Without getting into any generalization, it has been proven repeatedly that while men and women do enjoy playing sports or watching sports, the interest in sports is much higher in men, possibly on account of their special testosterone driven genetic makeup. The competitive nature of most sports that brings with it a certain adrenaline rush is usually enjoyed and sought after by men. It goes without saying that sports injuries are also common for a variety of reasons ranging from an inadvertent accident while playing or due to lack of warm up and preparation. Here are some of the most common sport injuries and recovery guidelines. Achilles tendonitis is an extremely common sport injury, especially among runners and athletes. This is caused by a rupture of the Achilles tendon and can be very painful. The region around the Achilles tendon swells and prevents free movement. It usually takes several months for a torn Achilles tendon to heal and possibly as much as a year or more for the athlete to return to his/her previous level of performance. In very serious cases, surgery to repair the torn tendon may be recommended, and recovery is contingent upon proper adherence to physical therapy as well as rehabilitation.

In the present times, a large number of people are turning toward a variety of extreme sports that while being dangerous and requiring mandatory safety precautions are nevertheless sought after by adventure enthusiasts looking for a thrill. Here are some of the most intense extreme sports currently played by thrill seekers. A development on the concepts of skateboarding and snowboarding, the now popular extreme sport mountain boarding calls for a swift descent down a hilly terrain on a board with wheels. Zorbing is another recently trending variant of extreme sports in which you sit inside a giant inflatable ball and then roll down a hilly slope along with the ball. Kiting, which is also known as kitesurfing, requires the use of a kite that is harnessed to a snowboard that captures the wind and uses it to propel forward. It is an extreme sport that is especially exciting when a good strong wind is blowing. Parasailing is a form of extreme sports in which you are drawn along by a rope that is suspended several hundred feet over a water body. It gives a whole new spin on the more conventional beachside parasailing. You might consider scuba diving as a pretty tame diving activity, but its classification as an extreme sports comes from deep sea scuba diving in shark infested waters where unknown predators lurk in dark waters.

Any sport would have their set of serious players and passionate followers; football is also no different. A little more than a million people play the game in the country. Moreover, the National Football League (NFL), which is a well known American football league, has the highest average attendance of any professional sports league in the whole world. The championship game of the NFL is called the Super Bowl, and it is the most watched club sporting event in the whole world. The NFL annually earns a revenue of around $10 billion. The statistics are staggering indeed. Football is a sport that is played on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end by two teams that have eleven players each. Offense, defense, running, passing, downs, plays, turnovers, advance, end zone, touchdown, and field goal are prominent terms associated with this sport played using an oval shaped football. Wait, why are we discussing football here? We are curious about Fantasy Football, are we not. What is Fantasy Football? An interesting name, really. Fantasy football is a game in which participants play the part or pretend to be owners or managers of imaginary professional football teams in the virtual world of the internet.

Fantasy sports are a relatively new age genre of online sports in which many imaginary or virtual teams that are based entirely on a real sport played by real players are assembled. Currently, fantasy sports are hugely trending, and they constitute an industry that is worth several billions of dollars and rapidly growing. Fantasy sports have their origin in a tradition known as rotisseries, which trace back to the second World War. Fantasy golf is reported to have first been developed in the 1950s, and the first reported fantasy football game being played at Oakland in 1962. This was closely followed by the initiation of the first fantasy baseball league in 1963. The arrival of the internet era significantly contributed to the mushrooming interest in fantasy sports with even well-known sites such as Yahoo offering its users a chance to play fantasy sports free of cost. In fantasy sports, be it football, baseball, or any other such competitive sport online, the virtual teams and players mirror the statistics achieved by the actual teams and players. The performance of each competing team and player is then converted into a standardized system of points that are tallied and managed by a fantasy league commissioner.

Gone are the days when we went in search of travel agents and tour guides to take us on holiday trips. The FIT traveler is considered the “in thing.” Of course, apart from the precondition that a leisure traveler is fit and healthy, the abbreviation FIT herein refers to a Fully Independent Traveler. Like most sports or industries have their own common terms or abbreviations, the term FIT is frequently used in the tourism industry. For promoting tourism locales, hotels or resorts, and transport options for traveling, the term FIT is not just relevant but significant as well. The FIT, i.e., a Fully Independent Traveler, refers normally to single, individual travelers who do not take the help of any agency or tour guide for their travel needs and instead plan their own itinerary or route and staying options. Fully Independent Travelers do not have any set plans and, more importantly, are not part of any large tourist groups at all. They might come as singles, couples, or as a small family, and their ages can range anywhere between 18 and 81 years. They could be young and just before stepping into college they might want to explore the world outside their homes, or they could be retirees who have not lost the enthusiasm to travel independently and enjoy new experiences in life, and everyone else in between these two sets of people.