GoTennis highlights both professional and amateur tennis news. ... Some focus on amateurs while others focus on professional tennis. ... Using the established brand and the solid infrastructure, we are poised for rapid growth and consolidation of the junior, college, professional and amateur web sites in the United States and later on in the much larger international tennis market. ...
The folk-games of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were vastly different from the sports we play today in numerous aspects of their structure, style etc. One of the shifts observed by Guttmann (1979) and others has been the secularisation of sport. One significant feature of folk-pastimes was their link to the ecclesiastical calendar and religious events. Malcolmson (1973) notes that the principal games of folk-football often took place on Shrove Tuesday, Good Friday and Christmas Day. However scheduling of sport in contemporary times is generally unrelated to the church or religious e...
When August died in 1826, Robert had been wrestling with the decision of pursuing a career in music or in literature. ... The friends he made there were not fellows who excelled at the study of law but of music, and his favorite professors were also amateur musicians. ...
