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related: globe flickr groups: [|world sports] editing: [|Sports]

Essay
Sports appeal to different groups, transcending age, gender and culture.

Wiki
AFL Baseball - baseballslang Basketball Cricket Cycling Golf Football: Gridiron - Soccer Olympics Rugby - Rugby2011 - Rugby2015 - rugby2019 Skiing soccer - football2010 Swimming Wrestling

Slang
baseballslang

Recommended Listening
AUSTRALIA - Strike Zone Australia ENGLAND - [|Fighting Talk - BBC] ([|facebook]) NEW ZEALAND - [|Radio Sport] ([|Week on demand]) USA - [|ESPN],

Edge of Sports
http://www.edgeofsports.com https://soundcloud.com/edgeofsports https://twitter.com/EdgeofSports https://twitter.com/edgeofsportspod/status/838870303572897793

Hosted by Dave Ziren (Last name rhymes with Siren) Sports editor [|@thenation] Co-host of The Collision with Etan Thomas on [|WPFW].

Edge of Sports Column RSS Feed [|Edge of Sports on iTunes] https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/edge-of-sports-with-dave-zirin/id280938935?mt=2 https://soundcloud.com/edgeofsports/militarism-sports

Conversations
[|Beating and nothingness: Philosophy and the Martial Arts] - There are many areas of human endeavour with which philosophy can be connected: the law, religion, science, mathematics -- but martial arts? This week we talk to Damon Young, Fellow in Philosophy at the University of Melbourne, who is both a philosopher and a grappler, about what martial arts have to tell us of thinking and being.

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Buzzword Bingo
Ball - Champ - [|Dead rubber] - Drill - Game Day - Game Plan - Playbook - Team - Team Effort - Undefeated - Underdog - Upset - Wooden Spoon

Sports Equinox https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/this-is-the-greatest-sports-day-of-the-year As my former colleague [|Reuben Fischer-Baum] wrote on a [|couple] of [|occasions], it’s when all four major U.S. sports leagues — the NFL, NBA, NHL and MLB — play at least one game on the same day. Historically speaking, it doesn’t happen often. There have only been 17 sports equinoxes in history, including Thursday:

[|Dead rubber] is a term used in sports to describe a match in a series where the series result has already been decided by earlier matches. The dead rubber match therefore has no effect on the winner and loser of the series, other than the number of matches won and lost.

fighting talk - sporting anecdotes i'm not sure if it's true or not but it's well told, min 42 http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b01771qk http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0070hvs/episodes/player

Spanish
http://www.aquehorajuega.net

Blogs
[|http://www.awfulannouncing.com] [|Sports scientists]

Facebook
[|Fighting Talk]

Flickr Groups
[|worldsports] [|art and sports]

Twitter
https://twitter.com/EdgeofSports http://twitter.com/abcgrandstand https://twitter.com/UniWatch

Idioms
[|Hit below the belt]

**Video**
[|Sport: a panel discussion with William McInnes, Gideon Haigh and John Harms. Adelaide Writers' Week]

Sports and the Environment
[|Green passport] [|Hartmut Stahl on The impact of the 2010 FIFA World Cup on Climate Change] [|View Questions and Answers] [|Sport and Environment - UNEP] http://www.guardian.co.uk/sustainable-business/nfl-champion-sustainability

Sports Tourism
[|Sports Tourism: Tough Legacy or Golden Jackpot? - WTM]

**Events**
[|Sporting Traditions: The Cultural Paradigm, Reinvigorating Sport History]

Elsewhere on the Web
[|Edge of Sports] [|Daily Mail] [|Sports Illustrated] [|The Mesoamerican Ballgame] http://sportingnews.printstown.com - http://sportingnews.com http://www.eurosport.com

Players Tribune
http://www.theplayerstribune.com http://www.theplayerstribune.com/travis-kelce-what-you-dont-know-about-being-a-tight-end http://www.theplayerstribune.com/category/tribune-radio https://twitter.com/playerstribune

Basketball
College []

Chess Boxing
[|Chess Boxing] Competitors may win by knockout, checkmate, a judge's decision or if their opponent's twelve minutes of chess time elapses.

Curling
[|Curling - Wikipedia]

Hockey
[|WorldwideHockeyGods]

**Odds**
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**Olympics**
[|Olympics 2012 - BBC] [|International Olympic Committee] [|2010 Olympic Game FAQs - Hello, BC] [|2010 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games]

**Stadiums**
[|Rugby Grounds and Stadiums - 2Rugby] [|The Best Seat in the Houe - Sports Factor] [|Drought not out - ABC] [|Stadiums That Shape Downtowns: The Impact of Stadiums on Urban Redevelopment - Populous]

TV Networks
http://www.setanta.com http://sports.espn.go.com http://www.foxsports.com/foxsportsgo

Viewing
[|Roja Directa] - http://twitter.com/rojadirecta [|Live TV] [|Live Score Hunter] [|Sportstream] http://myp2p.eu

**Commonwealth games**
[|Commonwealth Games - ABC] [|Delhi defends its Games accommodation - TravelMole] [|The Royal Commonwealth Society] [|Commonwealth Games Federation] Recommended listening - [|Relevance of the Commonwealth Games]

**Quotes**
It seems to me that the corporatising of the game came with a certain sanitising, that they wanted the game boxed and packaged for television rights, as a product rather than a process. - Mick O'Regan, [|The last quarter: Martin Flanagan on footy]

Cliches
Keep your head in the game.

Sustainable Practices
http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2015/s4368855.htm

Editing
[|Sports] [|Value of Competition]

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