The Gulf Stream is a powerful, warm and swift Atlantic Ocean current that originates at the tip of Florida and follows the coastline of the eastern United States to Newfoundland before crossing the Atlantic Ocean bringing large sport fish species such as the Atlantic Blue Marlin and other Billfish close to the North Carolina coastline.

Sometimes called Shin-karate / Shinkarate ( or " new " karate, in a partial translation ) depending on sport organization and promoter-with the largest sport organizations being Shinkaratedo renmei and All Japan Glove Karate Federation This system originates in Japan where it has become a popular amateur sport for karate fighters wishing to enter professional kickboxing.

it is sometimes erroneously believed that this was the origin of the phrase " Saved by the bell ", whilst in fact, the phrase originates from the sport of boxing.

On the final round at Pensacola, the luck of the draw paired Palmer and Player in the same threesome and, although it was far from obvious at the time, the gallery was treated to the first chapter of what promises to be one of the most exciting duels in sport for a long time to come.

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

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.

It has long been believed that cricket also descended from such games, though evidence uncovered in early 2009 suggests that the sport may have been imported to England from Flanders .< ref >

During the Civil war, soldiers from different parts of the United States played baseball together, leading to a more unified national version of the sport.

The game of Crown Green Bowls is looking to grow with the introduction of the Portuguese Masters in October and recent interest from Sky TV to re-televise the sport.

Bocce ( sometimes anglicized as bocci or boccie ) is a ball sport belonging to the boules sport family, closely related to bowls and pétanque with a common ancestry from ancient games played in the Roman Empire.

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 ).

Modern boomerangs used for sport are often made from carbon fibre-reinforced plastics, thin aircraft plywood, or other high-tech materials.

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.

Bud Selig was a close friend of the late Bart Giamatti, who was the commissioner when Rose was first banned from the sport in 1989.

Since then, with several relaunches, an increase in funding and resources from the BBC and improvements in digital television technology, the channel has been able to diversify content, with two minute looped bulletins available to view via BBC Red Button, BBC News Online and the BBC's mobile website, alongside individual weather and sport bulletins.

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.

There was a revival in the 1890s, but from then onwards, croquet was always a minority sport, with national individual participation amounting to a few thousand players.

Cheerleading is a physical activity, sometimes a competitive sport, based on organized routines, usually ranging from one to three minutes, which contain the components of tumbling, dance, jumps, cheers, and stunting to direct spectators of events to cheer on sports teams at games or to participate in competitions.

Cheerleading is quickly becoming a year-round sport, starting with tryouts during the spring of the preceding school year, organized camp as a team, practices, attendance at various sporting events and ending with National competition season, typically from winter through spring.

Walter Camp, known as the " Father of American Football ", is credited with changing the game from a variation of rugby into a unique sport.

In 1905, President Theodore Roosevelt threatened to ban the sport following a series of player deaths from injuries suffered during games. The deaths and injuries were a result of the mass formations and gang tackling that characterized the sport in its early years.

The spiritual teacher Meher Baba described dualism as consisting of the opposites of experience, which must become balanced before one can go beyond them: " Evolution from the standpoint of the Creator is a divine sport, in which the Unconditioned tests the infinitude of His absolute knowledge, power and bliss in the midst of all conditions.

Diving is the sport of jumping or falling into water from a platform or springboard, sometimes while performing acrobatics.

In competitive diving, FINA takes regulatory steps to ensure that athletes are protected from the inherent dangers of the sport.

Since 1992, badminton has been an Olympic sport with five events: men's and women's singles, men's and women's doubles, and mixed doubles, in which each pair consists of a man and a woman.

At one point, almost every major city in the US had a velodrome or two for track racing events, however since the middle of the 20th century cycling has become a minority sport in the US whilst in Continental Europe it continues to be a major sport, particularly in the United Kingdom, France, Belgium, Italy and Spain.

These squads have become a part of a year-round sport, starting with tryouts in the spring, to year-round practice, to sporting events to cheer at in the fall and winter, and to cheerleading competitions.

Masters ' Diving events are normally conducted in age-groups of 5 or 10 years, and attract competitors of a wide range of ages and experience ( many, indeed, are newcomers to the sport ); the oldest competitor in a Masters ' Diving Championship was Viola Krahn, who at the age of 101 was the first person in any sport, male or female, anywhere in the world, to compete in an age-group of 100 + years in a nationally organized competition.

During the festival there are beginners ' lessons, professional dives, lessons in underwater photography, screenings and other events related to the sport.

The largest events in the sport are the Olympic Games, World Championships, World Cup and Grand-Prix Tournaments.

Some other important sport events are the Lower Saxony Beach Volleyball Tournament, the international horse show German Classics and the international ice hockey tournament Nations Cup.

Set against that is a strong culture of motor sport enthusiasm ( pinaccled in the TT, but there are a huge number of events throughout the year ) and the better locals are well used to traversing country roads at speeds illegal in roads of such low quality anywhere else on earth.

Jetsprinting as an organised sport originated in New Zealand in 1981, and events were originally held in the same natural braided rivers that had inspired Sir William Hamilton to develop the jetboat, but when the sport was introduced to Australia in the mid-1980s permanent artificial courses were used — and this is now the norm even in New Zealand.

The sport entered the ' modern ' era in the 1960s, with notable names like Jim Wynn, Don Aronow, and Dick Bertram competing in mammoth events such as the Bahamas race.

Outside of the Netherlands, Philips sponsors and has sponsored numerous sport clubs, sport facilities and events.

It takes the form of events, held by touring companies, which mimic a title match combat sport.

The sport is governed internationally by the Fédération Internationale de Natation ( FINA ), and competition pools for FINA events are 25 or 50 metres in length.

There are three main international traditional sport events in Saaremaa:

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.

Track Cycling is a bicycle racing sport usually held on specially built banked tracks or velodromes ( but many events are held at older velodromes where the track banking is relatively shallow ) using track bicycles.

In 2006 Ultimate became a BUCS accredited sport at UK universities for both indoor and outdoor open division events.