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| Article Title :: Ancient Olympians Were Really In It for the Money |
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(ARA) - The athletes will be feeling a lot of nostalgia when the 2004 Olympic Games get underway next August. For the first time in nearly 100 years, the games are returning to their place of origin: Athens, Greece. Today’s Olympic games are all about the heat of competition. Athletes from around the world will compete against each other to prove they are the best at what they do. The winners will take home medals and pride of country. “A lot of people think that’s what the ancient Greeks competed for too, but they’re wrong. Ancient athletes were in it for the money,” says William Blake Tyrrell, a professor of classics at Michigan State University. Tyrrell has done (read full article) |
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| Category :: Sports Articles |
Author :: Mel Barosay |
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| Article Title :: Angel Park, Las Vegas’ Heavenly Golf Course |
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| Angel Park, Las Vegas’ Heavenly Golf CourseRead Jetsetters Magazine at www.jetsettersmagazine.comTo read this entire feature FREE with photos cut and paste this link:www.jetsettersmagazine.com/archive/jetezine/sports02/golf02/vegas/angel/angel.htmlJust 20 minutes west from the Fabulous Las Vegas Strip, the Angel Park Golf Facility, billed as "the most complete golf experience" oversees the City of Entertainment. At an unofficial elevation of 2,800 feet, some 800 or so higher than the rest of the city, the two Arnold Palmer-designed 18-hole championship golf courses and a one-of-a-kind 12-hole lighted golf course (and the highly-acclaimed 18-hole putting course) (read full article) |
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| Category :: Sports Articles |
Author :: Jakob Jelling |
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| Article Title :: Kitesurfing Equipment Dangers |
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As you probably already know, kitesurfing is a very dangerous sport. A lot of dangers belong to the category of kitesurfing equipment dangers. Kitesurfing equipment dangers may result from selecting wrong equipment for some specific weather conditions or malfunction of equipment. For example, the loss of control of the kite lines posses many kitesurfing equipment dangers. The lines are very sharp, especially if they are long. If a kitesurfer looses the control over the lines and get twisted in them, he or she can get hurt. To prevent these kitesurfing equipment dangers a kitesurfer needs to practice how to handle the lines and never loose control over them.
Selecting the proper size o (read full article) |
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| Category :: Sports Articles |
Author :: Cameron Larsen |
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| Article Title :: Angler's Attention |
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| There is something that I have called 'angler's attention'. It is developed after you have been fishing, and in this article we will be concerning ourselves with fly fishing, for years and years. You can usually tell those that have it and those that don't. Quickly rigging up your fly rod, and racing to a likely fishing spot, solely concerned about yourself and your gear, are telltale signs of someone not possessing angler's attention.I spent many years, especially when I didn't have much time to fish, ignoring angler's attention. If I could steal away even an hour or two, racing down to the river I would go. In a virtual panic, scouring out my favorite fishing spots, then cursing to (read full article) |
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| Category :: Sports Articles |
Author :: Jenna Keys |
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| Article Title :: Anti-Aging Skin Care Treatments: What To Do When That First |
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| There comes a time in everybody’s life when we start to consider the implications of growing old and the possibilities of using one of the many different anti-aging treatments that are available. Coincidentally, this time of life is usually around the same time we discover our first wrinkle or laughter line. These first signs normally become apparent in your 30s or 40s if you are lucky and while that is the first time we will be likely to consider using anti-aging treatment, we really should start using it earlier than this. By keeping our skin healthy from an earlier age we are at least prolonging the aging effect as long as possible.If you do leave it until the very first signs o (read full article) |
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| Category :: Sports Articles |
Author :: Paul Curran |
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| Article Title :: How To Plant Rose Bushes In Landscaping Your Garden |
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| For planting roses a good garden loam with organic matter is important. It must contain peat moss, leaf mold, compost, rotted or commercial manure, and the bed should be prepared as far ahead of planting as is feasible in order to allow for settling of the soil.
Fall is the best time for setting out roses, but you can plant in spring. When they arrive from the nursery, plant at once. If they have dried en route, soak the roots and put the tops in a bucket of water before planting. Trim back any roots that are weak, long or broken at this time. Dig a hole that is wide enough to allow the roots to spread without crowding. The rose is properly placed when the bud ( (read full article) |
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| Category :: Sports Articles |
Author :: Mats Lundkvist |
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| Article Title :: Why Should You Use Hiking Poles? |
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Why should you use hiking poles is perhaps the first question that may strike in your mind especially when you are a beginner. To get the right answer for this question you need to consider two things i.e. Safety and Comfort. Hiking poles are just balancing sticks which help you maintain good balance that is closely related to your overall safety and comfort. When you use two poles you move as you have four legs which allow you better comfort and safety. Experts say that by using hiking poles you switch to 4x4 mode of driving, using your two legs and two hands.As far as safety is concerned, a pair of hiking poles helps you prevent frequent fall downs on uncertain tracks, avoiding ac (read full article) |
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| Category :: Sports Articles |
Author :: Elly Kendall |
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| Article Title :: Antler Shed 101 |
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| Antler Shed 101by: Elly KendallThis article on antler shed is provided so individuals know that antler products can be made without animals being injured in any way. I also hope to promote ethical antler shed collection. So here are the basics: Antler Shed 101 by: Elly Kendall Antlers do not just keep growing. They drop off and the animals grow new ones. These sloughed-off antlers are called shed. Shed hunting or collecting has been a great source for week end entertainment, especially during the off hunting season from late winter to early spring. Shed antlers are prized for making everything from jewelry to chandeliers. The big bonus is that the animals drop th (read full article) |
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| Category :: Sports Articles |
Author :: Jack Crow |
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| Article Title :: My Golf Disaster |
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Although I was never picked for sports teams as a kid, I always thought that golf would be far easier than all the others as it required very little physical exertion in regards to chasing a ball up and down a field for 90 minutes while opponents try to take the legs out from under you. I mean, how difficult could it be? You stand still, look at the hole at the other end of the green, look at the ball and then hit it as hard as you can with a metal or wooden club. Even better, once you do, you don't have to run as fast as you can to the hole. Instead you take a taxi in the form of a golf cart. How sweet is that!I had a rude awakening one day when a friend of mine managed to (read full article) |
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| Category :: Sports Articles |
Author :: Balaji B |
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| Article Title :: Applying Law of Gravity to Judo |
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| In judo it is important to throw your opponent by making use of his loss of balance, the law at work here is the law of gravity. We know that Sir Isaac Newton discovered the law of gravitation by seeing an apple fall from a tree. All bodies in the universe attract one another. For instance, the earth attracts the bodies near and around it. In turn they also pull the earth.
Since the power of attraction, according to Newton, is proportional to the mass of the body that attracts, the larger the mass of the body, the larger its attraction. All bodies near the earth fall to the earth because it has an immense mass. An airplane or a bird starts to fall to the ground as soon as its p (read full article) |
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