Salmon run

Baseball is in my blood. Like the light hair and eyes I inherited from my father, and the hot Italian temper I got from my mother, through my veins a love of baseball runs. Until recently, where my passion for the sport came from I was not sure. Sometime, I thought it began long ago, on summer trips to Fenway Park, when my family would drive in our oversized Chevy to Boston, park in a garage near Government Center, and take the T out to the ballpark. As I grew older and more accustomed to our…

Strike Three! At ninety-eight miles per hour, Jennie Finch pitches all strikes for every game. But that is what you may have seen if you had been lucky enough to witness one of the games that Finch was the pitcher in: She stunned the softball world with her amazing performance. At age five Jennie Finch started playing softball, and became a pitcher at eight years old(Team). She played for the Arizona Wildcats, and the Chicago Bandits, and she has won two Olympic medals and seven world…

American musician and songwriter Bruce Springsteen is considered to be one of America’s most talented rock artists. Much of his music consists of working class values and American culture. He rose to fame with his 1975 album Born to Run and became an even bigger sensation nine years later with his seventh album, Born in the USA. The album featured seven top 10 hits such including “Dancing in the Dark”, “Glory Days”, and “Born in the USA”. The album would go on to reach up to fifteen times…

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender. That is strength.” This Was once said by Arnold Schwarzenegger. Wyatt Hoffman’s mentality is like a Emperor penguin no matter how harsh the conditions are he perseveres day in and day out this is the mentality that he has when he goes through any workout or sport. Every day in any conditions. Wyatt Hoffman has to be able to conquer live challenges like school…

halfhearted truth about the athletes. They also exaggerate things and make them bigger of a deal then they really are. Like when someone gets in trouble for a DUI, they make it sound like he committed a crime. Also I don’t like when after a game how they run up to the quarterbacks and the coaches and if they didn’t have a good game you are the last person I want to talk to they are just annoying. The only way I like sports analyst is before games like early morning Sundays when they are talking…

PEDs has always been in the mix when it comes to professional sports. Many athletes go to extreme levels to maximize their performance. The fans go to a sporting event to see an amazing home run, an incredible football tackle or the fastest sprinter in the world. One of the main reasons why PEDs are prohibited in professional sports is due to the fact that it's going to create an unfair advantage over the opponent. In my opinion, I think most athletes will use PEDs if they can get away with it.…

The Journey to Team Louisiana Sweeping through the state tournament, on our way to the world series in Bluffton, South Carolina, until we run into the best team in the tournament. They put 10 runs on us in the 1st inning. All I can say is good thing it is double elimination. Waking up the next morning to a Bossier City, Louisiana was brutal. Nobody wanted to wake up on that bright and early morning and remember the horrific loss to JPRD. We had to forget about it, someone had to step up, and…

Breaking my nose playing baseball is my worst memory of ever playing the sport. It hurt like nothing I’ve ever felt before, and I didn’t even know what happened. At first, I had no clue what had happened. When I was ten, I signed up to play for my first select baseball team. They were from Waterloo and called the Blue Diamonds. I was only okay with playing for them because my friend Sam played with me. They had the tryouts in August, and we both made the team. We were a pretty good team and we…

One of the reasons conflicts have not ended is culture. More interactions between different civilizations are intensifying the awareness of differences between cultures. Because civilizations do not understand differences between theirs and others, conflict arises. In some conflicted areas of the world, liberalism has failed and new authoritarian powers have appeared. The cause of the 2008 economic crisis was borrowers not being able to keep up with their ballooning mortgage payment. As a result…

Strike three the umpire yelled as the teams ran back to their dugouts. The first day I went to practice was one of the most nerve wracking things I’ve ever done. But the a kid walked up to me all exited and was ready to play some baseball. This made me feel a little bit better that I was feeling. Reason I love baseball so much is because I got to meet new people and it made me more social towards other people then I also figured out a sport that I really love. I finally had something to…