Courses

7 courses in Sports

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Chess: Play It, Study It, Build With It

A complete, cited chess course for high school students: how to actually play (the board, the six pieces, check and checkmate, castling, en passant, promotion, and how to read algebraic notation), the rulebook itself (the FIDE Laws of Chess, touch-move, the clock, and the five different ways a game can be drawn), how to think (opening principles, forks, pins, skewers, discovered attacks, and the endgames every player must know), fifteen centuries of verified history (chaturanga to shatranj to the fifteenth-century queen, Steinitz to Deep Blue to AlphaZero to the 2020 online boom), how organized chess fits together (FIDE, Elo ratings, the title system, the Olympiad, US Chess, and the online platforms), and the honest economics, why almost nobody earns a living playing chess, and the many real ways to build a life or a business around the board anyway.

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Croquet: How to Play, How to Think, and How to Build in the Sport

Croquet is not a garden pastime with a mallet. It is a tactical game, closer to billiards or chess than to badminton, with one of the lowest barriers to entry and the most reachable competitive ladder in world sport. This course teaches you to actually play and think: the three codified games that share the name (Golf Croquet and Association Croquet under the World Croquet Federation; American Six-Wicket under the USCA), how a turn works in each, break-building, wiring, deadness, and the tactics that decide games. Then it does the part a normal croquet course skips: the history you can actually verify (and the beloved stories that fall apart when you check them), how leagues and handicaps work, and the genuine openings for an amateur or an entrepreneur, starting a club, coaching, courts and turf, equipment, tournaments, and a world championship whose entire field is under 100 players. Every rule cited comes from the governing body's own current rulebook. Where a rule number does not exist, this course says so instead of inventing one.

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Football: Play It, Read It, Work In It

A complete, cited football course for high school students, the game most of the world calls football and the United States calls soccer. How to actually play it (first touch, passing, dribbling, finishing, defending, goalkeeping); how to think about it (formations, possession, pressing, transitions, set pieces); the 17 Laws and who really writes them (The IFAB, not FIFA); the history, told honestly, from ball games that long predate England, to the 1863 codification, to the Football Association's 50-year ban on women's football; how the leagues and governing bodies actually fit together worldwide; the money, the labor, and the contested human cost; and the honest, concrete opportunities for amateurs and entrepreneurs, refereeing, coaching badges, running a club, and the jobs that actually exist around a game almost nobody makes a living playing.

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Golf: Play It, Know It, Work In It

A complete, cited introduction to golf for people who have never held a club, and a real look at the sport as an industry. Learn how to play (the course, the clubs, the swing, the short game), the Rules of Golf as they actually read today (cited to the 2023 code the USGA and The R&A write together), how to think your way around a course, the World Handicap System, golf's history including its documented record of racial and gender exclusion (read the trade magazine that reported the repeal of the PGA's Caucasian-only clause and never once mentioned the men who forced it), how the tours and leagues actually work in 2026 (the PGA TOUR and the PGA of America are not the same organization, and men's professional golf is still not reunified), and the part most golf courses skip: the genuine, checkable opportunities in this sport for amateurs and entrepreneurs, from the 2022 rule change that lets a high school golfer sign a sponsorship deal without losing amateur status, to the fact that anyone with a Handicap Index of 0.4 or better can enter the U.S. Open.

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Lacrosse: The Creator's Game

A full course in lacrosse, the Haudenosaunee game it has always been, and the modern sport it became. Start with the Indigenous origins and the Haudenosaunee Nationals' fight to play their own game at the Olympics; learn how the game is actually played (men's field, women's field, box, and the Olympic Sixes format, four genuinely different games, taught separately and never blurred); build real skills and strategy; read the actual rulebooks; and then map the ways an ordinary person builds a life in this sport, coaching, officiating, stringing, running a program, or fixing the access problem the sport still has. Every rule is quoted from a current, cited rulebook. Every claim ties to a source.

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Pickleball: Play It, Question It, Build With It

Learn to actually play pickleball, the court, the serve, the kitchen, the two-bounce rule, and the strategy that wins points, then learn the parts most players never do: how to read a rulebook that changes every year, why the sport's famous origin story is disputed, how the leagues and rating systems really work, and where the genuine money and opportunity is for amateurs and entrepreneurs in courts, coaching, equipment, and events. Every rule is cited to the 2026 USA Pickleball Official Rulebook by number; every statistic carries a year and a source.

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Tennis: Play It, Read It, Work In It

A complete, cited tennis course for high school students: how to actually play (grips, strokes, footwork), how to think tactically (serve+1, court positioning, patterns, singles vs. doubles), the rules and who writes them (the ITF publishes them; the tours and the four Slams layer their own conditions on top), the sport's remarkable social history (the American Tennis Association, Althea Gibson, Arthur Ashe, Billie Jean King and the Original 9, the Open era, and the 34-year climb to equal prize money), how the leagues actually fit together, and the honest economics, what tennis really pays, and the many ways to build a life or a business in it without ever turning pro.

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