Or we might play out in the yard and play ball with the kids, or lay on the sofa and watch TV or play cards or play dominoes.
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The White Sox, though, are much more heavily reliant on suburban parents bringing the kids to the ball game.
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He'd dribble a special, durable soccer ball, designed to give kids in poor countries something that they could play with for a long time, something that wouldn't break on rocky playgrounds or fields with sharp, thorny brush.
What the boys on the basketball court cared about was not whether white kids came and played ball with them.
The third-row bench is like the ball-pit at IKEA: kids only.
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Especially when those masses come from poorer households, and when the struggle is not to winnow down the talented players whose parents spent big bucks on travel ball, but just to get enough kids to field a team.
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Equally effusive was "Glee" actor Darren Criss, who attended the ball and had performed over the weekend at the Kids' Inaugural Concert.
"We've let our best kids play practice sets with the green ball, and every time we've done that the coaches say they're playing a better brand of tennis, " said Patrick McEnroe, the USTA's general manager of player development.
All I had in front of me was my ball-and-chain computer, or chores and kids.
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Smith tried to defend the inbound passer, then ran up the court with the kids, waving his arms to call for the ball.
The kids will perform Tuesday at the Africa and International Friends Inaugural Ball, sharing a stage with Usher and Patti LaBelle, one of many events in their packed schedule highlighted by a luncheon gala Monday to honor the Rev.
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We wanted to show the kids that everybody is going to get an opportunity to touch the ball.
She hopes when Elmo throws a ball to a child and the child catches the virtual "ball" and throws it back, it will open up brand new experiences for those kids.
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