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Shape Of The Soccer Ball
1,595 wordsYou may not know it, but mathematics is all around you in the world today- from the breakfast you eat in the morning, to the hobbies you enjoy, to the complex world of computers and games. In this paper, it's going to be my goal to show you how math is related to the sport of soccer. Soccer, in essence, is a fairly simplistic sport. The basic rules are simple, but some of the more particular ones can become slightly confusing. The MLS (Major League Soccer) recognizes seventeen basic rules which ...
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Hit Three Homer In One Game
1,474 wordsBaseball is going down the drain. Don't ask why, just wave goodbye, Baseball Weekly Blame it on the juiced baseball. Blame it on the juiced players. Blame it on the shrinking strike zone. Blame it on the shrinking pitching talent pool. Blame it on the easy-to-hit new ballparks. Blame it on the easy-to-see baseball. Blame it on all the new bat companies. Blame it on all the underground steroid use. "Hell, blame it on global warming", Toronto Blue Jays manager Jim Fregosi says. "We " re blaming al...
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Dr James Naismith
2,513 wordsInventor of Basketball There's no such sport more convenient or accessible than basketball. It is fun, practical, and affordable. It's also a common and healthy alternative to electronic entertainment. However, such a great sport could not come about by itself. There was an idea behind it. And behind that idea was a man, Dr. James Naismith. James Naismith was born near Almonte, Ontario on November 6, 1861. He was the eldest son of Scottish immigrants John and Margaret Naismith. His family moved ...
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Game Of Volleyball
612 wordsVolleyball, perhaps one of the most widely known sports in the world, is, like many other sports, one that had very humble beginnings, but blossomed into a fad that swept across the United States and the world in the space of a few years. In Holyoke, Massachusetts in 1895, a man named William G. Morgan (the P.E. director of the local YMCA) was looking to create a game for the businessmen that wouldn t require much physical contact. He blended elements of many sports and came up with a game that ...
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Ball Into His Hands The Fans
347 wordsBasketball Dream I dribble down the length of the court How much I love this bouncy sport The ball so orange, inflated so My fingers spin it, watch it go My heart is pumping beat by beat The one defending moves his feet The trap is coming, And so near It closes in; I have no fear With hands raised high they do contain My teammate cuts into a lane I pass the ball into his hands The fans are screaming in the stands The press breaks down; it's man-to-manI set the play up with my hand We swing the b...
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Next Pitch Big Bill Tilden
550 wordsThe Babe Hits 60 and much more Sports in the 1920's have been Red Grange, the Wheaton Ice very intriguing to watch. Charles Lindbergh, Man, played many great years of in his specially made airplane call the Spirit football. When Red was a little boy of St. Louis, was going to attempt the playing for his high school, he was impossible and fly nonstop from New York a sensation. He scored a record of to Paris. The prize for this feat was $25,000. forty-five points in one game, a Charles flew all al...
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Great Misfortune And A Missed Fly Ball
1,373 wordsCreative Writing: The Missed Fly Ball It was only a fly ball, but I missed it. I missed a fly ball in the final baseball game my 3rd grade year. It was a beautiful day, a few clouds covering the extremely blue summer sky. It was very hot. I remember this because of the tremendous amount of sweat that would run down my face while I stood out in right field. When I heard that crack of the bat, all I could hope for was that the ball would not come my direction. I have never had good luck, so the ba...
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Our First And Second Batters
1,225 wordsMaya Angelou's "Champion of the World " My Big Game It was pre-game warm-ups and everyone on my team was excited and ready to play our long time rivals the Everett Crimson Tide. It was great day to play baseball, sunny and hardly any wind. There were already tons of eager and excited fans sitting in the stands waiting for the game to begin. As game time approached all us athletes started to become impatient, it seemed like time was taking forever to hit 3: 30, the time at which the game would be...
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Champion Cael Sanderson
309 wordsThe skylight running the length of the Design Center casts ever-changing patterns on the walls and floods the open court below with light. Photo, ISU Alumni Association. Cael Sanderson To Sing For Chicago Cub Fans Sunday At Wrigley Field Wrestling champion to lead crowd in 'Take Me Out to the Ball Game. ' Sanderson will sing during the seventh-inning stretch of Sunday's game. Wrestling Home HEADLINES Cael Sanderson To Sing For Chicago Cub Fans Sunday At Wrigley Field Cael Sanderson Wins Third Da...
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Red Sox Fans Boo As Roger
613 wordsIt was a bright, sunny day at Fenway Park, home of the Red Sox, in Boston. Entering the park for this could-be historic game, the smell of freshly cut grass mingles in the air with the scent of "Fenway franks", the parks signature foot-long hot dogs. The game pits the Boston ace, Pedro Martinez, against the one-time red Sox star, now New York Yankee star, Roger Clemens. The Red Sox fans boo as Roger begins to toss his warm-up pitches off to the side. He is getting older, but his fastball still h...
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My Perfect Gesture
650 wordsThe Perfect Gesture. The perfect form football tackle, that is the perfect gesture. The person that made this gesture was Gary Kmiec. I witnessed this event for the first time, Labor Day, at the junior varsity football game against North Park College. The day was hot and humid, like a regular Chicago summer. The North Park Viking's field was hardly appealing to the eye. The field was one of those contraptions of a baseball / football field combination. It was the third quarter of a very intense ...
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Second Bowler Bowls
857 wordsMany different sports and games have been invented and started in England. Many of these are still played and remain very popular to the people of that country. The game of cricket is a very complicated sport to those who have never played with all of the rules and regulations but is one to be enjoyed by all. The exact measurements of the cricket playing field have not been officially agreed upon. The area is usually around 450 feet by 500 feet. When setting up the wicket, three stumps and drive...
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Batsman In One Day Cricket
535 wordsSachin Ramesh Tendulkar: the name itself strikes terror in the hearts of bowlers and captains all around the world. The Star of Indian Cricket, more like a GOD in India, he is the best player ever gifted to the game of Cricket and should be chosen as the sport personality of the year. He possesses all the strokes in the book and is probably the best cutter and straight driver of the ball today. His technique is impeccable, and he is professional at his approach. And He made the highest runs in a...
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Ball My Mind
545 wordsThe final whistle blew. The game was tied, and the winner was yet to be decided. We all knew that the fate of the game was to be determined by penalties, a soccer players most hated fear. The entire team was nervous as our coach carefully studied each player, trying to figure out whom he would choose for this infamous task. There was a moment of silence; the kind of silence you think only exists in movies. The ephemeral moment lasted an eternity. Would he choose me Was I to bear the pressure of ...
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Very Next Play Our Coach Waters
1,803 wordsIt was the very next Friday night after the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Centers in New York. Two days after the Deer Valley School District decided not to postpone week two of our high school football schedule for mourning purposes for the September 11th victims. "Live your life like it didn't happen but do not forget it" and "don't let terrorism run your life" are what people are saying. Even though there is a sense of national security nervousness in every ones minds. Before the ...
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American Games And Abbott
514 wordsJIM ABBOTT: THE GOLDEN ARM Jim Abbott was born on September 19, 1967 in Flint, Michigan with only a stub as a right hand. When he was 6 he learned to balance his glove on his stub and switch so he could still field the ball. When he was a kid he would bounce the ball against a brick wall to work on his fielding. When he realized how good he was he went and played little league. In his first little league game he threw a no-hitter. In high school he played for varsity his sophomore year as their ...
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Ball To The Other Side
609 wordsToday, just like every other morning I woke up to the sound of my alarm at seven a. m. After that I went downstairs and ate a bowl of cereal. Then I took a warm shower and got changed. After I changed I prepared my homework and basketball practice jersey. My mother gave me a ride to school at eight a. m. When I arrived at the school I went straight to my locker got my books for chemistry first hour and my Spanish book to study for my test third hour. During chemistry, we turned in our lab notebo...
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Ball From Your Teams
1,232 wordsBasketball is a simple and fun sport. Any number can play, up to the full complement of ten, and basketball is as satisfying, half court as much as full court, pavement as much as hardwood or Tartan. The invention and spread of basketball is a story of fortunate circumstances and coincidences. With in a few years basketball had caught on in many places throughout the country, largely under the auspices of the YMCA and through the game's immediate appeal to spectators, until by the turn of the ce...
