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How you can score love in tennis

By Ryan | Published: June 28, 2011

If you’ve been looking for love in all the wrong places, try your local tennis game. Event the most inexperienced player will have no trouble finding love on the court. In tennis scoring, love means zero. This is believed to come from the French word l’oeuf, for egg. The egg shape signifies a round zero, [...]

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Before hockey there was bandy

By Ryan | Published: February 10, 2010

So there you are, hurtling across the ice on skates, swerving around the defense you stick-handle towards the goal and fire one towards the net. Sure sounds like hockey to me, but it ain’t. I’m talking about a game of bandy. Remember, “hockey” was once “ice hockey” and “field hockey” used to be plain “hockey”.  [...]

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The First Winter Olympics

By Ryan | Published: February 1, 2010

It was 1924 when the French Olympic Committee decided to organize and host the “International Winter Sports Week”. Things went well enough that the following year it was officially dubbed the first Olympic Winter Games and the event has continued ever since. The games were held in the shadow of Mont Blanc, the highest mountain [...]

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HOW-TO: cheat your friends at poker for fun and profit

By Ryan | Published: October 9, 2009

Closing out the first ever theme week on the topic of deception, here’s a little do-it-yourself deceit lesson. Of course, it comes with the disclaimer that this is in the interest of protecting yourself from cheats, not to inflict it upon others… promise? So you find yourself playing poker with your grandma and your uncle. [...]

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FACT: carnival games are not meant to be won

By Ryan | Published: October 7, 2009

Post #3 of the deception theme week. Today’s con comes from the family-fun-filled carnival you’d find in Anytown, USA. A perfect place to deceive the people! So the story goes, on the last day of the fair, a huge tornado rips through the field. There is cotton candy and corn dogs all over the place. [...]

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