• The Spaniards advance the ball in a series of triangles pieced together like an intricate spider web.

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  • Detroit pitcher Doug Fister was struck in the head by a batted ball during the World Series.

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  • Broad has made a huge contribution in this series with the ball, even though he hasn't taken a lot of wickets.

    BBC: Jonathan Agnew column

  • With Chelsea needing two goals at Swansea's Liberty Stadium to force overtime in the two-game series, the ball bounced off an advertising board behind the goal line in the 79th minute.

    NPR: Chelsea Star Ejected For Kicking At Ball Boy

  • Next month, Hunt Auctions will sell off a rare 1903 World Series program, the ball Pete Rose hit for his 4, 000th career hit, and various baseballs signed by Cy Young, Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig.

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  • He's always been able to spin the ball both ways, and before this series he has been claiming to have mastered a new, mystery delivery.

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  • He ripped a full-pitched delivery past Harbhajan's bat to bowl the spinner off the second ball of the over and then fired in a series of spearing yorkers to ensure Australia escaped with a victory that puts them 1-0 up in the seven-match series.

    BBC: Australia beat India in thriller

  • From the next series of play, Ngwenya was given the ball and set off on a scintillating 70m run down the touchline to score the first try of the game.

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  • There were some good balls, and conditions in this series have not been conducive to swatting the ball around, so there are one or two mitigating circumstances, but we should not be playing four-day Test matches.

    BBC: Jonathan Agnew column

  • "Part of the joy of this whole series is that it's about vampires, " Ball says with a smirk later in the day.

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  • Besides winning his third American League East title and narrowly defeating a tenacious Baltimore Orioles ball club during the regular season and in the American League Division Series, he accomplished these amazing feats with a heavy heart.

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  • But the West Indies skipper, who hit eight sixes in a stunning 80 from 43 balls in the third match of the series, fished at a good one from Anderson third ball and was comfortably caught by Flintoff at second slip.

    BBC: Flintoff inspires England triumph

  • The teams travel to Indore for the second ODI on Monday with India, fresh from their Test series win against Australia, in scintillating form with both bat and ball.

    BBC: Dismal England thrashed by India

  • The Germans used their extra man advantage to push the ball around and stretch the tiring Scots and the home side carved open a series of half-chances in the closing stages.

    BBC: Germany 2-1 Scotland

  • He was largely blamed for the Red Sox's defeat in the 1986 World Series against the New York Mets after he misplayed a routine ground ball in the 10th inning of Game 6, allowing the winning run to score in a 6-5 Mets victory.

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  • Before writing Ball Four, Bouton was a 20-game winner who pitched in the World Series.

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  • Opponents usually run themselves into exhaustion chasing the ball, which allows passing channels to open, giving the Spanish strikers a relentless series of chances to deliver lethal strikes at the goal that leave fans gasping with wonder.

    WSJ: La Roja: How Spain Became the World's Best Soccer Team

  • They have got to be looking at the way they are playing at the moment and seriously worrying about how they are going to fare in this series as a whole unless they sort out their batting against the swinging ball and their fielding behind the wicket.

    BBC: Jonathan Agnew column

  • It was akin to the ball rolling through Red Sox first baseman Bill Buckner's legs in the 1986 World Series that allowed the Mets to become world champions.

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  • In Game Three of the Divisional Series between the Rangers-Rays, you could sense that Joe Maddon and his ball club were working on a short fuse when it came to the umpires.

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  • Lovers of "I Love Lucy" also have long cherished the unforgettable 1957 episode of that series in which TV's Superman (George Reeves) rescues Lucy (Lucille Ball) after one of her harebrained schemes backfires.

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  • Hoggard was in his element and he first struck when Sehwag, not for the first time in the series, failed to get his gloves out of the way of a short-pitched ball which then looped into Shah's lap at first slip.

    BBC: SPORT | Cricket | England | England put India under pressure

  • It took too many Scarlets tacklers to stop a series of driving rucks - Collins just repulsed - and when Januarie and then Biggar spread the ball there were too few defenders out wide.

    BBC: Scarlets 14-21 Ospreys

  • Solanki, who made a combined 11 runs in the 3-0 series win in Bangladesh, lasted just five balls before he was given out lbw to a ball from left-armer Nandika Ranjith which appeared to be missing off-stump.

    BBC: SPORT | Cricket | Sri v Eng | Strauss stars for England

  • Leading up to this third Test of the series I hinted at the threat of the sleeping giant called Lara and, after chasing the ball to many parts of the magnificent Adelaide Oval, it is apparent my crystal ball was telling me the truth.

    BBC: Lara makes for awesome viewing

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