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Scientific American

In 1904 Robert Guérin led a group o f football enthusiasts in forming the Fédération Internationale de Football Association , which England’s insular Football Association was at first too conceited to join. While the aesthetic factor survives in sports corresponding to figure skating, diving, and gymnastics, the trendy emphasis is usually on quantified achievement. In reality, the transition from Renaissance to modern sports activities can be seen in a semantic shift; the word measure, which once connoted a sense of balance and proportion, began to refer virtually exclusively to numerical measurements. Among the many video games of North Africa was ta kurt om el mahag (“the ball of the pilgrim’s mother”), a Berber bat-and-ball contest whose configuration bore an uncanny resemblance to baseball. Alabama defensive coordinator Pete Golding has issued a statement after he was arrested and charged with a DUI. A suspect has been arrested following an altercation during final weekend's...