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- 2661: Wakeboarding
- ... the air I reach through my legs grab the back of my board and execute a 180 degree turn landing in the goofy position. I'm excited about continuing to improve and learning to tweak big air in this new and exciting sport. I am working towards a goal of being able to land a backflip within the next year. Currently I am really good at landing on my head. But ...
- 2662: Track
- ... It is a successful hand-off and my body jars, as I try to bring myself to a quick stop. My journey is over but the next runner's has just begun. Track is a big part of my life and it holds much more significance to me than just running. I would not even get the opportunity to set foot on the track if I did not practice several hours ...
- 2663: Should Scholarship Athletes Work?
- ... opens the door for the very problems that originally sparked the regulation, athletes being paid for menial labor, and that keeping track of how much money athletes are earning will be difficult. But according to Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany, "Sure there will be bogus jobs,'' he said. "It'll open up a can of worms, but I think we have to start living with cans of worms and let the ...
- 2664: Mountain Bikes
- ... years. New combinations made from synthetic rubber and pheol ressin have increased deceleration, but overall they lose an enormous amount of effectiveness when the rims are wet. Effectiveness when the rims are wet is the big disadvantage of all rim brakes. Since the rim becomes part of the brakes in cable-carrying systems, the effectiveness of the brakes very much depends on the surface condition of the rim. The most recent ...
- 2665: Minor League Baseball: Boom or Bust to Communities?
- ... success and routinely sells out the 4,000 seat stadium, the group constantly finds themselves in financial debt. Many people in the area blame it on time. The time factor was the biggest limitation. The big push to get the the stadium built as quickly as possible forced an overrun of nearly two million dollars. “ In the time most people built a house, we built a stadium,” said David Avenius, an ...
- 2666: History of Basketball
- ... for Christian Workers. Naismith wanted to create a game of skill for the students instead of one that relied solely on strength. He needed a game that could be played indoors in a not too big, but not to small space. The first basketball game ever was played with a soccer ball and two peach baskets used as goals. Naismith made a set of thirteen rules for his new "basketball" game ...
- 2667: Floor Exercise
- ... method will allow you to learn a large number of skills while having fun and developing confidence. If you find a skill to be particularly difficult to learn, perhaps you are trying to take too big of a step, or too many, in your progression. Ask your coach for assistance. She or he can almost always give you smaller steps that will help you reach your goal. In learning acrobatics or ...
- 2668: Boxing: Down for the Count
- ... with? Is boxing something else that is just practiced as a sport? Is it, can it, or should it be practiced as something else rather than as a sport? Maybe I am just making too big a deal out of a simple definition here. Nevertheless, this simple definition of boxing gives rise to one question we should all take some time to answer: should boxing be practiced as a sport? Examination ...
- 2669: Basketball Needs to Be Fixed
- ... because the networks will not pay as much to televise the games as they once did. The schools and the league are not the only ones hurt, by leaving school early hoping to make the big bucks the players hurt themselves. In the world that we live in today, if you do not have a college degree, opportunities are limited. Look at the statistics, 60 players are drafted each year, and ...
- 2670: Artificial Turf: A Dangerous Playing Surface
- ... even identified and named a few new ones, common only to the artificial surface. Turf Injuries The relative hardness of AstroTurf has spawned an unpleasant little chronic injury called turf toe. It occurs when the big toe is crushed into an artificial surface, ramming the toe back up into the foot and ripping up any ligaments and tissue it might encounter along the way. A little less serious but somewhat more ...
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