Scout (sport)

In professional sports, scouts are experienced talent evaluators who travel extensively for the purposes of watching athletes play their chosen sports and determining whether their set of skills and talents represent what is needed by the scout's organization. Some scouts are interested primarily in the selection of prospects, younger players who may require further development by the acquiring team but who are judged to be worthy of that effort and expense for the potential future payoff that it could bring, while others concentrate on players who are already polished professionals whose rights may be available soon, either through free agency or trading, and who are seen as filling a team's specific need at a certain position. Advance scouts watch the teams that their teams are going to play in order to help determine strategy.

Many scouts are former coaches or retired players, while others have made a career just of being scouts. Skilled scouts who help to determine which players will fit in well with an organization can be the major difference between success and failure for the team with regard to wins and losses, which often relates directly to the organization's financial success or lack thereof as well.

Scout

A scout is a soldier performing reconnaissance and other support duties.

Scout may also refer to:

Aircraft

Automotive and rail

Professions

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Team Fortress 2

Team Fortress 2 is a team-based first-person shooter multiplayer video game developed and published by Valve Corporation. It is the sequel to the 1996 mod Team Fortress for Quake and its 1999 remake. It was released as part of the video game compilation The Orange Box on October 10, 2007 for Windows and the Xbox 360. A PlayStation 3 version followed on December 11, 2007. On April 8, 2008, it was released as a standalone title for Windows. The game was updated to support OS X on June 10, 2010, and Linux on February 14, 2013. It is distributed online through Valve's download retailer Steam; retail distribution was handled by Electronic Arts.

In Team Fortress 2, players join one of two teams comprising nine character classes, battling in a variety of game modes including capture the flag and king of the hill. The development is led by John Cook and Robin Walker, creators of the original Team Fortress. Announced in 1998, the game once had more realistic, militaristic visuals and gameplay, but this changed over the protracted nine-year development. After Valve released no information for six years, Team Fortress 2 regularly featured in Wired News' annual vaporware list among other ignominies. The finished Team Fortress 2 has cartoon-like visuals influenced by the art of J. C. Leyendecker, Dean Cornwell and Norman Rockwell and is powered by Valve's Source engine.

Scout (travel website)

Scout, formerly Goby, is a travel website which launched in September 2009. The site searches selected databases and other sources of information on the web focused on 400 categories of things to do while traveling. Signed in users may also share their results utilizing the Facebook connect applications programming interface. The website services are free to users and the website is supported by an advertising business model and partner distribution model.

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Sport (disambiguation)

Sport is organised or unorganised recreation. Today it usually implies competition, usually implies following rules, and often means competitive sports and games. Originally in English, sport is leisure, as in hunting or fishing wildlife for entertainment rather than for subsistence or for the market. See Sport, etymology and meaning.

Sport or Sports may also refer to:

Sports (band)

For the Australian pop/rock band of the 1970s and 80s, see The Sports.

Sports, the Canadian indie rock music group, formed in Toronto, 2007. Nathan Rekker, Robin Hatch, Michael Small, Shayne Cox, and later, Pete Carmichael - have also been members of bands The Carnations, The Meligrove Band, By Divine Right, The Diableros, Detective Kalita, Sheezer, and Polmo Polpo, among others.

History

Sports began as Rekker's bedroom recording project with roommate Small on Toronto's Brunswick Avenue in 2004. The band's lineup solidified in late 2006, playing their first show as Sports: The Band in January 2007. Their first tour was through Atlantic Canada in October 2008, headlining a showcase at the Halifax Pop Explosion festival. That December they released a five-song EP produced by Peter Chapman through online record shop Zunior. The CD edition was pressed in March 2009, with a release party at Toronto's Sneaky Dee's. The front and back cover art was created by Sharon Pazner in Jerusalem and shipped to Toronto to be photographed. Another east-coast tour followed in fall 2009, Hatch's last with the band, ending with two shows at the Halifax Pop Explosion festival.

989 Studios

989 Studios was a division of Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA) that developed games for the PlayStation consoles and Windows personal computers. Their games include EverQuest, Twisted Metal III and 4, Syphon Filter and Syphon Filter 2, Jet Moto 3, Bust a Groove, and others. It now exists as the 989 Sports brand owned by SCEA that produces sports games.

History

The 989 Sports game developed from a long history of name changes and corporate shuffling within Sony centered around operations in Foster City, California. In August 1995, the video game business of Sony Imagesoft was merged with the product development branch of SCEA, becoming Sony Interactive Studios America (SISA). On April 1998, SISA was renamed 989 Studios, after the street address of the building they worked in at the time (989 E. Hillsdale Boulevard, Foster City, California). The part of 989 developing EverQuest (and other online and PC games) broke off to become an independent studio named Verant Interactive in early 1999. On April 1, 2000, 989 Studios was merged back into SCEA as a first party development group, in order to prepare for the then-upcoming PlayStation 2. SCEA continues to release sports games under the 989 Sports brand. Subsequent reissues and sequels to 989's games are published under the SCEA name instead of the 989 name. 989 Studios was also working on many unreleased video games, that were cancelled before to be completed, as Dark Guns, Sorcery (PlayStation), Warhawk 2 (PlayStation), Barnstormers (PlayStation), and The Diabolical Adventures of Tobu.