It is blind, fundamentalist dogmatism to say, `` Messing around with the King James version seems to us a perilous sport at best ''.

Today the recreational boating scene is awash with heartening statistics which prove the enormous growth of that sport.

A new waterfront site for the bureau is now being built at Atlantic City, New Jersey, to provide the most modern marine testing facilities as a further tool to keep the sport safe.

And is the sport really important??

Assistive technology may be used in adaptive sports, where an existing sport is modified to enable players with a disability to participate ; or, assistive technology may be used to invent completely new sports with athletes with disabilities exclusively in mind.

thumbAmerica's National Game is a book by Albert Spalding, published in 1911 detailing the early history of the sport of baseball.

The term argot is also used to refer to the informal specialized vocabulary from a particular field of study, hobby, job, sport, etc.

Australian football is a sport rich in tradition and Australian cultural references, especially surrounding the rituals of gameday for players, officials and supporters.

Australian rules is the national sport of Nauru.

Abadeh's main sport is Football, like the rest of the country.

Bandy is the biggest sport in the city.

The sport is generally geared around fall weather and playing in cold elements.

In the court's words: " For better or worse, being intentionally thrown at is a fundamental part and inherent risk of the sport of baseball.

Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players.

Baseball is the leading team sport in both Japan and Cuba, and the top level of play is similarly split between two leagues: Japan's Central League and Pacific League ; Cuba's West League and East League.

Basketball is a team sport, the objective being to shoot a ball through a basket horizontally positioned to score points while following a set of rules.

Competitive basketball is primarily an indoor sport played on a carefully marked and maintained basketball court, but less regulated variations are often played outdoors in both inner city and remote areas.

Badminton is a racquet sport played by either two opposing players ( singles ) or two opposing pairs ( doubles ), who take positions on opposite halves of a rectangular court that is divided by a net.

It is also a technical sport, requiring good motor coordination and the development of sophisticated racquet movements.

The sport is related to ball badminton, which originated in Tamil Nadu, and is similar to Hanetsuki which originated in Japan.

The Badminton World Federation ( BWF ) is the internationally recognized governing body of the sport.

Among the tournaments in this series is the venerable All-England Championships, first held in 1900, which was once considered the unofficial world championships of the sport.

Each individual Olympic Sport has a National Governing Body, supervised and funded by the USOC, which administers that sport and selects the athletes for the games.

The Soccer Club was organized by undergraduate men interested in playing soccer and promoting the sport.

While women had always attended ball games in small numbers ( it was the part of a `` dead game sport '' in the early years of the twentieth century to be taken out to the ball park and to root, root, root for the home team ), they had often sat in patient martyrdom, unable even to read the scoreboard, which sometimes seemed to indicate that one team led another by a score of three hundred and eighty to one hundred and fifty-one.

Popularity of the VFL grew rapidly and by 1925 with 12 teams, had become the most prominent league in the game and would dominate so many aspects of the sport from that point on.

A BMX bike, an example of a bicycle designed for sport Bicycles can be categorized in different ways: e. g. by function, by number of riders, by general construction, by gearing or by means of propulsion.

Boxing ( pugilism, prize fighting, the sweet science or in Greek pygmachia ) is a martial art and combat sport in which two people engage in a contest of strength, reflexes, and endurance by throwing punches at an opponent with the goal of a knockout with gloved hands.

The birth hour of boxing as a sport may be its acceptance by the ancient Greeks as an Olympic game as early as 688 BC.

Currently scoring blows in amateur boxing are subjectively counted by ringside judges, but the Australian Institute for Sport has demonstrated a prototype of an Automated Boxing Scoring System, which introduces scoring objectivity, improves safety, and arguably makes the sport more interesting to spectators.

Professional boxing remains by far the most popular form of the sport globally, though amateur boxing is dominant in Cuba and some former Soviet republics.

Short Mat Bowls is an all-year sport unaffected by weather conditions and it does not require a permanent location as the rink mats can be rolled up and stowed away.

BASE jumping is significantly more dangerous than similar sports such as skydiving from aircraft, and is currently regarded by many as a fringe extreme sport or stunt.

As the largest and most spectacular forest antelope, the western / lowland bongo is both an important flagship species for protected areas such as national parks, and a major trophy species which has been taken in increasing numbers in Central Africa by sport hunters during the 1990s.

Weather summaries are provided every half hour by forecasters from the BBC Weather Centre while business and sport updates are also presented generally from within the main studio.

The BBC News at Ten began simulcasting on the channel on 30 January 2006 as part of the Ten O ' Clock Newshour, followed by extended sport and business news updates.

Motor sport authors Mike Lawrence and David Hodges have said that a lack of resources may have cost the team results, a view echoed by Ron Tauranac.

Chess is a recognized sport of the International Olympic Committee, and international chess competition is sanctioned by the World Chess Federation.

Since then it has only been visited by sport fishermen, regularly scheduled patrols of the French Navy, and by Mexican tuna and shark fishermen.

Cricket is a bat-and-ball sport contested by two teams.

As a sport, cycling is governed internationally by the Union Cycliste Internationale in Switzerland, USA Cycling ( merged with the United States Cycling Federation in 1995 ) in the United States, ( for upright bicycles ) and by the International Human Powered Vehicle Association ( for other HPVs, or human-powered vehicles ).

The growing presentation of cheerleading as a sport to a global audience has been led by the 1997 start of broadcasts of cheerleading competition by ESPN International and the worldwide release of the 2000 film Bring it On.

In December 2008, the IFF and the sport of floorball received recognition from the International Olympic Committee ( IOC ).

* International Surfing Association is the world governing authority for the sport of surfing

In 2009, in the 121th IOC ( International Olympic Committee ) voting, karate did not receive the necessary two-thirds majority vote to become an Olympic sport.

In 2009 the International Federation of Poker was founded in Lausanne, Switzerland, becoming the official governing body for poker and promoting the game as a mind sport.

Polo is now an active sport in 77 countries, and although its tenure as an Olympic sport was limited to 1900 – 1939, in 1998 the International Olympic Committee recognised it as a sport with a bona fide international governing body, the Federation of International Polo.

Historically an amateur sport, in 1995 the International Rugby Board ( IRB ) removed restrictions on payments to players, making the game openly professional at the highest level for the first time.

Sometimes the sport is called Quad Hockey, Hóquei em Patins ( PT ), Rolhockey ( NL ), Rollhockey ( DE ), International Style Ball hockey, Rink Hockey ( FR ), Hockey Su Pista ( IT ), Hoquei sobre Patins ( CA ), Hockey sobre Patines ( ES ), Rulleskøjtehockey ( DA ), Rullbandy ( S ), Rulluisuhoki ( ET ) and Hardball hockey ( US ), depending on which region of the world it is played.

The sport of Sailboat racing is governed by the International Sailing Federation, and the rules under which competitors race are the Racing Rules of Sailing, which can be found on the ISAF web site.

Like any sport Federations in France, the French and International Federation of Savate are under the control of France Ministry of Sport and Youth.

Internationally, the International Shooting Sport Federation ( ISSF ) has oversight of all Olympic shooting events worldwide, while National Governing Bodies ( NGBs ) administer the sport within each country.

After the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, the International Table Tennis Federation instituted several rules changes aimed at making table tennis more viable as a televised spectator sport.

The International Triathlon Union ( ITU ) was founded in 1989 as the international governing body of the sport, with the chief goal, at that time, of putting triathlon on the Olympic program.

The sport is controlled by the International Weightlifting Federation ( IWF ).

They may cover a range of sport at an international level, like the International Olympic Committee and the International Paralympic Committee, or only a single sport at a national level, like the Rugby Football League.