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    Sports Science

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    Sport in the Industrial Revolution. Between the years of 1780 and 1830 the Industrial Revolution occurred. The industrial revolution was a period of time when the way of living and society went through many changes. As a result of these changes to society‚ there was a great affect on the nature of sports. The industrial revolution can be defined as the application of power-driven machinery to manufacturing; it saw the movement from the spacious living of the countryside to the cramped conditions

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    Cut in Sports

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    Keeping high school sports Due to budget cuts some school in the state are trying find a way to get that money back‚ till Brad Sanders a retired teacher from Cedar Shoals High School figured out how‚ as he said in the website OnlineAthens.com. He proposes to remove all athletic programs from the high school and give them to the Athens-Clarke County Department of Leisure Services. A sport helps to keep students healthy‚ teaches them how to work as a team and keeps them out of trouble. Sanders

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    concussions in sport

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    J.‚ Aubry‚ M.‚ Molloy‚ M.‚ & Cantu‚ R. (2009). Consensus statement on Concussion in Sport–the 3rd International Conference on Concussion in Sport held in Zurich‚ November 2008. South African Journal of Sports Medicine‚ 21(2). Following the third meeting of several sanctioning bodies in different sports‚ discussion of improvements for evaluation and return to activity guidelines are established. Among the sports represented are soccer‚ hockey and rugby. Much of the discussion is centered around

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    Contact Sports

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    Introduction: According to the oxford dictionary a “Contact sport” is a sport in which participants necessarily come into bodily contact with one another‚ this includes football‚ rugby‚ hockey and la cross. Children and parents must be warned of the mental‚ physical and social risk factors that are associated with contact sports before being able to participate in them‚ doing so will lead to less children taking unnecessary risk. One factor that parents should be aware of is the increased risk and

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    Sport in Education

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    Sport in education Nowadays‚ people are increasingly aware of the importance of physical and psychological health. Even academic institutions and workplaces appear to have several activities supporting physical health including Sport Day. Sport is viewed as a tool to develop well-being of children and society. Obviously‚ sport provides several benefits for children. The benefits are not only physical benefits but also academic and social skills. Unsurprisingly‚ sports improve skills in children

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    Sports Day

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    games and sports is unthinkable‚ as sports and games have become an integral element of present-day education. Formerly teaching consisted of merely imparting the basic skills of 3R’s (Reading‚ Writing and Arithmetic). But true learning is much more than that. Today education is an all-round development of the child. In this respect games and sports play a significant role. It is in this backdrop that most schools organise their Annual Sports Day. Last year‚ my school’s Annual Sports Day was

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    Point of Sports  

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    POINT OF SPORT 1. A game or activity done for physical exercise or pleasure 2. Many people today not full of enthusiasm for sport 3. There are several benefits of sports that people often do not consider 4. Many people dead of heart disease‚ high blood pressure and obesity 5. Sports balance our body’s blood pressure and circulation 6. Help people be healthy‚ and be fit 7. Sports foster friendship and amity 8. Required for our daily lives and competing at the international area because of

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    Sport for All

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    Sport for All Concept Introduction The term “Sport for all” has been presented since 1966 and established by the Council of Europe. The sport for all concept includes all form of recreational and competitive physical activity. As we can say that this concept has been spread to public for 46 years until this years 2012. Sport for all concept has been used to attract people especially for all age and gender to invovle in sport and its not for only those who have abilities to paticipate. It also mean

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    Sports Programs

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    Sports Programs The idea of cutting sports programs from colleges to save money is‚ and has been‚ a very debatable and touchy subject for many years; whether you are for or against it. While the titans will forever clash on this subject‚ I am here to persuade you that it is not easy to choose just one side of the argument. There are just too many deciding factors to simplistically pick one side. Like many others I too was‚ and quite frankly still am‚ a little unsure of what side of this sinuous

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    History of Sports

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    Sports history in the British Library: selected titles Any analysis of sport‚ sporting events and sports governance must inevitably take into account the historical events which underpin them. For sports researchers‚ the British Library has an unrivalled collection of resources covering all aspects of the subject and in many different media‚ from books describing sporting events‚ to biographies and autobiographies of grass roots and elite athletes; coaching manuals; sport yearbooks and annual reports;

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