Games include Disc Golf Singles Tournament, Basketball Free Throw Contest, Pickleball Instructional Clinic, Sports Injury Prevention Seminar, TRX Sports Training, Ultimate Frisbee Clinic, Yoga for all levels, Water Sports Spectacular and more!
Expect soccer "ghoul" kicking and "freak throw" contests.
AND FINALLY The North-Western Evening Mail in Barrow reports that that Mike Bevans, proprietor of Linthwaite House hotel in Windermere, is launching a monthly welly throwing contest on a specially designed rink in a bid to attract more overseas visitors.
This Nordic nation, mostly known for saunas, reindeer and white nights, is also home to some of the least traditional sporting contests in the word, such as a wife carrying world championship, a mobile phone throwing contest and a naked road race.
Aboriginal sporting traditions included wrestling, spear-throwing contests, sham fights, various types of football using possum-skin balls, spinning discs and stick games".
Con enough people out of millions of dollars and you'll get to live a life of hedonistic luxury where you can surround yourself with chimps on roller skates, pay women to have sex with you and enjoy midget throwing contests during slow days at the office.
To return to the basketball analogy, imagine that one of the two contestants in the free-throw contest was Rick Barry, who was famous in the 1960's and 70's for his unique underhand free-throw technique and for having one of the higher free-throw percentages in professional basketball.
There is a growing drive, however, to change the rules and throw the contest open to the light of public scrutiny.
Landis biographer Pietrusza details the effect of Landis's stand against gambling: Before 1920 if one player approached another player to throw a contest, there was a very good chance he would not be informed upon.
Imagine a 10-shot free-throw contest between two players, one who shoots with one hand and the other who shoots with both hands.
In 1997, Kevin Bannon, the head coach at the time, allegedly forced two players to participate in a free-throw contest in which a miss would require the removal of an article of clothing.
