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The Circus Maximus (Latin for "largest circus"; Italian: Circo Massimo) is an ancient Roman chariot-racing stadium and mass entertainment venue in Rome, Italy.In the valley between the Aventine and Palatine hills, it was the first and largest stadium in ancient Rome and its later Empire.
Chariot racing (Ancient Greek: ἁρματοδρομία, harmatodromía; Latin: ludi circenses) was one of the most popular ancient Greek, Roman, and Byzantine sports. In Greece, chariot racing played an essential role in aristocratic funeral games from a very early time. With the institution of formal races and permanent racetracks, chariot ...
2nd century BCE — a Chinese game called Cuju (蹴鞠), Tsu' Chu, or Zuqiu (足球) has been recognised by FIFA as the first version of football with regular rules. [9] 2nd century BCE — the Roman game harpastum is believed to have been adapted from Episkyros. [10] [11]
Floorplan of Circus Maximus. This design is typical of Roman circuses. The performance space of the Roman circus was normally, despite its name, an oblong rectangle of two linear sections of race track, separated by a median strip running along the length of about two thirds the track, joined at one end with a semicircular section and at the other end with an undivided section of track closed ...
The first inter-city basketball game between two black teams was played in 1907 when the Smart Set Athletic Club of Brooklyn traveled to Washington, DC to play the Crescent Athletic Club. [48] In 1908 Smart Set Athletic Club of Brooklyn, a member of the Olympian Athletic League, was named the first Colored Basketball World's Champion. [49]
2012 - The first women's basketball game was played on an aircraft carrier. [339] 2013 - Before the start of the 2013–14 season, the NCAA adopted the 10-second backcourt limit for women's basketball for the first time. Prior to this change, NCAA women's basketball was the only level of basketball in the world that did not have a backcourt ...
In 2004, the bridge-and-causeway were replaced by a 4.1 mile bridge. In 2008, the historic lighthouse on Little St. George was dismantled and rebuilt in the center of the main St. George Island.
In total, 52 NCAA Tournament games have been played at the gym since it first came to Penn's campus in 1939. The Philadelphia Big 5 (Penn, Saint Joseph's, Temple, La Salle, Villanova) originally played all of its games at the Palestra. Today, the intra-city conference still plays about half of its round-robin games there. St.