And it is in Argentina that every year one of the most important polo championships in the world, the Campeonato Argentino de Polo, takes place. As it has been said, polo was born in Persia, where it was mostly considered as a training for horse units. With the passing of time it became a national sport that above all nobility went in for, and became more and more widespread during the Middle .. more …
Let’s talk about you for a minute. Remember the last time you were telling someone that you just met that you don’t really like following trends and that you are your own person? Haha, that was funny. But seriously, the only problem with being someone (which is to say everyone) who gives great attention to outward appearance, as if it’s incredibly indicative to the what’s on the inside, is not .. more …
Entertainment of Saturday, 5 February 2011 Source: Eugene Osafo-Nkansah/Peacefmonline.com/Ghana Pretty Ghanaian actress Jackie Appiah has been spotted by peacefmonline.com’s roving cameras doing something she is not known for. Jackie was seen on the Polo Grounds at Airport in Accra, all dressed up in a green polo shirt, pants, polo boots and cap, like a professional polo player, on a brown horse .. more …
Every winter sports season has games that have to be postponed or canceled due to winter weather.But this year’s especially potent storm also came at an especially bad time – especially for local girls basketball teams and Highland’s basketball teams.Regionals begin on Monday for Class 1A and 2A girls basketball teams so all scheduled games from Tuesday and Thursday are getting jammed into Friday .. more …
George Kirsch started off his lecture on Oct. 12 with a simple question.”Who plays golf?” he asked.Kirsch, a professor at Manhattan University, was the featured speaker in Quinnipiac’s First Annual Sports Studies Lecture. Kirsch’s lecture focused on the participation of women and blacks in golf and the growth of municipal golf courses in America. He has published several books including the .. more …
FORT MYERS, Fla. ” Sometimes a woman has to forget about the foxes and just play golf.So it was that Carol Semple Thompson decided to diverge from her fall fox hunting schedule and play in the U.S. Senior Women’s Amateur.This championship, being contested on the Long Mean course at Fiddlesticks Country Club, is Thompson’s first USGA tournament appearance of the year, which is amazing considering .. more …
First of all, you need a pool. Without a pool, you forfeit the “water” element expressed in the game’s title and are therefore playing polo. This requires a horse, a helmet, a long pole – well, let’s stick to water polo. After finding a pool, you need a standard, waterproof water polo ball and two goals to be positioned at opposite ends of the pool. Similar to soccer, teams are awarded points .. more …
Ten years and 1.3 seconds ago, water polo player Yvette Higgins became a household name. John Huxley reports on what happened next. There might have been more glamorous, more media-savvy members of the women’s water polo team at the Sydney Games, but young Yvette Higgins will always be remembered for one moment of Olympic magic.It came, dramatically, with 1.3 seconds left of Australia’s .. more …
By Andrew Matheson Hayley Vandercook is starting to get used to this.For the second straight season, the third-year head coach of the San Benito High girls water polo team is feeling the impacts of graduation. After losing arguably the league’s top player in Kelsey Russell after her first season with the Balers, Vandercook enters this fall without her top two netminders from the year before, as .. more …
Lewis put that experience to use Tuesday, scoring 10 goals ? including two in overtime ? as the Vikings opened the Modesto Metro Conference with a 12-9 victory over Beyer.That was the first leg of a Johansen sweep for the Vikings, as their boys routed Beyer 19-5 behind seven goals by feisty senior hole-set Kyle Sessa.These aren’t the same sort of teams that made Johansen the Stanislaus District’s .. more …
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