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Sports Insights Sports Betting Software Shows Public Betting Trends
Thursday, September 22nd, 2011
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Sportsbook
Thursday, July 7th, 2011
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The Football Association
Friday, April 15th, 2011
The first football international, Scotland versus England. Once kept by the Rugby Football Union as an early example of rugby football. During the early 1860s, there were increasing attempts in England to unify and reconcile the various public school games. In 1862, J. C. Thring, who had been one of the driving forces behind the [...]
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Australian rules football
Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010
Catching (called marking in the game) an oval shaped football in the air is another important skill Tom Wills began to develop Australian football in Melbourne during 1858. Wills had been educated in England, at Rugby School and had played cricket for Cambridge University. The extent to which Wills was directly influenced by British and [...]
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The Cambridge Rules in football
Wednesday, April 21st, 2010
In 1848 at Cambridge University, Mr. H. de Winton and Mr. J.C. Thring, who were both formerly at Shrewsbury School, called a meeting at Trinity College, Cambridge with 12 other representatives from Eton, Harrow, Rugby, Winchester and Shrewsbury. An eight-hour meeting produced what amounted to the first set of modern rules, known as the Cambridge [...]
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Laws of the Soccer
Tuesday, January 12th, 2010
There are seventeen Laws in the official Laws of the Game. The same Laws are designed to apply to all levels of football, although certain modifications for groups such as juniors, seniors or women are permitted. The Laws are often framed in broad terms, which allow flexibility in their application depending on the nature of [...]
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Establishment of modern codes of football – English public schools
Wednesday, January 6th, 2010
Statue at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, Australia commemorating the earliest known football match between Scotch College and Melbourne Grammar. Tom Wills umpires as two schoolboy players contesting the ball. The earliest evidence that games resembling football were being played at English public schools — mainly attended by boys from the upper, upper-middle and professional classes [...]
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Rugby history
Thursday, August 27th, 2009
Rugby School The legendary story/myth about the origin of Rugby football—whereby a young man named William Webb Ellis “took the ball in his arms [i.e. caught it] and ran,” showing “a fine disregard,” while playing Rugby School’s already distinctive version of football (not to be confused with association football, which was codified much later) in [...]
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History and development of soccer
Wednesday, August 19th, 2009
Map showing the popularity of association football around the world. Countries where association football is the most popular sport are coloured green, while countries where it is not are coloured red. The various shades of green and red indicate the number of players per 1,000 inhabitants. Games revolving around the kicking of a ball have [...]
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Official disapproval and attempts to ban football
Monday, August 17th, 2009
Numerous attempts have been made to ban football games, particularly the most rowdy and disruptive forms. This was especially the case in England and in other parts of Europe, during the Middle Ages and early modern period. Between 1324 and 1667, football was banned in England alone by more than 30 royal and local laws. [...]
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Nature of the football game
Saturday, April 4th, 2009
A goalkeeper dives to stop the ball from entering his goal. Football is played in accordance with a set of rules, known as the Laws of the Game. The game is played using a single round ball (the football), and two teams of eleven players each compete to get the ball into the other team’s [...]
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Mediæval football – Calcio Fiorentino
Friday, April 3rd, 2009
An illustration of so-called “mob football”. The Middle Ages saw a huge rise in popularity of annual Shrovetide football matches throughout Europe, particularly in England. The game played in England at this time may have arrived with the Roman occupation, but there is little evidence to indicate this. Reports of a game played in Brittany, [...]
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Rugby
Wednesday, March 18th, 2009
Rugby football refers to sports descended from a common form of football developed at Rugby School in England. The two major sports are rugby league and rugby union. American football and Canadian football also originated from Rugby football. Rugby league and rugby union Rugby league is played both as a professional and amateur sport in [...]
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American football
Tuesday, March 17th, 2009
American football, known in the United States and Canada [1] simply as football, is a competitive team sport. The object of the game is to advance the football towards the opposing team’s end zone and score points. The ball can be advanced by carrying the ball, or by throwing or handing it from one teammate [...]
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Soccer
Monday, March 16th, 2009
The striker (wearing the red shirt) is past the defence (in the white shirts) and is about to take a shot at the goal. The goalkeeper will attempt to stop the ball from entering the goal. Association football, soccer, or simply football, is a team sport played between two teams each consisting of 11 players and [...]
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Ancient football games
Sunday, March 15th, 2009
A revived version of Kemari being played at the Tanzan Shrine. Documented evidence of what is possibly the oldest organized activity resembling football can be found in a Chinese military manual written during the Han Dynasty in about 2nd century BC. It describes a practice known as cuju (Traditional Chinese: 蹴鞠; Simplified Chinese: 蹴踘; Pinyin: [...]
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Spread betting
Saturday, February 21st, 2009
Spread betting is a form of gambling on the outcome of any event where the more accurate the gamble, the more is won and conversely the less accurate the more is lost. A bet is made against a ‘spread’ (or index), on whether the outcome will be above or below the spread. The amount won [...]