The Lawn Tennis Association holds free umpire seminars at the National Tennis Centre in Roehampton. It starts with an ...

A try is the most exciting way of scoring in rugby union. They are worth five points - the maximum number of points you can score in one go in rugby union. A try is scored when a player touches the ...

A no-ball is a delivery which does not count as one of the bowler's six legitimate balls in one over. The fielding team are penalised one run every time a no-ball is bowled, which is added to the ...

First network connection links The University of California Los Angeles and The Stanford Research Institute Arpanet was created by the US Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Darpa.

Final: 23 October New Zealand 8-7 France (Eden Park, Auckland, 0900 BST) Report: New Zealand 8-7 France Bronze final: 21 October Wales 18-21 Australia (Eden Park, Auckland, 0830 BST) Report: Wales ...

We've been asking new converts to cricket to send in the questions about the game they don't quite understand. We have been flooded with almost 1,000 emails - and answered them as best we can. Here is ...

The second is a long, downhill par five - a right-to-left dogleg hole. When I first went there, I wondered if anybody had ever reached it in two because it doesn't look at all likely. There is a big ...

All defenders will tell you stopping goals is the most important thing in football. Talk to a striker and you'll be reminded they're the ones with the most important job! A team obviously needs both.

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

They need to be strong so that they can apply a lot of force to the water on each of their strokes. The extra muscle power makes them heavy. The average weight for a male world-class rower 90-95kg ...

They are designed to quickly replace the fluids which are lost by sweating. They also provide a boost of carbohydrates. The body prefers to use glucose as its source of energy. Sometimes it is better ...