Also called performance shirts, compression shirts conform tightly to the shape of the body and come in long-sleeve or short-sleeve styles. They are often made from nylon, lycra or polyester, or a combination of those materials. These materials are great for wicking away moisture from the body...
For entertainment, the Iroquois played sports likelacrosse, a stick and ball game, and in the wintertime a game called snow snake. What did the Iroquois invent? The Iroquois inventedthe Longhouse, which was a sizable, somewhat rectangular building. These structures enabled large families or groups...
and 10 year old Jem Finch. The both of them are very immature at the beginning of the story. The time period is set in the 1930’s in a small rural town called Maycomb, Alabama. Atticus Finch is the children’s father, who is a lawyer. He is also a wise and loving dad, and te...
I have no idea what it was originally built for, but we’ve dubbed it that because it reminds us of the Parthenon. From there, we do five laps around the park, and after we say goodbye I usually sprint up “Look Out Mountain” (another landmark name I’ve made up) on the way ...
Field hockey, lacrosse and soccer were not sports that were traditionally played in the small community in which I was raised. I was intrigued that so many of the girls in my school participated in the sports teams rather than choosing to cheer or dance. These girls were more sure of ...
(and when there’s a Braves baseball conflict, WCON airs it after the game). The show (originally called CHAMP: Charles Head’s American Motorsports Program, before he gave up on the all caps) was on another area radio station at the beginning, and both stations can be picked up in my...
Not like, “I’m bad at playing lacrosse.” Just literally, “I’m bad,” full stop. DUBNER: When you say “bad,” what does that mean? Like, broken? Cruel? Selfish? DUCKWORTH: I can’t even re-create with any confidence exactly what it was that led me to that, or what I...
was the kind ofEuropean soccer columnI’ve come to expect from the entertaining Rory Smith and anexcellent pieceby jack-of-all-sports reporter Victor Mather on Native Americans being squeezed out of what was once their own game, lacrosse. (Consider it the latest inglorious chapte...
In the middle ages, the French played a form of soccer called laSoule ro choule. The game developed in England after the Norman invasion of 1066. Today England is considered the cradle of modern soccer. The early game was essentially a mass of players on each side trying to kick a ball...
HISTORY Ultimate was originally created by Joel Silver of Columbia High School in New Jersey in Silver and friends adapted the rules of Frisbee Football and ultimately invented the fast moving team sport we know today as the sport of Ultimate. Silver admitted that he only said this as something...