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Reuters provides business, financial, national and international news to professionals via desktop terminals, the world's media organizations, industry events and directly to consumers. Both amateur and professional sports attract spectators, both in person at the sport venue, and through broadcast media including radio, television and internet broadcast. Both attendance in person and viewing remotely can incur a sometimes substantial charge, such as an entrance ticket, or pay-per-view television broadcast. Disabled sports also adaptive sports or parasports, are sports played by persons with a disability, including physical and intellectual disabilities. As many of these are based on existing sports modified to meet the needs of persons with a disability, they are sometimes referred to as adapted sports. However, not all disabled sports are adapted; several sports that have been specifically created for persons with a disability have no equivalent in able-bodied sports.

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

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In Association football, goal-line technology makes decisions on whether a ball has crossed the goal line or not. The technology is not compulsory, but was used in the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil, and the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup in Canada, as well as in the Premier League from 2013–14, and the Bundesliga from 2015–16. In the NFL, a referee can ask for a review from the replay booth, or a head coach can issue a challenge to review the play using replays. A video referee can also use replays to help decision-making in rugby . In international cricket, an umpire can ask the Third umpire for a decision, and the third umpire makes the final decision.

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With it being a necessary part of some sports , it is used in others to improve performance. Sport can be undertaken on an amateur, professional or semi-professional basis, depending on whether participants are incentivised for participation . Amateur participation in sport at lower levels is often called "grassroots sport". A wide range of sports were already established by the time of Ancient Greece and the military culture and the development of sport in Greece influenced one another considerably. Sport became such a prominent part of their culture that the Greeks created the Olympic Games, which in ancient times were held every four years in a small village in the Peloponnesus called Olympia. Other meanings include gambling and events staged for the purpose of gambling; hunting; and games and diversions, including ones that require exercise.

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

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PALM HARBOR, Fla. — Sam Burns celebrated another victory Sunday at the Valspar Championship, and it was nothing like he experienced a year ago. He lowered his arms and forcefully shook his fists as raw emotion poured out of him on the 16th green, a reaction worthy under the circumstances. Early baseball gameAn early baseball game at the Elysian Fields, Hoboken, New Jersey, 1859; engraving from Harper's magazine.

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

Seeking status as well as diversion, middle-class employees of British firms followed the upper-class lead. From the gamut of games played by the upper and middle classes, the industrial workers of Europe and Latin America, like the indigenous population of Africa, appropriated football as their own. Basketball, invented in 1891 by James Naismith, and volleyball, invented four years later by William Morgan, are both quintessentially modern sports. Both were scientifically designed to fulfill a perceived need for indoor games during harsh New England winters. In the 18th and 19th centuries, the British expelled the French from Canada and from India and extended British rule over much of Africa. To the ends of the earth, cricket followed the Union Jack, which explains the game’s current popularity in Australia, South Asia, and the West Indies.