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I'm your host Benjamin Boster. Today's episode is from a Wikipedia article titled

Hockey. is a term

Wikipedia article titled Hockey.

Hockey is a term used to denote a family of various types of both summer and winter team sports, which originated on either an outdoor

field, sheet of ice, or dry floor such as in a gymnasium.

While these sports vary in specific rules, numbers of players,

apparel, and playing surface, they share broad characteristics of two opposing teams

using a stick to propel a ball or disc into a goal.

There are many types of hockey. Some games make the use of skates,

either wheeled or bladed, while others do not.

In order to help make the distinction between these various games, the word hockey is often preceded by another word, i.e. field hockey, ice hockey, roller hockey, rink hockey, or floor hockey.

In each of these sports, two teams play against each other by trying to maneuver the object of play, either a type of ball or

disc such as a puck, and to the opponent's goal using a hockey stick.

Two notable exceptions use a straight stick and an open disc,

still referred to as a puck, with a hole in the center instead.

The first case is a style of floor hockey whose rules were codified in 1936 during the Great Depression by Canada's Sam

Jacks.

The second case involves a variant which was later modified in roughly the 1970s to make a related game that would be considered suitable for inclusion as a team sport in the newly emerging Special Olympics.

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