Sports

BOSTON, U.S. -- Most high school sports are centered around football. But why is this -- and why does football get all the funding?

At Boston Latin School (BLS), many athletes feel that football gets
much more funding than any other sport. Michaella Jones, a member of the BLS crew team, replied, “Football gets a lot of the money and crew doesnʼt even get any funding.”

While the crew team does not get any funding from the athletic department, the cheerleading team does. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in July 2010 that cheerleading is not a sport.

BOSTON, U.S. -- Boston Latin School offers many spring sports for students, such as softball, baseball, track, and crew. But one sport the school doesn’t offer is lacrosse. Students have been pushing for a lacrosse team since 2001. In the last three years, they have had meetings with the athletic director and other school officials in order to get the ball rolling. But nothing has come from their work so far.

When JK Rowling debuted her Harry Potter series, the sports world added a new game to their list: Quidditch. The sport has often been regarded as a game only imaginable in the mind of the author. However, several college campuses across the U.S. have transformed Qudditch into a real sport. Without the flying, that is.

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Texas, US -- Only a decade ago, parents were nagging their teenage children to get off the telephone. In recent years, the expansion of the Internet has led to a social networking boom and an onset of problems for parents with teens who cannot seem to pull the plug on their web activities.

More than half (55 percent) of teenagers in the United States use social networking websites, according to a study conducted in 2007 by the Pew Internet & American Life Project.

MUSCAT, Oman – Looking for a new vacation site? How about trying your nearest desert for some dune bashing, which involves driving 4x4s SUVs over 30-80-feet-high sand dunes at around 50-60 km/h? 

Dune bashing has become one the most popular activities that people in the Middle East plan over weekends and holidays. I was in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates when I got a chance to to go for a desert safari. (In Oman, the premier location is the Wahiba Sands.)

“It's an amazing ride. The adrenaline rush one gets during the drops is unparalleled,” said Mark Stein, a 35-year-old accountant who had traveled from New Zealand to go on a desert safari. “I was sitting on the front seat and mind you there can't be many scarier scenarios than to see a vehicle going into a nosedive,” said Ali Cheeda, a 22-year-old Pakistani engineer.