[jennyjenjen]

DAY 2 - PICK TWO
Duke
Kansas

[9trogue]

DAY 2 - PICK TWO
Duke
Purdue

[johngriffen]

Loyola-Chicago Won

[pjmpjm]

[Mudler]

DAY 2 - PICK TWO
Duke
Villanova

[pjmpjm]

The History of Kickball

When I was young, back in the 1950s, this was by far the most popular playground game, even more popular than basketball. (We didn't know that soccer even existed.) Until fairly recently I had absolutely no idea that it was in any way an organised sport, or recognised as a sport at all! I guess I thought it was an archetypal children's pastime, like marbles, that kind of originated out of nowhere, taught by one generation of youngsters to the younger children . . . I must have played in thousands of games back in the day.

But Wikipedia has taught me otherwise . . .

Kickball (also known as 'soccer baseball' in most of Canada) is a game and league game, similar to baseball, invented in the United States by Nicholas C. Seuss. As in baseball, one team tries to score by having its players return a ball from home base to the field and then circle the bases; while the other team tries to stop them by tagging them 'out' with the ball before they can return to the home base. Instead of hitting a small, hard ball with a bat, players kick an inflated rubber ball; this makes it more accessible to young children. As in baseball, teams alternate half-innings. The team with the most runs after a predefined number of innings wins.

Kickball is a popular playground game and is typically played among young, school-age children. The lack of both specialized equipment and highly skill-based positions (like pitcher) makes the game an accessible introduction to other sports. It is just as popular among adults, who are more commonly known to play similar games like softball and baseball.

Kickball, originally called 'Kick Baseball', was invented as early as 1917 by Nicholas C. Seuss, Supervisor of Cincinnati Park Playgrounds in Cincinnati, Ohio. Seuss submitted his first documented overview of the game which included 12 rules and a field diagram in The Playground Book, published in 1917. Kickball is referred to as 'Kick Base Ball' and 'Kick Baseball' in this book.

Around 1920–1921 'Kick Ball' was used by physical education teachers in public schools to teach young boys and girls the basics of baseball. Around this time, the ball that was used was a soccer ball or volleyball. It was played by ten to thirty players and the field included a 'Neutral Zone': an area not to be entered until the ball has actually been kicked. There was no pitcher as the ball would be kicked from the home area, which was a 3 ft circle. The ball must pass beyond the 5 foot line. Base-runners could only advance one base on infield balls. Teams would switch sides only after all team members have kicked.

[matina]

my niece won a silver medal at junior world shooting games in Sydney yesterday very proud of her!

[johngriffen]

We want PICS

[pjmpjm]

2018 ISSF Junior World Cup Rifle/Pistol Event in Sydney (Cecil Park)

https://shootingaustralia.org/event/2018-issf-junior-world-cup-sydney/



(This isn't matina's niece . . . )

[johngriffen]

DUHHHHHHHHH

[serenityzero]

DAY 2 - PICK TWO
Duke
Purdue

[johngriffen]

UNBELIEVABLE NIGHT
4 Games, 3 UPSETS.

South Region
No. 5 Kentucky (-6) vs. 9 Kansas State - KANSAS STATE WINS 61-58
No. 7 Nevada (-2) vs. No. 11 Loyola-Chicago - LOYOLA-CHICAGO WINS 69-68
West Region
No. 3 Michigan (-3) vs. No. 7 Texas A&M - MICHIGAN WINS 99-72
No. 4 Gonzaga (-5) vs. No. 9 Florida State - FLORIDA STATE WINS 75-60

NOBODY WINS THE DAILY DOUBLE

But we do have Square Winners.
Recaps to follow...

[pjmpjm]

Watch this MLB spring training hole-in-one . . .

https://www.mlb.com/cut4/rob-refsnyder- ... -269422976

Don't go golfing with Indians infielder Rob Refsnyder. You know what, you might as well just extend that to darts, skee ball, pool and anything that involves pinpoint accuracy. Because Refsnyder pretty much pulled off the impossible: Facing the Padres during Thursday's Spring Training game, Refsnyder smashed Joey Lucchesi's offering to center field ... where it landed in the center-field wall's camera cutout.

[johngriffen]

I don't agree with the person that said it should have been a home run.
A ground rule double is good enough

[pjmpjm]

South Africa blows strong position as Cummins leads Australian fightback in third Test . . .

From an Australian perspective, Cape Town brings to mind batting disaster. Memories of being bowled out by South Africa for 47 in 2011 linger long.

So there was a sense of reassurance on waking in Cape Town to find that England had already provided the day's collapse. Over in Auckland, New Zealand at one stage had England 9-27, the final score 58 in 20.4 embarrassing overs.

But by Thursday's end across the world's time zones, a lion-hearted performance from Patrick Cummins had brought on a collapse for South Africa's batsmen — less dramatic, and from a higher base, but nonetheless deeply damaging to their prospects in their own Test match.

Through the week leading up, all the talk was about South African spearhead Kagiso Rabada. On the first day, with Dean Elgar and AB de Villiers batting serenely, it was gently amusing to contemplate that Rabada wouldn't feature in the day's play.

Yet by late in the final session, there he was, walking to the middle with the bat in fading light. It should never have happened, when South Africa had been 2-220 on a true deck — some pace and carry for the bowlers, but consistent bounce and a lack of swing to make batting pleasant. A couple of hours later the innings was an old balloon, deflating to 8-266 by stumps. It was all down to Cummins, who turned in an epic eight-over spell after tea, returning four wickets at the cost of a dozen runs.