1. USBF Contains the history of bocce, tournament listings, rules, required skills and training. http://www.bocce.com/

Home ABOUT USBF USBF Newsletter Letter from President ... Welcome! On average, how many times each month do you play bocce? Less than one time One or two times Three or four times Five or more times Loading ... Home About USBF About Bocce Rules ... Contact

2. HickokSports.com - History - Bocce A history of bocce, with an account of how the game is played. http://www.hickoksports.com/history/bocce.shtml

Sports History Alpha Index Index by Sport History Bits Forum ... Search Bocce Table of Contents History How It's Played Other Resources History Bocce is the Italian version of lawn bowling. The earliest known form of the sport was a game played in the Italian Alps, early in the Christian Era, in which stones were tossed at a target stonenot necessarily to hit it, but to land as close as possible to it. This was a major amusement for Roman soldiers, who spread it through the empire. Balls were eventually substituted for the stones and they were usually rolled rather than tossed. Three distinct types of lawn bowling developed through the centuries. In France, the game was known as boules , from the Classical Latin word for ball. A different form of the sport became known in England as "lawn bowls". Bocce, also known as boccia, derived its name from the Vulgar Latin word for ball, bottia Italian immigrants brought bocce to the United States. Its original centers of popularity were New York City and San Francisco because of their large Italian-American populations. But, as newer generations grew away from the sport, bocce declined and seemed in danger of extinction in this country. The sport experienced a small resurgence, mainly in California, during the 1970s and it's grown rapidly during the last decade. The center of the sport in the U. S. is Martinez, California, which has more than a thousand competitors in league play and many more who simply play for fun.

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Clouds of Thunder by Bryan Mero . $2.99 from Smashwords.com Every culture had symbols of giant birds. The teratorn was an acient bird that had a wingspan of 20 to 30 feet. The ancient indians called it the thunderbird, today we call it a crptozoologic discovery. Follow Doug Winston as he unravels this murder mystery adventure. Banner won't open? Press your 'Ctrl' key and click again! Navigation Bar: Home Bocce FAQs Bocce Links Bocce Rules Bocce Courts ... Bocce Bums Visit Our Sponsors Below: Canopy and Retractable Awnings In association with iBocce.com has been selected as one of the best educational resources on the Web by StudySphere. Your Bocce Resource on the Internet Now available! Budget Bocce Court is available for download from Smashwords.com! Can't wait to build your backyard bocce court? Then download Budget Bocce Court and print at home or read from your computer, iPad or other ebook reading device. Download your copy today! (Free sample available) Non-Bocce News! Bryan Mero, your humble owner of iBocce.com has just published a book on Smashwords.com! CLOUDS OF THUNDER is the name of the book and it is an adventure story about giant birds...thunderbird, teratorn...you be the judge!

4. Bocce - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia bocce (sometimes anglicized as bocci or boccie is a ball sport belonging to the boules sport family, closely related to bowls and p tanque with a common ancestry from ancient http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bocce

Bocce From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search Bocce Bocce players scoring a match Highest governing body International Bocce Federation Nickname(s) Bocci First played Ancient Characteristics Contact non-contact Team members individual Categorization boules Equipment Olympic non-Olympic Italian men playing Bocce in San Giorgio a Cremano Naples Italy Bocce play in Cape Coral, Florida in 2007 Bocce (sometimes anglicized as bocci or boccie is a ball sport belonging to the boules sport family, closely related to bowls and pétanque with a common ancestry from ancient games played in the Roman Empire . Developed into its present form in Italy (where it is called Bocce , the plural of the Italian word boccia which means "bowl"), it is played around Europe and also in overseas areas that have received Italian migrants, including Australia North America and South America (where it is known as bochas bolas criollas in Venezuela, bocha (the sport) in Brazil), initially amongst the migrants themselves but slowly becoming more popular with their descendants and the wider community. The sport is also very popular in the former Yugoslavian countries of Slovenia (known as balinanje Croatia (predominantly in the coastal regions; known as

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SEND ME YOUR NEW LINKS AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PAGE! WELCOME TO THE BEST BOCCE LINKS PAGE KNOWN TO MANKIND COMING SOON: A FULL CATEGORICAL RANKING OF ALL LISTED SITES! AFTER VISITING THESE SITES, SEND IN YOUR VOTE FOR THE BEST SITES AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS PAGE! Email address: mifisher@ix.netcom.com This page accessed times. BOCCE (INCLUDING ITS VARIATIONS) IS THE THIRD MOST-PLAYED SPORT IN THE WORLD! BOCCE ANONYMOUS Click here to join what is quickly becoming the biggest on-line bocce club in the world! Yahoo! is hosting the site for FREE, and members may post freely to the forum. There are also chat rooms, pictures, links, and other attractions. Check it out! It's FREE! BETTER BOCCE STAT ANALYZER Get the upper hand on your opponents by using this revolutionary new bocce statistics program to track all kinds of related information. Best uses include: optimizing your team's lineup, finding out each team member's strengths and weaknesses, and crowning your team's Most Valuable Player. Take part in the World Project by sending in your team's stats and automatically enter a raffle to win cool prizes! BAM's BOCCE PAGE A phenomenal bocce page created by the man who introduced me to this timeless game.

8. Collegium Cosmicum Ad Buxeas - The Bocce Site The COLLEGIUM COSMICUM AD BUXEAS is the preeminent international organization for bocce. Shop for all your needs for bocce http://bocce.org/

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9. DC Bocce League: Divisions Welcome to the Official Site of the DC bocce League! Learn about the League and register to play. Scores, pictures, rules and contact information also available. http://www.dcbocceleague.com/home/home.aspx

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10. Bocce On The Net Basic layout and rules for the game of bocce. http://www.mindspring.com/~jlock/bocce.html

Bocce on the Net Since I can't find any other bocce resources on the Net, I'll just have to put up what I know about the game and what I can glean from the rule book. So, all you folks who've e-mailed me over the last couple of months, here ya go! Bocce has been around since the Roman Empire and conjures visions of old Italian men wiling away warm Mediterranean afternoons discussing politics and drinking red wine. I'm neither old nor Italian, but I have wiled away many an afternoon with friends discussing politics and drinking beer while playing bocce ;-) Bocce is closely related to lawn bowling. To the best of my knowledge, the biggest difference is that bocce is played on a hard-surface court with a backstop at each end, while lawn bowling is played on grass with a relatively free-form "court". By this definition many folks are lawn bowling since very few constructed bocce courts exist in the U.S. The following set of rules are condensed from the official guide published by the International Bocce Association. Many variations exist, and I play a very relaxed set of rules in keeping with tradition. For tournament play, consult the official guide (see end of document). The Courts For lawn bowling, you don't really use a court. Just choose any space of lawn that's large and reasonably level. Then step off about 20 adult paces and use that as a good playing distance. For bocce:

11. Bocce: Definition From Answers.com n. A game of Italian origin similar to lawn bowling that is played with wooden balls on a long narrow court covered with fine gravel. Italian bocce , pl. of boccia , ball. http://www.answers.com/topic/bocce

12. BOCCE: The Film On Myspace Films - New Films & Documentaries MySpace Filmmaker profile for Director / Producer / Screenwriter bocce The Film. Watch, movie clips trailers from bocce The Film, including films, movies documentaries. http://www.myspace.com/boccefilm

13. WORLD BOCCE: Bocce Ball Rules, Official, WORLD BOCCE: Bocce Ball Rules, Official How to play bocce ball, rules and regulations. How to build a bocce ball court. Video available. http://www.worldbocce.org

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14. How To Play Bocce Ball | EHow.com This ancient game, whose modern adaptation most closely resembles bowling, requires skill, strategy and just a little luck. bocce ball is a great game to play outside on a http://www.ehow.com/how_3109_play-bocce-ball.html

Family Food Health Home Money Style More Home Recreation Bocce Ball ... How to Play Bocce Ball More Articles Like This How Do Bocce Balls Get Made? How to Play Barefoot Bocce How Do You Play Bocce Ball? The ASCE Bocce Ball Rules ... How to Understand Rules and Scoring in Open Bocce Related Topics Play Bocce Ball Bocce Ball Rules Bocce Ball Bocce ... Bocce Rules How to Play Bocce Ball By an eHow Contributor I want to do this! What's This? Get out in the sun and play some bocce ball How to Play Bocce Ball This ancient game, whose modern adaptation most closely resembles bowling, requires skill, strategy and just a little luck. Bocce ball is a great game to play outside on a beautiful day. It is highly popular among seniors, but youths are sure to enjoy this accuracy game. Difficulty: Easy Instructions Find a flat, level playing surface (packed dirt, gravel or grass are ideal). A regulation bocce court is 76 feet long and 10 feet wide. Divide players into two teams of one, two or four players each. Each team gets four balls, divided equally among the players. Have a player from the starting team stand behind the foul line (which is 10 feet from the throwing end of the court) and throw the small ball, or "pallina," toward the opposite end of the playing surface.

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SportsKnowHow.com Home Boccel Home Bocce History SportsKnowHow.com - HISTORY OF BOCCE - Page 1 of 2 Two Boys in a Drawing From Egypt the game apparently made its way to Greece and then to Rome. Roman soldiers played a game like bocce during the Punic Wars in the Third Century B.C. In this version of the sport, stones were used instead of balls. Later, the Romans played the game with coconuts they brought back from Africa. Emperor Augustus (31 B.C.-14 A.D.) played the game and became the first in a long line of notable public figures who enjoyed bocce or a closely related type of sport. Quite a Distraction Just a few years before Sir Frances supposedly spoke those words, the Republic of Venice had also outlawed bocce in 1576. Those caught playing the game were fined and in some cases sent to prison. The Catholic Church also condemned bocce because it led to gambling.

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Home Directory -> Boules Petanque Games Play Add to your favorites Search Amateur Games Our mission: Unite Associations, Clubs and Amateurs ! Bocce Bocce is also known as Boules, Petanque or Lawn Bowls Search Amateur Games - Bocce Game page - Most Popular PC Lawn Bowls Download free trial 3 Mb Accurate 3D Bocce simulation. The PC game, inspired to games like Boules, Petanque or Bocce, is played between two opponents (human or CPU). The aim is to place your four bowls as near as you can to a little bowl called jack (or cochonnet in France). Picture 1 Picture 2 Elf Bowling Bocce Style Download 8 Mb Tip: use a download accelerator free to try Features Santa kicking elves across the ice to try and get closest to the penguin. Picture 1 Picture 2 The Petanque Factory Download 8 Mb Tip: use a download accelerator free to try Help out an old colorblind factory worker by sorting pétanque balls by color... Fun playable Bocce game. A.k.a. Energy For Windows. Picture 1 Picture 2 Trankila Pro Petanque Play! Play Boules Petanque games free online. The goal is to lauch as near as possible to the small bowl - called "cochonnet" or "bouchon". Picture 1 Light-Up Bocce Ball Set Popular Handheld Keep playing Bocce even after the sun goes downlighted balls can be seen 100 feet away!

18. Rules Of Bocce - How To Play Bocce bocce rules with diagrams. http://www.centralconnector.com/GAMES/bocce.html

BOCCE BALL RULES AND ACCESSORIES BELOW Back to Central Connector Back to Game Rules BUY BOCCE GAMES AND ACCESSORIES This information is for your personal use. I am only posting this for those of you who want to know how to play the game. Credits... The first set of rules and illustrations are from a Bocce set's instructions that I purchased by Franklin Sports Industries out of Stoughton, MA 02072 The second set of rules General Sportcraft Co., Ltd. Bergenfield, NJ 07621 More Bocce Products! From Franklin... RULES OF BOCCE Bocce originated in Italy and is one of the oldest of all lawn bowling games. It is now gaining popularity in the United States since it can be played by people of all ages and on a great variety of surfaces. Bocce is played between two players or two teams of up to four players on a team. Bocce is played with 8 large balls, 4 of one color, 4 of another color and one small target ball called the "Jack," or "Pallino." Players seek to place their Bocce Balls nearer to the target jack than their opponent or displace the opponent's Bocce Ball and so improve the position of their Bocce Ball in relation to the Jack, (Pallino). Bocce can be played in a variety of ways using various rules. OPEN BOCCE CLOSED COURT BOCCE There are certain added rules and methods of play defined by the court layout.

19. Bocce - Definition And More From The Free Merriam-Webster Dictionary Definition of word from the MerriamWebster Online Dictionary with audio pronunciations, thesaurus, Word of the Day, and word games. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bocce

20. Improve Your Bocce A weblog focusing on bocce strategy and critical analysis of the game. http://bocce.novarese.net/

Enter your search terms Submit search form Web bocce.novarese.net Improve Your Bocce Strategic Thinking about Bocce Playing to Your Weakness March 15th, 2008 comfort zone . A routine What happened? better So the next time this happens, you notice. Now what? How do you adjust? You do the only thing you can do: play to your weakness Posted in Uncategorized strategy Adjusting to Court Conditions February 8th, 2008 Lagging shot selection. Click for larger image. position constant than to keep your speed constant. Your brain will be at least partially on auto-pilot for the speed recalculation, and fighting that is going to be counterproductive. Changing gears, I saw one fairly rare but interesting situation this week. Green to play. Click for larger image. As the gap in skill widens, the need for the underdog to take big chances increases, too. Posted in lagging strategy Aggression vs. Dropping December 15th, 2007 The most frequent big Any time you have a chance to score multiples, you must look for every opportunity to capitalize. The difference just between scoring one and two points is enormous over the long term, and yet teams will pass up easy chances to go for an additional two or even three points even if their downside is giving up just a point or two a small fraction of the time. Green to play.

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