San Francisco Giants history

The San Francisco have a rich and storied history that is filled with many great moments and players, as they have five World Championships to their credit and have had such greats as Carl Hubbell, Bobby Thomson, Wille McCovey, and Juan Marichal.

The San Francisco Giants can arguably say that they have had the two best all around players to ever play the game with the great Willie Mays and the incomparable Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants, Mays belted 660 home runs in his illustrious career and is thought of by many to be the best player to ever play due to his ability to be able to play every aspect of the game at a high level and possessing no weaknesses, as for Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants all hes done is his award winning career is win the National League Most Valuable Player award seven times, win eight gold gloves, twelve silver slugger awards, be voted to the National League all-star team thirteen times, and belt 708 home runs which is only 47 shy of Henry Aaron's all time mark of 755.

In the 1930s the San Francisco Giants would participate in three World Series, winning the 1933 World Championship, with NL MVP Carl Hubbell of the San Francisco Giants leading the way in an upset of the powerful Washington Senators, the San Francisco Giants pitching staff totally thwart the Washington Senators vaunted offense as they allow only eight earned runs all series long en route to a four games to one rout.

It would take until 1951 for the San Francisco Giants to return to prominence, as they qualified for the fall classic again but were denied by New York Yankees, but in 1954 against the Cleveland Indians the San Francisco Giants with Willie Mays of the San Francisco returning from his tour of duty with the US Army rout the heavily favored Clevealand Indians who won 111 games in the regular season, one play perhaps changed the entire complexion of the '54 World Series, as Willie Mays of the San Francisco Giants made perhaps the greatest defensive play ever, tied with the Cleveland Indians a 2 in the eighth inning of Game 1 at the Polo Grounds and two Indians runners on base, the Hall of Fame center fielder made an over-the-shoulder catch of a 460-foot smash off the bat of the Cleveland Indians Vic Wertz, the San Francisco Giants went on to win 5-2 in ten innings, and the series turned into a runaway for the San Francisco Giants.

The San Francisco Giants made a World Series appearance in 1962 but were defeated by the New York Yankees in six games, and would not make the playoffs again until 1971 a year in which the San Francisco Giants did not have a pitcher who won 20 games or batter with a .300 average and were eliminated by the Pittsburgh Pirates, their would be a drought of 16 years before the San Francisco Giants would again make the playoffs, in 1987 they took the St.Louis Cardinals to a seventh game in the National League Championship series before succumbing, in 1989 the San Francisco Giants had a powerhouse squad led by NL MVP Kevin Mitchell who belted 47 HRS and 125 RBI and powered the San Francisco Giants past the Chicago Cubs in the NLCS and into the World Series against Bay Area rival the Oakland Athletics, who boasted a virtual all-star with AL MVP Jose Canseco and slugger Mark McGwire to go along with an award winning pitching staff, the San Francisco Giants were no match for the Oakland Athletics and were beaten in four straight games.

The San Francisco Giants would make the playoffs in 1997 and 2000 but lose in the opening round to the Florida Marlins and New York Mets respectively,in 2002 they would once again qualify for the National League playoffs, this time behind the mighty bat of Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants who batted .370 with 46 home runs, 110 runs batted in, 198 walks, and a on base percentage of .582, the San Francisco Giants defeated the Atlanta Braves three games to two in the divisonal playoffs and went on to defeat the St.Louis Cardinals in the NLCS and earn the right to face the upstart Anaheim Angels.

The 2002 World Series was one for the ages as the San Francisco Giants and Anaheim Angels dueled and battled to a seventh game, where the Anaheim Angels narrowly defeated the San Francisco Giants to win their World Series.

The 2006 San Francisco Giants will be a National League powerhouse with Barry Bonds and pitcher Jason Schmidt returning to health and newcomer OF Steve Finley adding punch to an already potent lineup, the off-season acqusition of P Matt Morris from the St.Louis Cardinals will be a major boost, one that could give the San Francisco Giants the dege in the National League West with many san francisco giants tickets being sold.

Great moment in team history

After trailing the Los Angeles Dodgers by 13 1/2 games on Aug. 11, manager Leo Durocher's troops rattled off 16 straight victories and won 37 of their final 44 regular-season contests to force a tie with Brooklyn. The two teams met in a three game elimination to see who go on to the playoffs, the San Francisco Giants and Brooklyn Dodgers split the first two games setting a winner take all game 3 at the polo grounds, the San Francisco Ginats trailed the Brooklyn Dodgers 4-2 with two on and one out in the ninth inning when Bobby Thomson of the San Francisco Giants stepped to the plate, the rest is history, Thomson drilled an 0-1 pitch off reliever Ralph Branca of the Brooklyn Dodgers to left field and jumped onto home plate to put an exclamation on "The Miracle of Coogan's Bluff," as called by legendary Giants announcer Russ Hodges.

The History of Horse Racing In North America

While horse racing enjoys popularity the world over - and has for quite some time - the history of the sport in North America is particularly interesting. The first horse racing course in America was in what is now known as Hempstead Plains in Nassau County, New York. The course, Newmarket, opened its gates in 1665, and in doing so, it helped kick off the rich tradition of the horse racing sport in America. Due to the success of Newmarket, many other racing tracks were opened, including the Belmont track in New York.

Belmont is the largest dirt course in all of thoroughbred racing. It opened in May 1905, and continues to be one of the most popular venues for horse racing and is noted as "the big time" for many racers. It is owned and operated by the New York Racing Association, which also owns Saratoga and Aqueduct. The biggest race at Belmont is the immensely popular Belmont Stakes. A statue of the legendary horse, Secretariat, stands in the center of the track, as he set a world record for his 1973 race there [amongst other achievements over the course of his career.]

The three most important races in North American horse racing come together to form the "triple crown." Including the Kentucky Derby, Belmont Stakes, and Preakness Stakes. Beyond that, many racing enthusiasts enjoy the Breeders' Cup races. The former is held earlier in the year, and the latter, later. As such, different values are placed on the wins. While some prefer the classic triple crown to the new breed of race that is the Breeders' Cup, many like the new race and the way it is held at different tracks every year.

Interestingly enough, while gambling is generally frowned upon in the United States, horse race betting is regulated and sanctioned by individual states. As such, betting on horse races via legitimate channels is legal, whereas other types of sports bets aren't legal.

There are different types of horse racing that are popular in the United States. One way to differentiate is the type of track - dirt, polytrack, and grass are the most common surfaces, though some race types will incorporate more than one of these into the same track. Thoroughbred racing is the most common type of race - and the one most Americans are familiar with, though quarter horse racing and harness racing also enjoy their own popularity. Arabian horse racing is uncommon, but there are enthusiasts who enjoy that sort of racing.

Horse race tracks are all different lengths, depending on the type of race, the surface, and the style of racing/horses that will be participating. Interestingly enough, many horse breeders choose to raise their horses with specific types of races and courses in mind, choosing studs and fillies who have the proper genetic makeup to breed strong race horses.

There are differences in the races and how the horses are bred for specific races. For example, thoroughbreds are bred to run longer distances, while quarter horses are generally faster. As such, the two have different builds. Thoroughbreds are taller and leaner than quarter horses, who are bred to be shorter and more muscular. A quarter horse race is generally held on a straight track and is much faster with a different type of competition than a thoroughbred race. A thoroughbred race is held on something more like a car race track, and it is easier for a specific horse and jockey to break out of the back for a clear winner than in quarter horse racing.

As you can see, there is a diverse and solid history of horse racing in the United States. Although horses are not as popular as they once were for things such as transportation, show and sports horses are still incredibly popular and fascinating to Americans of all ages.

 

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History of Basketball

The history of basketball is much easier to trace than other sports. It is clear that Dr. James Naismith is credited with creating basketball and much of basketball history. Dr. Naismith, born in 1861 in Ontario, Canada first came up with the concept of basketball during his youth school days in the area where he played a game that involved knocking a rock off an object by attempting to throw another rock at it. The game obviously evolved from there and began the history of basketball.

Mr. Naismith taught at the YMCA School in Springfield, Massachusetts in 1891, where the sport of basketball was created. He was faced with a problem of finding a sport that could be played indoors during the harsh Massachusetts winters. He needed to come up with a game that could be played in and outdoors and one that adopted a sense of skill and not just brawn. He first developed the game by involving a soccer ball and two peach baskets, who would have ever thought basketball history, could come from a soccer ball.

In addition to creating basketball Dr. Naismith became a medical doctor focused on sports science and was a minister. Naismith watched his sport grow to become one of the world's most popular sports that saw its entrance in the Olympics in 1936 at Berlin and he fixed himself a spot in basketball history.

The history of basketball began with teams of five and was the sports standard by 1897. The sport became popular to both men and women and began to spread throughout Canada and the US. The US servicemen took the sport overseas with them in WWII and the history of basketball became global.

U.S. colleges accepted the game and began to have it as a standard college sport. College basketball history took off around the late 1890's and the first college game began at the Madison Square Garden in New York.

Professional basketball history first began when the National Basketball League was created in the late 1800's around 1898. The league however did not last and was broken up after 5 years providing a rough start to basketball history. The break up just led to a number of random leagues forming themselves in the early 1900's and each was very loosely organized. Ironically enough the first super team was the Celtics but they were from New York City not Boston. The famous Harlem globetrotters were also founded around this time in 1927 and hold a place in basketball history as being the most entertaining of basketball teams.

It wasn't until 1949 that two professional basketball leagues the NBL and the BAA merged to create what we all know now as the National Basketball Association or the NBA. The Boston Celtics dominated the NBA from the late 1950s through the 1960s. By the 1960s, professional teams had formed throughout the United States and basketball was a mainstream powerhouse. Players such as Wilt Chamberlain, Bill Russel and Kareem Abdul-Jabar all became household names that drew millions to watch them play as they all found a spot in basketball history.

National Basketball Association fell off the charts and was surpassed by football in popularity through the 1970's then got a resurgence from the popular Larry Bird and Magic Johnson era. Michael Jordan carried the league through the eighties and nineties and the torch has been passed on to Shaquille O'neal, Kobe Bryant and Lebron James. The history of basketball has never been so fascinating and it is all thanks to Dr. James Naismith.

Indianapolis Colts History

 

Indianapolis Colts are also known as 'The Horseshoes' and their team colors are Speed Blue and White. The Colts resettled from Baltimore in th year of 1984 and started living in Indianapolis winning 90 of 228 games through the 1997 season. The figure also includes their 5 playoff games. The Indianapolis Colts Football team is the only the second in league history to win 12 games or more in four consecutive seasons. However, this happened since Jim Irsay assumed control of the franchise in the year of 1998. Its franchise history starts from The AAFC Baltimore Colts in 1940s

Since the day the team was formed, they have been struggling a lot in the game of football and they have won many important titles. The newly minted Indianapolis Colts struggled a lot on the field with 4-12, 5-11 and 3-13 records during its first three seasons. The latter, during the year of 1986, it began 0-13. The team was depressed and they replaced Rod Dowhower with former Patriots head coach Ron Meyer. This turned to be wise decision as the Colts responded by winning the final three games under his coaching.

In the 2006 season, the Colts lost three of the four games but before that, the Indianapolis Colts were the first team in NFL history to begin two consecutive season having won nine games. The colts finished the season with 12-4 record marking their fifth consecutive season with 10 victories or more.

Another most noticeable one was when The Colts defeated the Chicago Bears (29-17) on February 4, 2007 in Dolphin Stadium. The Indianapolis Colts team became the first 'dome team' to win Super Bowl in an outdoor stadium and they are the first to win in the rain.

The Indianapolis Colts are one of those few teams that has kept its logo and uniforms basically same since the team's debut in the year of 1953. As they are popularly known, the blue color logo of horseshoe is embossed on the white helmet. The blue jerseys have white shoulder strips and the white jerseys have blue ones. The pant that a player wears is white with blue strips along the sides.

The Indianapolis Colts had some noticeable players who performed their best. Some of those players include Raul Allegre, Ken Dilger, Rohn Stark, Marshall Faulk, Jeff George, Chip Banks and many more. The team is very famous for their game plans and their passion towards the sports. However, no Colt has won the NFL Defensive Player of the Year Award.

 

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Buffalo Bills History Memorable and Unique

An interesting part of Buffalo Bills history is how they got their name; a naming contest resulted in naming the team after the AAFC Buffalo Bills. The Bills merged with the Cleveland Browns in 1950, part of the All-America Football Conference. The original Buffalo Bills were so named for the sake of William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody. The Bills official mascot is Billy Buffalo. Even though there are three New York teams, (the Bills, Jets, and Giants) the Bills are the only ones to actually play their home games in New York State. The Jets and the Giants both play in East Rutherford, New Jersey, which is right outside of New York City.

Beginning with the 2008 season, the Bills team added one home game each year to be played in Toronto to their schedule. They are currently the only team to have two home stadium locations, and only the third in NFL history that has had more than one home site in a season. In the 60's, the Bills began playing as a part of the AFL. During 1960, the AFL and NFL merged, and created a new franchise for the Bills. The Bills first played at War Memorial Stadium, and then moved to Ralph Wilson Stadium in 1973. They have remained there ever since, although the Stadium was also known as Rich Stadium and Bills Stadium at some points through the years. As mentioned earlier, they now play one game each year at Rogers Centre in Toronto.

Once they became a part of the NFL franchise system, the Buffalo Bills history became much more notable. They faced a 1-13 record in 1971, along with scoring a record least amount of points that season. Lou Saban was re-hired in 1972, and the team took a turn for the better. In 1973, the team began playing at their new stadium, and Joe Ferguson became their new quarterback. O.J. Simpson, Jim Braxton, Paul Seymour, and Joe DeLamiellure known as the "Electric Company". The "Electric Company" inspired a local hit in Buffalo Bills history, "Turn on the Juice". Electric Company allowed the team to make the playoffs in 1974, against the Pittsburgh Steelers. As part of Buffalo Bills history, this group of players has created many collectible and valuable memorabilia items in the market place.

The rest of the 70s and the 1980s was a rocky time in Buffalo Bills history. There were many ups and downs, and plenty of winning and losing seasons. However, in the 1990s, the Bills worked to change to a hurry-up offense, and brought themselves back to the spotlight. Two significant events in Buffalo Bills history are their trips to Super Bowl XXV, as well as Super Bowl XXVI. A third Super Bowl appearance was made in 1992, then another in 1993 making them the only team in NFL history to play in four consecutive Super Bowls!

Interestingly enough, there are three New York teams, (the Bills, Jets, and Giants) the Bills are the only ones to actually play their home games in New York State.

 

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New York Giants - The History

Based in New Jersey, the New York Giants have long represented the spirit of America through their perseverance, strong team leadership, and history of great football playing. The Giants currently rank third in the NFL franchises, and have seven NFL titles. 1927 was the year they took home their first title, and they haven't stopped since.

In its earliest years, the Giants progressed very quickly and were more than just a football team. They played numerous games to raise money for homeless and the unemployed. They saw numerous successes and proved the complete domination of pro football over college football, in a time when many questioned whether pro football was indeed more difficult. In fact, the Giants actually played a team made up of players from Notre Dame and essentially wiped the entire team into the ground.

In the following years until around 1979, the Giants started to flail. They continued to be a strong team, but saw fewer wins and "blowaway" games like the one against Notre Dame. This was mostly due to lack of powerful quarterbacks, strong unity, and some overall divisive drama that pervaded the team's character.

This huge change that returned the Giants to the strength of the NFL began in 1979. Phil Simms became quarterback and Lawrence Taylor joined the team in 1981. This player won several awards. The "Crunch Bunch" began, made up of several linebackers for the Giants who were exceptionally good players. Eventually Ray Perkins resigned as head coach and Bill Parcells took over as the coordinator of team defense. This was a huge change for the Giants and essentially marked their first steps towards returning as a top NFL team.

In 2004, Eli Manning joined the New York Giants. Eli Manning has a strong history of excellent football playing. It has been claimed that he is partly responsible for the strong victories seen by the team in recent years. Michael Strahan is also a very strong player for the team and had a single season record for sacks just in 2001 alone.

Since 1998, the team's estimated value has risen from around $268 million to $890 million. Most of the Giants' fans consist of players throughout the New York and New Jersey areas. They have had radio and television broadcasts since their earliest days. Marring the team, however, have been criminal and drug charges against several players.

The next years for the Giants may continue in the strong vein they are currently threading in, however. Eli Manning has been able to not only hold the team together but also push it forward into victory many times over. What will happen when he leaves is uncertain, but it is possible that as long as he remains with the team, they will stay strong and cohesive.

In the end, the Giants are not only a good football team, but also one with a rich and varied history. They do have fans all over the world even though most of them are based in New York and New Jersey. Because New York is such a big part of American history, the Giants represent America in many ways

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The Super Bowl History

On January 15, 1967 the very first professional American football championship was played at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. It was billed as the AFL -NFL 1967 World Championship. Game tickets sold for $6.00 to $12.00. The game failed to sell out. Professional football spectators were not quite fanatical at that point in the sport's history, perhaps because they did not fully appreciate the potential of such an event. While the stated purpose was to determine the champion among two competing professional American football leagues, the National Football League (NFL) and the American Football League (AFL), the Super Bowl has grown to represent so much more. It has become the ultimate symbol of America's resolve to succeed against all odds.

On that faithful January day in 1967 the NFL, represented by its champion the Green Bay Packers, challenged the AFL's Kansas City Chiefs. In a game played by the two best teams on Earth, made up of the best athletes on the planet, and viewed by professional football fans all over the country, Green Bay, led by the legendary Vince Lombardi, beat Hank Stram's Kansas City Chiefs 35 to 10.

When Green Bay returned the next year beating the AFL's Los Angeles Raiders 33 to 14, many believed the AFL would never match up. All that changed in 1969 when New York Jets quarterback, Joe Namath, made an off-the-cuff victory guarantee to a rowdy Colts fan during a Super Bowl press conference. In response to the heckling Colts fan, Namath said: "We're gonna win; I guarantee it." Namath's Guarantee created a sensation as news agencies broadcast the story in every major news network in the Country. On January 12, 1969 Joe Namath and his underdog AFL team went out and won the Super Bowl.

In 1970 the two leagues merged into the NFL creating two conferences out of the two former leagues. All former NFL teams, except one, became National Football Conference members and all AFL teams became American Football Conference members. One team was needed to balance the schedule, so the Baltimore Colts switched from the NFC to the AFC. Consequently the great Super Bowl match-up of 1969 cannot be repeated between the Jets and the Colts as both teams are now members of the same conference.

In 1965, prior to the merger, the upstart AFL secured a thirty-six million dollar contract with NBC for broadcast rights, which gave the league financial stability. Many cities across the country, principally in the south and the west had no professional football teams to satisfy the growing demand for the sport. As the AFL grew to satisfy that demand it also grew in prominence and began to compete for the top draft choices from college programs around the country. The two leagues observed an unspoken rule that neither would attempt to sign a player under contract in the other's league. However, when the New York Giants signed place kicker Pete Gogolak, who was under contract with the AFL's Buffalo Bills, AFL commissioner, Al Davis, took off the gloves and the AFL aggressively pursued the highest paid quarterbacks in the NFL. With attractive salary offers, the AFL managed to lure 7 of the NFL's most promising quarterbacks to the AFL in the 1965 season. Although the AFL later surrendered the contracts, the NFL recognized the threat the AFL posed by plundering their talent pool. Merger talks were conducted without the knowledge of NFL commissioner, Pete Rozelle or the AFL's commissioner, Al Davis. On June 8, 1966, the team owners of both leagues announced they had reached terms for a merger agreement. The actual merger would take four years to complete.

While league officials searched for a sensational name for the annual championship game, the Kansas City Chief's owner, Lamar Hunt, proposed calling it the "Super Bowl". Hunt, who was the owner of the Kansas City Chiefs and one of the founders of the American Football League, came up with the name while watching his daughter play with a rubber ball that was a toy sensation in the mid sixties. Whamo marketed the toy as the "Super Ball". Hunt's suggestion was only intended to serve as a temporary name, until a more glorious moniker could be agreed upon. Having failed to find a more desirable or descriptive replacement, the name stuck.

More than 151.6 million viewers tuned in to watch the 44th Super Bowl in 2010. According to Neilson Ratings, the 2010 Super Bowl was the most watched television program of all time. It surpassed the long standing record set by the final episode of the popular television series M*A*S*H, which drew 121.6 million viewers on February 28, 1983. In many ways the Super Bowl has become a contest of numbers. In 2010 thirty seconds of commercial air time sold for 3 million dollars, which is a long way from the $37,500 charged by NBC for a 30 second spot during the first Super Bowl. Super Bowl wagers were estimated to exceed 10 billion dollars in 2010. The game was broadcast in 34 languages in 232 countries around the world. The 2010 Super Bowl added and estimated 400 million dollars to Miami's economy as a result of the Colts and Saints challenge for the title. Fans spent an estimated 5.6 billion dollars on Super Bowl related items during the championship. The media, marketing, entertainment and background stories surrounding the Super Bowl have become every bit as sensational as the game itself.

As of 2010 only two cities north of the Mason Dixon Line have ever hosted a Super Bowl; Detroit in 1982 and 2006, and Minneapolis in 1992. That trend is about to change. Dallas will host the Super Bowl in 2011, Indianapolis in 2012, New Orleans in 2013, and New Jersey in 2014. The NFL has also given some consideration to playing a future Super Bowl in London, England.

There are many great stories that make up Super Bowl history. One such story reportedly took place during the very first championship game. According to the Orlando Sentinel, CBS and NBC both covered the first Super Bowl sharing the same televised footage, but each used its own sportscasters. The cameras missed the kick-off for the second half of the game, because sportscaster Charles Jones was busy interviewing Bob Hope. When the head referee ordered a re-kick, a CBS producer directed CBS reporter Pat Summerall to explain the mishap to Vince Lombardi, the Packer's head coach. Pat Summerall, who played as a place kicker for the New York Giants under the legendary coach, refused to go anywhere near him. The story serves as anecdotal evidence of the terrorizing roar so often associated with Vince Lombardi, for whom the Championship Trophy is now named. Sadly, there is no known network coverage of the first Super Bowl. Reportedly, the only known tape was taped over to record a soap opera.

American radio broadcast personality Mark Champion is well known by basket ball fans as the voice of the Detroit Pistons. He is perhaps less well known as the off-screen voice who asks the Super Bowl MVP "You've just won the Super Bowl, what are you going to do next?" Since 1987, Disney has been an important part of the Super Bowl tradition with its "What's Next" advertising campaign. The Walt Disney Company tapes two versions of the commercial, one promoting Disneyland in Anaheim, California and another for Disney World in Orlando, Florida and airs them in the markets geographically relevant to the two theme parks. Former Disney CEO, Michael Eisner credits his wife, Jane Eisner with the whole idea for the long running advertising campaign. In 1986, during Disney's opening celebration for the Star Tours attraction at Disney World in Orlando, Florida, the Eisner's dined with Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager (no relation to Chuck Yeager), who had just broken aviation history with their non-stop flight around the world in their specially designed Voyager aircraft. Jane Eisner reportedly asked the couple what they planned to do next and they replied "Well, we're going to Disneyland." She later suggested her husband use that as part of an advertising campaign to promote Disney's theme parks. Since 1987 Disney has used what it refers to as the "What's Next" advertising campaign every year (except 2006) to promote its theme parks during the post game celebration of the Super Bowl. The ads have become as much a part of the Super Bowl as the half time entertainment and the much anticipated Super Bowl commercials.

Each year millions of fans from around the world plan their schedules around American Football's greatest event. The show stopping half-time talent, the knee slapping commercials, the galas, the background stories, and the hype are as much a part of the show as the amazing athletes that play and the brilliant strategists who stalk the sidelines. While basketball and baseball are played in other countries around the world, American football remains uniquely American. The Super Bowl is America's Championship Game.

 

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Derek Jeter's history

Derek Jeter's baseball career has been a fruitful one indeed, as he has managed, in only 15 years, to become one of the greatest baseball players alive. This is not the only article of this kind, as you can most probably find a Derek Jeter biography over the Internet, if you would simply write Derek Jeter on Google. Nonetheless, I am going to talk a bit about the key parts in his career so that you can see the evolution of Derek Jeter, both as a man and as a player.

Born on June 26, 1974, Derek Jeter, son of Charles and Dorothy, quickly developed his innate ability for sports. Since his father worked as a drug/alcohol abuse counselor, Derek's life was a healthy one, kept away from vice and unhealthy diets. In 1992 he joined the Minor Leagues and struggled for three years to advance until, in 1995, be caught a break and was given a spot in the Major Leagues. This is a special moment for Derek, as he in now playing with the big boys, training harder and better.

From 1995 to 1999 Derek went on a winning streak, as his batting average kept rising and he helped his team go through many hardships and gaining many victories. However, in 2000, he won the Derek Jeter World Series award and, later on, became one of the few players to ever own both an All Star Game MVP award and a World Series MVP award for the same season. In 2004 he suffered a shoulder injury and his game started to fade away easily, as his recovery went along quite slow. Even though Derek was injured, he kept on playing and helped the New York Yankees rack up several points in the championships they got to play and even secure a few titles.

His reputation grew stronger and endorsement deals came along, as he even helped release a baseball training machine to the market: the Derek Jeter batting trainer. The machine resembled his initial training apparatus and was designed to help children all around the country improve they swinging arm, while increasing both their batting average and strength.

Derek Jeter is, for the moment, considered to be one of the best players of his generation. He is the all-time hit leader among the position of shortstops and his.317 career batting average, for the 2009 season, ranks him as the fifth-highest among active players. He has been among the American League (AL) leaders in hit counts and runs scored for the past ten years. He is the all-time Yankees hit leader, passing the Hall of Fame member Lou Gehrig, in the year of 2009.

The Original Yankee Stadium

Old Yankee Stadium was built on a lumberyard near Coogan's Bluff in the west Bronx, which the owners of the Yankees bought from William Waldorf Astor for $675,000.

The New York Yankees had debuted as the New York Highlanders in 1903, when a couple of bartenders bought the minor league Baltimore Orioles for $18,000. From 1903 until 1912 the Highlanders played at Hilltop Park in Washington Heights, Manhattan. Following the 1912 season the team changed its name to the Yankees and their lease at Hilltop expired. They signed a 10 year agreement to play alongside the Giants at the Polo Grounds. From the start the Yankees had been a mediocre team at best and this continued through their years at the Polo Grounds, until of course the famous deal with the Boston Red Sox following the 1919 season.

Yankee owners Jacob Ruppert and Tillinghast Huston were aware that Red Sox owner Harry Frazee was having financial difficulties and armed with this knowledge offered to buy star pitcher Babe Ruth. Frazee had already refused an offer of Shoeless Joe Jackson and $60,000 from the Chicago White Sox for Ruth and demanded $125,000 from the Yankees but eventually settled for $100,000 ($25,000 up front and 3 subsequent yearly payments of $25,000, plus a $300,000 loan guaranteed by Fenway Park).

During the 1920 season, joyous Yankee fans came out in droves to see their new star. Attendance that year reached 1.3 million, easily topping the figures for the host Giants. In 1921 the Yankees won the American League pennant and played the Giants in the World Series (the Giants won the best of nine series in eight games, all played at the Polo Grounds). Relations between the two teams had always been acrimonious, but now the Yankees were actually rivals and this proved to be the tipping point. Giant's owner Charles Stoneham "suggested" that perhaps it was time for the Yankees to find a new place to play, hoping they would move out in the boroughs and leave his fan base alone.

On April 18, 1923 the New York Yankees moved into their new home. It was the largest ballpark yet built and apparently, the first to be called "Stadium". It cost Ruppert and Huston $2.5 million to construct and had a seating capacity of nearly 60,000 in an era when the standard was about half of that. It was originally designed to have three decks completely encircling the field, but was eventually scaled back. It used 26,000 cubic meters of specialized hardened concrete (developed by Thomas Edison). The original field dimensions were 295 ft. in right, 490 ft. in center (where it was fittingly called Death Valley) and 281 ft. in left. The success and popularity of the Yankees led to the stadium quickly being expanded in 1928 and again in 1937 bringing the capacity to nearly 80,000.

1932 marked the beginning of what would become Monument Park, when a monument to legendary manager Miller Huggins was erected. Huggins was joined by Lou Gehrig in 1941 and Babe Ruth in 1949. These monuments were actually in fair territory in dead center field. In 1972 the Yankees sold the stadium to the City of New York. The city closed the stadium after the 1973 season for much needed renovations. The Yankees played the '74 and '75 seasons at Shea Stadium with the Mets. The $160 million renovations were completed in time for the 1976 season. Center field had been shortened by 40 ft. leaving the monuments behind the new fence. Joe DiMaggio and Mickey Mantle had also been given monuments. Plaques were steadily added to the area and would eventually include Ed Barrow, Jacob Ruppert, Casey Stengel, Joe McCarthy, Pope Paul VI, Thurmon Munson, Pope John Paul II, Billy Martin, Whitey Ford, Lefty Gomez, Roger Maris, Allie Reynolds, Elston Howard, Phil Rizzuto, Bill Dickey, Yogi Berra, Reggie Jackson and Don Mattingly.

In 2005 the Yankees announced plans to build a new Yankee Stadium across the street from the original. Construction began on the new stadium in 2006 and was completed in time for opening day, 2009. The Yankees played their final game in "old" Yankee Stadium on September 21, 2008. Demolition was completed in 2010 and a park is being built on the site of the old lumberyard.

The history of Baseball

Babe Ruth is not just a candy bar. In fact, Babe Ruth was a House hold name close to a century by the famous baseball player who was named Babe Ruth. Because he played the game known as America's pastime, it fascinated generations of children with his baseball prowess. His first game on July 11, 1914, while he was just 18 years of age. His last game was on May 30, 1935. During the 21 years that he played, he was known as a humble player. He was cited once saying, "how a team plays as a whole determines its success." It was not surprising that it is still regarded as an excellent model of role for baseball players. He was not the only plays interesting, and throughout the long history of baseball, there were several leagues that pass.

Leagues that modern baseball had today are the American League Championship Series (ALCS) and the National League Championship Series (NLCS). These two leagues play the teams in their leagues classified throughout the season, in search of to send to the world series, that the winning team. Then in the world series, the team of the ALCS and NLCS team fight each other for the pennant. The winner takes home while the loser goes home empty-handed. This tradition began in 1969 with the first game of the world series in history.

Hank Aaron would be a player who knew and understood these two different leagues and the importance of the world series. His first game was on April 13, 1954 and his last was on October 3, 1976. He was an active player when the leagues were reorganized and was played the first game of the world series. He won the admiration and praise from many baseball players, including Mickey Mantle, who stated that "as I fear, Aaron is the best player in baseball of my time." That must had been a nice compliment and a new impetus to the ego of Aaron.

Although Jackie Robinson baseball career was relatively short, compared to Mr. Aaron and Babe Ruth, it still has a huge impact on the game and how positively, it was considered by the Americans. His first game was on April 15, 1947, and his last was on September 30, 1956. It would not have understood the World Series, as Mr. Aaron, because he was not in the League anymore. He was regarded as a great athlete and player by his peers, thoughts, his team manager, said, "give me 5 players such as Robinson and a launcher and I will beat any team in baseball 9 man." This kind of dedication to her sport is rare, but Mr. Robinson was certainly it.

As with any game, baseball has rules governing the it. These rules can be found online or with a local baseball team. The professional rule book covers all aspects of the game, beginning with preliminary game and ending with an official score keeper. If the game of baseball may seem easy enough, it should always be prepared for this strange circumstance that happens from time to time. Reading and knowing the rule book and the book of game are always a good idea.

 

History of Turner Field

Hometown fans and Atlanta visitors enjoy take a match of baseball of Braves at Turner Field, in downtown Atlanta. But the National League ball club is not the only draw. The home of the brave is an attraction in itself. The history of Atlanta has the appearance of an older ball park, but it is equipped with amenities and advanced technology.

The Braves had previously played at Atlanta - Fulton County Stadium since 1966. The mid-1990s the team wanted a more recent stage and more modern and Atlanta needed a stadium that would be appropriate as an Olympic venue for the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games. The team and the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games have combined their efforts to build a new facility across from the former Stadium. The new Olympic Stadium of the Centennial, built with a private financing for the Olympic Games, has been designed to host the opening and closing ceremonies and the Olympic track and field events. He had a few temporary stands at one end have been taken down after the Olympic Games. The new stadium was then completed for the Braves. Turner Field opened on March 29, 1997. The old Atlanta-Fulton County stadium was demolished and the site is now the parking lot for Turner Field.

Guided tours of the Stadium are offered throughout the year and begin the Braves Museum. Visits have approximately an hour and feature of visits for the broadcast booth, club-house, shelters, the press box and the Braves Hall of Fame. Turner Field seat 49,000 fans on three levels. The upper level seats have a view on the Atlanta skyline. Great great des statues called Monument Grove, external, plaza contains of des de externe Grove external Grove Grove Grove, contains and Ty Cobb. The Chop House Restaurant is located on the place of the main entrance. Coke Skyfield, on the upper level overlooking left field, games for children and an area of mister for fans to cool off hot day at the ballpark. The Club House store has a wide variety of employee than Braves in Atlanta of merchandise.

Fans can keep track of the action of television more 500 screens through Turner Field. The brave Vision giant video board is located in the Center field, and the Council of the Vision of the Plaza is Fan Plaza. In addition to showing the brave action, these videos maps also show the latest scores of the League autour.

Turner Field was named Ted Turner, who was the Braves owner at the time, that the stadium was built. Street before the stadium was renamed Hank Aaron Drive to honour the great home run Braves hitter. The street of the stage number is # 755, which was the number of home runs that hit the Aaron in his career. Turner Field was the site of the 2000 MLB All Star Game. During the visit to Atlanta, take in a baseball ball brave game at Turner Field. Even though the Braves are not in the city, visitors can still enjoy a tour of one of the best ballparks in baseball.

 

Fantasy Baseball history

 

Passion for fantasy baseball came today from a group of men who grew up playing baseball board games, namely the APBA (American Professional Baseball Association) and Strat-O-Matic. APBA, invented by Dick Seitz in 1951, was the first baseball board games to base its findings on the Statistics of actual major league players. Strat-O-Matic, invented by Hal Richman, followed with his new games in 1963 and a new phenomenon was born. If you grew up in the 60 's or 70, played you without a doubt one of those baseball board games. (I still have a number of Strat-O-Matic game map from the first season of my brethren began to play in 1966).

The day the card arrived,  usually  in February, was the biggest day of the year. While we all had our orders, we would rush to whomever was the luckiest to get cards first. Then we would help him separate cards (they came in a large sheet of nine cards linked to each other as I remember) and place them on the right team.

The game was with results based on the roll of the dice, statistically very accurate. However, there was a major problem with APBA and Strat-O-Matic: do we replay last season or use last season statistics to replay this season? Some guys (this is how I did it) would get the new card and immediately make the subjects which were done through the Hot Stove League other replayed the previous season.

Rudimentary game played with cards and dice is boring by today's video standards. APBA and Strat-O-Matic is moved to a computer-based games in the 1990s, but it was still basic card game will be played via a computerised dice roll. Stacked up against graphics MLB 2008, I could not see today's video generation to get in a baseball board games for a very long time.

No doubt, however, that it was a love for baseball statistics learned of many young men from player APBA and Strat-O-Matic, fantasy baseball such an instant hit. And a 1981 baseball strike, left the original leaders, who were all journalists, scrambling for something to write about.

Daniel Okrent, of The New York Times, is credited with the creation of concept for fantasy baseball in 1980. There seems to be considerable evidence that Okrent invented the game as opposed to Abner Doubleday's claims, there is a clean explanation. Back then it was called Rotisserie Baseball because the origins of the game began at La Francoise Rotisserie a restaurant in New York City where the original fantasy baseball leaders met.

A little known fantasy baseball is to beat the idea of Okrent had to organize the first ever league week before to a group of friends on another restaurant called "Pit." Okrents original group does not, however, was interested. It is good, or we would play PitBall today. Does not sound as Nice, makes it?

Okrent was born in 1948, and was graduated from the University of Michigan. Okrent began the tradition of naming the team for the Manager's name. Okrents original team was Okrent Fenokees. Recently succeeded him Dan Druffs.

Several other leaders from the original Rotisserie League moved to become very famous journalists. Glenn Waggoner is the Publisher of ESPN The Magazine. Rob Fleder and then leader of Fleder mouse is Executive Editor of Sports Illustrated. Valerie Salerbien is Deputy Director for Esquire magazine.

Statistics from the Fantasy Sports Trade Association shows that 16 million people play fantasy sports in the United States. Fantasy football is the largest part of the fantasy circle with an estimated 10 million players. Fantasy baseball managers use on average three hours per week managing their teams. They invest $ 175 per year on fantasy sports for software, research, magazines and league prize money. This makes fantasy sport a $ 1.5 billion industry.

Back in the days when the pastime was known as Rotisserie Baseball, it was not quite so easy to run a League. Statistics were not so easy to get and league standings had to be kept in the hand. United States Today is credited with makes it much easier to be a Rotisserie manager through its comprehensive and easy to read box scores and statistics.

Today, CBS Sports line, Yahoo and ESPN do run a fantasy baseball team and league. The three units pay Major League Baseball Advanced Media $ 2 million per year for rights to use the player statistics, images and logos on their sites. Major League Baseball Advanced Media, which collects licensing payments on behalf of the MLB Players ' Association, works now with only seven licensees to fantasy baseball, in contrast to 19 as late as in 2004.

Fantasy baseball today is everywhere and shows no signs of decline. Heck, even if you see the movie in Knocked Up, you see a reference to fantasy baseball.

"Hey, I got Matsui. I got Matsui. "

History of NCAA basketball

There are many great teams in the NCAA since its inception. One of the largest schools of all times is the UCLA Bruins. They are the school with the most Championships in the history of the Association. They currently have a total of 104 team championships won. The school with the second most Championships is Stanford with 97 team championships. This does not mean that these schools most total wins out of all schools, it simply means that they have won the most Championships. During the school year 2008-2009 won the Pacific 10 Conference a whopping 11 NCAA Championships. The following two conferences behind the PAC-10, the ACC and the Big Ten. They each won a total of five. There are currently a total of 87 national championships each year. Forty-four of these women and forty are men. That leaves three other Championships, which are the coed sports.

there are 32 Division I conferences included in NCAA basketball. There are in these 32 conferences 347 schools who compete for a ultimate goal: a national championship. Each Conference will receive an automatic bid to the NCAA men's Division I Basketball Championship Tournament. Many people call this tournament March Madness or The Big Dance. Coaches from all three divisions of the NCAA basketball get together to determine the rules and regulations of the NCAA men's basketball. Many of the rules imposed on the NCAA are often used in the NBA, but there are some that are unique to the NCAA. Every NCAA Game is divided into two halves which consist of every twenty minutes.

This is different than the NBA or another level of basketball, because all others play four quarters. The NCAA has a 35-second shot clock, while the NBA a 34 second shot clock. The NBA is the team only 8 seconds to cross from half Court, while the NCAA for ten seconds. The three point line in the college game is less distance than the NBA lines for three points. NCAA the three point line the same as high school, but it changed in May 2007. The distance from the three point line to the Backboard is now 20 feet nine inches. Another difference in the rules between the NBA and the NCAA is the amount of errors allowed to each player. The NBA allows each player to receive six personal errors before being forced to leave the game, while the NCAA only allow five errors. This maintains the same ratio of minutes played and the amount of errors.

 

Steeped in tradition-a history of the NCAA men's Basketball Tournament

The excitement and tradition of "March Madness" as we know it today has been shaped by many significant events in NCAA tournament history: The first NCAA men's basketball tournament was held in 1939 with the first championship game held at Northwestern on March 27, 1939. Only eight teams competed in two regions. Oregon defeated Ohio State in the championship, and the West region held a third-place game.

Although the NCAA tournament now determines the national champion, that was not always the case. Until the 1950's, the NIT was considered a more prestigious tournament than the NCAA, and teams often chose to enter the NIT and bypass the NCAA tourney. Because of this dichotomy, two of the best centers of the 1940's never met in an NCAA tourney.  George Mikan's DePaul team traditionally entered the NIT, while Bob Kurland's Oklahoma A&M (now Oklahoma State) won two NCAA titles. Several schools entered both tournaments. One such team, City College of New York (CCNY) led by Irwin Dambrot, won both in 1950. Ironically, CCNY defeated Bradley University in the finals of both tournaments. Another school, Utah in 1944, entered the NIT, lost in the first round, and then went on to win the NCAA title. Kentucky pulled off a similar accomplishment in 1949, losing in the second round of the NIT and then going on to win the NCAA Tournament.

In 1941, the East region added a third-place game into the schedule, and in 1946, a national third-place game was held for the first time; the game would be a fixture until 1980. In 1951, the tournament expanded to 16 teams, and in 1952, Seattle was the site of the first true "Final Four," with both semifinal games and the championship game in one city. It was 1956 when the tournament was divided into four regions. Some of the most astounding and telling events in college basketball were to follow: North Carolina defeated Wilt Chamberlain and Kansas 54-53 in three overtimes to win the title in 1957. The legend of dominance emerged in 1962 when John Wooden's UCLA team makes the first of 13 Final Four appearances over the next 15 seasons.

Reflecting the race and civil rights issues of the time, Loyola (Illinois) was matched up with Mississippi State in a 1963 men's basketball tournament regional semifinal. Mississippi State, an all-white team, fled the town in the middle of the night despite protests from the governor and state police of Mississippi to play a Loyola team that features four black starters. Mississippi State overcame an unwritten Mississippi rule against playing integrated teams with a cloak-and-dagger flight to the North just one step ahead of a court injunction. Triumphantly, Loyola beat Mississippi State and went on to win the title. In 1966, Texas Western (now UTEP), with an all-black starting five, defeats an all-white Kentucky team to win the national title.

In 1973, with the championship game held on Monday night for the first time, UCLA behind Bill Walton's 44 points on 21 of 22 shooting, won its seventh straight championship, defeating Memphis State. NC State, led by David Thompson, ends UCLA's title run in 1974, defeating the Bruins in the national semifinals in double overtime.

The following year, the NCAA tournament expanded to 32 teams, and then allowed more than one school from each conference to participate. Prior to this ruling, the restriction prevented several great teams from competing in the tournament, including the 1974 Maryland team. They finished the season nationally ranked #4, yet lost the ACC Conference final game to top-ranked NC State prior to the start of the tournament. After that, the NCAA began to allow more than one team per conference to participate. In 1976, Bobby Knight's Indiana Hoosier squad completed an undefeated season with a victory over Michigan in the championship game.  The Hoosiers are the last team to go undefeated and win the title.

The tournament expanded to 40 teams in 1979, and teams were seeded for the first time.  "Magic" Earvin Johnson leads Michigan State over Larry Bird and Indiana State to win the national championship.  The game drew the attention of millions throughout the country; its 24.1 TV rating remains the highest ever for a college basketball game and is still considered one of the greatest match-ups in NCAA Tournament history.

Expansion followed in 1980 to 48 teams, and then in 1983, to 53 teams.  In what many believe is the greatest Cinderella story in college basketball, North Carolina State's Lorenzo Charles dunks the ball as time expires in the 1983 championship game to lead the Wolfpack to a 54-52 win over heavily favored Akeem Olajuwon and Houston. Perhaps no one figure in college basketball history more personified the spirit of March Madness than Coach Jim Valvano. His underdog North Carolina State Wolfpack did what many consider a miracle by making an incredible run through the 1983 Tournament. Culminating in the defeat of the highly touted "Phi Slamma Jamma" squad from the University of Houston, Valvano was rocketed into the media limelight and quickly became the symbol of exuberance and enthusiasm. He discovered soon afterward that he had bone cancer, and for a short time became a commentator for college basketball. Before his death at age 47, he was named the recipient of the Arthur Ashe award for courage at the first ESPN ESPY awards. It was at this time he announced the formation of the V Foundation for cancer research.

In 1985 the tournament expanded to 64 teams.  A Villanova Wildcat team shot a 22 for 28 field goal percentage to defeat Patrick Ewing and defending champion Georgetown in the championship game. Villanova remains the lowest seed (#8) to win the championship. In 1991, Duke upset undefeated UNLV in the semifinals and went on to win the national championship. In 1997, Arizona, led by Mike Bibby, Jason Terry and Miles Simon, becomes the first school to defeat three #1 seeds en route to the national championship, winning against Kansas, North Carolina and Kentucky.

The NCAA Tournament's popularity has grown to rival that of the World Series, the Olympics and the Super Bowl. CBS Sports in 1999 negotiated an 11-year, $6 billion agreement for television, radio, Internet, corporate marketing, licensing, publishing, home video and Hoop City rights for the Division I men's basketball championship.

In 2002, the NCAA tournament committee developed a "pod" system for the first and second rounds.  The system allows the top four seeds to play at a site as close to home as possible, without regard to the school's tournament region. In that year's tournament, Maryland became the first school to defeat five former national champions on their way to win their first title. In 2004, the regions became known by the regional final's host city instead of by their geographic names. The Final Four match-ups were set by committee prior to the tournament instead of on a rotating basis.  Connecticut, behind center Emeka Okafor, won its second title in six seasons. Last year, 2005, Roy William's North Carolina Tar Heels led by Sean May, held off the Fighting Illini to win the title game by a final score of 75-70.
Adversity, tragedy, and ultimate triumph; the downtrodden and beleaguered emerge through the journey as champions. The drama of hope intensified to euphoria, only to be dashed on the rocks of defeat in the ultimate test of poise and determination. The human experience in all its excellence and all its failures. Yes, this Tournament has it all.

 

A brief history of basketball

Modern basketball can trace its origins in early December 1891 when Dr. James Naismith, Canadian physical education teacher and instructor of premises in Springfield, Massachusetts, YMCA Training School was desperately seeking an indoor game asset and to adapt to cold and snowy New England winters. After trying several different games and their too dangerous or not quite suitable for gyms, Naismith wrote the essential rules of basketball, integration of some of the rules of popular game for children of the time, "Ducks on a pond," and then nailed to a basket of fish on a threatening way, ten feet above the playing surface. Course, since peach baskets were always closed bottoms, retrieve a ball after a player scored a basket has been terribly ineffective - incredibly, the game would stop someone retrieve the ball with an ankle. And while the first official game was played in January 1892, gymnasium YMCA Naismith handwritten diaries at the time indicate that he was extremely nervous about the new game he invented, fearing that his basketball would be.

Strangely, the first official basketball game, there were nine players on a side and the winning team won a close fought battle of 1-0 with a ball of 25 feet - the Tribunal barely half of the Court of today! In 1897, teams of five had become standard. Around the same time, women's basketball was developed at Smith College neighbor when Sandra Berenson, a physical education teacher at Collège changing many rules for women to play. It has proved that, Berenson was fascinated by the values of teamwork, sportsmanship and vigorous exercise that promoted basketball and began to organize some of the women's basketball games premiere in 1893. In 1899 Berenson rules for Eurobasket women were published, and at the turn of the century, it is the Publisher of the legendary basketball Guide female A.G. Spaulding spread her version of basketball across the country to countless physical educators across the country.

Indeed, with the help of many YMCA instructors, basketball is promoted in the United States and Canada, pensionable so the way to the game to establish a varsity sport many secondary schools. Unfortunately (and), the YMCA has begun to discourage basketball in 1905, fearing that rowdy; Rough and belligerent crowds play distracters of mission of the organization. But it matters as much as amateurs, colleges, lyceums clubs and even several clubs short-term basketball and leagues not only fill the empty but also contributed to promote the game. Basketball became so popular that the ancestor of the NCAA, known as the Intercollegiate Athletic Association at the United States and the Amateur Athletic Union fought for control of the rules of the game and its future.

A little known fact is that in the early decades, basketball has been primarily played soccer balls that were difficult to dribble. Most of the games was composed of players from the ball between them to advance this Court long. It was not for awhile until a bullet has been specifically designed and made for basketball and often the basketballs were improperly made, creating a strange scene for lovers of modern basketball. Wait for the end of the 1940s, where NCAA became incredibly popular and sufficiently viable to pave the way for the National Basketball Association that Tony Hinkle developed popularity basketball orange fans know so. Of course, do not forget that Naismith was also influential in the promotion and the creation of the College basketball where he became the first team from the University of Kansas basketball. And manage, many of the first students and disciples of Naismith becomes important in the history of the NCAA including Amos Alonzo Stagg, Forrest "phog" Allen and Adolph Rupp.

 

History of Hockey

Do you know when hockey was first played? All in the past, it has been played in some form or another. Research in Ethiopia discovered there for more than four millennia. A tablet in Greece has images of young people playing field hockey, and it shows it has been around c. BC. Even in South America, Ireland, Egypt, Scotland, and Rome. There is evidence and records of this game. The game in these countries was not different from each other even if it has been known under different names. Hundreds of years, this game has been known as "Hockie" in Ireland and it is a game that will continue forever.

During the 17th century and 18th century England hockey was a little different and it was more disorganized. People everywhere in the village take part in the game and play against each other. It was not rare that a team of players ranging from 60 to 100. It is the objective of the team players to get the ball on a ground of the rival team. This game requires a few days to complete, and after several player would be injuries such as broken limbs. Even if the umpires were present, they were not allowed to say anything without request of the members of the team.

Ultimately, good judgment was introduced by the introduction of firm regulations. In England, a headmaster limited the number of players to thirty years for a single team. During the 1860s, Eton College Britain posed a few rules of the game. After that, additional rules were introduced after the formation of the Hockey Association in the year 1875. Now the domain would be two hundred metres long and members of the team would be in the area of the ball. Additional organization was introduced with the formation of "pyramid", and this time, each team was composed of eleven members. There are three, five attackers halves, two back and a goalkeeper. This time the Umpire had to give calls without the approval of the members of the team.

This game was first played in the Olympics for the year 1908, and it was men who were allowed to participate. Prior to 1980, women were not allowed to participate in this game. Currently, all countries have hockey teams who participate World Champion trophy Cup and of course the Olympic Games.

Hockey has various alterations that attract people of different ages, talents and the conditions. Join a group if you are fascinated by hockey!

 

Hockey History: an ancient Sport who triumphed through years of fine tuning

Hockey history dates back to the time of the first civilizations. Studies have found the origins of this sport date from as far back as four thousand years. This common sport called "ball and stick" played in the ancient civilizations of Rome, Egypt and Scotland under various names. The General game play was similar between each civilization. Irish called the game "hockie." This term made his way today and is now the common name for this historic game. In these times it was not played on ice, but rather a field. Modern hockey rules and game play come to Canada with the help of Creighton JG. Its particular game rules have been used in the first ice hockey game played in 1875. Two stones each end of the ice-frozen were used in the early days of hockey as objectives. In 1879, official rules were drafted for the game. It was not until 1893 that hockey became a known and played sports in the United States. In the 1900s, sport grew in popularity throughout Europe.

Largest hockey resided the Canada and other countries until the early 1900s. Montréal, Canada is the true parent of nowadays ice hockey. This is where the first organized play began in the history of hockey. The first official NHL season took place between 1917 and 1918 in Montreal. Only five teams were part of the League at the beginning. Need to leave because of their skating rink is burned. Barriers were many in the first phase of development of NHL and slow down the promotion of this sport that so many people like today. Trophy O'Brien was the trophy of the original League Championship for the championship game. As games increased popularity a number of teams in the League.

Professional hockey has arisen in the twentieth century. The Western Pennsylvania Hockey League began to pay players openly for the sport. This particular League joined with Michigan and Ontario teams to form the first professional international championships in the year of 1904. Many players openly paid by this League which later disbanded in 1907. At that time, several major hockey leagues were running to the Canada. The National Association of Hockey or NHA was formed in the year 1910 in Montreal, at the Canada and was followed by a reorganization of 1917 that established the National Hockey League (NHL). The United States League expansion began in 1924. Several rules have inculcated during this time, including periods of twenty minutes and various penalties.

Currently, hockey is played in various countries around the world. Defining the Canada sport and a renowned game is in the United States and other countries. Fans love the robustness of the game. They meet every season in the stands to watch their favorite team for the ultimate victory and Stanley Cup battle never celebrated. This Championship trophy was a symbol of hard work and perseverance for years and is the final outcome of each team.

 

A little football history for your party

Football historical facts are fun to use on a Super Bowl or football theme party. Take notes and make funny trivia games of the following information.

NFL Football is one of the most popular American sports, attracting thousands of attendees and millions of spectators each year. The forerunner of the American football may have been a game played by the ancient Greeks, called harp Aston. In this game there was no limit to the number of players. The goal was to move a ball on a goal line by kicking, throwing, or get started with it. Classic literature contains detailed accounts of the game, including the rougher elements, such as fierce.

Most modern versions of football, however, originated in England, where a form of the game in the 12th century was known. In later centuries was football so popular that several English monarchs, including Edward II and Henry VI, forbade the game because the importance of the military sports of archery took.

In 1920 the American Football Association founded; a year later it was reorganized and in 1922 was renamed the National Football League. fifty years after the start of the first pro football association, combined sixteen NFL teams with ten AFL teams consist of a League with two conferences.

NFL Football party supplies such as paper plates, napkins and cups are a fun way to finish a NFL football party theme. Party decorations using NFL Football party themes such as a football piñata can act as a centerpieces and can also double as party prices. Party favors such as NFL Football stickers, whistles, foam fingers, football shaped caps and helmets a NFL football party theme.

 

The best performance of the running Back In New York Jets history

The New York Jets have a long and great history that has featured many important games, major players, and special moments. In all this time, the team is proud to be a number of aspects of the games, including the rushing game. The players that the position of running back for the team have played in the years some of the best players that the team has ever had. Some players and some performances rank higher than others. On 18 October 2009, Thomas Jones would have the best running game in jets history.

The unfortunate part of this game, a home game against the visiting Buffalo Bills, was the result. After all was said and done, the Jets on the losing end by the score of the 16-13. However, this was not due to a lack of effort from Thomas Jones side.

During the game, Jones performed on the ball 22 times for 210 yards and a touchdown. His dominant performance put him at the top of the list for rushing yards in a single game in team history, breaking the old record of 203 meters, which was founded by Curtis Martin in 2000. On top of that though, maybe the most amazing part of the game was that his performance had given him a yards per carry average of 9.55. Not bad for a player who has played on a handful of teams during his career.

Despite this achievement, the relationship between these wraps and this team does not continue. Jones would go to the Kansas City Chiefs the next season, but that October night in 2009, he ran the ball for more yards than any player in the history of the New York Jets.

The fact that they have a great team is not New York Jets trivia, it is a fact. finding little-known information about them can be fun. You can impress your friends, win bets, or just for your own personal enjoyment.

There are some very good resources out there for quality football trivia, and they are also easy to use. As a fan of a team or a player, you know how much fun it can be to learn about some of the less familiar things in the world of football. football trivia and little known facts are often the best part about the game.

The winningest quarterbacks in the New York Giants Team history

The New York Jets have a somewhat bumpy ride during the history as a professional football team. They still had not always been the best talent, but even when they did it for some reason wouldn't clicks for them. The team has loyal fans already and has shown great promise in the past few years.

She started in the American Football League in 1960 as the New York Titans and had some bleak early seasons. By the end of the Decade they had shocked the world by winning the Super Bowl III on the heavily favored Baltimore Colts of the more established National Football League. Twenty some years of futility would come next as the team sometimes was good but more often than not found is at or near the bottom of the League rankings.

The mid-1990s saw the team rebound somewhat in a team that others would have at least a little to worry about. They put together some good seasons, and had some good players, even making the deep in the playoffs on occasion. Through all those years, quarterbacks have been instrumental in the successes and failures of the team. That has already been reached as the winningest quarterbacks in the New York Jets history? Here are the top three players in that category.

# 1-Joe Namath

Joe Namath came from the University of Alabama and instant credibility to the jets of the mid-1960s. He would later become the famous upset in Super Bowl III, thus cementing himself as a legend and a fan favorite predict. He left the Jets after 1976 season with 60 career victories as a starter.

# 2-Ken O'Brien

Ken O'Brien came along in the mid-1980s as part of that legendary quarterback concept that saw multiple Hall of Fame QBs selected. O'Brien put up some real good years, but suffers from a lack of talent around him. He was an accurate passer those people around him look good. He played with the team from 1984 to 1992 and ended his career with the jets with 50 WINS as a starter.

# 3-Richard Todd

Another Alabama alum, Richard Todd was hoping to get the man who Joe Namath in the mid-1970s, replace it. He actually had a big arm and seemed to always be free to get a heavy rush just in time to get rid of the ball. again, this was a down time of the jets and although the quarterback was good, the rest of the team was a little lacking in the talent Department. Todd played from 1976 to 1983 and finished with a total of 42 WINS.

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