"flower-sumo) as it is not taken as seriously by the wrestlers. ""Honbasho"" last for 15 days. Sumo wrestlers ranked in the top two divisions (""makuuchi"" and ""jūryō"") wrestle once each day, while those of the lower divisions wrestle seven times, approximately once every alternate day. The first aim for most wrestlers is to achieve ""kachi-koshi"", or a majority of wins, and thus ensure a promotion for the next tournament. In addition for each division there is a championship prize (""yūshō"") for the wrestler with the most wins at the end. A playoff on the final day is used to decide"
"event. In it, a team of four competitors work together, with three carrying the fourth, who wears a bandana (hachimaki) or hat. The team is defeated if they are knocked over or, more commonly, if their bandana/hat is removed by an opponent. Competitors are often divided into opposing red and white factions. In recent years some schools have removed physically demanding events such as the ""kibasen"" from sports day programs due to the risk of serious injury; in a 2003 incident a high school student in Fukuoka Prefecture was left quadriplegic after falling from his teammates' shoulders. In Brazil this"
"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"
"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"""
"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"
"Mas-wrestling Mas-wrestling () is the international name used for the Yakut ethnosport derived from the traditional stick pulling game ""mas tard'yhyy"" (мас тардыhыы, 'stick tugging'). Reminiscent of the Eskimo Stick Pull featured at the World Eskimo Indian Olympics, Norwegian ""kjevletrekk"", Finnish ""kartunveto"" or ""väkikapulan veto"", as well as the Highland test of strength The Swingle Tree (played with a shepherd's crook), participants taking part in mas-wrestling competitions sit in front of each other, prop their feet against the board that divides the competition area and tug on a wooden stick (""mas""), making sure to keep it parallel to the propping"
"Yūshō ""This article is about the sports award. For the 1968 mass poisoning in Japan by PCBs, see Yushō disease"" It is awarded in each of the six annual ""honbasho"" or official tournaments, to the wrestler who wins the most number of bouts. ""Yūshō"" are awarded in all six professional sumo divisions. The prize money for a top ""makuuchi"" division championship is currently 10 million yen, while for the lowest ""jonokuchi"" division the prize is 100,000 yen. A runner-up is referred to as a ""jun-yūshō."" Perhaps surprisingly, considering that most of the interest in tournaments today revolves around who will"
"Hori Habba Hori Habba, also known as Hatti Habba, Kobbari Hori Competition is a rural sport in which hundreds of trained and decorated draught cattle and bulls are made to run through huge crowds Catchers try to subdue the cattle and snatch away prizes such as copra, cash, gift items tied to them. The sports is practiced mainly in Shivamogga, Haveri and Uttara Kannada districts of the Indian state of Karnataka during theDeepavali festival. Jallikattu is a similar sport practiced in the Indian State of Tamil Nadu. Decorated cattle are repeatedly made to run one by one on the predefined"
"performing outdoor matches accompanied by ceremony and drumming, throughout the traditional Hausa homelands of northern Nigeria, southern Niger and southwestern Chad. The name ""Dambe"" derives from the Hausa word for ""boxe"", and appears in languages like Bole as Dembe. Boxers are called by the Hausa word ""daæmaænga"". Although there are no formal weight classes, usually competitors in Dambe matches are fairly matched in size. Matches last three rounds. There is no time limit to these rounds. Instead they end when: 1) there is no activity, 2) one of the participants or an official calls a halt, or 3) a participant's"
"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"
"Joe Hipp, Notah Begay III, Jacoby Ellsbury, and Billy Mills are well known professional athletes. Native American ball sports, sometimes referred to as lacrosse, stickball, or baggataway, was often used to settle disputes, rather than going to war, as a civil way to settle potential conflict. The Choctaw called it ""isitoboli"" (""Little Brother of War""); the Onondaga name was ""dehuntshigwa'es"" (""men hit a rounded object""). There are three basic versions, classified as Great Lakes, Iroquoian, and Southern. The game is played with one or two rackets/sticks and one ball. The object of the game is to land the ball on"
"ten (won six, lost four). Chiyonofuji has the highest percentage of victories, with a perfect 6-0 playoff record. Yūshō ""This article is about the sports award. For the 1968 mass poisoning in Japan by PCBs, see Yushō disease"" It is awarded in each of the six annual ""honbasho"" or official tournaments, to the wrestler who wins the most number of bouts. ""Yūshō"" are awarded in all six professional sumo divisions. The prize money for a top ""makuuchi"" division championship is currently 10 million yen, while for the lowest ""jonokuchi"" division the prize is 100,000 yen. A runner-up is referred to"
"Honinbo (competition) The Honinbo (本因坊) is a Go competition and the oldest Go title in Japan. Sponsored by ""Mainichi Shimbun"", the Honinbo pays out ¥32 million ($415,000 as of October 2011). The holder of the title is challenged by whoever wins the round robin league. Players can get into the round robin league by going through many preliminary tournaments. Once there is a challenger to compete against the holder, the winner is decided through a best of seven match. The games are played over two days and each player is given eight hours of thinking time. If a player qualifies"
"counted on the elimination of Raiders/Defenders. If Raiders are tired they declare for change and a time limit is decided on. The principles of Oolaobi are very similar to Kabaddi in India. The ground (court) is not marked; normally the open space in the premises of the house or temple is used for the game. Oolaobi, sometimes spelled Woolaobi, is very popular with girls and a source of talent in Kabaddi. Hiyang tannaba (Hi Yangba Tanaba) is a traditional boat rowing race[1] and festivity of the Panas. This is held during the month of November. This was introduced during the"
"high hoop. Netball was formerly called ""women's basketball"" but now includes men's teams as well. Slamball is full-contact basketball, with trampolines. Points are scored by playing the ball through the net, as in basketball, though the point-scoring rules are modified. The main differences from the parent sport is the court; below the padded basketball rim and backboard are four trampolines set into the floor which serve to propel players to great heights for slam dunks. The rules also permit some physical contact between the members of the four-player teams. The game H.O.R.S.‌‌E (pronounced ""horse"") is played by two or more"
"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"
"Combat sport A combat sport, or fighting sport, is a competitive contact sport that usually involves one-on-one combat. In many combat sports, a contestant wins by scoring more points than the opponent or by disabling the opponent. Common combat sports include mixed martial arts, boxing, wrestling, fencing, savate, kickboxing, Muay Thai, Sanda, Tae Kwon Do, Capoeira, Brazilian Jiu-jitsu, HMB, Sambo, Kyokushin, and Kūdō. Tradition styles of wrestling exist in most cultures; wrestling can be considered a cultural universal. Boxing contests date back to ancient Sumer in the 3rd millennium BCE and ancient Egypt ""circa"" 1350 BCE. The ancient Olympic Games"
"Hon'inbō Honinbō (本因坊, ""Hon'inbō"") was the name of one of the four major schools of Go in Japan. Easily the strongest school of Go for most of its existence, it was established in 1612 and survived until 1940. Upon the closure of the school, the title ""Hon'inbō"" came to be used for the winner of the Honinbo Tournament, which is now an annual professional go event in Japan. It is run under the titleholder system, meaning that at any given time there is a player who can use the title Hon'inbō. It is customary for Japanese players to take a"
"Horseshoes Horseshoes is a lawn game played between two people (or two teams of two people) using four horseshoes and two throwing targets (stakes) set in a lawn or sandbox area. The game is played by the players alternating turns tossing horseshoes at stakes in the ground, which are traditionally placed apart. Modern games use a more stylized U-shaped bar, about twice the size of an actual horseshoe. The National Horseshoe Pitchers Association(NHPA), the sport of Horseshoes governing body maintain an up-to-date set of rules and their specifications of the game on their website. Widely accepted as being the official"
"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"
"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"
"into the 20th century, but struggled without government backing. In 1936, the last Hon'inbō master, the controversial Hon'inbō Shūsai, turned selection of the Hon'inbō title over to the Nihon Ki-in. (See Honinbō Tournament.) He has been featured in the Japanese manga Hikaru no Go. Hon'inbō Sansa Hon'inbō Sansa (本因坊 算砂, 1559 – June 13, 1623) was the assumed name of Kanō Yosaburō (加納 與三郎), one of the strongest Japanese Go players of the Edo period (1603–1867), and founder of the house of Hon'inbō, first among the four great schools of Go in Japan. He was a Buddhist priest of the"
"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"
"Dambe Dambe is a form of boxing associated with the Hausa people of West Africa. Historically, Dambe included a wrestling component, known as Kokawa, but today it is essentially a striking art. The tradition is dominated by Hausa butcher caste groups, and over the last century evolved from clans of butchers traveling to farm villages at harvest time, integrating a fighting challenge by the outsiders into local harvest festival entertainment. It was also traditionally practiced as a way for men to get ready for war, and many of the techniques and terminology allude to warfare. Today, companies of boxers travel"
"including mas-wrestling as an event, stick pulling, at the strongman competition in December 2011. The first United States Open tournament was held in June 2013. Mas-wrestling Mas-wrestling () is the international name used for the Yakut ethnosport derived from the traditional stick pulling game ""mas tard'yhyy"" (мас тардыhыы, 'stick tugging'). Reminiscent of the Eskimo Stick Pull featured at the World Eskimo Indian Olympics, Norwegian ""kjevletrekk"", Finnish ""kartunveto"" or ""väkikapulan veto"", as well as the Highland test of strength The Swingle Tree (played with a shepherd's crook), participants taking part in mas-wrestling competitions sit in front of each other, prop their"
"Bench-clearing brawl A bench-clearing brawl, sometimes known as a basebrawl or a rhubarb, is a form of ritualistic fighting that occurs in sports, most notably baseball and ice hockey, in which every player on both teams leave their dugouts, bullpens or benches, and charge the playing area in order to fight one another or try to break up a fight. In baseball, brawls are usually the result of escalating infractions, often stemming from a player being hit by a pitch, or an altercation between a baserunner and infielder stemming from excessive contact in an attempted tag out (such as a"
"Shootfighting Shootfighting is a martial art and combat sport, with competitions governed by the International Shootfighting Association (ISFA). Shootfighting incorporates techniques from a multitude of traditional martial arts, the most principal of these being wrestling and kenpo. Shootfighting was previously used synonymously with mixed martial arts competitions in Japan, as opposed to shoot-style professional wrestling competitions. This usage of the term is retired from common usage because it became a registered trademark of Bart Vale, who uses it to describe his hybrid fighting system derived from shoot wrestling. However, it is still sometimes used colloquially. Examples which were once considered"
"king, over the Hindu festival of Shree Govindajee. It is like the game of rugby, or American football. Oolaobi (Woo-Laobi) is an outdoor game mainly played by females. Meitei mythology believes that UmangLai Heloi-Taret (seven deities–seven fairies) played this game on the Courtyard of the temple of Umang Lai Lairembi. The number of participants is not fixed but are divided into two groups (size as per agreement). Players are divided as into Raiders (Attackers) or Defenders (Avoiders). Hiyang tannaba, also called ""Hi Yangba Tanaba"", is a traditional boat rowing race and festivity of the Panas. Captain Robert Stewart and Lieutenant"
"mob of players swarming the ball and slowly moving across the field. Passing the ball was thought of as a trick, and it was seen as cowardly to dodge an opponent. years later lacrosse is still a popular sport played all over the world. Modern day lacrosse descends from and resembles games played by various Native American communities. These include games called ""dehuntshigwa'es"" in Onondaga (""men hit a rounded object""), ""da-nah-wah'uwsdi"" in Eastern Cherokee (""little war""), ""begadwe "" in Mohawk language (""little brother of war""), ""baaga`adowe"" in Ojibwe (""bump hips"") and ""kabucha"" in Choctaw. Lacrosse is one of the oldest"
"Pugasaing Pugasaing (or the game of bowl and counters) is a Native American dice game played by the Ojibwe. It is mentioned by name in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem, ""The Song of Hiawatha"". The word ""pugasaing"" is the participal form of the verb ""to throw"" in the Ojibwe language. ""Pugasaing"" is played using thirteen counters of bone carved into various shapes (men, snakes, war clubs, fish and ducks), along with four circular brass counters. These are thrown from a bowl, and a score is derived from the way in which they fall, depending on which sides land uppermost. The best"
"Ōzeki are not awarded special prizes 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"
"has a special kind of foot-work, which is called ""unsoku"", as well as non-stepping (acrobatic) locomotion, called ""unshin"". Competitions in Taidō include ""Jissen"" (sparring), ""Hokei"" (which is similar to kata), and ""Tenkai"", which is a made-up fight, where one ""hero"" defeats five opponents during the last part of a 30-second bout. In Tenkai the judges give points to the competing teams in a similar manner as is done in for instance figure skating. Taido is a semi contact sport. A taido match is won the competitor, who is either the first to score a full point (ippon), or has more"
"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"