Sport
Cricket is played at Barnstaple and Pilton. Barnstaple has a Non-League football club Barnstaple Town F.C. based at Mill Road since 1904. Senior rugby union is played at Barnstaple Rugby Football Club whose first team play in the National 3 South West league. This is the fifth tier of rugby union in England.
Many sports are available at the North Devon Leisure Centre. It is the home of Barnstaple Squash Club. There are numerous bowling greens and tennis courts. In February 2010 a Cornish Pilot Gig Rowing Club was established, bringing this sport to Castle Quay in the centre of Barnstaple.
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Famous quotes containing the word sport:
“Rabelais, for instance, is intolerable; one chapter is better than a volume,—it may be sport to him, but it is death to us. A mere humorist, indeed, is a most unhappy man; and his readers are most unhappy also.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting.
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—George Orwell (1903–1950)
“How long, then, Catiline, while you abuse our patience? How long is this madness of yours to make sport of us?”
—Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 B.C.)