Sports Betting

Golf rules and other regulations

Thursday, February 18th, 2010

Strandhill Golf Club in Ireland is an example of a coastal links course.
The rules of golf [1] [2] are internationally standardised and are jointly governed by the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews (R&A), which was founded 1754 and the United States Golf Association (USGA). By agreement with [...]

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 [...]

Marquess of Queensberry rules in boxing

Monday, August 17th, 2009

Headgear is mandatory in Olympic boxing
In 1867, the Marquess of Queensberry rules were drafted by John Chambers for Olympic championships held at Lillie Bridge in London for Lightweights, Middleweights and Heavyweights. The rules were published under the patronage of the Marquess of Queensberry, whose name has always been associated with them.
There [...]

Rules and equipment of biathlon

Thursday, August 13th, 2009

Andrea Nahrgang prepares to shoot from the prone position at the 2002 Winter Olympics.
The complete rules of biathlon is given in the official IBU rule book. However, the concise description given below, along with the section on competition format, should be enough for a spectator to understand what is going [...]

Foundation of the modern game in ice hockey

Sunday, May 3rd, 2009

The original Stanley Cup, in the Hockey Hall of Fame vault.
The development of the modern game centred on Montreal. On March 3, 1875 the first organized indoor game was played there, as recorded in the Montreal Gazette. In 1877, McGill University students, James Creighton, Henry Joseph, Richard F. Smith, W.F. Robertson, and [...]

Rugby Rules

Tuesday, April 7th, 2009

Distinctive features common to both rugby games include the oval ball and the ban on passing the ball forwards, so that players can gain ground only by running with the ball or by kicking it.
Set-pieces of the union code include the scrum, where packs of opposing players push against each other for [...]

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 [...]

London Prize Ring rules (1743)

Thursday, April 2nd, 2009

The beginnings of the modern right cross demonstrated in Edmund Price’s The Science of Self Defense: A Treatise on Sparring and Wrestling, 1867
Records of boxing activity disappeared after the fall of the Roman Empire. The sport would later resurface in England during the early 18th century in the form of bare-knuckle [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Baseball gameplay

Wednesday, March 11th, 2009

 Diagram of a baseball field (the term diamond may be used to refer to the square area defined by the four bases or to the entire playing field). The dimensions given are for professional and professional-style games; children often play on smaller fields.
The complete Official Rules can be found www.mlb.com, the [...]

Golf

Saturday, February 28th, 2009

The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews
Golf (gowf in Scots) is a sport where individual players or teams hit a ball into a hole using various clubs, and is one of the few ball games that does not use a fixed standard playing area. It is defined [...]

Darts

Friday, February 27th, 2009

Darts in a dartboard
Darts is a game, or rather a variety of related games, in which darts are thrown at a circular target (dart board) hung on a wall. Though various different boards and games have been used in the past, the term ‘darts’ usually now refers to a standardized game [...]

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. [...]

Basketball

Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009

Sara Giauro shoots a three-point shot, FIBA Europe Cup for Women Finals 2005.
Basketball is a sport in which two teams of five players each try to score points on one other by throwing a ball through a hoop (the basket) under organized rules.
Since its invention in 1891, it has developed to [...]

Jai-Alai rules and play

Thursday, January 29th, 2009

The court (or fronton) for Jai Alai consists of 3 walls (front, back, and left), and the floor between them in play. If the ball touches the floor outside these walls, it is considered out of bounds. Similarly, there is also a border going about 3ft inside the front wall that is [...]

Parimutuel bet types

Sunday, January 18th, 2009

There may be several different types of bets, in which case each type of bet has its own pool. The basic bets involve predicting the order of finish for a single participant, as follows:
In North America

Win – A first place finisher wins the bet.
Place – Either a first or a second place finisher [...]