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, and human suffering the gladiatorial games. The gladiatorial contests began at the reign of their first emperor Augustus to pay tribute to their warrior traditions. The Romans built artificial battlefields within amphitheaters in cities and towns for public…

Greeks and Romans to Napoleon's France and Elizabethan England, history is rich with tales of exploits based on the games of chance. Many present-day gambling games are incarnations of previous games. The French working class of the sixteenth century became…

around them. Everyone is hooked up to the net, people are watching their televisions, and people's kids are playing video games. Society is being consumed by an electronic time thief. This monster is getting bigger as technology feeds it the fuel it needs…

Lacrosse is one of many varieties of stickball games being played by American Indians when Europeans began coming to America. Almost totally a male team sport, it is different from the others, like field hockey or roller hockey, by the use of a netted…

Knock Off or Knock Out? When referring to a game as being a “knock off”, there has been a previously released game (usually from a different company) that is almost identical to the newly manufactured product. Not only…

. They christened the new league the Basketball Association of America and modeled its season-which featured a 60-game schedule and a series of playoffs-after the National Hockey League's. The game itself was based on college basketball, but with the contests lengthened…

Baseball Baseball is a game I love And one I’m always dreaming of. I play it in summer and spring To enjoy the fun that these days bring. Practice makes perfect is what they say, So all work hard to be this way. Basics…

BILLIARDS         The history of billiards begins in the fourteenth century. The game was invented in Europe, but there was a conflict as to what country. The French believed that the English invented the game, but at the same time…

The sun comes up, the sun goes down, to some this Friday is an ordinary day, but to me it is the night for football. The feelings we athletes get from the atmosphere and the locker room are feelings one can only feel if he or she plays the game…

of the school’s physical – education department, asked Naismith to create a team sport thet could be played indoors during the winter. For his new game, Naismith decided to use a soccer ball because it was large enough to catch easily. He then asked the building…