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Sports History of China
Before the Western Han Dynasty Some known ancient cultural relics have provided evidence that health-building activities appeared in China over 4,000 years ago. By the time of the Western Zhou…
History of Chogān (Polo)
Let other people play at other things. The king of games is still the game of kings. This verse is inscribed on a stone tablet next to a polo ground…
Sports, women and History
In the Early Beginnings Around the time of Australia's Federation at start of the 20th century, sport became a means for an emerging nation to place itself on the world…
Intramural Sport History
The inception of the intramural activities at Wisconsin was noted as early as 1893 upon completion of the Armory Gymnasium on Langdon Street. Interclass and inter-college participation in baseball, contact…
Lithuania Sports
Of the three Baltic states, Lithuania is probably best known as a sports nation. This is primarily because of its national basketball teams, which are consistently among the top three…
BC Zalgiris
History In 1944 best basketball players from Kaunas united into one team which was named "Zalgiris" shortly after that. From the beginning "Zalgiris" starts fighting for the first places in…
Sabonis, an MVP and more to Kaunas
Some are called sporting legends for how they play, others for who they are. In the case of Arvydas Sabonis, the Euroleague regular season MVP, either reason is legitimate, and…
A Lithuanian Basketball Star
A LITHUANIAN BASKETBALL STAR AVERY FEW AMERICAN professional stars excepted, the best basketball player in the world is probably a seven-foot-three Lithuanian named Arvidas Sabonis, who is, at twenty-one, the…