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Sports are timeless activities; ones that humans have enjoyed. Sports that are At least two and a half thousand years old include hurling in Ireland, harpastum in Rome, cuju  in China, and polo in Persia. The Mesoamerican ballgame originated over three thousand years ago. To day Rugby, Hokey, Tennis etc available Sports in the world. Many of the sports played and celebrated today, such as football, even have their roots in various kicking and running ball games played throughout medieval Europe. Sports such as golf, boxing and wrestling were also played among the European aristocratic classes, especially those of Britain.
The development of modern sports is tied very much to the history of the industrial revolution and the creation of the first public schools, the latter of which sought to incorporate physical activity in the curriculum. The net result of this process was to cleanse and codify various games such as soccer or rugby and of course later on, basketball and football, both of which were very much shaped on college campuses in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s, at least in the United States
The history of sports broadcasting, namely television and radio, is a curious phenomenon in that each was, in part, the cause of the other’s success. Some of the first radio and television broadcasts were sports events. While broadcasting mediums helped popularize spectator sports, according to the Museum of Broadcast Communications, “with only 190,000 television sets in use in 1948, the attraction of sports to the networks in its early period was not advertising dollar but as a means of boosting demand for television as a medium.” In time, of course, the number of televisions and television stations grew at an exponential rate, so that in 1979 ESPN was launched, reaching over 4 million homes by 1980.

Woman's Sports History :

Woman's competition in sports has been frowned upon by many societies in the past. The English public-school background of organized women sport in the 19th and early 20th century, with, for example, no women officially competing in the 1896 Olympic Games. The 20th century saw major advances in the participation of women in sports, although woman's participation as fans, administrators, officials, coaches, journalists, and athletes remains in general less than man's. Mass involvement tends to favour sports such as Swimming and aerobics, and tends to stress the competitive aspects less than men. The increase has been partly related to the drive for more woman's rights. In the United States, female students participation in sports was significantly boosted by the Title 9 Act in 1972, preventing gender discrimination and equal opportunity for women to participate in sport at all levels. The Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) and the Leander Rowing Club in England had both been male-only establishments since their founding in 1787 and 1818, respectively, but both opened their doors to female members at the end of the 20th century at least partially due to the requirements of the United Kingdom Lottery Sports Fund.

Football :                                                                       Sports Pic

The world's favorite game is football. This is started more than 100 years ago. It began in 1863 in England, when rugby football and association football divided on their different courses and the Football Association in England was formed - becoming the sport's first governing body.
The fact remains that people have enjoyed kicking a ball about for thousands of years and there is absolutely no reason to consider it an aberration of the more 'natural' form of playing a ball with the hands. The very earliest form of the game for which there is scientific evidence was an exercise from a military manual dating back to the second and third centuries BC in China.
This Han Dynasty forebear of football was called Tsu' Chu and it consisted of kicking a leather ball filled with feathers and hair through an opening, measuring only 30-40cm in width, into a small net fixed onto long bamboo canes. According to one variation of this exercise, the player was not permitted to aim at his target unimpeded, but had to use his feet, chest, back and shoulders while trying to withstand the attacks of his opponents. Use of the hands was not permitted.
The Greek 'Episkyros' - of which few concrete details survive - was much livelier, as was the Roman 'Harpastum'. The latter was played out with a smaller ball by two teams on a rectangular field marked by boundary lines and a centre line. The objective was to get the ball over the opposition's boundary lines and as players passed it between themselves, trickery was the order of the day. The game remained popular for 700-800 years, but, although the Romans took it to Britain with them, the use of feet was so small as to scarcely be of consequence.
Cricket :
Any body no knows when or where Cricket began but there is a body of evidence, much of it circumstantial, that strongly suggests the game was devised during Saxon or Norman times by children living in the Waled, an area of dense woodlands and clearings in south-east England that lies across Kent and Sussex. In medieval times, the Waled was populated by small farming and metal-working communities. Its believed that cricket survived as a children's game for many centuries before it was increasingly taken up by adults around the beginning of the 17th century.
Possibly Cricket was derived from bowls, assuming bowls is the older sport, by the intervention of a batsman trying to stop the ball from reaching its target by hitting it away. Playing on sheep-grazed land or in clearings, the original implements may have been a matted lump of sheep’s wool as the ball; a stick or a crook or another farm tool as the bat; and a stool or a tree stump or a gate as the wicket.
Baseball :                                                                    Sports Pic

In 1866, Charles A. Peverelly wrote, "The game of Baseball has now become beyond question the leading feature of the outdoor sports of the United States ... It is a game which is peculiarly suited to the American temperament and disposition; ... in short, the pastime suits the people, and the people suit the pastime." Original Baseball history and baseball statistics not found anywhere on the Internet. But the Baseball Almanac has something for everyone — guaranteed.
Basketball :
Dr. James Naismith, is the inventor of Basketball . He was born in 1861 in Ramsay Township, near Almonte, Ontario, Canada. The basketball was born from Naismith's school days in the area where he played a simple child's game known as duck-on-a-rock outside his one-room of school. The game involved attempting to knock a "duck" off the top of a large rock by tossing another rock at it.
Naismith went to McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada for his higher study. After serving as McGill's Athletic Director, James Naismith moved on to the YMCA Training School in Springfield, Massachusetts, USA in 1891, where the sport of basketball was born. In Springfield, Naismith was faced with the problem. He needed a game that could be played indoors in a relatively small space. The first game was played with a soccer ball and two peach baskets used as goals. Naismith joined the University of Kansas faculty in 1898, teaching physical education and being a chaplain.
In addition to the creation of the Basketball, James Naismith graduated as a medical doctor, primarily interested in sports physiology and what we would today call sports science and as Presbyterian minister, with a keen interest in philosophy and clean living. Naismith watched his sport, basketball, introduced in many nations by the YMCA as early as 1893. Basketball was introduced at the Berlin Olympics in 1936. Naismith was flown to Berlin to watch the games. He died in Lawrence, Kansas, in 1939.
Today basketball has grown to become one of the world's most popular sports.
Boxing
The first documented "Boxing match" took place in 1681 in Britain when the Duke of Albemarle engineered a bout between his butler and his butcher.
In the coming years, bare-knuckle boxing contests would be held in amphitheaters all over England. Jack Boughton, also known as "the Father of Boxing," developed the first set of rules for the sport and published them in 1743 as a result from a bout where he killed his opponent in 1741.
The most revolutionary change in the sport came in 1865 when John Sholto Douglass, the Eighth Marquess of Queensbury, drew up new rules of boxing which basically transformed the sports into what it is today. He is regarded as the "Patron Saint" of boxing and some of the most significant changes were three-minute roundsand the regulated use of approved boxing gloves.
At this point the popularity of Boxing continued. It was included in the St. Louis Olympic Games in 1904 for the first time. From here on, talented fighters from all over the world would meet and fight for sanctioned titles all throughout the 20th Century and into the 21st.
In 1927 the National Boxing Association (NBA) became the first "sanctioning body" to govern over the sport. These sanctioning bodies ranked fighters and arranged matches between champions and the most deserving challengers, all for a healthy sanctioning fee of course. Today, three "recognized" sanctioning bodies control the world of boxing. The WBC, IBF and WBA are the only bodies whos titlists are recognized worldwide as "champions."
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