Being caught is the most common way of getting out. A batsman is out caught when a fielder catches the ball directly off the ...

What exactly is an Academy? Academies are special training schemes set up by clubs to help them develop young players. All Premiership clubs have them. Liverpool's academy opened in 2000 Other League ...

Rugby union is one of the few ball games where the ball cannot be passed forwards. That means a player moving towards the opposition's dead ball line must pass the ball to a team-mate either along or ...

Mark McCormack was the undisputed king of sports marketing. The former lawyer signed up Arnold Palmer as his first client in 1960 and went on to become the "most powerful man in sport", according to ...

Usually by a blow to the abdomen. Think a football being blasted into you, but sometimes it can happen when you fall to the ground heavily. The impact causes the pressure to change in the diaphragm, ...

Burnout basically means physical or emotional exhaustion caused by long-term stress. Children just starting out in sport are ...

Run to the 10m mark first, touching the floor and running back to the start line. Then run to the 20m line and back. Finally run to the 30m line and back.

Hungary declared a peoples republic led by first secretary of the Hungarian Communist party Matyas Rakosi. Soviet control strengthened through a series of purges carried out under Rakosi. He imprisons ...

A good way to monitor your improvement is to time yourself and see if you can get quicker each time you do it.

About the data: The data used to create this map comes from official statistics released by the Department of Transport. It covers the years 1999 to 2008 but only for those incidents where there was ...

A tighthead prop is one of the three players at the front of the scrum. They stand on the right-hand side of the hooker. As they take most of the impact in the scrum, a prop should have plenty of ...