A manual scoreboard operator holds up a ball hit by Astros second baseman Jose Altuve against the Chicago White Sox at Minute Maid Park. / Erik Williams-USA TODAY Sports In this story: Houston AstrosNot all ground rule doubles in MLB are created equally. Most ground rule doubles occur when ...
Forced carries are a strategic choice. If a forced carry is designed so you can't play it safe shorter or away, then that is just a badly designed golf hole. If you hit it behind a tree, you can take a back-of-line drop with a one-stroke penalty. That is fair because you hit ...
albatross, also US: double eagle n (golf score: 3 under par) (高尔夫) SC 二杆入洞 SC 低于标准杆数三杆 I hit my first-ever albatross today! 我今天打出了人生第一次两杆入洞。 back-double n often plural (short cut through city or town) SC 近路jìn lù SC 捷径jìn lù,jié j...
Doubles badminton is played with four players, or two on each side of the net. Unlike singles badminton, the boundaries of a doubles game are marked by the outer lines of the court. The one exception to this rule is that the server uses the inner back line. The net on a doubles badmi...
“separate bedrooms—and i was playing a lot of golf,” he says. he had met plame in february 1997 at a reception at the washington home of the turkish ambassador. he says that when his eyes fell on her from across the room he thought he knew her. he realized as he drew near that...
Once the rain hit the track, Allgaier climbed out with confidence that Larson would be able to slice his way through the field and score a win. Though it would not go on Larson’s record. They just never had the opportunity to see the plan unfold. “It’s just sad,” a dej...
As I said before, I don’t think that the sentence was *unfair* or that Contador was hit too hard, on the contrary. It was a sort of compromise. Totally understandable. What is sure is that it doesn’t grant safer ground to say something about Contador’s doping, it doesn’t provide...
or whether Pennsylvanians send a Bernie-bro with the cognitive capacity of a baked potato to the Senate. While I certainly have preferences in next week’s election and will be voting accordingly*, it ultimately doesn’t matter a lot in the long run who wins because the republic doesn’t ...
So what did Obama say about this act 5 days after Tsar Putin I’s Cossacks shot down a plane?I don’t feel like checking but I have a feeling it involved golf and fundraising. I checkedand here’s his statement. Obviously, we’re all heartbroken by what’s happened. And this is an...
rates of return. However, that estimate becomes less precise at very high return rates as can be seen in this chart. It compares the estimates for “time to double” (in years) generated by the Rule of 72 with the actual number of years it would take for an investment to double in ...