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She is a forest firefighter who has battled blazes in British Columbia and is the first woman to play in the Canadian College Baseball Conference. Jay Onrait brings you all of the plays not good enough to be the Highlight of the Night and not bad enough to be the Worst Play of the Day from Sunday in the Onraits and Wrongs. With the prices being set high so far for the Trade Deadline, Pierre LeBrun and and Mike Johnson discuss whether or not it's realistic for the Leafs to get what they're looking for, despite having so few draft picks. Aaron Bronsteter has a bunch of dart throws for this weeks event including picks on the main event and a three-fight parlay that pays out at a monster price.

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A loss had the opposite effect, and the effect is greater for higher-profile teams or unexpected wins and losses. Also, when Washington Redskins win their final game before an election, then the incumbent President is more likely to win, and if the Redskins lose, then the opposition candidate is more likely to win; this has become known as the Redskins Rule. It is common for popular sports to attract large broadcast audiences, leading to rival broadcasters bidding large amounts of money for the rights to show certain fixtures. Records of performance are often kept, and for popular sports, this information may be widely announced or reported in sport news.

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The decades-long battle between Team Canada and Team USA for women’s hockey glory is, perhaps, the most prolific rivalry in the history of sport. Today, they have set aside their bitter feud to come together and push the women’s game forward. Dušan Vlahović set up one goal and scored another as Juventus eased to a 2-0 win over bottom club Salernitana in the Italian league on Sunday to move within a point of defending champion Inter Milan.

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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. 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.

Many sports leagues make an annual champion by arranging games in a regular sports season, followed in some cases by playoffs. Behind this epochal transition from Renaissance to modern sports lay the scientific developments that sustained the Industrial Revolution. New games, such as basketball, volleyball, and team handball, were consciously invented to specifications as if they were new products for the market.

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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. Basketball, invented in 1891 by James Naismith, and volleyball, invented four years later by William Morgan, are both quintessentially modern sports. Both were scientifically designed to fulfill a perceived need for indoor games during harsh New England winters. In the 18th and 19th centuries, the British expelled the French from Canada and from India and extended British rule over much of Africa. 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.

SAN DIEGO — Bennedict Mathurin has come through plenty in clutch situations for Arizona. It's no surprise he made his biggest plays of the season when the Wildcats needed him the most. The sophomore shooting guard made a 3-pointer to force overtime and then scored six more points in the extra session as the top-seeded Arizona outlasted ninth-seeded TCU on Sunday night in the second round of the NCAA Tournament. As games, chess and basketball are obviously different from leapfrog and playing house. One can win a game of basketball, but it makes no sense to ask who has won a game of leapfrog.

Pakistan made one change after an epic draw at Karachi last week, when Babar Azam’s marathon knock of 196 in more than 10 hours led the hosts to 443-7, falling short by 63 runs. — Mike Krzyzewski’s emotions began to flow with a few seconds left on the clock, when it was finally certain Duke would extend his last NCAA Tournament run. He whirled around to face the section where his family was sitting behind him and extended both arms to point their way in celebration. Pausanias wrote of races for girls at Olympia, but these events in honour of Hera were of minor importance. Britannica Quiz Bull’s-eye Sports You may know that billiards involves a long wooden stick, but how long must a billiard cue be?