The Great Game

It was one of the most rainy days of the summer of 2014 in Tulsa, Oklahoma and I had one of the biggest soccer tournaments in my life. My team was invited to this tournament called The Friendship Cup. This tournament was a six team tournament and your team has to be one of the top teams in your state to be invited. My team is called Blitz United and at this time we were top three in the state of Oklahoma. It was an honor for my team to be in this tournament but no one actually believed that we…

Houston Texans. Both teams have ultra-talented fantasy players coming off of injuries who should put up some great fantasy numbers this week. Both Colts’ quarterback Andrew Luck and Texans’ running back Arian Foster are primed to have some big fantasy outputs tonight. Thursday Night Football is upon us, let’s get started with my preview: INJURIES: The biggest injury issue going into this game is the partially separated shoulder that Luck is dealing with. He has been throwing in practice the…

slowly steps down each step. Her team team is about half way done with their season and the games they have next are the most important. Friday is the big intercity rival game, so this practice tonight has to go well for Katie and her team because tomorrows the big game. It’s Katie’s senior year and she wants it to be the best. She expects to play really well this last month of her potentially last basketball games ever. She wants to play college basketball desperately. All she can think about…

I usually keep an open hour in my schedule to play soccer on the weekend. Exercise is a great way to distress and get away from all the school activities. I am fortunate to live near a public park where we meet together for a lovely soccer game. It is also an opportunity to expand my horizons meeting new people. Soccer is a game with many rules to establish a playable environment. Disobeying them can lead to ramifications and often lead long discussions. In soccer a corner also called a corner…

night air. The rumble of the crowd becomes a roar. Grass cut earlier in the day feels wet with the night already laying its sheet of the morning dew. The whistle is blown and the ball sent soaring through the air, and the game begins. Every football game begins this way, but in big games like a state championship the lights seem brighter, the pads lighter, and the crowd louder. Every team's goal is to win a championship, but without hard work and determination it is a goal that will stay a goal…

friend Katie, asked if I wanted to play basketball? This opportunity to play basketball with my best friend was great and it resulted in me loving basketball. The enjoyment of being around my friend and attempting to make foul shots was fulfilling. I had lots of fun running up and down the court because I knew I was fast. For five years I played basketball, developed skills and played on a great team all throughout middle school. When I was a Freshman year in high school I tried out for the…

every other year like a back and forth thing, it’s EVERY SINGLE YEAR. But this year, we have prepared for this game for weeks on end. There will be blood. The sun was setting with a bright and beautiful orange glow that looked like our helmets. It was a cool Monday afternoon, a perfect day to play football. I was feeling more energetic than usual. I think it was because before the game our whole bus was jamming out and getting pumped. We were playing at Chatham, their home field. You can’t get…

(Goff, 2015, par.1). Abby Wambach has broken the stereotype that women are not as good athletes as men; she has outscored even the soccer greats, Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo. Another great example is midfielder, Carli Lloyd, who in the World Cup final, “scored a historic hat trick, with all three goals occurring within the first sixteen minutes of the game.” (Pennsylvania Conference for Women, 2015, Par.3). Lloyd’s hat trick is the fastest three goals to happen in the history of the…

is a highly energetic and fast paced sport. I really like to go and see them play. My mom and I watch from the stands while they skate back and forth across the ice trying to score a goal into the other team's net. My dad has taught me about the game. I know that there are five players per team on the ice. The players will run into or hit as they say another player to off set the player's position and or to take the puck away from the other player. One time, a player checked a guy into the…

catching and fielding balls hit by a batter or thrown from a teammate.” To some that do not know the game, a baseball glove is a brown piece of leather to catch a baseball, but to me it has a lot more meaning. The smell of the glove, breaking it in just how it should be, and best of all making a sensational diving play is what I love the most about my glove. Without a glove I could not play the game I love to play, and playing baseball has helped me become who I am today. I have been playing…