn't have those injuries he could've been up there in the top five centers to ever play the game."
Yao was nominated by a member of the Chinese media for theNaismith Basketball Hall of Fame for his contributions to the game, but Yao felt it was too soon and requested that the Hall of Fame delay consideration of the nomination. His rookie year in the NBA was the subject of a documentary film,The Year of the Yao, and he co-wrote, along with NBA analystRic Bucher, an autobiography titledYao: A Life in Two Worlds. (Full article...)
Like most expansion teams, the Raptors struggled in their early years, but after the acquisition ofVince Carter through adraft day trade in 1998, the team set league attendance records and made theNBA Playoffs in2000,2001, and2002. Carter was instrumental in leading the team to a franchise high 47 wins and their first playoff series win in 2001, where they advanced to the Eastern Conference Semifinals. During the2002–03 and2003–04 seasons, they failed to make significant progress and he was traded in 2004 to theNew Jersey Nets. After Carter left,Chris Bosh emerged as the team leader, but they continued to struggle. However, with the appointment ofBryan Colangelo as Raptors President and General Manager, the first overall NBA draft selection ofAndrea Bargnani, and a revamp of the roster for the2006–07 season, they qualified for theirfirst playoff berth in five years and captured the Atlantic Division title with 47 wins. Inthe 2007–08 season, they advanced to the playoffs again but failed to make the playoffs in thefollowing season. Although Colangelo overhauled the team in an effort to keep Bosh after the end of his contract, Bosh signed with theMiami Heat in July 2010, ushering in a new era for the Raptors with Bargnani becoming the new face of the franchise. (Full article...)
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