Scoreboards

In a basketball scoreboards feature, we look at Kobe Bryant and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and ask, who takes the spotlight? Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was born in 1947 in New York. He was born a Catholic but later converted to Islam and so changed his named to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. He had passion for basketba...

The design of the Roski's project football stadium is being especially altered to make it suitable for World Cup soccer. The 75,000-seater LA Stadium will be built on a 600 acre plot of land near the junction of freeways 57 and 60. If the US wins the bid to bring the World Cup back to the country in 2018 or 2022, this stadium would host a number of World Cup matches.

For decades the debate has raged in soccer circles about goal-line technology. The World Cup of 2010 was particularly controversial with more than one incident involving close goal-line calls. For example, with the soccer scoreboards showing 2-1 to Germany, England scored a goal as the referee deemed that it had not crossed the line, when replays clearly showed that the goal should have stood.

Basketball is one of the few sports which practically demands a distinct physique. As we all know, that demand is height. Most of the players in the NBA of today and the past are and were over 6 feet tall, and many 6 foot 6 and above. Clearly height is an obvious advantage in basketball, unlike in sports such as soccer or baseball, in which physical attributes are much less important. In one way this is a inherent disadvantage of the game of basketball: whilst the best soccer player in the world today, Messi, is only 5 foot 7, in basketball the vast majority of players of such a a height will get nowhere. In another way, this is not strictly true, as there have been some notable exceptions in the game of basketball over the years. Below we look the shortest players in basketball history who made it big.

1) Will Yao Ming come back strong? In his first 3 seasons, the basketball scoreboards showed that he hardly missed a game, but in the last 5 seasons he has suffered from set back after set back, and he missed all of last season. When injury free, he is generally considered one of the top 3 big men in the NBA. Can he come back this season and re-assert his dominance? Only time can answer this question

In a football scoreboards feature, here are 5 great tips for the budding quarterback. In American football the quarterback is the undisputed leader of the game and is generally considered as the single most influential player on the field. For this reason many youngsters aspire to play exactly in ...