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Saddle bronc-riding is the classic rodeo event in which a competing cowboy must retain his seat on a wildly bucking horse for ten seconds and is marked for the style with which he does so. During the ride the rider must keep one hand free and held in the air.
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The salchow is a jump in figure skating in which the skater takes off from a back inside edge, rotating in mid- air before landing on the back outside edge of the opposite foot.
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Salford RLC are an English Rugby League club. They joined the Northern Union in 1896 and were an outstanding team during the 1930s.
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Samba is a variation of Canasta. In some places it is known as Samba-Canasta; one Dutch book also calls it Straat-Canasta (Sequence-Canasta).
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The San Diego Padres are an American professional baseball team. They entered the National League in 1969 when the league expanded to twelve teams.
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The San Francisco 49ers are an American professional football team. They were a founding member of the All- America Conference in 1946, and upon its dissolution in 1950 they were merged into the NFL.
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The San Francisco Giants are an American professional baseball team. They received the transfer of the National League franchise from the New York Giants in 1958.
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Sand Yachting is a sport involving the mounting of a small sailing dinghy on a simple chassis with three or four car wheels. The boats are then propelled by the wind over sand, tarmac, concrete or other level surfaces. The sail is operated as it would be on water, and the vehicle is steered by a steering wheel or pedals.
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Santos are a Brazilian Association Football club of Sao Paulo. They were formed in 1912, and turned professional in 1933 winning the Sao Paulo League title in 1935 and again in 1955.
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The Saskatchewan Roughriders are a Canadian professional football team. They entered the Western Interprovincial Rugby Union in 1936 as the Regina Roughriders and changed their name in 1948 to
Saskatchewan Roughriders.
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Savate was an individual folk combat sport, practised largely in France until the early nineteenth century. It allowed striking the opponent with fists or feet, and tripping and in some variations the use of a stick. A refined variation was known as chausson. From around 1826 refinements to the sport led to the development of French boxing.
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Scat (Ride the Bus) is a simple draw and discard card game, suitable for players of all ages. Players have a three-card hand and the aim is to collect cards in a single suit worth 31 points or as near as possible to that total. It is played in the USA and the UK. In the USA it is usually called Scat or 31. From two to nine or more people can play and a standard 52-card deck is used. For scoring hands, the ace is worth 11 points, the kings, queens, and jacks are worth 10, and all other cards are worth their pip value. The value of a three- card hand is calculated by adding up the value of the cards held in any one suit. So if you have three cards of the same suit, you can add up all three. If only two cards are in the same suit you can add those, or use the value of the odd card if it is higher than the sum of the other two. If you have three different suits the value of your hand is the value of the highest card in it. The maximum hand value is 31, consisting of the ace and two ten-point cards in the same suit.
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Schafkopf is a point-trick card game, normally played with a German suited 32 card pack. As in several related games, the card values are ace=11, ten= 10, king=4, over=3, under=2, but Schafkopf has the special feature that the overs and unders are permanent trumps, ranking above the ace.
Schafkopf is considered to be the national card game of Bavaria. It is also played, probably in several different versions, in the south-east of Germany.
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Schieberamsch is a point trick card game for three players. It occurs as a variation within Skat, but also makes a good game in its own right. As it is (mostly) a negative game, it looks like a cross between Skat and Hearts, but in practice it feels significantly different from either. It is played with a 32-card pack is used, French or German suited, containing the cards AKQJT987 (AKOUT987) in each suit. If German suits are used the correspondence is acorns=clubs, leaves=spades, hearts= hearts, bells= diamonds. The trump suit consists of just the four jacks ranking in the order CJ (highest), SJ, HJ, DJ (lowest). The remaining cards comprise 4 plain suits, in each of which the cards rank A (highest), T, K, Q, 9, 8, 7 (lowest).
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Schnapsen (Schnapser) is a popular Austrian two-handed card game. It is essentially a tightened-up version of the classic German game Sechsundsechzig. Other closely related games include Tausendeins (Austria), Tute (Spain), Tyzicha Odin (Ukraine), and Snapszli (Hungary).
Schnapsen is a point-trick game of the Marriage group, and so the basic idea is to win points by capturing valuable cards in tricks, and to make bonuses by melding marriages (matched pairs of kings and queens). However, there are a few ideas that set Schnapsen apart. The first is that the game is played at trick-and- draw with no requirement to follow suit until the stock is closed, at which point the tricks remaining in hand are played out strictly following suit. The second is that to win a hand you need 66 card points, and the players are required to keep track of their score in their heads - the use of a score sheet is not allowed. If your score reaches 66 and you neglect to announce the fact, then your opponent can claim a win when they reach 66, irrespective of your score; also, if a player claims 66 when they have not in fact made it, they pay a penalty. A game is seven game points, and can be reached pretty quickly when penalties and bonuses come into play.
Finally, the pack is so short that there's no dead wood: virtually every card counts and it can be challenging deciding how to play each one. The short pack allows a fairly complete understanding of the lay of the cards to be quikly built up, and closing turns out to be the key element of strategy. Very few games are played out to the end of the pack, and the decision of when to close can be used as a blow to crush your opponent or as a gamble to prevent them from presenting you with the same fate.
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In card games a school is a group of players who play for money. The term is particularly applied to the game of Poker.
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Schwimmen belongs to the Commerce group of card games, in which you improve your hand by exchanging cards with a central pool of face-up cards. Other names for the game are 31, Schnautz, Knack and Hosen 'runter (trousers down). Although it is known in many parts of the world, it seems to be particularly popular in Germany and the western part of Austria.
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The Scorton Arrow is an annual competition for archers. The rules were drawn up in 1673 by a society of archers in the North Riding of Yorkshire who agreed to hold a competition shooting at targets for an ancient silver arrow.
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The Scottish Games Association was formed in 1948 to organise and co- ordinate professional athletics meetings in Scotland.
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The Scottish Milk Race is an international amateur cycling stage race modelled on the Tour of Britain. It started in 1963 as a one-day race and soon developed into a five-day race covering about 800 km.
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Scrabble is a board game based upon a crossword puzzle.
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The Seattle Pilots are an American professional baseball team. They joined the American League in 1969 when the league expanded to twelve teams. In 1970 the franchise was shifted to Milwaukee.
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Seio-nage is a shoulder throw used in judo.
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The Sella Descent is an international long-distance canoeing event held annually at Ribadesella in northern Spain during August. The course is 16.5 km long, rocky and with a number of weirs to shoot.
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Sepak Takraw is a game played with a rattan ball on a badminton court and popular in south-eastern Asia where it is known under several names: Sipak, Takraw, Sepak raga.
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Sergeant Major is a trick taking card game for three players, using a standard 52-card deck. It is played clockwise. The aim is to win as many tricks as possible. If a player succeeds in winning 12 or more tricks in one hand, the game ends and that player wins.
The first dealer is chosen at random. The cards are dealt singly, 16 to each player. The last four are undealt cards are placed face down on the table to form a kitty. The dealer names a suit as trumps (clubs, spades, hearts or diamonds - no trump is not allowed), discards any four cards face down, and takes the four undealt cards from the kitty in their place. The player to dealer's left leads any card to the first trick. It is compulsory to follow suit if able to; a player holding no card of the suit led may play any card.
Each trick is won by the highest trump it contains, or if there are no trumps in it, by the highest card of the suit led. The winner of each trick leads to the next. Each player has a target. The dealer's target is eight tricks; the player to dealer's left has a target of 5 tricks; and the player to dealer's right needs three tricks. A player who won more tricks than the target is said to be up by the number of tricks won in excess of target. A player who failed to reach the target is down by the number of tricks short. The player(s) who are down pay one stake per trick short of target, and the player (s) who are up receive one stake per overtrick.
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Servette are a Swiss Association Football club of Geneva founded in 1890.
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Sevens (Parliament, Fan Tan or Card Dominoes) is a card game that involves getting rid of all your cards by playing them to a layout. In the basic game this layout starts with the 7 of each suit and grows outward towards the king in one direction and the ace in the other. In France, the equivalent game is called Domino. The layout can be started with a rank of the first player's choice, and the other suits must then begin with the same rank (as in the Domino contract of the game Barbu).
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Shanghai is a card game. It is a variant of Rummy for three to five players played with two 52-card decks shuffled together.
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The Sheffield Shield is an Australian cricket trophy awarded to the premier state team each season. It was first contested in 1892 and won by Victoria.
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The Shell Shield is a West Indian cricket trophy instituted in 1965 by the Shell Oil Company to stimulate West Indies cricket competition.
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A shiai is a judo contest.
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Shinty (camanachd) is a native stick-and-ball game of the Scottish Highlands, originally the same as Hurling the two have developed their own separate styles, but the basis remains the same, driving a ball through a goal with a stick.
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The Shot Put is a standard field event for men and women on the programme of all major athletics championships. It is a sport of martial origin, soldiers having used cannon balls for throwing contests for hundreds of years.
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Shove-halfpenny is a game played on a marked board in which halfpennies or discs are jerked from the edge along the board with the ball of the thumb. The object is to lodge the coins within marked areas on the board. It was once a popular game in English pubs.
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Show Jumping is an equestrian event in which horse and rider jump a set course of fences specially designed and built for each contest.
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Shuffle-Board (shovelboard) is a deck game adapted from shove-ha'penny. The game is played with wooden discs about six inches in diameter which are pushed along the deck with a long handled driver fitted with a semi- circular shoe that fits the disc. The discs are pushed from a line on to a marked area of the deck to score points.
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The Single lasco lift is a pairs figure skating movement. From a side-by- side hand-to-hand position the woman is lifted overhead in an outside forward take-off, turning one and a half revolutions with the man's arms stretched (lasso pose) and the woman's legs in split position. The man remains forward to complete a backward landing on the right outside edge.
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Single-stick was a game of cudgels, in which the competitor who first brought blood from his opponent's head was the winner.
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The Six Nations is an international rugby union tournament. It evolved from the Five Nations tournament, and the first matches were played on Saturday the 5th of february 2000, the last winners of the Five Nations tournament, Scotland, were beaten by the new addition of Italy. The teams involved are: England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, France and Italy.
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Ski jumping is the oldest form of competitive skiing. Competitors (called jumpers) slide down a prepared track and then leaps into the air from a takeoff platform. Jumpers are judged on the distance covered, body control, and style. This event is more akin to flying than to skiing because body control in the air with the skier bent forward almost parallel to his skis is judged more closely than control of skis on the ground. Skis made for jumping are heavier, longer, and wider than alpine skis and are designed for gliding rather than manoeuvrability.
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Skibobbing is a sport practised on any ski slope on a low elongated vehicle resembling a bicycle with skis in place of wheels, one fixed at the rear and the other mobile in the front to allow steering.
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Skiing is a competitive sport carried out on snow with the competitors feet attached to long thin shaped runners known as skis.
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Skitgubbe Is a popular Swedish game for three players. In Norwegian it is called Mattis.
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Skittles is a game played with pins and balls, discs or cheeses or other similar projectiles, the object being to knock over the pins with the missiles.
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Skylark was an amusement practised by sailors on old sailing ships. The amusement involved climbing one of the tall masts and sliding down a rope.
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Slalom is a form of skiing competition in which competitors descend a course made up of a series of ' gates' made from poles that are set singly, in pairs, or in combinations, in the shortest possible time. Olympic slalom events require a course to have a vertical drop of at least 200 meters from the beginning to the finish line.
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Slavia Sofia is a Bulgarian women's basketball club. It was formed in 1959 and was the first winner of the women's European Cup for Champion Clubs.
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Snapdragon was a game played in England druing the 18th century. It involved snatching raisins from a bowl of burning brandy and eating them while still alight.
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Snooker is a game derived from billiards.
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Softball is a nine-a-side variant of baseball played with a larger ball.
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Solitaire is a game played by one person on a board with 33 small indentations, in which 32 marbles are placed - the centre hole remaining unfilled. The object is to remove by 'jumping' - a marble may pass over another into an adjacent empty space - all the marbles except one, which should be left in the centre hole.
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Solo Whist is a card game, a modification of the American game of Boston or whist. It is played by four individual players, who may form temporary partnerships, with a full pack of fifty-two cards. It was brought to London around 1852.
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The Sooners is the nickname of the University of Oklahoma American College Football team.
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Sospan Fach (little saucepan) is a nickname of Llanelli RFC.
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Soule was a primitive team ball-and-goal game played in France prior to the nineteenth century. The ball was propelled towards the opponent team's goal by way of feet, hands and sometimes sticks.
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The South American Championship is an Association Football championship for international teams initiated in 1917 and first played in Montevideo when it was won by Uruguay.
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The South American Cup is an Association Football trophy introduced in 1960 to provide a team which would meet the winners of the European Cup.
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Soutrhampton FC (known as 'Saints') are an English Association Football club founded in 1885 as Southampton St Mary's as a church club comprised of men from the St Mary's Church Young Men's association. In 1898 Southampton FC moved to a new ground, The Dell, and in 1920 joined the Football League. In 2001 they moved their ground to the newly built Friends Provident St Mary's Stadium. During the Second World War the Dell was bombed, and Southampton FC switched home grounds to local rivals Portsmouth FC's Fratton Park ground. In 1976 Southampton FC won the FA Cup.
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Spaceball is a game played with an eight ounce ball on a trampoline.
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Spartak Moscow are a Russian Association Football club of Moscow. They were founded in 1926.
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Speculation is a card game played with a full deck of cards. Each player contributes to a pool, the dealer paying double. The dealer then distributes three cards face down, one at a time, to each player and then turns the top card of the reaming deck face upwards for trumps. Should the turned over card be an ace, the dealer takes the pot, otherwise the players may bid for the card, the purchaser placing it upon his own cards. Play begins by the elder hand turning the top card of the three dealt to him; if not of the trump suit it has no bearing on the game. Each player turns a card until a higher trump appears than the one already exposed. This trump then becomes an object for speculation, and this selling and buying of cards continues until one of the players holds the highest trump of the hand, which entitles him to the pool.
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Speedway or Dirt Track racing involves racing single-cylinder motor cycles up to 500cc around a track of small sifted cinders. The skill involves maintaining a high speed around the corners, which is achieved by skidding by dragging the left foot along the ground.
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Spinado is a card game. It is a variety of Newmarket in which the holder of the ace of diamonds, when he has the lead, may use it as a stop to any sequence when he calls 'spin'. He may then start another sequence of his own and so be able to play a card corresponding to one of those in the lay-out, which is the object of the game, as it entitles him to all stakes upon that card. In other respects the game is played like Newmarket.
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Spite and Malice is a kind of competitive patience (solitaire) card game for two players. It is also known as Cat and Mouse. Both players try to be the first to get rid of a pile of 'pay-off cards' by playing them to centre stacks which are begun with an ace and continue in upward sequence to a king. This is not a physical race (as in Spit or Racing Demon where play is simultaneous) - in Spite and Malice the players take turns.
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The split lutz lift is a movement in pairs figure skating. Both partners start from a side-by-side position, travelling backwards. The woman is lifted from an outside back edge. During the lift she assumes a split lutz position. At the conclusion of the lift she is travelling on a back outside edge and the man on a forward outside edge.
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The Springboks are the South African representative rugby union team. The nickname Springboks was first used in 1906 when the South Africans toured the British Isles.
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Squash Rackets (Squash) is a fairly new bat-and-ball game usually played by two players, within an enclosed rectangular court 32 feet long by 21 feet wide. The object is to hit a small rubber ball out of reach of the opponent with a racket similar to, but smaller than, a rackets racket.
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Squash Tennis is an American development of Squash Rackets played with a ball similar to, but slightly smaller than a tennis ball.
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St Helens is an English Rugby League Football club founded in 1875. It was a founder of the Northern Union which it won in 1932.
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The St Leger Stakes (St Leger Sweepstakes) is an English horse race forming the third leg of the English triple crown. It was founded in 1776 by Colonel Anthony St Ledger, though not named St Leger Sweepstakes until 1778, and is run by colts and mares in September on the Town Moor at Doncaster over 2900 meters.
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The St Louis Blues are an American Ice Hockey club of St Louis, Missouri. They were formed in 1967 as one of six teams in the new West Division of the expanded National Hockey League of North America.
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The St Louis Browns are an American professional baseball team. The team was founded in 1902 and moved to Baltimore in 1954.
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The St Louis Cardinals are an American professional baseball team, formed during the 1870s.
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In Australian Rules football, a stab kick or stab pass is a rapid kick of the ball from one player to another member of his team.
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Stadium was a Greek measure of length equal to 600 Greek feet (582.5 Imperial feet or 177.5 meters). The foot race at the Olympic games was a stadium in length and the word has thus become to mean any permanent arena for sports and games.
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The Stanley Cup is the oldest Ice Hockey trophy competed for by professional athletes in North America. It is awarded annually to the winning team in the Stanley Cup play-off series contested by the highest-placed clubs at the end of the NHL championship. The cup was donated in 1893 by Lord Stanley of Preston, then governor- general of Canada, originally for presentation to the amateur champions of Canada.
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The Stawell Gift Handicap is an Australian professional running race. It was inaugurated in 1878 in the mining town of Stawell, in Victoria. The race itself is an uphill sprint of 130 yards.
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Originally a steeplechase was a trial of speed and jumping powers between two or more horses across the country between two church steeples. Today, the course is a regular race course with artificial fences for the horses to jump. In athletics, the 3000 meters steeplechase is a hurdling event for men on the programme of all major athletics championships.
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The Stewards' Cup is an English horse race. It is a sprint handicap for horses three-years old and older and was instituted in 1840. The Stewards' Cup is run over a six furlong course at Goodwood on the first day of the annual meeting in July.
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In card games the stock is the cards remaining in the deck after the deal has been completed.
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Stoke City FC is an Association Football club founded in 1863 by old boys of Charterhouse school and known as simply Stoke. In 1885 the club became professional and in 1924 the name was changed to Stoke City.
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Stoolball is an eleven-a-side ball game played with a ball slightly smaller than a rounders ball and a bat with a flat and bevelled side. The game is played on a pitch 16 yards long with a bowling crease 1 yard long at a distance of 10 yards from either wicket. The wickets are boards 1 foot square mounted on stakes, the top of the wicket being 4 feet and 8 inches from the ground. The scoring is similar to, but simpler than cricket with the batting side defending the wicket from balls thrown by the other side and scoring runs after hitting the balls.
Originally stoolball involved a stool placed upon the ground, and defended by a batsman who hit away balls bowled at the stool with his hand, scoring one point for each, and being out when the stool was struck by the ball. Later a stick or bat was employed by the batsman, and in the 20th century the game was revived and the modern game of stoolball established.
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Styrivolt is a card game which is more than 300 years old and was probably invented in Denmark. It has been played in the Faroe Islands for over 200 years.
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Sueca is point-trick card game with trumps played in Portugal and Brazil. It is popular with students in Rio de Janeiro because it's fast and you don't need a table to play it.
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Sunderland FC are an Association Football club founded in 1879 as Sunderland and District Teachers' AFC, it adopted its present name in 1881 and turned professional in 1886.
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The Super Bowl is an American football inter-league championship first played in 1967, when it was won by the Green Bay Packers beating Kansas City.
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The Sussex Stakes is a valuable horse race run at Goodwood over 1600 meters.
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Swansea RFC was formed as an Association Football club in 1872, but adopted Rugby Union football in 1874. The club plays home matches at St Helen' s Ground in white shirts and white shorts.
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The swaythling cup is an award for the men's championship of the world at table tennis, equivalent to lawn tennis' Davis Cup.
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Swinging the Monkey is a deck game with its origins in the fifteenth century. One player - the monkey - hangs from a suspended rope holding on with one hand and his feet, while his free hand is used to fend off the other players who try to hit him with knotted cloths.
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The Sydney Cup is an Australian handicap horse race run over 3200 meters at Randwick in mid-April.
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