The sport is also very popular on the eastern side of the Adriatic, especially in Slovenia ( where it is known as balinanje or colloquial playing boče or bale from Italian bocce or palle meaning balls ), Croatia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Hercegovina ( in Serbo-Croatian known under the name of boćanje or simply playing boće ( colloquial also bućanje or playing balote ), originating in Italian boccie ).

If one has to name a famous boxer, they are more likely to name Muhammad Ali or Mike Tyson, since their fame expanded beyond the sport itself.

The IAAUS would get its current name of National Collegiate Athletic Association ( NCAA ), in 1910 which still sets rules governing the sport.

Each of FAO ’ s Goodwill Ambassadors – celebrities from the arts, entertainment, sport and academia such as Nobel Prize winner Rita Levi Montalcini, actress Gong Li, the late singer Miriam Makeba, and soccer players Roberto Baggio and Raúl, to name a few – has made a personal and professional commitment to FAO ’ s vision: a food-secure world for present and future generations.

Roller hockey, also known as quad hockey, international-style ball hockey, and Hoquei em Patins is an overarching name for a roller sport that has existed since long before inline skates were invented.

In some countries, where the sport is very popular, it is known simply as " hockey "; however, the name ice hockey is used in countries in which the word hockey is generally reserved for another form of hockey, such as field hockey or street hockey.

The country's " A " ( second-level ) national team in that sport now bears the Jaguars name.

He had already announced his plan which was named " The draft principles of project of establishment of a new sport and its industrialization " in November, 1959, and he proposed the tentative name of " karate-boxing " for this new sport.

It was the first combat sport that adopted the name of " Kickboxing " in 1966, later termed " Japanese kickboxing " as a retronym.

* KAOS (" Killing as organised sport "), an alternative name for Assassin

The code was originally known as " rugby football "; it was not until after the schism in England in 1895, which resulted in the separate code of rugby league, that the sport took on the name " rugby union " to differentiate it from the league game.

The university club teams, which are supported financially by the Student Union as well as by individual members of the teams, do not use the Varsity Reds name and thus continue the tradition of using different nicknames for each sport.

Gaelic football ( Irish: Peil Ghaelach ; short name Peil or Caid ), commonly referred to as football or Gaelic, is a sport played between two teams of 15 players on a rectangular grass pitch.

name of an Olympic sport.

; Sports: Most of these programs create a sporting competition among athletes attempting to establish their name in that sport.

: Not all sports programs, however, involve athletes trying to make a name in the sport.

It was initially known as the International Amateur Athletics Federation but changed later its name to reflect that the sport had moved away from amateurism towards professionalism in the late 1970s.

The modern use of the leopard as an emblem for sport or a coat of arms is much more restricted to Africa, though numerous products worldwide have used the name.

In its early days, the sport was most popular in Britain, and the British gave the competition a new name, the " Three-Day Event ", due to the three day time span of the competition.

Often wrestlers have little choice in their name, which is given to them by their trainer ( or stablemaster ), or by a supporter or family member who encouraged them into the sport.

In 2005 it changed its name to V8 Supercars Australia to make it more identifiable with the sport.

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Bill Doolin's ambition, it appeared, was to carve out his name with bullets alongside those of Jesse James and Billy the Kid, and Bill Tilghman had sworn he would stop him.

At this time Miriam Noel appeared, urging on Constable Henry Pengally, whose name showed him to be a descendant of the Welsh settlers in the neighborhood.

The Institute derives its name from Paul Von Groth's Chemische Krystallographie, a five-volume work which appeared between 1906 and 1919.

In Arabic translations, his name has appeared as Abdullah ( عبدالله الحظرد ): Arabic حظر = " he fenced in ", " he prohibited ".

Moody and Sankey began publishing their compositions in 1875, and " Amazing Grace " appeared three times with three different melodies, but they were the first to give it its title ; hymns were typically published using the first line of the lyrics, or the name of the tune such as " New Britain ".

It has been mass produced on souvenirs, lent its name to a Superman villain, appeared on The Simpsons to demonstrate the redemption of a murderous character named Sideshow Bob, incorporated into Hare Krishna chants and adapted for Wicca ceremonies.

Perhaps the Aster computer inspired another Dutch computer firm to name their computer after another typical Dutch flower — the Tulip's Tulip System-1 which appeared about the same time Aster folded.

Nin appeared in the Kenneth Anger film Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome ( 1954 ) as Astarte ; in the Maya Deren film Ritual in Transfigured Time ( 1946 ); and in Bells of Atlantis ( 1952 ), a film directed by Guiler under the name " Ian Hugo " with a soundtrack of electronic music by Louis and Bebe Barron.

He also mentioned her by name in " I Shall Be Free ", which appeared on his second album, The Freewheelin ' Bob Dylan.

The god apparently felt that the promise would be kept, so he appeared in battle and at the crucial moment he instilled the Persians with his own brand of fear, the mindless, frenzied fear that bore his name: " panic ".

The village is said to take its name from the " Bold Venture " that it must have appeared to build a farm in this moorland, but this is probably folk etymology, as " Bol -" is a common prefix in Cornish placenames.

Charles was the resident poet on Channel 4's Black on Black ( 1985 ), and its entertainment-based successor, Club Mix ( 1986 ), and appeared, weekly, as a John Cooper Clarke-style ' punk poet ' on the BBC2 pop music programme Oxford Road Show under the name of " Susan Williams ".

It has been believed that this was also why Peirce used " Santiago " (" St. James " in Spanish ) as a middle name, but he appeared in print as early as 1890 as Charles Santiago Peirce.

By 1910, the name had changed to Addicks although it also appeared as Haddick.

I suppose the reason was, because this liberty beyond our hopes appeared to us ; and that thence was the name given to that festival.

Catharism (; from, katharos, pure ) was a name given to a Christian religious movement with dualistic and gnostic elements that appeared in the Languedoc region of France and other parts of Europe in the 11th century and flourished in the 12th and 13th centuries.

The song never appeared in a Levi's commercial, although in interviews Biafra described the situation surrounding the commercial in detail and was able to give specifics about the advertisement, including the name of the advertising agency that had created the commercial's script.

Not only did he keep a personal shrine dedicated to her in his bedroom, she regularly appeared on his coinage — in four different attested reverse types — and he founded a legion, Legio I Minervia, in her name.

In his first New York byline, the American editor dropped the " Alfred " and the name " Damon Runyon " appeared for the first time.

The name Eocene comes from the Greek ( eos, dawn ) and ( kainos, new ) and refers to the " dawn " of modern (' new ') mammalian fauna that appeared during the epoch.

The name " Graphic Design " first appeared in print in the 1922 essay " New Kind of Printing Calls for New Design " by William Addison Dwiggins, an American book designer in the early 20th century.

Years later Archie's son, Phil Campbell, as well as Gordie Tapp appeared in a recurring skit about two police officers .. the skit's name escapes me at the moment.

While his stories appeared in the pages of prominent pulp magazines such as Weird Tales ( eliciting letters of outrage as often as letters of praise from regular readers of the magazines ), not many people knew his name.

Faced with difficulties in Italy and confident that he would realize his wishes in Germany at a later date, Henry returned to the south, where it appeared he might unify the peninsula under the Hohenstaufen name.

He went on to write and publish six more novels under the name John Wyndham, all of which appeared in his lifetime.