Ball game

It's easy to get caught up in the numbers, but it’s occasionally necessary. Sabermetrics, originally defined as “the search for objective knowledge about baseball”, is an approach that often uses statistical analysis instead of traditional measures like RBIs, home runs and pitcher wins. However, using sabermetrics to analyze baseball isn’t always accepted because it doesn’t tell the entire story. For so-called “stat geeks”, the Kansas City Royals were a symbol of sabermetrics the last two…

It was the last night of winter break and I had a indoor baseball practice on the snowy night. The practice was going well as we were taking ground balls and working hitting on our swings. I was hitting in the cage and next you know, “Crack”, blood was rushing down the back of my head. Off balance, barely being able to see straight, everything was a blur. The person in the cage behind me let go of the bat and hit me in the back of the head. My coach bolted over, “Is everything ok”, he asked. I…

Rhetorical Home-run It’s down to the ninth inning, and Bird is last to bat. Despite her weary looks, you can tell her head is in the game. She had worked hard this season to make this final game worth the time and effort. She had long waited for this moment, and she knows she’s ready to give her all. The crowd now stands in anticipation as she makes her way up to the dirt-scuffed plate. She shakes the tension out of her hands, then confidently positions her body to the side and grips the bat.…

movement must conform to the regulatory environmental constraints regarding the size, shape, and velocity of the ball. He is moving to get into position (a mobility constraint) somewhere on a smooth, yet irregular, sandy surface to get planted over his base of support (a stability constraint). John must move his hands deftly and skillfully (a manipulation constraint) to contact and release the ball. Each component of the motor control system is extremely dependent on the sensory…

abnormality of the terrain, and the irregularity of so many majestic looking bunkers, this course will leave your eyes in complete awe. There are so many reasons why this piece of land is known throughout the golf community. Even the best players in the game of golf approve. Whistling Straits was the site of the 2015 PGA Championship. This tournament is one of the four majors that is played throughout the professional golf season. The majors are the most elite tournaments in professional golf.…

A million thoughts race through my mind in less than a second. Is the angle of approach correct, am I coming down with a proper arc, are my feet far enough away, or too close? All these, and more, in the milliseconds before impact, and then it’s gone. Another shot, right down the fairway. Golf has been an integral part of my life, and I dare say a passion, since I was six years old. At that age I walked up to my Dad one day, and said, “Can we golf?” That simple question has since changed…

Well where do I begin Carnival Masks go way back and it started in the mid 1979 where they used to wear masks to celebrate a tradition of making carnival masks which started in the mid 1268 then which became a day to do a carnival and celebrate so that is why the people of venice italy just like we celebrate the day of the people the fought and died for our country but im getting way ahead of myself we are talking about carnival masks so carnival masks can have anything you want to put on it…

bottom left/right. Top Left: 1 Top Right: 2 Bottom Left: 3 Bottom left: 4 The dimensions have to be a whole number and you have to start at the bottom left. Your goal is to land inside a corner. You’ll have the ball going 45 degrees all the time. If the four corners are a square, then the ball will go straight into the top right corner with no rebounds. If the four corners are a triangle, then there will be at least one rebound. Rebounds are how many times the sides of the rectangle are hit.…

My background story begins with me starting my first day of junior year at Gary Gilchrist Golf Academy. The previous year was spent at a different school. This new school was going to put me down the path I wanted for myself. I was very different from every other student at the academy because the other students have played golf for most of their lives. What is different for me is that golf was new for me and I had high hopes of playing for a great college. My first coach at the school told my…

extra roles in commercials and popular films. In 1940 while filming one of her movies titled Dance, Girl, Dance, she was introduced to the popular Cuban Bandleader named Desi Arnaz, and the two soon fell in love and married (Higham, 1986). Lucille Ball was a determined and hardworking woman, who was strong willed and never let anything stop her from fulfilling her dreams. Despite the many trials and tribulations she experienced in her career, she never detoured from making her dreams of…