Sports Los Angeles Times
It was not unusual for contests in running, jumping, cudgeling, and wrestling to be offered for the lower classes who attended the match as spectators. Grand feasts were part of the program, and drunkenness commonly added to the revelry. In Germanic areas a Pritschenkoenig was supposed to simultaneously keep order and entertain the crowd with clever verses. Contests for runners and jumpers were to be found across the length and breadth of the continent. To the ends of the earth, cricket followed the Union Jack, which explains the game’s current popularity in Australia, South Asia, and the West Indies. Rugby football flourishes in other postcolonial cultures, such as New Zealand and South Africa, where the British once ruled. It was, however, association football’s destiny to become the world’s most widely played modern sport. Texas Tech welcomed the No. 21 Texas Longhorns and took them down in a wild overtime finish on Saturday in Lubbock, winning by a field goal. Cleveland Browns ...