Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Old Course at St Andrews. Sport plays a central role in Scottish culture.The temperate, oceanic climate has played a key part in the evolution of sport in Scotland, with all-weather sports like association football and golf dominating the national sporting consciousness.
Shinty (Scottish Gaelic: camanachd, iomain) is a team sport played with sticks and a ball. Shinty is now played mainly in the Scottish Highlands and among Highland migrants to the major cities of Scotland, but it was formerly more widespread in Scotland, [2] [3] [4] and was even played in Northern England into the second half of the 20th century [5] [4] and other areas in the world where ...
Highland games (Scottish Gaelic: geamannan Gàidhealach) is a competitive strength sport with events held in spring and summer in Scotland and several other countries with a large Scottish diaspora as a way of celebrating Scottish and Celtic culture, especially that of the Scottish Highlands.
The sheaf toss (Scottish Gaelic: sguab) is a traditional Scottish agricultural sport event originally contested at country fairs. A pitchfork is used to hurl a hessian bag stuffed with straw over a horizontal bar above the competitor's head. [1] Typical weight for the bag is 16 or 20 pounds (7.3 or 9.1 kg). [2]
Scotsport is a Scottish sports television programme, broadcast on STV in northern and central Scotland between 1957 and 2008, as well as on ITV Border in southern Scotland.. It was first broadcast in 1957 as Sports Desk and continuing until the end of its football highlights show in May 2008.
Although the sport is primarily associated with Scotland, a similar exercise, "casting the bar", was popular in England in the 16th century, [3] and similar sports exist around the world, such as stångstörtning in Sweden. [4] The record for most caber tosses in three minutes is currently held by Scottish teenager Andrew Murphie.
Get AOL Mail for FREE! Manage your email like never before with travel, photo & document views. Personalize your inbox with themes & tabs. You've Got Mail!
The Ba' Game is a version of medieval football played in Scotland, primarily in Orkney and the Scottish Borders, around Christmas and New Year. Ba' is essentially mob football, or village football, where two parts of a town have to get a ball to goals on their respective sides. The two sides are called the Uppies or the Downies, depending on ...