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“In 2015, the Women’s College World Series viewership bettered the Men’s College World Series by 31%” (Sports TV Ratings). The sport’s name is quite misleading, considering that the ball itself is not spongy and the level of skill it takes to play the sport properly. Softball has come far from its humble beginnings to the major sport it is today, and while many people think softball and baseball are basically the same sport, there are some pretty important differences. After Yale’s victory…

listening. Faithfulness happens to be the process of hope and following through. Reuven Malter displays important character traits in The Chosen. First, Reuven demonstrates forgiveness in The Chosen. In chapter one, Reuven becomes involved in a baseball game. The game develops roughly and resounds in hatred between two different Jewish groups. Reuven becomes the victim of a line drive to the eye. Instead of choosing…

Many people may argue that MMA and boxing are similar because they both teach skills in self- defense. Although the bear some superficial similarities, The differences between MMA and boxing are very clear if you ever watched or performed in any of these sports. MMA is also known as (Mixed Martial Arts), In MMA they use smaller gloves with openings in the fingertips and are light weight. The gloves are actually used for protection for the knuckles and the opponent's face and body. These…

and Eric faked it to Sara and even some of the green team got fooled and then Eric lightly threw it on the rebounder and scored the tying point. Sara Hein got the ball and the hole green team said “ SHOOT”. She threw the ball like a pitcher in baseball throwing as hard as he could, the ball launched off the rebounder and went way off and the red team didn’t even try to catch the ball and Sara was delightfully cheering “ Ya, lets go green team”. Hailey got the ball and threw it to Nick and…

character of this book is Joe Stoshack. He has special powers that he travel back to time with baseball cards. He loved baseball and had a bit of a temper, that can get in his way easily. This is the 2nd book of the series and it is one of my favorite of the series. One day he was in class and they were learning about the black history. His teacher wanted the whole class to pick someone that changed the world, and write an essay about…

Another NBA season is rapidly drawing to a close and two sounds can be heard: Carmelo Anthony’s title window slamming tighter shut, and New York sports fans turning their attention to baseball. With the Knicks wallowing in yet another season of going nowhere, what can be done to fix the franchise moving forward? 1. Pick A New Shape, The Triangle Has To Go It started off so well. Everyone was completely on board. All those rings, the connection to the glory days, the zen calm and peace after…

One day I played a game. That game was lacrosse. When I first played I was 7; However I had never heard of lacrosse and chose to try It. After the first few weeks of practice we had our first game. I was excited for the chance to play a game. We got to the field early In the morning. The reddish orange sun was still rising over the horizon. The sun was a lantern that morning. The field was a green carpet with splotches of dark brown mud. As we walk across the field, I take a deep breath and…

critics did not care for the movie, The Natural; however, I really liked it. My thoughts are it is a classic on morality, good versus evil. The cinematographer emphasizes this through lighting. The first scene with Robert Redford, Hobbes on the train platform is in low-key lighting suggesting a drama. Then shifting to the exact opposite of high-key lighting while a young boy practices baseballs. These first two scenes delineate the two extremes of good and evil or right and wrong. The…

Big, bland, and plan, the MSGA gym had to have at least 50 people in it. Yet I was still Janine's Target. My friend and I were playing basketball together. We let her in the game just to be nice. “I’ve made a team before but i got kicked off because I was too violent.”, my friends and I looked back and forth at each other “Yeah I ushed people a lot.”, Janine Says. My eyes got as wide as saucers when she said that. The game start and hurricane Janine starts brewing. Her first strike was at tip…

The perception from a person of an event could lead to multiple ideas for change that may need to occur. As I walked around, observed, asked question I began to formulate an idea of what I would want to see as a manager of a recreational league. In this essay I will briefly explain to you my experience at a summer league recreational softball game and then proved some rational on things that I would have like to see done differently. At the event I counted two employees who were working the…