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Playing With or Against Chess Software: This You've Got to Try!
Human vs. ComputerComputer chess software really came into its own in February 1996 when legendary Chess Grandmaster Garry Kasparov played a six-game match in Philadelphia against IBM Chess software n

Bicycling Gear - Seven of My Favorites
My days of running for pleasure and exercise ended when I moved to the beautiful Columbia River Gorge. I had been living in the relatively flat Willamette River Valley where there were miles of level

NFL Football History. A Brief Overview
Who knew back then in the 1920’s that the National Football League would take the path to become what it has? In the 1920’s, a group of businessman and sports enthusiasts from the middle of America ga

MLB Baseball History
No one knows for sure where baseball exacted originated. However, most baseball buffs will concur that the sport is based on the English game of rounders. In the United States, baseball became popular

Cricket: Pakistan Tour to Australia (an Abstraction):
Australia is the current world champions in one day international and also leads the test teams of the world. Recently Australia played India and new Zealand and won both the series Comprehensively an

How Can Sports Psychology Help Athletes?
Athletes often ask me this question: “How do I know when a poor performance or error is a physical or a mental problem?” From my experience, here are a few hints that it may be a mental breakdown:1. Y

Snowboard Safety: Injury Prevention and Treatment
Snowboarding is one of the most popular snow sports and like any other physical activity, it is susceptible to injury. However if the right precautions are taken and the correct protective gear is wor

End the Madness: Down with the College Football BCS System
Lets' face it: the BCS is a piece of garbage. It encourages unsportsmanlike behavior - and there really seems to be too much of that these days - by forcing teams to run up scores to maintain high pol

The Youth Sports Coach
Coaching youth sports is a challenge. Most of our kids are really happy to have us step up to the plate and coach and, despite the time we give up, most parents find the experience equally rewarding.

Gun Magazine Articles: Industry Advertisements?
I have been reading gun magazines off and on for 20 years and have come to the conclusion that gun articles are just thinly veiled advertisements for the industry. At one point, I subscribed to seven

10 Steps to Improving Your Triathlon Swim
As technical as the sport of swimming can be, it is tough to narrow down the answer to the often-asked question, “what should I concentrate on?” So, I came up with a “top ten” list of steps to improvi

The Service in Here is Terrible!
Mea CulpaDear Reader (I assume the singular and hope for the plural) I have completely re-written this article in the light of comments from my coaching muse, Roger Mills. Roger feels that there were

Ready, Steady, Crocked
The motorway was hell, your dinner was in the dog, but by some superhuman effort involving changing in a telephone booth, you just about made it to the sports centre on time. You’ve had a bad day, you

Oakland NJ - A Great Town for Kids
My children, my wife and I have been fortunate to have lived in the town of Oakland NJ, for the past 18 years. The commitment to kids sports programs, especially girls softball, I think would be hard

My Baseball Story
I love this game. It has been half a century since I started to fall in love with baseball. The romance is still going strong. Playing, coaching, watching, listening, and reading about baseball has be

Unusual Baseball Statistics
The ezine for baseball lovers... Statistics - I love ‘emI have been fascinated by some of the statistics that have been amassed by some of the major leaguers. Viewing some players numbers has amazed m

Why I'd Rather Be A Slugger
During the last NLCS, I asked Brandon Backe of the Astros what the hardest thing was for him in making the conversion from outfielder to pitcher in the minors. He said it was "not playing every day."

Do Our Baseball Heroes Have Feet of Clay
“Do our baseball heroes have feet of clay?”Ok, we have suspected the sudden rash of home run hitters and stupendous long balls were the result of something fishy. We wanted to believe the home run mag

The Crack of the Bat
What is that sound that batters love to hear? That bang, that square hit, that crack of the bat. You know, as a batter, that you have just launched one. You know that the ball is taking off. You know

Guide To Be A Successful Soccerpunter
Why becomes a soccer bettor one may ask? Where it is considered a negative occupation where it is often regarded as non productive, immoral behaviour. well as for every other thing everything there is

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