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Yes. When you are an official “athletic booster,” the NCAA prohibits you from doing certain things involving athlete recruitment. To be considered a booster according to the NCAA, you have to have done any of the following activities: This casts a pretty wide net, especially that last one. There…
This is hard to describe in words. You sort of have to watch it visually. Here are two great videos : It’s tempting to compare this to baseball, because there are some similarities, but it’s also very different. First, the “pitcher” and the “batters” are in the middle of a circular field – it’s not…
No one agrees where this came from. One story: there was a person that waited down the driving range to see where the ball landed. This caddy was known as a “fore-caddy.” Yelling “Fore!” was a way of warning the fore-caddy that a ball was on the way. However, there are other origin stories. Here’s a…
There are five alpine skiing events in the Olympics: All of them involve navigating a course down the side of a mountain while turning to go through “gates” demarked by flags. They’re differentiated by how close the gates are, which dictates how often the skier has to turn and therefore how fast…