Area baseball players honored

Posted by gepardby on August 25, 2010 under Baseball News | Be the First to Comment

Monticello baseball starting to simmer
Like their female counterparts, the rain washed out a week, and the Magic baseball team had to finish with a flury, playing five games in five straight days and seven games in nine days to close out the regular season.

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Area baseball players honored
A pair of area baseball players were named first-team all-state by the Iowa High School Baseball Coaches Association.

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Preteen basketball players bring to camp a love of the game

Posted by gepardby on August 13, 2010 under Basketball News | Be the First to Comment

UConn Men’s Basketball Gets More Time To File Response To NCAA
The NCAA has granted UConn more time to provide a response to possible violations by the men’s basketball program. The original date of Aug. 20 has been pushed back to Sept. 3.

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Preteen basketball players bring to camp a love of the game
Christina Romo, 11, and her two younger brothers were all on the same team at the third and final John Lane Elite Basketball Camp held this week at Marywood-Palm Valley School.

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Baseball player’s wife pleads guilty to kidnapping

Posted by gepardby on July 24, 2010 under Baseball News | Be the First to Comment

State baseball tournament postponed
DES MOINES – The Iowa state high school baseball tournament gotoff to a slow start Friday at Principal Park as both scheduledgames were eventually postponed to Saturday.

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Baseball player’s wife pleads guilty to kidnapping
A woman accused of faking a pregnancy and stealing a baby to fool her baseball player husband into thinking he was the father has pled guilty. Amalia Tabata-Pereira, 44, pled guilty in Hillsborough Circuit Court on Wednesday on charges of kidnapping, interference with custody and impersonating a public officer.

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UTM baseball players continue to shine in summer leagues

Posted by gepardby on July 20, 2010 under Baseball News | Be the First to Comment

Area Baseball Meets for week of July 6 – July 12
Monday, July 12 Algona falls to Spencer ALGONA—Spencer pounded out 18 hits and the Tigers defeated the Algona Bulldogs 15-5 in six innings in non-conference baseball play.

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UTM baseball players continue to shine in summer leagues
MARTIN, Tenn. – His players are not on campus, but that doesn’t mean Bubba Cates, the head baseball coach at The University of Tennessee at Martin, is not paying attention to them as they spend the summer playing in various collegiate leagues across the country.

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Italy’s soccer team players hold the balls during a training session in Irene

Posted by gepardby on June 18, 2010 under Soccer News | Be the First to Comment

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Bob Weiser started playing soccer as a youth and has been following the sport ever since, dating back to days of watching the Bundesliga on PBS on Saturday afternoons.

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Italy’s soccer team players hold the balls during a training session in Irene
Italy’s soccer team players hold the balls during a training session in Irene June 16, 2010. REUTERS/Stefano Rellandini

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Will basketball players ever get to play basketball on the moon in a special basketball arena?

Posted by gepardby on May 22, 2010 under Basketball News | 3 Comments to Read

Does NASA ever plan to play basketball in space for fun making it more desirable for humans to gain curiosity to travel to?

Will NASA ever have the ability to build such large buildings on the moon for recreation and for a community?

Russian soccer players mourn Beslan tragedy

Posted by gepardby on May 9, 2010 under Soccer News | Be the First to Comment

Field trip inspires Honesdale soccer player’s career opath
Although she didn’t know it then, a field trip in second grade would later pique Kelsey Kohrs’ interest in a potential career.The senior soccer player for Honesdale visited the Butterfly Barn in Milanville with her second-grade class nearly 11 years ago

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Russian soccer players mourn Beslan tragedy
Soccer players from Spartak Moscow laid flowers on Sunday at a memorial in the school in the southern Russian town of Beslan, where hundreds died in a siege by terrorists in September 2004.

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Do baseball historians drool over a players stats because they never had the ability to compete in baseball?

Posted by gepardby on April 30, 2010 under Baseball News | 9 Comments to Read

Baseball historians & fans love drooling & comparing players stats
more then any other sport.
Who do the historians & fans fall in love with the stats of a ball player instead of actually playing the game for fun?
I actually played baseball at the little league & high school levels & it was all about having fun & not about stats.
Is it safe to say that the historians & some fans that never had the ability to play baseball enjoy drooling over a players gaudy statistics?

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