¡Supérate! Hilasal
Name:
Miguel
Anguel Huezo Saget
Teacher:
Carlos Sánchez
Year:
Third
Year Morning
Topic:
Sports
In this Blog, you will know more about different kind of sports which ones are practiced around the world, for example soccer, basketball, softball, etc.
Now you are going to know about the first sport, which is:
Basketball
Basketball is a
sport played by two teams of five players on a rectangular court. The objective
is to shoot a ball through a hoop 18 inches (46 cm) in diameter and 10 feet (3.0
m) high mounted to a backboard at each end. Basketball is one of the world's
most popular and widely viewed sports.
A team can
score a field goal by shooting the ball through the basket during regular play.
A field goal scores two points for the shooting team if a player is touching or
closer to the basket than the three-point line, and three points (known
commonly as a 3 pointer or three) if the player is behind the three-point line.The
team with the most points at the end of the game wins, but additional time
(overtime) may be issued when the game ends with a draw.
As well as many
techniques for shooting, passing, dribbling and rebounding, basketball has
specialized player positions and offensive and defensive structures (player
positioning). Typically, the tallest members of a team will play
"center", "power forward" or "small forward"
positions, while shorter players or those who possess the best ball handling
skills and speed play "point guard" or "shooting guard".
Soccer
Is a sport
played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball. It is played
by 250 million players in over 200 countries, making it the world's most
popular sport. The game is played on a rectangular field with a
goal at each end. The object of the game is to score by using any part of the
body besides the arms and hands to get the football into the opposing goal.
The goalkeepers
are the only players allowed to touch the ball with their hands or arms while
it is in play and then only in their penalty area. Outfield players mostly use
their feet to strike or pass the ball, but may use their head or torso to
strike the ball instead. The team that scores the most goals by the end of the
match wins. If the score is tied at the end of the game, either a draw is
declared or the game goes into extra time and/or a penalty shootout depending
on the format of the competition. The Laws of the Game were originally codified
in England by The Football Association in 1863.
Softball
Softball is a
variant of baseball played with a larger ball on a smaller field. It was
invented in 1887 in Chicago as an indoor game. It was at various times called
indoor baseball, mush ball, playground, softbund ball, kitten ball, and,
because it was also played by women, ladies' baseball.
There are two
types of softball. In the most common type, slow-pitch softball, the ball,
sometimes larger than the standard 12 inches, must arch on its path to the
batter; there are 10 players in a team; and bunting and stealing are
prohibited. In fastpitch softball, the pitch is fast, there are 9 players on
the field at one time, and bunting and stealing are permitted. Softball rules
vary somewhat from those of baseball.
Tennis
Tennis is a
sport people usually play individually against a single opponent (singles) or
between two teams of two players each (doubles). Each player uses a racquet
that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over
or around a net and into the opponent's court. The object of the game is to
play the ball in such a way that the opponent is not able to play a good
return.
Tennis is an
Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society and at all ages. The sport
can be played by anyone who can hold a racquet, including wheelchair users.
The rules of tennis have changed little since the 1890s. Two exceptions
are that from 1908 to 1961 the server had to keep one foot on the ground at all
times, and the adoption of the tie-break in the 1970s. A recent addition to
professional tennis has been the adoption of electronic review technology
coupled with a point challenge system, which allows a player to contest the
line call of a point.
Bowling
Ten-pin bowling
is a sport in which a player, or "bowler" rolls a bowling ball down a
wooden or synthetic (polyurethane) lane with the objective of scoring points by
knocking down as many pins as possible. In Canada, the United States, United
Kingdom and Australia, the game is commonly referred to as just
"Bowling". In New England, "bowling" is usually referred to
as "big-ball bowling", "regular bowling" or simply
"ten-pin bowling" because of the "small-ball" used in
candlepin and sometimes duckpin varieties, which each use much smaller and lighter
bowling balls as compared to ten-pin bowling, without the need for finger holes
in them.
Fishing
Fishing is the activity of trying to catch fish. Fish are normally
caught in the wild. Techniques for catching fish include hand gathering,
spearing, and netting, angling and trapping.
The term
fishing may be applied to catching other aquatic animals such as mollusks,
cephalopods, crustaceans, and echinoderms. The term is not normally applied to
catching farmed fish, or to aquatic mammals, such as whales, where the term
whaling is more appropriate.
According to
FAO statistics, the total number of commercial fishermen and fish farmers is
estimated to be 38 million. Fisheries and aquaculture provide direct and
indirect employment to over 500 million people. I n 2005, the worldwide per capita
consumption of fish captured from wild fisheries was 14.4 kilograms, with an
additional 7.4 kilograms harvested from fish farms. In addition to providing
food, modern fishing is also a recreational pastime.