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Feb
3

Go Giants! How the football became the phenomenon it is today

Sandy on February 3rd, 2012

Everyone in the U.S. is hyped with anticipation for the Super Bowl on Sunday. Go Giants! Many people don’t realize how the game evolved to became the phenomenon that it is today. When I learned that this American pastime was shaped by the military, it wasn’t a stretch to envision a violent north eastern college [...]

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Oct
25

Scots invented soccer in the1400′s

Sandy on October 25th, 2011

Here we go again. The English claim that they invented the game of soccer (called football in the UK) in 1848 when students at Cambridge University formulated the first set of rules. Not so fast England. According to the UKs Daily Record newspaper experts at the Scottish Foodball Museum at Hampden (Hampden Park near Glasgow [...]

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