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Paintball Times History: The story that almost wasn’t
The Beginning It may be hard to believe today, but Paintball Times began way back when no one even knew what paintball was. Back in 1990, a group of high…
The History of Paintball
Paintball started in 1981 with 12 competitors playing capture the flag. They shot paintballs at each other using special marking air guns. Since then, the game has exploded into a…
A Brief History of Baseball: Part I: Origins of the Game
Unlike professional basketball and American football, interest in baseball has not been sweeping the globe . Declining participation at the amateur level and protracted labor problems at the professional level…
Spyware and the Law
I spy with my little eye, a legal problem beginning with 'S' - find out just where spyware stands in law, on both sides of the Atlantic. The media is…
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…
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…
Chess Champion Faces Off With New Computer
In 1809 in Vienna, Napoleon played chess at Schönbrunn Castle against the Turk, a turbaned mannequin that was heralded as the world's first chess-playing automaton. Napoleon suspected that a human…
A Crystal Ball for Your Chess Future
If someone offered you a crystal ball that could show you your chess future, would you be willing to peer into it? You may not like what you see ...…
Prototype for a Personalized Chess Book
A large chess library can sometimes be more of a hindrance than a help. With such an embarrassment of riches, you'll probably find yourself hopping from one book to the…
A Peek Inside Fischer
If the strongest chess player who ever lived told you how he studied to become a strong player, would you listen? "Of course!" you say. "I'd hang on every word!"…
Hieroglyphics, Fractions, and the Best Move Myth
We each have a set of chess beliefs that directs how we play and study the game. The right set of beliefs can lead to good results and steady improvement.…
A Guide to Misguided Opening Study
At the board, lapses in logic may be punished harshly, making our errors painfully easy to see. Away from the board, logical lapses in our study of chess can have…
A History of Judo: From the Meiji to the Present
The Meiji Period (1868-1912) of Japanese history was an era of immense change. Japan had closed its doors to the West some two centuries earlier under the power of the…
History of The Japanese sword
Archaeological evidence indicates that swords have existed in Japan for its entire historical period. Short straight swords imported from China and Korea are among the earliest weapons found in historical…