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Of the armed martial arts, archery was among the most important in the lives of Asian warriors from the Arabian to the Korean peninsulas. The Kansas City Royals have fired president of baseball operations Dayton Moore on Wednesday, an executive that has been with the team since 2006. Buster Posey is now a part owner of the San Francisco Giants after winning three World Series in 12 seasons with the club from 2009 to 2021. Aaron Judge missed his record-tying 61st home run of the season by about five feet, but the New York Yankees were able to clinch a postseason spot anyway. Miami Hurricanes quarterback Tyler Van Dyke said that he prefers playing in road games as Miami's stadium doesn't have much of a "college atmosphere."

The huge success of the latter inspired the Giro d’Italia and a number of other long-distance races. Behind this epochal transition from Renaissance to modern sports lay the scientific developments that sustained the Industrial Revolution. Athletes trained systematically to achieve their physical maximum. New games, such as basketball, volleyball, and team handball, were consciously invented to specifications as if they were new products for the market.

Finally, the Ming dynasty (1368–1644) scroll painting Grove of Violets depicts elegantly attired ladies playing chuiwan, a game similar to modern golf. In all probability, polo evolved from a far rougher game played by the nomads of Afghanistan and Central Asia. In the form that survived into the 21st century, Afghan buzkashi is characterized by a dusty melee in which hundreds of mounted tribesmen fought over the headless carcass of a goat. The winner was the hardy rider who managed to grab the animal by the leg and drag it clear of the pack. Since buzkashi was clearly an inappropriate passion for a civilized monarch, polo filled the bill.

This is a cross-sectional study that examined the association between fitness trainers’ educational qualifications and experience, and the risk of their trainees’ musculoskeletal pain. The study included 1177 trainees (aged Sports 15–60 years) from 74 fitness centers in Bangladesh. This study examined the impact of congestion-related controls on runner density, flow rate, perceived safety, and satisfaction during an Australian running event.

In the early modern era, as unarmed combat became obsolete, the emphasis of Asian martial arts tended to shift back toward religion. Japanese kenjutsu (“techniques of the sword”) became kendō (“the way of the sword”). Among the many games of North Africa was ta kurt om el mahag (“the ball of the pilgrim’s mother”), a Berber bat-and-ball contest whose configuration bore an uncanny resemblance to baseball. It is unlikely that the 7th-century Islamic conquest of North Africa radically altered the traditional sports of the region.