"Sumo Fighter: Tōkaidō Basho The main character named Bontaro Heiseiyama goes to Kyoto to save Kayo. ""Tōkaidō"" is an eastern sea road, connecting Edo (modern-day Tokyo) to Kyoto, in Japan. The player can get experience and grow a sumo wrestler. Heiseiyama can perform four special techniques: ""harite"", ""shiko"", ""buchikamashi"" and ""nage"". ""Harite"" is slapping the opponent's face with an open hand, ""Shiko"" creates quake and all the enemies will be damaged, ""Buchikamashi"" is charge and it is more powerful than ""Harite"", however it isn't effective against all bosses. ""Nage"" is throwing. If the enemy is stopped by his ""Harite"", he"
"Honbasho A is an official professional sumo tournament. There are six held each year, a system established in 1958. Only ""honbasho"" results matter in determining promotion and relegation for ""rikishi"" (sumo wrestlers). Tournaments in general may be called ""basho"". A literal translation of ""honbasho"" is ""main (or real) tournament"". This term is used to distinguish these tournaments from display ""basho"" which are held as part of sumo tours, between the six major tournaments. Such display tournaments may have prize money attached but a wrestler's performance has no effect on his ranking. This type of sumo is often called ""hana-sumo"" (lit."
"Chaza The Chaza, pelota nacional, or national ball, is a Colombian racquet sport, (like tennis), which is practiced on a rectangular area bounded by lines. This area is divided by a line drawn on the floor that divides the playing field. It is played between two teams, each with 4 players. The object of the game is to launch a ball (called ""bombo"") by hand or racquet so that it bounces into the opponent's field without being returned. It is an old sport, created before the fifteenth century, by Precolombian people. The sport is widely practiced in Nariño, Colombia, and"
"Bando (sport) Bando is a team sport – related to hockey, hurling, shinty, and bandy – which was first recorded in Wales in the eighteenth century. The game is played on a large level field between teams of up to thirty players each of them equipped with a ""bando"": a curve-ended stick resembling that used in field hockey. Although no formal rules are known, the objective of the game was to strike a ball between two marks which served as goals at either end of the pitch. Popular in Glamorgan in the nineteenth century, the sport all but vanished by"
"program. These sports are not considered Pan American Games sports, but they can be promoted to this status during a program revision that occurs in the first PASO session following a celebration of the Games. During such revisions, sports can be excluded or included in the program on the basis of a two-thirds majority vote of the members of PASO. Some recognized sports, such as chess, have never been included in a Pan American Games program. some sports and events have been played only once in the event's history like the Sambo, a martial art which was only competed in"
"four appearances at the tournament for the Kano team, who later qualified in 1933, 1935 and 1936. Japanese High School Baseball Championship The of Japan, commonly known as , is an annual nationwide high school baseball tournament. It is the largest scale amateur sport event in Japan, even as soccer continues to gain more attention. The tournament, organized by the Japan High School Baseball Federation and ""Asahi Shimbun"", takes place during the summer school vacation period, culminating in a two-week final tournament stage with 49 teams in August at in the Koshien district of Nishinomiya City, Hyōgo, Japan. The 49"
"Balonpesado The balonpesado is a team sport, devised for both open field as closed, in which two sets of five players each try to score goals within circles drawn on the ground of each end of the field. It remains as the only team sport which is indigenous to Colombia. The balonpesado, initially called """"Balón Mano Pesado"" (""Heavy Handball in English""),"" was created on March 27, 1973 in Colombia, at the seaport of Buenaventura by Roberto Lozano Batalla, a physical education teacher who worked at the time at the Industrial & Technical Institute Gerardo Valencia Cano. In 1974 the balonpesado"
"Japanese High School Baseball Championship The of Japan, commonly known as , is an annual nationwide high school baseball tournament. It is the largest scale amateur sport event in Japan, even as soccer continues to gain more attention. The tournament, organized by the Japan High School Baseball Federation and ""Asahi Shimbun"", takes place during the summer school vacation period, culminating in a two-week final tournament stage with 49 teams in August at in the Koshien district of Nishinomiya City, Hyōgo, Japan. The 49 schools taking part in the final tourney represent regional champions of each of the prefectures of Japan"
"Squash (sport) Squash is a ball sport played by two (singles) or four players (doubles squash) in a four-walled court with a small, hollow rubber ball. The players must alternate in striking the ball with their racquet and hit the ball onto the playable surfaces of the four walls of the court. The game was formerly called squash rackets, a reference to the ""squashable"" soft ball used in the game (compared with the harder ball used in its sister game rackets). The governing body of Squash, the World Squash Federation (WSF) is recognised by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), but"
"baseball clubhouses. is a Japanese word meaning a cheating activity which is committed at places where a match, fight, game, competition, or other contest, is held, where the winner and loser are decided in advance by agreement of the competitors or related people. It is believed that the word ""Yaocho"" came from the name (""Chobei"") of the owner of a vegetable stand (""yaoya"") during the Meiji period. Created from the first syllable of ""Yaoya"" and ""chobei"", the word ""yaocho"" was created for a nickname of Chobei. Chobei had a friend called ""Isenoumi Godayu"" (7th Isenoumi stablemaster) with whom he played"
"Horseball Horseball is a game played on horseback where a ball is handled and points are scored by shooting it through a hoop with a diameter of 1m. The sport is like a combination of polo, rugby, and basketball. It is one of the ten disciplines officially recognized by the International Federation for Equestrian Sports. The sport's predecessor, pato, originated in Argentina in the early 1700s. It was outlawed in 1790 due to high mortality among players. In 1941 the Federacion Argentina de Pato was created. In 1953 was declared as Argentina's national game. The name of the game ""pato"""
"as rural or marine activities connected to everyday life and have become rare but many have managed to transform themselves into popular sports instead, some of which have become extremely popular. Winners receive a Basque beret (""boina"" or ""txapela"") as a trophy, hence the Basque word for ""champion"" - ""txapeldun"", literally ""one who has a beret"". Betting, both by the competitors and the audience, is very common and popular at such sporting events in the north of Spain. In 2006 the Basque Government identified 18 particular rural sports, called ""H18K"", in its Strategic Plan for promotion. These 18 categories are"
"Boccia Boccia ( ) is a precision ball sport, similar to bocce, and related to bowls and pétanque. The name ""boccia"" is derived from the Latin word for ""boss"" – """". The sport is contested at local, national and international levels, by athletes with severe physical disabilities. It was originally designed to be played by people with cerebral palsy but now includes athletes with other severe disabilities affecting motor skills. In 1984, it became a Paralympic sport, and in 2008 was being practised in over fifty countries worldwide. Boccia is governed by the Boccia International Sports Federation (BISFed) and is"
"British Open Squash Championships The British Open Squash Championships is the oldest and most established tournament in the game of squash. It is widely considered to be one of the two most prestigious tournaments in the game, alongside the World Open (prior to the establishment of the World Open in the 1970s, the British Open was generally considered to be the ""de facto"" world championship of the sport.) The British Open Squash Championships are now often referred to as being the """"Wimbledon of Squash"""". While there had been a professional men's championship for some years, the 'open' men's championship (for"
"the federations, there are professional competitions such as the League of Companies of Basque Pilota. The International Jai-Alai Players Association is a union defending the players of Jai Alai. The International Federation of Basque Pelota has organized the Basque Pelota World Championships since 1952. The current medal table from 1952 to 2014 is as follows: Other modalities Basque pelota Basque pelota ("""" in the original Basque language also """" in Spanish, """" in French) is the name for a variety of court sports played with a ball using one's hand, a racket, a wooden bat or a basket, against a"
"have wrestlers of similar rank competing against each other, while the second half will be determined by win-loss records. A ""bye"" is only possible if a wrestler has withdrawn due to injury from a scheduled bout; the result is that his opponent wins by forfeit. If a withdrawal results in an odd number of wrestlers in one division, the schedule is filled in by pairing a lower-ranked wrestler against a higher-ranked wrestler from the next-lower division. The six ""honbasho"" are: The March tournament in 2011 was cancelled due to the Sumo Association launching an investigation into allegations of match-fixing involving"
"a basketball, expressing a sense of strength and speed. Basketball has long been a popular sport among young people in the Matsue area with the organisation of Mini Basketball (a basketball competition played by elementary school children) becoming popular in Matsue. Historically, Matsue area has had success in athletic meets, Matsue Technical High School winning at interscholastic athletic meets in 1960 and 1968. Both Japan men's and women's basketball have had strong performing players from Matsue region, the region being known as the ""Kingdom of Basketball"" After an unsuccessful attempt for application to join the bj league in 2007, in"
"Banzuke ""This article is about the banzuke document, for a list of wrestlers as ranked on an actual banzuke see List of active sumo wrestlers"" A , officially called is a document listing the rankings of professional sumo wrestlers published before each official tournament or ""honbasho"". The term can also refer to the rankings themselves. The document is normally released about two weeks before the tournament begins. On the ""banzuke"" wrestlers are divided into East, which is printed on the right, and West, which is printed on the left. Each wrestler's full ""shikona"" (ring name), hometown and rank is also"
"in France"" Vol. II, Tinsley Brothers, London, ; online at Project Gutenberg Basset (card game) Basset (French ""bassette"", from the Italian ""bassetta""), also known as barbacole and hocca, is a gambling card game that was considered one of the most polite. It was intended for persons of the highest rank because of the great losses or gains that might be accrued by players. According to DELI (""Dizionario etimologico della lingua italiana""), the word ""Basetta"" is first recorded in the first half of the 15th century. The game Basset is described by a few authors as having been invented in 1593"
"is a team sport – related to hockey, hurling, shinty, and bandy – which was first recorded in Wales in the eighteenth century. The game is played on a large level field between teams of up to thirty players each of them equipped with a ""bando"": a curve-ended stick resembling that used in field hockey. Although no formal rules are known, the objective of the game was to strike a ball between two marks which served as goals at either end of the pitch. Popular in Glamorgan in the nineteenth century, the sport all but vanished by the end of"
"Japanese High School Baseball Invitational Tournament The National High School Baseball Invitational Tournament (選抜高等学校野球大会 ""senbatsu kōtō gakkō yakyū taikai"") of Japan, commonly known as ""Spring Kōshien"" (春の甲子園 ""haru no kōshien"") or ""Senbatsu"" (センバツ), is an annual high school baseball tournament. The tournament, organized by the Japan High School Baseball Federation and Mainichi Shimbun, takes place each year in March at Hanshin Koshien Stadium in the Koshien district of Nishinomiya City, Hyōgo, Japan. Teams qualify for the tournament by participating in the regional fall tournaments held throughout the country. While finishing in the top teams generally guarantees an invitation, it is"
"Bovine sports Bovine sports are sports that involve cattle, commonly a bull, ox, steer, cow or calf. American rodeo is a sporting event that consists of different events that involve cattle and horses, designed to test the skill and speed of the cowboy or cowgirl such as bull riding and team roping. In Southeast Asia, water buffalo racing or fighting is a feature during various festivals in Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Cambodia and Assam. The ""idi probak"" (Basque for ""oxen tests"") is the most popular form of the Basque dragging games. It involves oxen, usually a pair, dragging a rock from"
"Besho grew up in a in Kobe, Hyōgo, Japan and went by the name Akira Bessho. Bessho started his athletic career by playing ""nanshiki"" (rubber baseball) while he was in the fifth grade in elementary school. By the time he started his high school career at Takikawa Junior High School, Bessho had transitioned from nanshiki to baseball. In 1940 and 1941, Bessho appeared in the Koshien tournament. During the 1941 spring edition, he pitched all fourteen innings of a game despite his broken arm; unfortunately, he also lost the decision. After his graduation, Bessho took the entrance exam for Keio"
"balls — that are seen as explicit enough to discourage most youth attendance. Over the years, the tournament gained a reputation for its hedonistic and sexual overtones. To help emphasize the sport rather than the spectacle, OMBAC has made strides to cut back on these and some of the tournament's other, more offensive, elements. The tournament is much more than ""beer, babes, and bats on the beach."" The annual World Championships now gathers more than 1200 teams from all over the world. They compete in many different divisions. The divisions are separated by age and gender. Players from 18 to"
"Basset (card game) Basset (French ""bassette"", from the Italian ""bassetta""), also known as barbacole and hocca, is a gambling card game that was considered one of the most polite. It was intended for persons of the highest rank because of the great losses or gains that might be accrued by players. According to DELI (""Dizionario etimologico della lingua italiana""), the word ""Basetta"" is first recorded in the first half of the 15th century. The game Basset is described by a few authors as having been invented in 1593 by a noble Venetian named Pietro Cellini, who was punished with exile"
"Omweso Omweso (sometimes shortened to Mweso) is the traditional mancala game of the Ugandan people. The game was supposedly introduced by the Bachwezi people of the ancient Bunyoro-kitara empire of Uganda. Nowadays the game is dominated by Ugandan villagers. It is a very hard and fast game said to keep one's mind high and ever excited, which can make it addictive. The equipment needed for the game is essentially the same as that of the Bao game (found in Tanzania and neighbouring countries). Omweso is strictly related to a wide family of mancalas found in eastern and southern Africa; these"
"Sambo, with the three styles being collectively known as the ""developing styles"" at the time. World Beach Wrestling Championships World Beach Wrestling Championships is the annual world championship organized by United World Wrestling for the sport of beach wrestling. The first World Championships took place in 2006, alongside the resurrected FILA Sambo World Championships, in Antalya, Turkey. Only the Senior division was featured until 2010, and each age division has separate men and women divisions. There were initially only two weight classes for each of the gender divisions within the Senior division, lightweight and heavyweight. The number of weight classes"
"institution focused on higher education and research in the areas of gastronomy and nutrition. Basque food is one of the reasons for tourism to the Basque Country, especially the ""pintxos"". A popular way to socialise is """"ir de pintxos"""" or ""txikiteo"", a Basque version of a pub crawl, albeit generally more civilised. Basque rural sports, known as ""Herri Kirolak"" in Basque, are a number of sports competitions rooted in the traditional lifestyles of the Basque people, for example Basque pelota, the Basque version of the European game family that includes real tennis and squash. Basque players, playing for either the"
"Sanshō (sumo) Sanshō are the three special prizes awarded to top (""Makuuchi"") division sumo wrestlers for exceptional performance during a sumo ""honbasho"" or tournament. The prizes were first awarded in November 1947. All wrestlers in the top division below the rank of ""ōzeki"" are eligible. In order to be considered for a special prize a rikishi must make a ""kachi-koshi"" or majority of wins during the tournament. Among eligible rikishi, the prize winners are decided by a panel which includes press writers covering the tournament. There is no requirement that the prizes must be awarded, and it sometimes happens that"
"sport is played essentially in France by 2 teams of 3 players on an outside court referred to as ""place libre"" meaning free space in French or ""Cancha"" meaning court in Spanish. The court is 16 m wide and 100 m long with the limit for play being at 80 m from the wall or Fronton and has no side walls. The sport is played with the same glove as the zesta punta. A variant of the above. The basket-glove is shorter and less deep and it is allowed to retain the ball only momentarily. The Basque name ""joko garbi"""
"Basque pelota Basque pelota ("""" in the original Basque language also """" in Spanish, """" in French) is the name for a variety of court sports played with a ball using one's hand, a racket, a wooden bat or a basket, against a wall (""frontis or Fronton"") or, more traditionally, with two teams face to face separated by a line on the ground or a net. The roots of this class of games can be traced to the Greek and other ancient cultures. The term """" probably comes from the Vulgar Latin term ""pilotta"" (ball game). It is a diminutive"
"several ""sekitori"" ranked wrestlers. This was the first cancellation of a ""honbasho"" since 1946, when the summer tournament was not held because of renovations to the Ryōgoku Kokugikan following damage sustained in World War II. The May 2011 tournament went ahead, but was described by the Japan Sumo Association as a ""technical examination"" tournament rather than a fully fledged ""honbasho"", with tickets given away for free in a lottery, and no prize money or trophies awarded. Honbasho A is an official professional sumo tournament. There are six held each year, a system established in 1958. Only ""honbasho"" results matter in"
"national cricket team in the final. Kabaddi – very popular in Bangladesh – is the national game. Other popular sports include field hockey, tennis, badminton, handball, football, chess, shooting, angling. The National Sports Council regulates 42 different sporting federations. On 4 November 2018, Bangladesh national under-15 football team won the 2018 SAFF U-15 Championship, defeating Pakistan national under-15 football team in the final. Bangladesh has five grandmasters in chess. Among them, Niaz Murshed was the first grandmaster in South Asia. In another achievement, Margarita Mamun, a Russian rhythmic gymnast of Bangladeshi origin, won gold medal in 2016 Summer Olympics and"