Sentences with phrase «of organized sport»

It is believed that the ancient ballgame is the oldest known instance of an organized sport involving round balls.

between the ages of 5 and 18 play some kind of organized sport every year.

You start to dream of pulling your kids out of every organized sport and extracurricular activity.

Approximately 35 million children between the ages of 5 and 18 play some kind of organized sport every year.

Civilization has moved on to being more progressive and caring — its time this kid's religion and his family do the same Or at least stay out of organized sports and other public events if you can't handle being around diversity.

As a youth he participated in a number of organized sports, studied music, and connected to leadership and land stewardship as a Boy Scout.

She joins Marti for this lively discussion about youth sports, questioning many assumptions, calling out unhelpful parental behavior and challenging us to step up and use proven approaches to help our children reap optimal benefits of organized sports.

I can't say I was the biggest fan of organized sports growing up, but when you go to a school like Michigan State University, that school spirit catches you and sucks you in.

Yet, experts estimate, half of all organized sports - related injuries among children can be prevented.

As budget cuts affect physical education as well as music and arts education, zealous advocates of organized sports, especially in middle school and high school, are emphasizing the fitness benefits of athletics.

Short story: things went swimmingly through the eighth grade and then, boom, on account of a uniquely teenaged blend of organized sports, disorganized mind, and a variety of nonspecific authority issues — chaos.

There are also a variety of organized sports that dogs and their handlers can train for together.

In Sis Boom Bah, Betsy Odom investigates the possibility of organized sports as a way to defy social constructions of gender, identity and sexuality.

The team at Sutton Group — Lakefront Realty in Vernon, B.C. is helping local children to experience the social and health benefits of organized sports.

Not exact matches

Close to 70 percent of the 500 employees at the Grid plug into a fully equipped and staffed fitness center, complete with a basketball - volleyball court, organized team sports, and, of course, a ping - pong room.

That's how the U.S. mounted a sprawling corruption probe of FIFA, the organizing body for the world's most popular sport, eventually ensnaring more than 40 people, including soccer officials and sports - marketing businessmen.

As his guests finish tucking into plates of fried chicken and pasta salad, Jenkins reminds his guests that the point of this gathering is not to sit around throwing rocks at the FAA, an activity that has become an organized sport for advocates of a commercialized drone industry.

«As long as the three pillars of organized crime exist — sports gambling, extortion, and loansharking — there's no reason to believe that [the mafia] would ever go away.»

While there are nods to the next installment of the Call of Duty franchise, theLEGENDofKARL is primarily talking about Activision's new Elite product, described as «like if organized sports and social networking had a baby and they gave that baby a flamethrower.»

Apostolopoulos's events company, Triple Sports and Entertainment, organized an exhibition game in August 2010 between Italy's AC Milan and Greek club Panathinaikos that drew a crowd of 30,000.

The report urged governments to correct what it called a vulnerability of sport betting to organized crime.

Alisports, which organizes the World Electronic Sports Games, successfully lobbied the Olympic Council of Asia to include e-sports at the 2022 Asian Games in Hangzhou.

The founder of a nonprofit that organizes youth robotics competitions says he's pleased to see how many young people are participating in the sport, especially girls.

Teams from the London School of Economics and Erasmus University Medical Center in the Netherlands found that involvement in organized religion was more effective at producing «sustained happiness» than sports, political groups, charity work or continuing educational efforts.

«In view of extremely hazardous conditions at the Watkins Glen course, because racing at this site under present circumstances places all organized motor sport in jeopardy,» says the Sports Car Club of America, it is banning to its members all races at the Glen until further notice.

So Strowman has the Raw Tag Team Championship, Nicholas has a cool story to tell and a fun memory, and The Bar have the ignominy of beating defeated by one person and an elementary school student who might not even play organized sports.

An organized brawl between two groups of linemen is an entire sport all by itself.

The counterfeits were easy to spot, yet Rolando Castro de Leon, president of Guatemala's national sports agency, which helped organize the match, defended the ticket takers and guards.

What the organizing band of motor - sports magicians achieved at Long Beach last weekend was nothing less than a full - bore miracle.

My Boxing coach told us that about 70 percent of Americans participate in organized competitive sports at some point in their life, by comparison only 1/2 percent ever get into a ring or cage and compete.

In the U.S. more than 10 million children under the age of 16 play organized sports, coached or otherwise supervised by more than a million adults, many of them unscreened male volunteers — which is to say, men on whom background checks have never been done.

Was it a secret that IOC president Juan Antonio Samaranch worked under Francisco Franco, or that Ugandan IOC member Maj. Gen. Francis Nyangweso — who accepted $ 35,000 for Ugandan sports from the Sydney organizing committee the night before that city was awarded the 2000 Games — was Idi Amin's military chief of staff?

If your child is participating in organized sports, many of the lifts and gymnastic movements are the same ones that they will be exposed to in high school and beyond.

Plus, the Southern Section has had the philosophy for many years of organizing its playoff divisions in all sports in which the highest divisions ««Pac - 5 for football, Open Division for boys and girls hoops, Division I for baseball, etc. ««contain the best competitive teams regardless of school enrollment.

Relevant Sports, which organizes the annual summer International Champions Cup, is organizing the game against the Earthquakes, but it does not appear it will be a part of the tournament.

Born in an era when organized girls» sports were few, many of the nostalgia cheerleaders were frustrated athletes who threw themselves into the games — sometimes literally.

While being interviewed by Sky Sports, the organizing director of Milan, Umberto Gandini, speaks well of the squad after the Champions League draw that...

Data from 2005 indicated that approximately 15 percent of lightning casualties occurred during organized sports and an additional 25 to 30 percent resulted from recreational activities, but more recent data from 2010 - 2011 by the National Weather Service suggests that these percentages are much higher, with 48 percent and 62 percent of lightning fatalities attributed to sport and recreation, respectively.

In today's world of youth organized sports, much of the focus is on winning, moving fast and being the best.

They further suggest that children participate in a number of activities and limit organized sports to a maximum of six days a week.

Here are twenty time and money saving tips for sports parents to help you stay organized during the helter skelter of a youth sports season:

Active Kids Canada, for instance, found that only 12 percent of Canadian youth were meeting that country's 90 minute guideline, even though three - quarters were participating in organized sports.

The most recent concussion consensus statements [1,7,15] recommend neuropsychological (NP) testing in making return to play decisions after concussion, and formal baseline NP screening of athletes in all organized sports in which there is a high risk of concussion (e.g. football, hockey, lacrosse, soccer, basketball), regardless of the age or level of performance.

A straightforward, elegantly written, concise, and well - organized 215 pages, Back in the Game stands out in a crowded field, not just as a primer on concussions for a parent, coach, or athletes, but for its incisive and often pointed criticism of the way our national conversation about concussions and the long - term effects of playing contact and collision sports has been shaped - some would say warped - by a media that too often eschews fact - based reporting in favor of sensationalism and fear - mongering.

«Finding ways to decrease the incidence and severity of sports - related injuries is critical to keeping kids playing sports long - term and reaping the benefits that organized athletics provides,» said Dawn Comstock, PhD, a co-author of the study and assistant professor at the Center for Injury Research and Policy at The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital.

Just the thought of having to join an organized sport gave me an instant panic attack.

The report we release today, «Sport for All, Play for Life: A Playbook to Get Every Kid in the Game,» offers an ambitious plan to reimagine organized youth sports, prioritizing health and inclusion, while recognizing the benefits of unstructured play.

Despite all the problems plaguing organized sports there is plenty of good happening too that will be covered; and he'll talk about a renewed sense of hope for the future of these games we love and a new model for thinking about them: youth sport as a human right.

«We have a staff of two full - time Certified Youth Sports Administrator (CYSA) employees along with volunteers and a small support staff to organize and implement youth sports programs,» says Miste Adams, Recreation SuperinteSports Administrator (CYSA) employees along with volunteers and a small support staff to organize and implement youth sports programs,» says Miste Adams, Recreation Superintesports programs,» says Miste Adams, Recreation Superintendent.

Klitzman says athletes can receive the benefits of cross training even if the sports aren't organized.