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"This could be your last meal," my mother jokingly said before we leftthat day. The day was bright, and the sun gleaming. The group packed into themuggy van, it was stifling hot, and downright uncomfortable. On a hot summerMissouri day, in the middle of July, your shirt clung to your damp skin. Themission White Water Rafting. The drive to the river, where we would begin ourincredible journey, seemed to last endless miles. The humidity was almostunbearable the van had absolutely no ventilation. F...

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Whatis Card Counting

Card Counting Sitting quietly with shades on and a cigarette in his mouth, the player at the green-carpeted table receives a 10 of spades. "Hit me." 1 The dealer draws an ace. "Well, that makes six a row, you sure are on a roll." As the player takes the cigarette out of his mouth to reply, he is sternly tapped on his shoulder. "Sir, I'm going to have to ask you to leave." The card player knows there is no point in fighting, he gets up and leaves. He won't be seeing that casino anymore, for he h...

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The Sportof Fishing

FishingFishing, or angling, is the sport of trying to catch fish with a rod, reel, line and baited hooks. The sport goes back thousands of years, and it appears that fishing techniques were already quite advanced at a very early date. In the Stone Age, hooks made of both bone and stone were used to catch fish, but spearing, a more primitive method, was probably just as common. An engraving from an ancient Egyptian tomb shows that all four methods of fishing-that is, with spears, nets, rods, and ...

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The Sultanof Swat

Babe Ruth " The Sultan of Swat " George Herman Ruth Jr. is by far one of Americas greatest sports heroes. He is known primarily for his great baseball exploits and secondary as a man who stayed out late before every game and partied until there was no one left to party with. There is more behind the story of Babe Ruth than just baseball and parties. As a boy Ruth was your average youth who got himself into a little to much trouble and paid the price. As an adult he was a husband and a father wh...

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The Marvin Lewis Issue

A driving force behind one of the greatest defenses in NFL history will not be a headcoach in the league next season.While Baltimore Ravens defensive coordinator Marvin Lewis was hindered by theleague's policy of not letting assistant coaches interview before their season isfinished, Tampa Bay Buccaneers coach Tony Dungy told Sports Illustrated the snubmight have occurred because Lewis is black.Nine teams had openings, but Lewis only got one interview -- with the Buffalo Bills."It's just difficu...

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Typesof Skiers

3 Types of Skiers Ive been skiing for about eight years and have come to a conclusion that there are three types of skiers on the slopes. Many of the skiers that Ive come across show their love and dedication to becoming better skiers. On the slopes these skiers range from the slow, calm just there to relax skier, to the bombing the hill, inconsiderate and reckless skier, to the show off skier, who doesnt ski that well but continues to hit jumps and go down the most difficult slopes in order ...

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Twister Vs Chess

Both Twister and chess require training, skill, luck, and practice. Twister and chess are very different games yet, they have many similarities. The rules for these games are very different. Twister is commonly played by younger people and Chess is often looked at as an older person game.The rules for twister are fairly simple. You need at least three people to play, unlike Chess where you need three people. One person person is called the spinner and they spin the dial to tell people where to p...

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The Sportof Dodgeball

Depending on your brawn, athleticism, or popularity, if you ever went to elementary school you remember well your place in the playground game hierarchy. Either you desperately dodged the ball or you fiercely beaned your classmates with it. You were lucky enough to be captain of your team or you were faced with the humiliation of being the last one chosen. Or maybe out of shyness or fear, you blended in until the last few seconds before the recess bell saved you. Since the early twentieth centur...

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The Sportof Football

Football Blue...22...Blue...22...Down...Set...Hike! Is usually what youll hear on the field when the quarterback yells for the snap. If you are an on looking fan from the stands you are hoping to here... Touchdown! In the fall, football is the sport to watch, whether its pee wee or if its NFL, theres a lot of fun watching. Football is a sport that is thought to be first played by the Greeks. Though, in their time it was called harpaston. The idea was pretty much the same. You want to get the b...

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The Originof Hockey

Until the mid-1980s it was generally accepted that ice hockey derived from English field hockey and Indian lacrosse and was spread throughout Canada by British soldiers in the mid-1800s. Research then turned up mention of a hockeylike game, played in the early 1800s in Nova Scotia by the Micmac Indians, which appeared to have been heavily influenced by the Irish game of hurling it included the use of a "hurley" (stick) and a square wooden block instead of a ball. It was probably fundamentally th...

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The Issueson Sports

One of the biggest problems I have with our society today is in sports. Don't get me wrong, I love sports. I love to watch the competition and seeing these men doing seemingly superhuman feats. The problem I have with sports is the over-commercialization and over-hyping of athletes by their agents, and themselves. I think that it is absolutely sick how so many athletes are getting paid so much for what they do. I did say that they performed difficult athletic feats, but a couple of events a wee...

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The Superbowl Craze

Imagine 137 million people all paying attention to the same thing. This is the spectacle that now surrounds a game of football, and that game is known as the Super Bowl. John Weibusch an NFL analyst once wrote Fact is, this is the Super Bowl. And there is nothing like it -- nothing in American culture. It's not just the game I am talking about, it's the Event. The World Series comes closest. But compared to the Super Bowl, the World Series is Star Search alongside a great Broadway musical. In Ja...

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The Gameof Lacrosse

What is the , It is a topic that holds interesting for me in two respects. First, I enjoy all types of history, so learning the who's and what's of the sport is interesting to me. Second, I play lacrosse and knowing who and how the sport was developed would help and interest me.How the game of lacrosse was played. What they used to play with, the types of sticks and balls. Rules used to play, team size, and the basic aspects of the game. The differences between the game of old and the one I play...

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Violencein Sport

"Violence in sport is taught and rewarded" When first read, this statement seems appalling how could our western society, governed by ideals of peaceful co-existence, educate and promote our children to commit acts of violence, Where do our morals lie, Is common decency not an issue anymore, Sports are commonly thought of as a character building, fun way to teach children to co-operate and work together as a team. The above-mentioned statement seems to refer to professional sports teams and athl...

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Trail Poaching

I've been riding ATBs for about ten years now--and hiking and backpacking since I was in diapers (I'm 31). I've never had a confrontation (except for mabye the occasional dirty look) with any other trail user in that time. Of course I always yield to all other trail users and don't fly around blind corners--and I always take out trash. Cyclists here got organized a long time ago. Volunteering to work on trails, educating their own about riding responsibly, cooperating with land managers to try t...

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