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SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Seven punts, three turnovers and an inexplicable play when Jimmy Garoppolo stepped out of bounds in the end zone for a safety summed up the night for the San Francisco 49ers offense. Friday's Laver Cup match between Stefanos Tsitsipas and Diego Schwartzman was briefly interrupted when a protester stormed the court and lit himself on fire. 21-time Grand Slam champion Novak Djokovic stood by his decision not to get vaccinated, saying Thursday that he fully accepted the consequences of not competing at some tournaments. Swedish Golf Federation has ended its relationship with Henrik Stenson over his decision to join LIV Golf in its inaugural season. The Avalanche's Nathan MacKinnon won't have to worry about fielding questions about his contract this year after signing an 8-year extension worth $100.8 million.

A hotly contested play was debated on social media during the New York Giants and Dallas Cowboys game on Monday night involving Sterling Shepard and Trevon Diggs. Every year as Rosh Hashana approaches, a longtime reporter thinks back to 1971 when he was running out of time and Ron Blomberg, the Yankees’ only Jewish player, came through. But some players and coaches enter this season under more pressure than others.

After a long and frequently bitter struggle, African Americans, Australian Aboriginal people, “Cape Coloureds” , and other excluded racial and ethnic groups won the right to participate in sports. After a long and somewhat less-bitter struggle, women also won the right to compete in sports—such as rugby—that had been considered quintessentially masculine. Rowing , one of the first sports to assume its modern form, began to attract a following after the first boat race between the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge and the inauguration of the Henley Regatta . “Athletics” became popular after Oxford and Cambridge held their first track-and-field meet in 1864.

In the real world, as a practical matter, motives are frequently mixed and often quite impossible to determine. Unambiguous definition is nonetheless a prerequisite to practical determinations about what is and is not an example of play. The purpose of this study was to identify the career paths of transnational migrating female elite handball players. Fourteen Slovenian and Suisse national team players were monitored over a 7-year period by means of semi-structured interviews and official handball records. Gymnastic fervour was not, however, much in evidence among the world’s schoolchildren and college students as they encountered gymnastics in required physical-education classes.

From the Islamic Middle East across the Indian subcontinent to China and Japan, wrestlers—mostly but not exclusively male—embodied and enacted the values of their cultures. The wrestler’s Sports strength was always more than a merely personal statement. More often than not, the men who strained and struggled understood themselves to be involved in a religious endeavour.