"Hunt is such a working class club, founded in a small Welsh mining village, although its membership now is by no means limited to miners, with a more ""cosmopolitan"" make up. Oscar Wilde, in his play ""A Woman of No Importance"" (1893), once famously described ""the English country gentleman galloping after a fox"" as ""the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable."" Even before the time of Wilde, much of the criticism of fox hunting was couched in terms of social class. The argument was that while more ""working class"" blood sports such as cock fighting and badger baiting were"
"Universe and Everything"", the ""Guide"" describes the inhabitants of the higher dimensions as ""a pretty nasty heathen lot"" that should be wiped out if only we could ""work out a way of firing missiles at right-angles to reality."" A favoured pastime in the higher dimensions is Brockian Ultra-Cricket, a team sport that involves people beating each other with sporting equipment, then apologising from a safe distance. Like real cricket, the rules of the game are massively convoluted, leading to a perpetual state of war between the players over their interpretation. Brockian Ultra Cricket was named after an old friend of"
"the famous author and poet Oscar Wilde. Queensberry's efforts to end that relationship led to his famous dispute with Wilde. Though he disbelieved in the existences of a God or gods, Queensberry considered homosexuality immoral; that attitude, more common in Victorian times than the present day, prevailed widely enough to lead to Wilde's eventual imprisonment, decline, and fall. Queensberry was a patron of sport and a noted boxing enthusiast. In 1866 he was one of the founders of the Amateur Athletic Club, now the Amateur Athletic Association of England, one of the first groups that did not require amateur athletes"
"part for changes in public attitudes to the sport. The Anglican divine and political economist Josiah Tucker also dismissed the sport as a ""most cruel and barbarous diversion' in his 'Earnest and Affectionate Address to the Common People of England Concerning their Usual Recreations on Shrove Tuesday' (1753), drawing attention to the suffering and 'lingering tortures' of a 'poor innocent creature'. From the middle of the 18th century, magistrates began to deal with the problem more harshly, a marker of its loss in popularity among the ""respectable"" classes, imposing fines for public order offences, and local by-laws banned the practice"
"keep them from finding the body by moving the shreds of paper. In the 1954 memoir by Vyvyan Holland, ""Son of Oscar Wilde,"" he describes playing paper chase at Neuenheim College in Heidelberg, Germany in 1896. ""[W]hen the river was frozen and the snow lay thick upon the ground, so that it was impossible either to row or to play football, paper chases were organised by the master in charge of games. No form of exercise is quite so utterly pointless and boring as a paper chase, and we used to try to slink off and get lost and find"
"skiing), skateboarding, snowboarding, softball, squash, ultimate frisbee, volleyball, and windsurfing or surfing, and the track and field events high jump and pole vaulting. Sports classified as ""non-contact"" include archery, badminton, body building, bowling, flatwater canoeing and kayaking, curling, dancing, golf, orienteering, power lifting, race walking, riflery, rope jumping, rowing, running, sailing, scuba diving, swimming, table tennis, tennis, weightlifting and weight training, the track and field events discus, javelin, and shot put and all track events. From 1945 to 2005, there were 497 fatalities, of which 69% were a result of brain injury and 16% from spinal cord injury. Today, the"
"usually, but wrongly, attributed to Ernest Hemingway. The phrase is; There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games. The implication of the phrase was that the word ""sport"" defined an activity in which one might be killed. The other activities being termed ""games"". The phrase may have been invented by either writer Barnaby Conrad or automotive author Ken Purdy. The Dangerous Sports Club of Oxford University, England was founded by David Kirke, Chris Baker, Ed Hulton and Alan Weston. They first came to wide public attention by inventing modern day bungee jumping,"
"was a mortal sin. He also condemned the game known as ""palín"" or ""chueca"", a form of field hockey of Mapuche origin, as well as the thick winter clothes worn by some clerics during cold weather, and the use of the sacramental bread by some people as a sealing wax on letters. Alday, in a famous pastoral letter about women's fashions, ordered in 1782 that ""...all women of whatever station or class extend the length of their clothes, employing round petticoats or half circle shaped skirts both inside and outside of their homes in a manner that reaches their ankles…"
"ordinances against goose pulling, calling it ""unprofitable, heathenish and pernicious."" Many contemporary writers professed disgust at the sport; an anonymous reviewer in the ""Southern Literary Messenger"", writing in 1836, described goose pulling as ""a piece of unprincipled barbarity not infrequently practised in the South and West."" William Gilmore Simms described it as ""one of those sports which a cunning devil has contrived to gratify a human beast. It appeals to his skill, his agility, and strength; and is therefore in some degree grateful to his pride; but, as it exercises these qualities at the expense of his humanity, it is"
"a journal, such as Conquistadors of the Useless by Lionel Terray. Documentaries often use the theme of adventure as well. There are many sports classified as adventure sports, due to their inherent danger and excitement. Some of these include mountain climbing, skydiving, or other extreme sports. Adventure An adventure is an exciting experience that is typically a bold, sometimes risky, undertaking. Adventures may be activities with some potential for physical danger such as traveling, exploring, skydiving, mountain climbing, scuba diving, river rafting or participating in extreme sports. Adventurous experiences create psychological arousal, which can be interpreted as negative (e.g. fear)"
"his antagonists. The object of the game is for either party to drive the ball beyond the goal which lies before them, while their opponents do all in their power to prevent this."" In his poems of 1804, W. Tarras tells in verse of such a game: and The game just about died out during the 19th century with the rise in interest in football. It is known to have survived only in the Royal High School and the Edinburgh Academy. In James Trotter's book on the Royal High School, published in 1911, the game is referred to as ""the"
"Invictus Games The Invictus Games is an international adaptive multi-sport event, created by Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, in which wounded, injured or sick armed services personnel and their associated veterans take part in sports including wheelchair basketball, sitting volleyball, and indoor rowing. Named after Invictus, Latin for ""unconquered"" or ""undefeated"", the event was inspired by the Warrior Games, a similar event held in the United States. The first Invictus Games took place in September 2014 at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London, United Kingdom.The 2014 opening ceremony was attended by Prince Harry, British Prime Minister David Cameron, Prince"
"recognizable names such as Edmund Hillary, Chris Bonington, Wolfgang Güllich and more recently Joe Simpson. Another example is surfing, invented centuries ago by the inhabitants of Hawaii. Extreme sports by their nature can be extremely dangerous, conducive to fatalities, near-fatalities and other serious injuries, and sometimes consist in treading along the brink of death. This imminent and inherent danger in these sports has been considered a somewhat necessary part of its appeal, which is partially a result of pressure for athletes to make more money and provide maximum entertainment. Disabled people participate in extreme sports. Nonprofit organizations such as Adaptive"
"Quidditch Quidditch is a fictional sport played at Hogwarts, other schools of magic, and professionally by adult magicians, devised by author J. K. Rowling for her fantasy fiction series ""Harry Potter."" The story of Harry Potter centres around wizards and witches studying their magical craft at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Born out of the lore of witches using flying broomsticks for transportation, Quidditch was developed by the author as the most popular sport in the Wizarding World of Harry Potter; a complex game played completely in the air by wizards and witches on flying broomsticks. The objective of"
"One publisher called him ""A powerful personality"" while another called him ""A close-mouthed, self-contained man who seemed forbidding to some ... despite his reserve, [his] personality was pervading, dominating; he exuded strength and leadership."" Among his more curious and enduring innovations was the ""Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue"". The winter months, between the college bowl season and the start of Major League Baseball's spring training, was a slow time for sports journalism. At the time, winter team sports like basketball and ice hockey were regional niche sports, and there was little to write about. Laguerre had instituted an annual February issue"
"Extreme sport Extreme sports or Adventure sports are recreational activities perceived as involving a high degree of risk. These activities often involve speed, height, a high level of physical exertion, and highly specialized gear. The definition of an extreme sport is not exact and the origin of the term is unclear, but it gained popularity in the 1990s when it was picked up by marketing companies to promote the X Games and when the Extreme Sports Channel and the Extreme Sports Company launched. More recently, the commonly used definition from research is ""a competitive (comparison or self-evaluative) activity within which"
"consultancy, the global sporting industry is worth up to $620 billion as of 2013. The world's most accessible and practised sport is running, while association football is its most popular spectator sport. The word ""sport"" comes from the Old French ""desport"" meaning ""leisure"", with the oldest definition in English from around 1300 being ""anything humans find amusing or entertaining"". Other meanings include gambling and events staged for the purpose of gambling; hunting; and games and diversions, including ones that require exercise. Roget's defines the noun sport as an ""activity engaged in for relaxation and amusement"" with synonyms including diversion and"
"Skoarding Skoarding is a recently developed extreme sport composed of the two alpine sports, skiing and snowboarding. Skoarding has newly been defined as a specific sport or pastime the main factor being that a proficient snowboarder taking up the pastime of skiing and skiing in the specific style of a snowboarder. The word was likely invented in 2008 in Ski Utah's 2008 Ski/Snowboard Lingo awards, mentioned then as an entrant to a new word competition, meaning skiing and snowboarding, rather than skiing in the style of snowboarding. Skoarding is not a word used to describe two sports. It is an"
"direction is an exciting and certainly novel one. ... All the ground and lofty tumbling was for the possession of a leather-covered foot ball, which every one of those twenty-two athletes had evidently determined to possess or perish in the attempt. ... While one unaccustomed to foot ball will naturally be startled by some of the acrobatic feats, still it is impossible to watch the game for any length of time without a tingling of the blood and holding of the breath. It is most intensely exciting, continuous in action and replete with fine points of play."" The following week,"
"Illegal sports An illegal sport is any sport that is illegal in one or more jurisdictions due to the violent or dangerous nature of the sport. Well-known illegal sports, such as cockfighting and dogfighting, are barred on the basis of animal abuse. Illegal sports are controversial due to the dangerous aspects attributed to them and the pain they can inflict on humans or animals. They also are controversial due to the perceived nature of some of them — notably dogfighting — as being savage sports. Cockfighting is a gambling and spectator sport where roosters fight, frequently to the death, in"
"fact that their ground was romantically called The Hawthorns and that they were nicknamed the Throstles"". He was also a keen fan of the game of snooker, and gave an account of the origin of the game's name in ‘The Billiard Player’ magazine of 1939, describing how young lieutenant Neville Chamberlain (not the former British Prime Minister) was experimenting on the officers’ mess table with the existing game of ‘Black Pool’ featuring 15 red balls and a black. He presented the World Championship trophy to Joe Davis at the 1939 Championships. He converted to Roman Catholicism in 1914. He died"
"illustrated by George Woodbridge. The absurdist article detailed the convoluted rules of an imaginary sport, and made enough of an impression to be mentioned in both men's New York Times obituaries, including the first sentence of Koch's. In the article, new terminology is introduced with no explanation; much of the humor derives from the reader's half-successful attempts at gleaning a meaning from context. Exactly what everyone on the team is supposed to do, exactly what penalties apply, and exactly when or why the ""yellow caution flag"" is to be flown remains far from clear, even after repeated readings. Each team"
"Sunday sport or recreation because these distracted from religious observance of the Sabbath. Other forms of leisure and entertainment were completely forbidden on moral grounds. For example, Puritans were universally opposed to blood sports such as bearbaiting and cockfighting because they involved unnecessary injury to God's creatures. For similar reasons, they also opposed boxing. These sports were illegal in England during Puritan rule. Card playing and gambling were banned in England and the colonies (but card playing by itself was generally considered acceptable), as was mixed dancing involving men and women because it was thought to lead to fornication. Folk"
"arrested in St. Petersburg, Russia after jumping off of the Cathedral of the Apostles St. Peter and St. Paul in November 2011. Illegal sports An illegal sport is any sport that is illegal in one or more jurisdictions due to the violent or dangerous nature of the sport. Well-known illegal sports, such as cockfighting and dogfighting, are barred on the basis of animal abuse. Illegal sports are controversial due to the dangerous aspects attributed to them and the pain they can inflict on humans or animals. They also are controversial due to the perceived nature of some of them —"
"of his own; the third player is depicted as in the act of delivering his bowl. A 14th-century manuscript, Book of Prayers, in the Francis Douce collection in the Bodleian Library at Oxford contains a drawing in which two persons are shown, but they bowl to no mark. Strutt (Sports and Pastimes) suggests that the first player's bowl may have been regarded by the second player as a species of jack; but in that case it is not clear what was the first player's target. In these three earliest illustrations of the pastime it is worth noting that each player"
"are identical, except in 2-Man Squamish, the object is to lose. Although writer Koch intended the game to be completely unplayable, some colleges even attempted to form teams and play the game. The letters column to ""Mad"" #97 included several ""team photos"" and accounts from new acolytes of the sport. A student from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute issued a public challenge to Harvard, while athletes from the University of Alberta exulted that ""we happen to be the only undefeated Squamish team in Western Canada, mainly because we are the only team in Western Canada, and we haven't played a game. We"
"intense quarrel between the Puritans and the local gentry (many of whom were Catholic recusants) over the issue of Sunday sports. In response to the controversy raging in his diocese, Thomas Morton, Bishop of Chester, asked the king for a ruling on the propriety of Sunday sports. In response King James issued the ""Book of Sports"", a declaration declaring that it was lawful to play some sports on Sundays, but not others. Criticizing the opinions of ""puritans and precise people"", the Book listed archery, dancing, ""leaping, vaulting, or any other such harmless recreation"" as permissible sports for Sundays. It forbade"
"the United States shows that most sports evolved out of European practices. However, basketball, volleyball, skateboarding, and snowboarding are American inventions, some of which have become popular in other countries and worldwide. Lacrosse and surfing arose from Native American and Native Hawaiian activities that predate Western contact. In colonial Virginia and Maryland sports occupied a great deal of attention at every social level. In England, hunting was severely restricted to landowners. In America, game was more than plentiful. Everyone—including servants and slaves—could and did hunt, so there was no social distinction to be had. In 1691, Sir Francis Nicholson, the"
"of its history, certain attributes of the sport have garnered criticism. Early proponents of the sport would blind birds with hot needles in order to reduce visual distractions. Thomas Hardy—the celebrated English author and poet who was also an antivivisectionist and member of the RSPCA—is said to have written his poem ""The Blinded Bird"" as a protest against the practice. In 1920, a campaign by blind World War I veterans banned the practice, and today the birds are kept in small wooden boxes that let air in but keep distractions out. Modern animal rights activists, such as those from the"
"for you.'"" According to the story, Chase came back ""and was a world beater, and on pie, too."" Murphy was also called the ""probably the most picturesque figure in American athletics"" and was said to be a ""splendid story teller"" who delighted his athletes with stories over an open fire or on the training field, telling of his many adventures, including his travels through Canadian lumber camps searching for the next John L. Sullivan. He was reportedly also a lover of chess and literature, especially the works of Honoré de Balzac. Murphy's accomplishments are all the more remarkable as he"
"hunting, owns several crossbows and is much given to using the corridors of Unseen University as a shooting range. He also loves sport and was a Rowing Brown for the University in his youth (a pun on the Blue at Oxford and Cambridge Universities). Since wizards' favourite sports traditionally are things like Competitive Eating and Extreme Napping other wizards find him very tiring to be around. He is not stupid but finds it very difficult to deal with unexpected information, and generally ignores it until it goes away or becomes someone else's problem. He holds the view that if someone"
"""Is it Sport?"" topic of the week, in which the hosts debate if certain sporting activities are indeed sport. Controviersial but mainstream sports, such as cheerleading, bullfighting, and auto racing, have been debated on the show, in addition to mundane sports like chessboxing, toe wrestling, and competitive eating. Certain ""mainstream"" sports, like cheerleading and ping pong, have been declared non-sports by Billing and Matteson, while other controversial sports, like bullfighting, curling, and competitive eating have been declared sports. As of the program's early stages, only Bill Hart has appeared on the program as a guest host. Hart, who is also"
"Ultimate (sport) Ultimate, originally known as Ultimate frisbee, is a non-contact team sport played with a flying disc (frisbee). Ultimate was developed in 1968 by a group of students at Columbia High School in Maplewood, New Jersey. Although Ultimate resembles many traditional sports in its athletic requirements, it is unlike most sports due to its focus on self-officiating, even at the highest levels of competition. The term frisbee, often used to generically describe all flying discs, is a registered trademark of the Wham-O toy company, and thus the sport is not formally called ""Ultimate frisbee"", though this name is still"