Posted on: July 27th, 2009 at 1:39 am
Kournikova was born in Moscow in the former Soviet Union to Alla and Sergei Kournikov; she and her mother later emigrated to the United States. Currently, she resides in Miami Beach, Florida, and plays in occasional exhibitions and in doubles for the St. Louis Aces of World Team Tennis.
Posted on: July 27th, 2009 at 1:17 am
You are a commando of TLF squad and your mission is to infiltrate into enemy base, kill all the rebel soldiers and destroy the base. In each level you have to reach the exit point to proceed to the next level. Avoid getting hit and collect health packs to keep you going. Go ahead and save our galaxy, Good Luck!
Posted on: July 21st, 2009 at 1:30 am
Today, women compete professionally and as amateurs in virtually every major sport, though the level of participation typically decreases when it comes to the more violent contact sports.
Posted on: July 15th, 2009 at 1:24 am
Thus, women's soccer was originally dominated by the U.S., China, and Norway, who have historically fielded weak men's national teams—although more recently, several nations with strong and even dominant men's national teams, such as Germany, Sweden, and Brazil, have established themselves as women's powers.
Posted on: July 9th, 2009 at 1:17 am
Tennis was the most popular professional female sport from the 1970s onward, and it provided the occasion for a symbolic "battle of the sexes" between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs, enhancing the profile of female athletics. The success of women's tennis, however, did little to help the fortunes of women's professional team sports.
Posted on: July 7th, 2009 at 1:57 am
There are other variations besides the ones listed below, but races of unusual length (e.g. 300 m) are run much less often. The unusual races are typically held during indoor season because of the shorter 200 m indoor track.
Posted on: July 3rd, 2009 at 1:43 am
In the United States, nearly all schools required student participation in sports, guaranteeing that all girls were exposed to athletics at an early age, which was generally not the case in Western Europe and Latin America.
Posted on: July 1st, 2009 at 1:48 am
Track and field athletics, commonly known as athletics or track and field, is a collection of sports events that involve running, throwing and jumping. The name "athletics" is derived from the Greek word "athlos", meaning "contest".
Posted on: June 28th, 2009 at 1:28 am
For his achievements, he became the first Filipino and Asian boxer to win five world titles in five different weight divisions.
Posted on: June 27th, 2009 at 1:00 am
Due to a relative lack of public interest in female athletics, most early women's professional sports leagues foundered, so amateur competitions became the primary venue for women's sports.
Posted on: June 22nd, 2009 at 1:34 am
Hatton's debut fight was on 10 September 1997 against Colin McAuley in Widnes at Kingsway Leisure Centre (he won by a KO in 1), while in his second fight Hatton boxed at Madison Square Garden in New York.
Posted on: June 21st, 2009 at 1:52 am
he modern Olympics had female competitors from 1900 onward, though women at first participated in considerably fewer events.
Posted on: June 15th, 2009 at 1:45 am
Few women competed in sports until the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as social changes in Europe and North America favored increased female participation in society as equals with men.
Posted on: June 9th, 2009 at 1:39 am
For most of human history, athletic competition has been regarded as an exclusively masculine affair. In antiquity, athletic competitions were held among warriors to prove their fighting prowess or otherwise demonstrate their virility.
Posted on: June 8th, 2009 at 1:30 am
Richard John Hatton MBE, more commonly known as Ricky "the Hitman" Hatton, (born 6 October 1978, in Stockport, Greater Manchester, England), is a British professional boxer. He is a two-time IBF and IBO light welterweight champion, having relinquished the IBF belt, only to step back down to the weight class and beat Juan Urango.
Posted on: June 3rd, 2009 at 1:33 am
Women's sports include amateur and professional competitions in virtually all sports. Female participation in sports rose dramatically in the twentieth century, especially in the last quarter, reflecting changes in modern societies that emphasized gender parity
Posted on: June 2nd, 2009 at 1:23 am
Emmanuel Dapidran Pacquiao (pronounced /ˈpækjaʊ/; born December 17, 1978), known as Manny "Pac-Man" Pacquiao is a Filipino professional boxer, part-time actor and recording artist.
Posted on: May 28th, 2009 at 1:38 am
There are K-1 Regional Elimination Tournaments which qualify fighters for the K-1 World Grand Prix, along with licensed K-1 Fighting Network events designed to develop new talent internationally and there is also a 70.5kg (155lb) Super Middleweight division called K-1 MAX ("Middleweight Artistic Xtreme").
Posted on: May 27th, 2009 at 1:34 am
The term is sometimes extended to encompass all competitive activities in which offense and defense are played, regardless of the level of physical activity.
Posted on: May 23rd, 2009 at 1:35 am
Boxing (sometimes also known as Western boxing or pugilism) is a combat sport where two participants, generally of similar weight, fight each other with their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee and is typically engaged in during a series of one to three-minute intervals called rounds.
Posted on: May 21st, 2009 at 1:29 am
In British English, sporting activities are commonly denoted by the collective noun "sport". In American English, "sports" is more common.
Posted on: May 17th, 2009 at 1:33 am
K-1 is a combat sport that combines stand up techniques from Muay Thai, Karate, Taekwondo, Savate, San shou, Kickboxing, traditional Boxing, and other martial arts to determine the single best stand-up fighter in the world (the "1").
Posted on: May 15th, 2009 at 1:24 am
Sports that are subjectively judged are distinct from other judged activities such as beauty pageants and bodybuilding shows, because in the former the activity performed is the primary focus of evaluation, rather than the physical attributes of the contestant as in the latter (although "presentation" or "presence" may also be judged in both activities).
Posted on: May 9th, 2009 at 1:17 am
Some view sports as differing from games based on the fact that there are usually higher levels of organization and profit (not always monetary) involved in sports.
Posted on: May 3rd, 2009 at 1:04 am
Sport is an activity that is governed by a set of rules or customs and often engaged in competitively. Sports commonly refer to activities where the physical capabilities of the competitor are the sole or primary determinant of the outcome.
Posted on: March 29th, 2009 at 1:00 am
In England, as in Europe in general, the early 2000s saw the financial bubble burst, with the collapse of ITV Digital in May 2002 leaving a hole in the pockets of the Football League clubs who had relied on their television money to maintain high wages.
Posted on: March 27th, 2009 at 1:07 am
The emergence of women’s tennis as a respectable global medium in the last decade has been breathtakingly fast. The issues are more complicated, even one might say personal, than nationality.
Posted on: March 26th, 2009 at 1:16 am
Boxing (sometimes also known as Western boxing or pugilism) is a combat sport where two participants, generally of similar weight, fight each other with their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee and is typically engaged in during a series of one to three-minute intervals called rounds.
Posted on: March 21st, 2009 at 1:58 am
Women's sports include amateur and professional competitions in virtually all sports. Female participation in sports rose dramatically in the twentieth century, especially in the latter part, reflecting changes in modern societies that emphasized gender parity.
Posted on: March 20th, 2009 at 1:55 am
Fighting is an established aspect of ice hockey in North America, with a long history involving many levels of amateur and professional play and including some notable individual fights. Although a definite source of criticism, it is a considerable draw for the sport, and some fans attend games primarily to see fights.
Posted on: March 20th, 2009 at 1:55 am
Fighting is an established aspect of ice hockey in North America, with a long history involving many levels of amateur and professional play and including some notable individual fights. Although a definite source of criticism, it is a considerable draw for the sport, and some fans attend games primarily to see fights.
Posted on: March 16th, 2009 at 1:00 am
Misconduct may occur at any time, and while the offences that constitute misconduct are listed, the definitions are broad. In particular, the offence of "unsporting behaviour" may be used to deal with most events that violate the spirit of the game, even if they are not listed as specific offences.
Posted on: March 15th, 2009 at 1:29 am
Yoga refers to traditional physical and mental disciplines originating in India; to the goal achieved by those disciplines; and to one of the six orthodox (āstika) schools of Hindu philosophy.
Posted on: March 9th, 2009 at 1:15 am
The UEFA Champions League, which evolved from the European Champion Clubs' Cup, is a seasonal club football competition organised by UEFA since 1992 (or overall in its older format since 1955) for the most successful football clubs in Europe.
Posted on: March 3rd, 2009 at 1:03 am
Mirza was born to a sports journalist Imran Mirza and Nasima in Mumbai. She was brought up in Hyderabad. Mirza began playing tennis at the age of six, turning professional in 2003. She can speak Hindi, Telugu, Tamil and English.
Posted on: March 2nd, 2009 at 1:00 am
A foul occurs when a player commits an offence listed in the Laws of the Game while the ball is in play. The offences that constitute a foul are listed in Law 12. Handling the ball deliberately, tripping an opponent, or pushing an opponent, are examples of "penal fouls", punishable by a direct free kick or penalty kick depending on where the offence occurred.
Posted on: February 25th, 2009 at 1:34 am
Records of Classical boxing activity disappeared after the fall of the Roman Empire. However, there are detailed records of various fist-fighting sports that were maintained in different cities and provinces of Italy between the 12th and 17th centuries.
Posted on: February 24th, 2009 at 1:33 am
Sports that are subjectively judged are distinct from other judged activities such as beauty pageants and bodybuilding shows because an activity is being evaluated, rather than the physical attributes of the contestant.
Posted on: February 23rd, 2009 at 1:08 am
The Japanese version of cuju is kemari (蹴鞠), and was developed during the Asuka period. This is known to have been played within the Japanese imperial court in Kyoto from about 600 AD.
Posted on: February 18th, 2009 at 1:24 am
Both games of skill and motor sport exhibit many of the characteristics of physical sports, such as skill, sportsmanship, and at the highest levels, even professional sponsorship associated with physical sports.
Posted on: February 17th, 2009 at 1:29 am
Fist fighting is depicted in Sumerian relief carvings in the 3rd millennium BC, while an ancient Egyptian relief from the 2nd millenium BC depicts both boxers and spectators. Both depictions show bare-fisted contests.
Posted on: February 12th, 2009 at 1:15 am
In British English, sporting activities are commonly denoted by the collective noun "sport". In American English, "sports" is more used. In all English dialects, "sports" is the term used for more than one specific sport.
Posted on: February 10th, 2009 at 1:16 am
Although fighting with fists comes naturally to people, evidence of fist-fighting contests first appear on ancient Sumerian, Egyptian and Minoan reliefs. The ancient Greeks provide us our first historical records of boxing as a formal sport; they codified a set of rules and staged tournaments with professionals.
Posted on: February 6th, 2009 at 1:04 am
Sports commonly refer to activities where the physical capabilities of the competitor are the sole or primary determiner of the outcome, but the term is also used to include activities such as mind sports and motor sports where mental acuity or equipment quality are major factors.
Posted on: February 2nd, 2009 at 1:13 am
Boxing (sometimes also known as Western boxing or pugilism) is a combat sport where two participants, generally of similar weight, fight each other with their fists.
Posted on: January 31st, 2009 at 1:33 am
Tennis is a sport played between two players (singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles). Each player uses a strung racquet to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt (most of the time Optic Yellow, but can be any color or even two-tone) over a net into the opponent's court.

Posted on: January 25th, 2009 at 1:49 am
Sport is commonly defined as an organized, competitive and skillful physical activity requiring commitment and fair play. Sports differ from Games based on levels of organization and profit (not always monetary). Accurate records are kept and updated, while failures and accomplishments are widely announced.
Posted on: January 19th, 2009 at 1:41 am
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players, and is widely considered to be the most popular sport in the world. It is a football variant played on a rectangular grass or artificial turf field, with a goal at each of the short ends.
Posted on: January 17th, 2009 at 1:01 am
The NHL is considered one of the four major professional sports leagues in the North America, along with Major League Baseball, the National Football League, and the National Basketball Association.
Posted on: January 17th, 2009 at 1:01 am
The NHL is considered one of the four major professional sports leagues in the North America, along with Major League Baseball, the National Football League, and the National Basketball Association.