Apply that logic to the upcoming massive job loss in the Pakistani sports ball segment.
So while I spent my weekends writing essays with a room full of Poindexters who preferred the thrills of multiple choice test taking to tossing around a sports ball, I maintained a healthy social life, which, to my naive mind, also meant picking up a couple of bad habits.
Fans rail against teams in stick and ball sports when they sign venue naming rights deals.
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In fact, whether he was kicking a football or swinging a golf club it was obvious that he possessed an incredible knack for ball sports with raw talent oozing from every pore in his body.
Now it seems that for the very first time, the country's most famous sports star may not be from the ball park after all.
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"It was nice to make it, " he told Sky Sports "And nice to see the ball going in the hole, I've been working hard for the last few months and nice to see the result, " he added.
Continuity and stability are just as important to a sports organization as a roster filled with talented ball players.
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To use a sports metaphor, an NBA player tossing a ball in the final seconds of a period has nothing to lose.
The live-blogging phenomenon actually pre-dates CoverItLive by several years, and probably has its roots among the team of sports obsessives of CricInfo, who first provided ball-by-ball coverage of cricket matches in the mid-1990s.
To a youth sports parent, this sounds like the same pitch travel ball programs make.
Muir, who is also worldwide general manager of Wilson Racquet Sports, says this has manifested in overall increases in ball and racket sales over the same period.
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As a parent, sometimes it seems like you have to take out a third mortgage on your home to pay for all the youth sports fees, especially if your child is in travel ball.
According to Sports Business Daily, Taillon has received the largest signing bonus for a ball player who signed directly out of high school.
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For five straight seasons, PSG controlled the ball less than half the time in league games, according to Opta Sports.
"Through sports medicine and sports science, we can concentrate on how do we shave millimetres off so the ball goes in instead of hitting the post, " he explained.
As expected, an impressive array of prominent sports franchise owners, distinguished baseball executives, titans of business, and even former ball players are expected to aggressively pursue a franchise whose origins date back to the late nineteenth century and well before Brooklyn was even a borough of New York City.
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Soccer is huge in Europe, and Football is huge in America, not just because every sports station is broadcasting it, but because everyone in Europe has kicked around a soccer ball and every American has thrown a football.
"When fans figure out it'll end at say, 789, that's the ball to own, " says Doug Allen of Mastro Auctions, the biggest sports auction house in the U.S. The expected pursuit of Bonds' record by Alex Rodriguez, according to Allen, isn't a big factor in the value of the 756th ball right now, given that Rodriguez is still 256 homers away.
In a 2002 altercation that's ranked by FOX as one of the "most outrageous moments in sports, " a player with the Los Angeles Sparks hit Marciniak in the face with the ball, prompting Marciniak to charge toward the player, who then knocked her to the floor.
If you love sports for the right reasons, you have to denounce in the strongest terms fist fights in sports outside of boxing and MMA. If the game is about scoring touchdowns, putting a ball in the hoop, or puck in a goal, fights are antithetical to us purists.
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"Sports itself requires athletes to assert themselves against an opponent, such as to obtain possession of a soccer ball or basketball, " Cohn said.
According to Synergy Sports, the Knicks have run the pick-and-roll play, which tends to induce fluid ball movement, just 24% of the time in February, down from 28% in December.
He is shooting the ball within two seconds of catching it 23.9% of the time, according to Synergy Sports.
Sports memorabilia collectors aren't exactly looking ahead with rabid enthusiasm to Barry Bonds' record 756th home run ball hitting the auction market.
Over the next six decades, however, as television networks were able to personalize their coverage for sports fans, the networks introduced visual statistics, instant replay and graphics that could pinpoint the exact location of the ball.
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