...Hurling (Irish: Iománaíocht/Iomáint) is an outdoor team game of ancient Gaelic and Irish origin, administered by the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA). The game has prehistoric origins, has been played for over 3,000 years,[1] and is considered to be the world's fastest field sport.[1][2] One of Ireland's native Gaelic games, it shares a number of features with Gaelic football, such as the field and goals, number of players, and much terminology. There is a similar game for women called camogie (camógaíocht). It shares a common Gaelic root with the sport of shinty (camanachd) which is played predominantly in Scotland. The objective of the game is for players to use a wooden stick called a hurley (in Irish a camán, pronounced /ˈkæmən/ or /kəˈmɔːn/) to hit a small ball called a sliotar /ˈʃlɪtər/ between the opponents' goalposts either over the crossbar for one point, or under the crossbar into a net guarded by a goalkeeper for one goal, which is equivalent to three points. The sliotar can be caught in the hand and carried for not more than four steps, struck in the air, or struck on the ground with the hurley. It can be kicked or slapped with an open hand (the hand pass) for short-range passing. A player who wants to carry the ball for more than four steps has to bounce or balance the sliotar on the end of the stick and the ball can only be handled twice while in his possession. Provided that a player has at least one foot on the ground, a player may make a shoulder to shoulder...
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...There are two reasons for professional sports. The first is to make money and the second is it makes money. The Public Relations professional must be actively involved in marketing helping the clients cause or improving the clients’ profits. The PR professional must have known as much about the whole marketing process as the marketing manager. In the past few years, salaries in professional sports have escalated, with corresponding increases in ticket prices, beyond anything remotely resembling economic good sense. In most cases it is a wise move for players to use agents to negotiate contracts. Many agents are reputable lawyers or accountants who not only negotiate contracts, but also guard the players’ money and investments. Since sports teams are private businesses managed for their owner’s profit, the Public Relations expert is involved at a high level – justifying athletes’ high salaries, encouraging attendance for winning and losing teams, arranging appearances for player to personalize the teams’ public image and creating special events to keep the interest alive when the play on the field is dull. A new area of investing in a team is the selling of “official” team representation. Local and national companies are willing to pay handsomely to become an official sponsor or provider. The public relations team must take part in attempting to attract bidders and then letting the community know who the major sponsors and providers are for the team. In order to be considered...
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...IRELAND Gaelic football and Hurling is a deep Irish passion, and a physical celebration of ancient traditions and culture. Gaelic football and hurling almost have the same rules but with few differences. Gaelic Football can be said to be a mixture of soccer, rugby and basketball, although it predates all of those games. It is a field game, which has evolved along similar lines as Australian Rules Football. The rules for Gaelic Football is that each team has 15 players. The ball is a lot smaller than a soccer ball is. 1. The ball can be carried in the hand for a distance of four steps and can be kicked or "hand-passed", a striking motion with the hand or fist. 2. After every four steps the ball must either be bounced or "solo-ed". Soloed is an action of dropping the ball onto the foot and kicking it back into the hand while you are running. 3. Another rule is that you may not bounce the ball twice in a row. 4. To score, you put the ball over the crossbar by foot or hand/fist for one point or under the crossbar and into the net (a football goal) by foot or the hand/fist where you get three points. Gaelic football is the most popular sport in Ireland and is also played in London and New York. Hurling was invented in Ireland about 2000 years ago. Hurling is similar to the sports lacrosse or hockey. It's played on a large area with a curved wooden stick called a hurley and a small ball that’s is called sliotar. It's one of the fastest games afield. Hurling is a physical...
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...Nova Scotia Power / Emera, Point Tupper, Nova Scotia Canada In 2004, B.I.D. was approached by Nova Scotia Power (NSP), to offer a project estimate for their new marine coal terminal. Since NSP's primary source of fuel (Cape Breton Coal Mine) was closed as of 2001, there was a need to diversify their fuel supply. The answer to this nagging business problem was to construct a new receiving terminal at the Point Tupper, Nova Scotia site, to import coal from various parts in the world, for their power generation. Our part was to design, manufacture, and install the custom system for their coal receiving, handling, and stock piling of imported coal. Since B.I.D. had supplied equipment for their similar project in Sydney, Nova Scotia, we were more than ready to deliver. However, prior to our part in this project came the site work- which consisted of rail work, rail modifications and environmental studies. The main contractor for this work, CBCL, was also a repeat client of ours. Both companies were confident in B.I.D.'s reputation to solve a problem. Environmental, economical, location and port considerations accounted for several revision requests to the system- no problem for B.I.D. The complete material handling system was built to receive coal and petroleum coke from self-unloading ships and from an E-crane unloading bulker ships- which were to then transport the product on shore to two storage piles at a continuous rate up to 3000 TPH using 54" wide belts...
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...Irvine Welsh 'Trainspotting' Extract from ‘Trainspotting’: Traditional Sunday breakfast. A Scottish novel, released in 1993. An essay commenting on Welsh's use of language, style and tone. When digging a little beneath the surface of the extract from trainspotting: Traditional Sunday Breakfast, you may see a hint of the authors thoughts, given on the working classes ‘verbal rights’. Watching the film Trainspotting, underlines Welsh’s statement (from the Herald Scotland) quoting that “The classic assumption of such fiction holds true: working-class people speak funny so are in fiction only for the purposes of humor. They do not have an internal life, therefore you traditionally do not have a Renton or a Begbie or a Spud expressing themselves in the narrative of a book.” What he states here, is that working-class people are allowed to speak, but not think, in middle-class fiction. My knowledge gained of the characters from Traditional Sunday Breakfast, through watching the full film, has set the characters in a completely new light than if reading the extract alone, I choose not to abstract from this knowledge. Traditional Sunday Breakfast gives grotesque imagery within Davies narrative, while Welsh portrays the deconstructed lifestyle of a heroin addict. One can look at Welsh's attitude towards non-standard Scottish dialect and language use as a guide to how it should be used in a narration, to create characters that to multiple extents are unaware of how their ways...
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...Strategic Management O’Neill’s Sports Teresa Mc Guire; L00063943 Samuel Greene; L00092056 Rachael Colhoun; L00086911 Table of Contents No. | Index | Page Number | 1 | Table of Contents | 1 | 2 | Executive Summary | 2 | 3 | Introduction to Company | 3 | 4 | Michael Porter’s 5 Forces Analysis | 4 | 5 | P.E.S.T Analysis | 7 | 6 | VRIN Strategic Capabilities | 9 | 7 | The Value Chain | 12 | 8 | Critical Evaluation Of Strategy | 16 | 9 | Recommendations | 18 | 10 | Bibliography | 20 | 11 | Appendices | 21 | | | | Executive Summary Having received the brief for this C A our team arranged an initial meeting to discuss a number of ideas and issues. We had to choose which organisation to focus on, what was to be done individually and as a team and how and when to meet, correlate and progress. We all agreed that our focus was to be on the LYIT. We were attending the institute and had a handle on the culture, had access to information and knowledgeable people. Quite soon afterwards we ran into some problems when we started conducting internal (Value Chain & VRIN) and external (5 Forces & P.E.S.T) analysis. The nature of the business of the institute was in complete contrast to that of any organisation we had studied previously in that it was operating in the Public sector, was primarily focussed on the provision of services and not on profit maximisation and had no tangible end-product for sale. We couldn’t agree...
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...Football refers to a number of sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball with the foot to score a goal. The most popular of these sports worldwide is association football, more commonly known as just "football" or "soccer". Unqualified, the word football applies to whichever form of football is the most popular in the regional context in which the word appears, including association football, as well as American football, Australian rules football, Canadian football, Gaelic football, rugby league, rugby union[1] and other related games. These variations of football are known as football codes. Various forms of football can be identified in history, often as popular peasant games. Contemporary codes of football can be traced back to the codification of these games at English public schools in the eighteenth and nineteenth century.[2][3] The influence and power of the British Empire allowed these rules of football to spread, including to areas of British influence outside of the directly controlled Empire,[4] though by the end of the nineteenth century, distinct regional codes were already developing: Gaelic Football, for example, deliberately incorporated the rules of local traditional football games in order to maintain their heritage.[5] In 1888, The Football League was founded in England, becoming the first of many professional football competitions. In the twentieth century, the various codes of football have become amongst the most popular team sports in the...
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...The various codes of football share certain common elements. Players in American football, Canadian football, rugby union and rugby league take-up positions in a limited area of the field at the start of the game.[7] They tend to use throwing and running as the main ways of moving the ball, and only kick on certain limited occasions. Body tackling is a major skill, and games typically involve short passages of play of 5–90 seconds.[7] Association football, Australian rules football and Gaelic football tend to use kicking to move the ball around the pitch, with handling more limited. Body tackles are less central to game, and players are more free to move around the field (offside laws are typically less strict).[7] Common rules among the sports include:[citation needed] Two teams of usually between 11 and 18 players; some variations that have fewer players (five or more per team) are also popular. A clearly defined area in which to play the game. Scoring goals or points, by moving the ball to an opposing team's end of the field and either into a goal area, or over a line. Goals or points resulting from players putting the ball between two goalposts. The goal or line being defended by the opposing team. Players being required to move the ball—depending on the code—by kicking, carrying, or hand-passing the ball. Players using only their body to move the ball. In all codes, common skills include passing, tackling, evasion of tackles, catching and kicking.[7] In most codes...
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...CONTENTS |Introduction |2 | |Main part |3 | |The British. The main features of the British character. |3 | |History of british sport |5 | |Sports invented in Great Britain |6 | |Framework of sport in Britain. |10 | |Modern Sport in Great Britain: Structure, Administration, Funding, Popularity, Sport media and Diseases. |13 | |Elite level sport |15 | |6.1. Elite level team sports |15 | |6.2. Elite level individual sports |22...
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...This Person in Sports: Casey Wasserman Casey Wasserman, grandson to Hollywood mogul Lew Wasserman, grew up with an entrepreneurial spirit and a knack for business like his grandfather. After graduating from UCLA with a Political Science degree, Wasserman got into the world of investment banking and realized it was not for him. At age 25, he became the youngest person to ever own a professional sports team when he purchased the LA Avengers of the Arena Football League. Helping to negotiate the AFL’s national TV partnership with NBC, as well as playing an integral part in the collective bargaining agreement with the players, Wasserman was later elected chairman of the league. His love of football, despite the termination of the LA Avengers in 2009, has not faded. Wasserman is currently working with LA Live and the Staples Center to build a $1 billion dollar stadium, which he hopes will be the new home of an NFL franchise in Los Angeles. Alongside his work with the AFL, Wasserman simultaneously founded Wasserman Media Group (WMG), which encompasses athlete management, corporate consulting, media rights and partnerships; he remains Chairman and CEO. Competing with some of the world’s largest talent management agencies, WMG has an extensive clientele (over 1,200 clients and close to $3 Billion in sponsorships) in all of the major sports, action sports, and the Olympic games. Big deals done by WMG include the naming rights agreement on the recently built Met Life Stadium in New...
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...picture) is a place where diversity can exist, and nobody questions it. Individuals come to meet friends, family, even strangers to become one fan base for their favorite team. No matter what differences these people have, they still manage to bond because of this one similarity. Everyone cheers for the same team, unless you’re in the wrong section of seats. This group, and any other large group of fans, represents a melting pot of people with different ethnicities, sexes, cultures, and/or religions. This picture of Duke fans gave me an appreciation for my hometown and the fact that so many of my friends and I love sports. It reminded me of the connection people feel when they are together, as one, cheering. Going to the baseball stadium, football dome, or ice rink, with my friends helped me grow closer to them. Through the excitement of everyone in the picture, the unity of school colors on each individual, and the diversity of sex and race, it can be determined that Duke's basketball team serves as some kind of social captivator for Duke fans, who are together watching the game. This picture shows the excitement of some people cheering on their school's basketball team. Everyone seems happy and excited. The body paint is an interesting concept. The color of someone’s skin tends to disconnect people sometimes. I think the younger generations are better at not being prejudice towards other races, but it still exists. This prejudice might...
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...HISTORY OF FOOTBALL. We all know many kinds of sports. Some people were taught how to play different type of sports during their early age. One of the sports is football. It is a very well-known sport. Football is also known as ‘soccer’ in the United States of America. Nearly all the males in the world play the game of football and if not, they just have a huge interest in football but do they actually know the history of the game of football and how it was first established? It is widely accepted that both the Romans and the Greeks started the sport of football which tells us that its origins are believed to lie in ancient times. During the Roman Empire, football wasn’t involved in the ancient Olympic due to the fact that football that time was just a test of bravery to the Roman Army as actions such as punching, hacking and generally assaulting the opponent were highly accepted as part of the game. Football during that time appears to have resembled rugby. Football was also mentioned in a compiled documents found in China which was from the 1st century BC. It describes a practice called cuju which means “kicking ball” in Chinese. Cuju was originally involved kicking a leather ball into a mini hole hung 9 meters above ground with the help of bamboo sticks. Rules were established then on the 2nd century BC and eventually, the game of of cuju spread to Japan as well as to Korea and the name of the sport has changed to Kemari respectively. However the sport appears to have...
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...Blake Feldmann Orlet English 101-OL01D 16 June 2010 Types of Sports Fans Professional sports has become one of the most popular industries in the world today. The media spends billions of dollars on advertisements and teams spend millions of dollars on professional athletes all for one reason, the fans. The fans ticket sales and merchandise purchases are what keeps all the sport teams around and prevents professional athletes from losing their jobs. There are three types of fans in the sports world, average fans, fanatics, and fair-weather fans. Fans that are fanatics are the ones who are diehard and will put their favorite team before almost all other priorities. Their lives revolve around their favorite team and they will do anything for their team. Fans who are like this go to every sporting event possible that their favorite team is in and many are season ticket holders. Fanatics are usually not much fun to sit by at games because they get easily irritated or believe they know more about the game than everyone else. If they are not at the game, you can usually find them watching the game somewhere else on TV. People who are fanatics also spend much of their free time researching their team and will know almost every aspect of every player on their team as well as their opponents so they know how they match up with the other teams. No matter how bad the season is going for their favorite team, fanatics will always stick with them and will continue to go to the games...
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...Should college Athletes be able to leave after their first season? AG: Many of us in this room, including myself either watch college sports or have a college that the cheer for, but what if that star player never came to that school because they weren’t required to? ID: Today I want to talk about the pros and the cons of athletes being able to leave after their first season. Ethos: Doing research about this topic has lead me to the conclusion that there are a lot of pros but also very many cons of leaving early. Preview: Today I will be telling you the pros and the cons of leaving early and if I think they should leave early. I would like to talk about the pros about leaving college first. It allows great athletes the ability to earn a living faster and provide for their families. They could but a lot of that money in the bank and start to save money for when they retire. The second pro is that it prevents an injury to occur in college, many college athletes feel that if they stay in college they could get injured and put their professional career at risk. If they decided to leave early, they will get paid great money and benefits. Lastly they would be able to save money and go and get a degree if they wanted because they have the money now. Now looking at the cons of leaving college early. If the student athlete doesn’t stay in college they won’t secure their future. For those fortunate enough to be an elite in their sport, receiving a degree is a good way to insure...
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... The NCAA makes six billion dollars annually and the players who risk getting hurt every second of playing time don’t see a dime of this amount. For example, Louisville's, Kevin Ware suffered from a broken leg, and yet he will still want to compete even though he is not being payed for his time. Many players play for the competition and to strive to complete their dreams of going pro. But, what some don't understand is that they risk their physical health every second they’re on that court/field. If you think that college players should be paid then you’re not alone because the amount of money the NCAA is making they should have enough to give a fair share to each college athlete. After all, these athletes bring in all the money, plus the crowd that surrounds the teams while competing. Even though some think it's a waste of money and time to debate, I believe that since they’re prepping to go pro they should get paid a small sum to get them ready for the workload and money that they will both receive and put into their career. What I’m trying to say is that I think they should be paid a little so they know to handle the money and what to invest it in, this could be used in an educational means in the terms of a practical situation from a financial class standpoint allowing them to be more financially prepared for the pro world. After all, the average retail worker will be scheduled to work during the week and sometimes the weekend 8-5. Overall, they work 40 hours, so does the...
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