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SportsCafe

SportsCafe is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand SportsCafe rather than just read about it. In short: SportsCafe is a New Zealand sports TV show. The show's original run was hosted by Lana Coc-Kroft, Marc Ellis, Leigh Hart, Graeme Hill, Ric Salizzo and reporter Eva Evguenieva.

Key takeaways

SportsCafe belongs to science; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect SportsCafe to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of SportsCafe from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

SportsCafe is a New Zealand sports TV show. The show's original run was hosted by Lana Coc-Kroft, Marc Ellis, Leigh Hart, Graeme Hill, Ric Salizzo and reporter Eva Evguenieva. In 2001 Leigh Hart was added to the cast under his persona of 'That Guy'. The show first screened on New Zealand television in 1996 on Sky Sport; however, those without a Sky subscription could view SportsCafe without a UHF Sky decoder by tuning their TV to the Sky Sport UHF channel, as the signal was not scrambled during this show. In 2002, SportsCafe moved to Sky 1, but it did not attract enough ratings, causing it to move to the free-to-air market, where it moved in February 2003 to TV2 (TVNZ 2). It featured interviews with current sports stars and comical skits about sports. Each episode lasted 60 minutes, including commercials. The show was pulled at the end of 2005 after the 'Celebrity Drug Scandal' but it is understood that this was not the reason for the show going off the air. The grand final screened November 23, 2005 and at the end of the show the presenters actually destroyed the set on the air, as The Exponents played their hit song "Why Does Love Do This to Me?". On Sunday June 22, 2008, it was announced in the Herald on Sunday newspaper that SportsCafe would return for a final season, to begin on July 9, 2008. The show featured most of the original cast, and aired on Wednesday nights at 9.30 pm on TV2. In 2011, SportsCafe returned for three exclusive online episodes, in order to celebrate New Zealand's hosting of the Rugby World Cup later in the year. Three shows were confirmed, and broadcast on July 8, 15 and 22. Recordings of these episodes can be found on YouTube. The filming location was Leftfield on Auckland's Waterfront.

National Nude Day "National Nude Day" was a mock public holiday created when Marc Ellis challenged SportsCafe viewers to streak in front of then Prime Minister Helen Clark. The show ran an event each year inviting viewers to submit photos and video of themselves performing daily activities in the nude, which was continued on the internet (rebranded as "World Nude Day" or "International Nude Day") until around 2009. A number of student pubs in Ellis' home town of Dunedin offered special deals for nude patrons on the day. Internet collections of world holidays mark the day as 14 July; in fact it was held at the organizers' whim, having variously fallen on 19 September and 6 February.

References

External links Link to IMDb Link to TVNZ

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with SportsCafe

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what SportsCafe claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to SportsCafe before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about SportsCafe ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of SportsCafe

In research: SportsCafe appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses SportsCafe in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: SportsCafe is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1990s New Zealand television series, 1996 English-language television series debuts, 1996 New Zealand television series debuts, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for SportsCafe outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study SportsCafe in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what SportsCafe means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain SportsCafe out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is SportsCafe in simple terms?

SportsCafe is a New Zealand sports TV show. The show's original run was hosted by Lana Coc-Kroft, Marc Ellis, Leigh Hart, Graeme Hill, Ric Salizzo and reporter Eva Evguenieva.

Why does SportsCafe matter?

Because it connects several science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study SportsCafe?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on SportsCafe.