• Meanwhile, Khawaja, playing the ball late from a high back-lift with hands low on the bat handle, consolidated intelligently as the skies darkened overhead.

    BBC: Ashes: England on top as rain hits Sydney Test match

  • Hull FC argued they could have been playing against 12 men when Fox stopped Briscoe playing the ball following a lightning break down the middle with 10 minutes left.

    BBC: Hull FC 4-21 Hull KR

  • Research by the USGA has shown that U-shaped grooves allow top players to generate much more spin when playing the ball out of the rough, making the ball come to a quick stop on the green.

    CNN: Woods backs golf's 'groovy' rule change

  • As David Biderman pointed out in a fascinating article in the Wall Street Journal in 2010, although the typical NFL game lasts more than three hours, only 6 percent of the total eleven minutes is actually spent playing with the ball and attempting to move it forward.

    FORBES: Not So Super Sunday: Eleven Minutes Of Actual Playing Time

  • But then Labour have long since adopted the tactic of playing the man not the ball when it comes to the Wales Office.

    BBC: When David met Carwyn: the sequel

  • You do not have to be standing still over the ball when playing a shot, so striking the ball with a run-up is okay.

    CNN: Harrington learns from Happy Gilmore

  • It's just down to watching the cricket ball and playing the best I can.

    BBC: Form merited England call - Trott

  • But the near-farcical playing surface, with the ball repeatedly held up in surface water, put Chelsea's passing game all at sea and Frank Leboeuf was almost caught out on the edge of his area trying to dribble clear.

    BBC: Blues maintain Premiership push

  • Their poor chemistry has been a factor in the Knicks playing just .500 ball in the 12 games since Stoudemire was activated.

    WSJ: Is One Star Better Than Two?

  • Besides becoming the 297th member of the Baseball Hall of Fame, Larkin is also the 48th ball player to enter the Hall of Fame after playing his entire career with one ball club.

    FORBES: Third Time's The Charm For Barry Larkin

  • Anthony Davis alone will make more money playing pro ball than the entire Louisville roster.

    WSJ: NCAA Final Four: Why You Should Feel Sorry For Kentucky Fans

  • George W. Bush George W. Bush is playing football, running the ball up the gut in an effort to run out the clock.

    FORBES: Top Of The News: Candidates Return To Court

  • Maybe American Airlines won't go out of business by not playing ball with the complaint sites, but the small fry might have to pay attention.

    FORBES: The Whiners

  • Playing forward to the fifth ball of Masters' new spell, he was caught behind thanks to a brilliant catch from James Foster diving low to his right.

    BBC: Gibbs makes good Glamorgan start

  • However, Tim Donoghue's Kissinger is not playing ball with the president's pitches, his outward containment a mask for his own desperation to salvage power from the wreckage of Nixon's fall.

    BBC: Nixon's final hours

  • Philip Jordan charged upfield right through the heart of the Monaghan defence and he was able to palm the ball into the net after playing a clever one-two with Gerard Cavlan.

    BBC: Owen Mulligan and Dessie Mone

  • It was a lovely build-up that created the chance as Parker slid Spector in down the right and he crossed to where Cole wanted the ball playing, about 15 yards out.

    BBC: West Ham 2-1 Birmingham

  • But playing ball with the open source community can lead companies into a tangled web of licensing issues, some of which may be irreconcilable with the agenda of a for-profit company like Apple.

    CNN: Apple warms up to open source community

  • Both Dr Brady and Dr Aguilar have tried to play ulama themselves, but Dr Aguilar says that, although some of his graduate students persevered for longer, the bruises he sustained from the heavy ball caused him quickly to abandon playing the game.

    ECONOMIST: Sports anthropology

  • They briefed the Cobra committee (made up on this occasion by on-the-ball, internet-savvy actors playing the prime minister, culture secretary and home secretary) on response strategies to the threat, analysed a simulated Twitter feed to gauge the social media response to the issue, and discussed and debated strategies for managing the attack on a chat site called the Und3rgr0und - the gathering place of choice for Incognito hacktivists.

    BBC: Viewpoint: Preparing for the digital defence of the realm

  • Neither the Jeopardy-playing computer nor the chess-playing one has any sense of how a soccer ball bounces.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Or, we could be playing a team that shifts the ball wide and we need direction from the back.

    BBC: Paul Wellens and James Graham to captain St Helens

  • Only two deliveries had been sent down after the re-start when bad light stopped play but Sidebottom's first ball after the resumption knocked back Tim Southee's middle stump - the 19-year-old playing across the line to a full-pitch ball that swung back at him a touch.

    BBC: Sidebottom puts England in charge

  • McCarthy spent the summer of 2002 playing rookie ball in Provo, Utah.

    FORBES: He's Not Baseball's James Frey

  • At Breezy Point, some of the restrictions include a ban on ATVs on federally protected land from March 15 through August, and no picnicking, kite-flying or ball-playing near the nests.

    WSJ: Wrecked Beaches Could Aid Plovers

  • Australia should have scored a second try when Barnes failed to find one of six support players before flanker George Smith, playing his 100th Test, dropped the ball just short of the line.

    BBC: New Zealand 22-16 Australia

  • Too often it's like playing nine-ball and effortlessly sinking the first seven, only for your opponent to nail the final two.

    WSJ: The Magic Behind Manchester City's 3-2 Win Over Tottenham

  • Addressing the tennis ball as if playing a golf shot, McIlroy tried surprise tactics on Sharapova by quickly starting a rally with a top-spin forehand.

    CNN: SHARE THIS

  • He lived the life of a gangsta and had never dreamed Ji could get his family out of the ghetto the clean way, by playing ball.

    CNN: Ex-NBA star coaches middle school, transforms his 'hood

  • In the second half the Pharaohs too often resorted to the long ball, replacing their traditional build-up along the floor, playing into the hands of a magnificent Algerian defence.

    BBC: Yahia sends Algeria to World Cup

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