However, there are detailed records of various fist-fighting sports that were maintained in different cities and provinces of Italy between the 12th and 17th centuries.

However, other professionals that play a more peripheral role in the field of professional sports ( e. g. coaches, general managers, referees, commentators and announcers, sports team owners and executives, sports commissioners ) who are more active in the internal aspects of field tend to remain in obscurity and are less likely to achieve celebrity status.

However, cultural imperialism has been used as a framework by scholars to explain phenomena in the areas of international relations, anthropology, education, science, history, literature, and sports.

However, the Cubs have not won a World Series since 1908 ; this remains the longest championship drought in North American professional sports.

However, a variety of sports are offered a parks and recreation.

However, that figure was reduced in later years when it was determined the survey also included people who play NCAA bracket pools, which are not exactly fantasy sports ( where you pick individual players ).

However, Johnson has a passion for sports according to former Knicks general manager Ernie Grunfeld and desired to own his own team.

However, World War I put an end to the plans of Olympic competition, and it was not until the winter sports week in Chamonix in 1924 — retroactively awarded Olympic status — that ice speed skating reached the Olympic programme.

However, many responsible equestrians, mountain bikers, and off-road motorcyclists, especially those who get involved in these sports by joining an organized club, perform hours of trail maintenance every year.

However, in some sports the Olympic title carries at least as much prestige.

However, with the current position of the IOC to limit the Olympic Games to 10, 500 participants, it is unlikely that many of the World Games sports will be elevated to Olympic sports.

However, not all disabled sports are adapted ; several sports that have been specifically created for persons with a disability have no equivalent in able-bodied sports.

However, many board sports are ever-more frequently gaining mainstream recognition, and with this recognition have enjoyed wider broadcast, sponsorship and inclusion in institutional sporting events, including the Olympic Games.

However there are also regular classes and drop-in sessions for various sports which are non-competitive and available to all university gym members.

However, a great many celebrities are clearly not " intellectual " achievers nor notable for any cognitive or analytic powers, e. g. Kim Kardashian, professional sports figures or other athletes.

However, while touring cars have a lower technical level than sports cars in general, there are notable exceptions to the rule.

However, the network was eventually sold to News Corporation, which made it NASCAR-centric, and has since replaced the sports car related programming with either NASCAR programming ( in 2009, NASCAR purchased the Grand American Road Racing Association, which is an independent subsidiary ) or reality shows.

However, this is not a desirable outcome for the sports book, as they are forced to refund every bet, and although both the book and its bettors will be even, if the cost of overhead is taken into account, the book has actually lost money by taking bets on the event.

" However, off scorecards, it can have the same connotation as in other sports ; see below.

However Kansas City's main sports venue Kemper Arena was nearly 30 years old.

However, there is also much to be gained by making use of the abilities of the local people who are available and interested in recreation.

However, there are inexpensive ways to get involved in sailboat racing, such as at community sailing clubs, classes offered by local recreation organizations and in some inexpensive dinghy and small catamaran classes.

However, many consider the term " entheogen " best reserved for religious and spiritual usage, such as certain Native American churches do with the peyote sacrament, and " psychedelic " left to describe those who are using these drugs for recreation, psychotherapy, physical healing, or creative problem solving.

However, Enid Lake and Grenada Lake, both completed in 1955, are now popular recreation spots for locals and for visitors.

However, Fleischmanns is currently experiencing a resurgence as seekers of mountain air and recreation are restoring old homes as well as building new ones.

However, the game has a certain charm of its own, and may be played as a pure recreation.

However, P. vivax likes brackish waters and with the recreation of the old coastal wetlands coming into favour, this could expand the future malarial parasite host reserve still further.

However, he believed baseball was a healthy and even patriotic form of recreation, so long as it was not played on Sundays.

However, there are some physical similarities with Predator ( from the movie of the same name ), and both races engage in combat as a form of recreation.

However, seafaring for recreation and sport remained the exception rather than the rule until much later.

However, in 1946, the city recreation board agreed to plant a more stable grass surface.

However, the modern concept of vacation was led by a later religious movement encouraging spiritual retreat and recreation.

However, his potential as a frontman was recognised by his brother when he did an impressive recreation of Queen's " Bohemian Rhapsody " at a New Year's Eve party in 1999, despite the fact that Hawkins was only miming to the original song.

However the inherent danger, cost, discomfort, and restrictive gender roles of the day, kept it popular mainly with wealthy adventurous young men, and mainly for recreation and sport.

However, they criticized the album for being nothing more than a recreation of their studio recordings, making it an essentially pointless release.

However, as supporting the war became a top priority and recreation secondary, the lodge was converted into a hospital, opening its doors in July 1943.

However, opponents of the nomination were concerned that World Heritage Site status would create problems for oil production, grazing rights, off-road recreation, and private property rights.

However, the political convention was a basis of the recreation of the Polish Army in France in 1939.

However, there is no recreation equipment in this building.

However, after 1815 the recreation of the Kingdom of Poland allowed for opening several military colleges in Poland.

However, the five-hall axis is a recent recreation.

However, starting the Friday after Labor Day, the Army Corps of Engineers provides a series of twenty-two controlled releases for the express purpose of downriver recreation.

However, scientists and conservationists have noted an increase in ORV recreation that prompted the National Park Service in 2001 to proactively manage ORV recreation and to reduce of primary trails within the preserve, despite persistent calls for more from hunters and ORV enthusiasts.