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Idioms of play On a recent Saturday morning in New York, I stopped by a basketball court in a park to watch two men work out with a soccer ball. Shirtless with shaved heads and pale skin, they had taken up positions at opposite ends of the court and were...
For most people, tennis is inseparable from superstar players and saturation media coverage. For a dedicated handful, however, the only tennis worth playing takes place on walled-in courts of late-medieval design. Its tournaments, adhering to arcane rules that have barely changed in 400 years, go untelevised. And the...
A favorite of Napoleon and Henry VIII, real tennis is the predecessor of lawn tennis, and has its origins in games enjoyed in castles and monasteries in centuries past. It is played today by about 10,000 aficionados on some 40 courts worldwide-some of which, like those at Fontainebleau...
Despite these infrequent innovations, the game remains perfect for old-fashioned, genteel players-especially those with a deft touch and a gift for complex strategy rather than raw aggression. Those exhausted by the relentless pace of lawn tennis will no doubt breathe a sigh of relief. Find out more at...
Talk about being in synch. Dutch synchronized swimmers Sonja and Bianca van der Velden were even born, via caesarean section, at exactly the same moment 28 years ago in the Dutch city of Nijmegen. In the water at age 3, they started off as speed swimmers. But after trying synchronized...