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Sport and Games Atlas Long-Form Articles, First Edition

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Sport and Games Atlas Long-Form Articles, First Edition
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Claims Backed By This Source (2,102 claims)

This source backs 2,102 claims across the atlas. As facts: 1,517 well-attested. As cited relationships: 27 connected. Plus 558 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.

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  • Articles, 2,099 claims: 1,514 well-attested, 27 connected, 558 general references.
  • Sources, 3 claims: 3 well-attested.

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A 2010 Party Game Award and the Editions It SpawnedA Captaincy Tested: Wally Lewis and the 1985 Football AssassinationA card game built for a table of rivalsA Champion Walks Away: Kasparov, FIDE, and Thirteen Years of Two TitlesA Championship That Founded Its Own FederationA Clothesline Becomes the Wheel in an Australian Drinking GameA Cooperative Party Game With a Built-In Score CeilingA Day for Sport Dated by the First Modern OlympicsA discontinued 1987 game returned through an outside license rescueA dragon-hoard engine builder for quiet tablesA Flash Prototype, Then Three Fresh Mysteries: How Detective Grimoire GrewA franchise card game built around Leaders and a separate resource deckA Grid Scratched Everywhere: The Unsolved Geography of Nine Men's MorrisA launch under lawsuit and in long linesA lawsuit tested how far Bang!'s hidden-role design could be copiedA living card game built its campaign out of boons and burdensA lone royal against a protected army: how Maharajah and the Sepoys is wonA Merger, a Roman Numeral and a Trophy: How the Super Bowl Got Its NameA Monopoly parody that changed only the settingA music game that refuses to keep scoreA novel trilogy gave a franchise its name, and Nintendo kept the original game homeA prison board game and the argument over its subjectA Racket Reined In: How Composite Materials Forced Tennis to Cap the FrameA Shared Twelve-Card Start Shapes Every Game of Marvel Legendary, and the Line Keeps Growing Around ItA state-built path from Asian Games preparation to world medalsA Title Older Than Its Federation: Draughts Championship Before 1947A Wargame Built Because Players Asked for the Biggest OneA weekend of cuts and the prize that split the juryAbalone's Mensa Select Award And Its Cautiously Warm Debut ReviewAdvanced Squad Leader: how a rules cleanup became a replacement systemAeroplane chess and its game of sixesAgricola as the Spiel des Jahres association describes itAkbar's Court of Stone: When an Emperor Became a Living Game PieceArk Nova: a zoo built from a card player's habitsBarcelona 1992: how one badminton program gave Indonesia its first Olympic goldBefore FISA: when every rowing club raced by its own rulesBefore There Was a Title: How an Informal Succession Became a ChampionshipBegging and running the cards: how an all fours deal is negotiatedBest of Seven: The World Series's Format and Its Two InterruptionsBetting on Yourself: Calls and Special Cards in TichuBetween Boggle and Scrabble: how Bananagrams was received and awardedBlokus and Its Run of Industry AwardsBobby Orr and the business of being a star playerBolt Action's Third Edition Widened the BattlefieldBorn Two Days Before Kickoff: CAF and the First Africa Cup of NationsBotvinnik's three reigns, and the computer program he left behindBoycotts, Bans and the Cold War: The Modern Games' Political HistoryCannon Fire and Palace Walls: How Xiangqi Diverged from Its Chess CousinsCan't Stop: the arithmetic of pushing your luckCards Against Humanity Made Black Friday Its Own Marketing Stunt

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A Champion Walks Away: Kasparov, FIDE, and Thirteen Years of Two TitlesA Merger, a Roman Numeral and a Trophy: How the Super Bowl Got Its NameBefore There Was a Title: How an Informal Succession Became a ChampionshipBest of Seven: The World Series's Format and Its Two InterruptionsBoycotts, Bans and the Cold War: The Modern Games' Political HistoryContested Hosts: The World Cup's Hardest ChoicesEight Men Out: The 1919 World Series and the Scandal That Nearly Broke BaseballFrom a Closed Club to the World: The French Open's Road to 1968From a Hospital Ward to Rome: Ludwig Guttmann and the Paralympic Movement's BeginningFrom a Twenty-Five-Point Board to Sixty-Four Squares: How Draughts Got Its RulesFrom Kooyong to Melbourne Park: How the Australian Open Found a Permanent HomeFrom Newport to Flushing Meadows: The US Open's Three HomesFrom Thirteen Teams to a Global Institution: How the World Cup GrewImperial Roots, Global Game: Cricket's World Order and Its World CupLast of the Four: Wimbledon, Equal Prize Money and the Weight of TraditionMen First, Then Women, Then Everyone: The US Open and the Open EraMen Only, Then Everyone: The Australasian Championships' Road to a MajorNamed for an Aviator: How Roland Garros Became Tennis's Clay MajorOne Root, Two Branches: Draughts, Fanorona and the Limits of Alquerque's Family TreeReviving an Ancient Idea: Pierre de Coubertin and the Politics of 1896Selling Newspapers, Making a Legend: Henri Desgrange and the Tour's OriginsSharing a Host City: The Paralympic Movement's Long Road to ParityThe Accountant Who Broke Poker: Chris Moneymaker and the 2003 Main EventThe Game Around the Game: How the Super Bowl Became a Cultural EventThe Yellow Jersey and the Needle: The Tour's Doping ReckoningWhite Flannels and the Calypso Kings: The 1975 Inaugural World CupWhites, Strawberries and a Royal Box: Wimbledon's Guarded Traditions

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The Accountant Who Broke Poker: Chris Moneymaker and the 2003 Main EventThe American Road Game Behind Mille BornesThe Backlash Behind Ninja Gaiden 3's RedesignThe Backlash to Red Grange Turning ProfessionalThe black ring and the licensing trail of Pretty Pretty PrincessThe card-driven design behind Twilight Struggle's long run at the topThe challenge nobody could beat, and the computer that finally solved itThe Decade RoboRally Spent Unwanted Before Its 1994 ReleaseThe Desert Storm Innings at SharjahThe dice puzzle that took thirteen years to reach five playersThe Dice Ranking That Decides Who Wins Bo Bing's MooncakesThe Disputed 2002 Ban That Followed Martin Johnson's Sin BinThe Dodecahedron Behind Hunt the WumpusThe Doubleday Myth and Baseball's Real OriginThe Elephant That Moves Differently: Janggi Compared to Its Regional CousinsThe fair play behind Yamashita's 1984 goldThe finite projective plane inside a Dobble deckThe five-design Persian pack behind As-NasThe Game Around the Game: How the Super Bowl Became a Cultural EventThe Great Dalmuti Turned an Old Climbing Game Into a Mensa Award WinnerThe Halfback No Club Would SignThe Haunt That Turns One Player Into the EnemyThe Hotel Meeting That Gave Swimming Its First World Governing BodyThe Joke That Became a Trophy: How Cricket Got Its AshesThe Kickstarter Campaign That Built the Zombicide FranchiseThe ladder of bids in Nap: from Napoleon to Wellington and BlücherThe Language Debate That Named Skiing's Governing BodyThe lawsuit over the talking towerThe Long Afterlife of a Kennerspiel WinnerThe long count that decided Jack Dempsey's last title fightThe long jump story Jesse Owens later correctedThe Long Road Back: Wilkinson's Second Career in FranceThe Long Road from Pachisi to Ludo and ParcheesiThe mathematics hiding in the Set deckThe Mechanics Clause That Split British Amateur AthleticsThe Melbourne Defection That Made Pocket Hercules a TurkThe mystery door, the dud and the race to match an outfitThe Myth of Dhyan Chand's Six GoalsThe Newfooty Rivalry Behind Subbuteo's InventionThe Olympics Ma Long Almost MissedThe One Disqualification Behind an Unbeaten Olympic RunThe one rule that makes Would you rather a debateThe Paderborn plaque and the documented history of Sixty-sixThe Peach Basket Still Had Its Bottom: How Basketball Got a HoopThe Player Who Redefined the WingThe Point That Ended an Unbeaten RunThe Pun Behind Bohnanza's Name, and the Family of Games It SpawnedThe record jackpots that built Lotto 6/49's reputationThe renaming that created Atmosfear, and the ad a regulator bannedThe Rescue That Made the Surfboard a Lifesaving Tool

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