- The top 10 baseball tragedies of all time occur through history
- Most of the top baseball tragedies involve the death of a player
- Through history baseball tragedies are numerous, and they involve players both famous and unknown
Short History of the NBA, WNBA, NCAA
The history of american basketball is rich with personalities and success through its three different leagues: the NBA, the NCAA and, most recently, the WNBA. The origins of basketball in the US begin in Springfield, Massachusetts. Here James Naismith developed the game for young men attending the YMCA in order to deal with the harsh winters outside and their idle time inside. Naismith nailed up peach baskets to each end of the gym and gave the players a ball to try and throw in to the baskets. He sketched out the fundamental rules of basketball that day in 1891, which are still used today. The first professional league began seven years later and eventually evolved into the different leagues we have now.
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College Sports Scoreboards: Variety of Choices
Sports scoreboards for college events can be the main focal point of the game for fans, and present all of the critical information they need to know about the match. The way these scoreboards display this information has changed over the years and modern sports scoreboards have gone from simple digits representing time and score to high-definition LED screens that can display full motion replays and advertisements.
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Famous Fixed NBA Games
Every time an NBA team loses a close game or, especially, a game with lopsided foul counts, fans half-heartedly cry that the game was fixed. That feeling deep in the pit of fans’ stomachs was churned into real worry when Tim Donaghy, an NBA official, admitted in 2008 that he had illegally manipulated some games he officiated to cover spreads. Of course, he has been sacked and is in federal prison now but before that referred to two pivotal games that he claims were fixed by his calls to provide the desired outcome.
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American Scoreboards: Always Affordable and High Quality
Digital scoreboard have improved tremendously in recent years and offer a quality and sophistication far above models of the past. These American scoreboards are better built, use less energy and offer more features at a lower price than ever before. They are also available in a wide universe of sizes and styles that are able to accommodate any sport or stadium.
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Laurel High School in Laurel, MS. Laurel Golden Tornados: 100 Years of Football
- The Laurel High School Golden Tornadoes in Laurel, Mississippi, have a century of football tradition behind the school.
- The Golden Tornadoes have been an important part of the school activities for more than one hundred years.
- Laurel High School had a new scoreboard installed, to draw more sports fans and improve the equipment for the fans and visitors.
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Difference Between Major and Minor League Baseball
There are dramatic differences between the major and minor baseball leagues in America. Though major league baseball and minor league baseball share the same rule book, that is about where the commonality ends. The size of the leagues, pay scales, players, venues and many other factors are worlds apart.
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10 NBA Draft Worst Picks of All Time
GMs in the NBA get a bad rap. Fans dissect each move with the benefit of looking backwards and razz them unmercifully on forums and message boards for decades to come. But let’s face it: sometimes they deserve it. These are 10 draft picks that may be unforgivable because of what was known at the time about these players and the pick that got away.
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Great Football Season For Panthers of Chapel Hill High School of Douglasville, Georgia
- The Chapel Hill High School Panthers made it all the way to the playoff games last year
- When it comes to football, the panthers really know how to play the game and attract fans
- Chapel Hill High School installed a new electronic scoreboard, to improve the attendance and appearance at football games
Baseball Free Agents Rankings
After the 2008 season, there were plenty of high profile baseball free agents that teams could not wait to sign. While economic worries caused teams to move cautiously, there soon were enough blockbuster trades to keep every baseball free agent tracker busy. Though no records were set for individual contracts, the baseball free agent list below shows that 2009 was still very kind to the big names.
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Raise the Team Spirit on The Game Field with a Scoreboard Logo!
When a school is planning to order a new digital scoreboard for their sports field, there are many decisions to be made. The scoreboard can be customized to fit the needs of any school and offers a lot of options for colors, styles and layouts. One thing a lot of schools like to include is a scoreboard logo of their school or mascot.
This logo can help build team spirit with the fans and can be added to almost any configuration of scoreboard available today. This scoreboard logo is typically added to the front of the scoreboard itself and can be created from almost any artwork that the school supplies to the scoreboard manufacturer. This scoreboard logo, along with the school colors will determine the basic color scheme of the new scoreboard and should tie into the theme of the stadium where the scoreboard will be mounted as well.
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7 Worst NFL Transfers of All Time
Sometime a draft pick in the NFL is a dud (think San Diego and Ryan Leaf) but pro teams and scouts should get a break because they really don’t know what they will get at the pro level. But trading proven talent or very good potential players on their team, now that we can take them to task for. There have been some mighty bad trades and this is a countdown of the all-time worst.
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Business Technology Breakthrough: Electronic Advertising Scoreboards
In our digital age, the companies that embrace new technology and learn to apply it to their business structures are the ones who flourish and succeed where the more reluctant companies flounder and fail. The early starts of Microsoft and Apple show a simple demonstration of this ideology working. Microsoft chose to ride the wave of technology and embracing open compatibility and sucking up every bit of possible future success it could, while Apple stuck strictly to its narrow path. While Apple makes far superior products of a higher quality, the price and incompatibility with new technology and lines of thought make Microsoft, and the PC market it thoroughly dominates, the choice for many who like their options.
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Chiles High School Tallahassee, Florida: Timberwolves Baseball
- For Chiles High School in Tallahassee, Florida, the game of baseball is very popular and successful
- Timberwolves baseball is an important part of the school activities and revenue
- A new scoreboard has helped the school improve their image and game attendance
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Defensive Football Drills for Linebackers
- Among football positions, linebacker is one of the most demanding. A linebacker must be equally skilled at run defense and pass defense
- Linebackers must be quick so that they can cover large areas of the field. They must also be strong enough to defeat moving blockers and agile enough to make tackles in the open field
- According to defensive football drills expert Tom Bass, linebacker drills should emphasize moving on the ball, defeating blocks, dropping into pass coverage, and blitzing the quarterback. Agility drills and interceptions drills are also helpful
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