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Cubs pitcher Jack Pfiester throws a pitch in the 1906 World Series. The Cubs–White Sox rivalry (also known as the Crosstown Classic, The Windy City Showdown, [5] Chicago Showdown, North–South Showdown, [6] City Series, Crosstown Series, [7] Crosstown Cup, or Crosstown Showdown[7]) refers to the Major League Baseball (MLB) geographical ...
Cross-court shot: An individual attack directed at an angle from one end of the offensive team's side of the net to the opposite sideline of the defensive team's court; Cut shot or cutty: attack with an extreme angle (nearly parallel to the net) Dig: A defensive contact following an opponent's attack resulting in a playable ball. Arms can be in ...
Mesoamerican ballcourt. Ceramic sculpture from a Western Mexican tomb showing players engaged in the Mesoamerican ballgame. A Mesoamerican ballcourt (Nahuatl languages: tlachtli) is a large masonry structure of a type used in Mesoamerica for more than 2,700 years to play the Mesoamerican ballgame, particularly the hip-ball version of the ...
The Art of Cross-Examination. The Art of Cross-Examination is a classic text for trial attorneys and law students on how to cross-examine witnesses. Written by American attorney Francis L. Wellman, the book was first published in 1903 by The Macmillan Company, and was still in print more than 100 years later. [1][2]
The American Birkebeiner, or Birkie, is the largest cross-country skiing race in North America. It debuted in 1973 and is a founding member of the Worldloppet federation of cross-country ski marathons. [1] The Birkie's two premier events are the 50 km (31 mi) skate and the 55 km (34 mi) classic races between the towns of Cable and Hayward in ...
An American-style crossword grid layout. A crossword (or crossword puzzle) is a word game consisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries") crossing each other horizontally ("across") and vertically ("down") according to a set of clues. Each white square is typically filled with one letter ...
Ostapenko moves opponents around the court by aiming long strokes at corners and lines, and then changes direction to hit powerful winners. [97] [98] [99] After putting an opponent in a vulnerable position, she regularly seeks to end the point with a cross-court forehand, a down-the-line backhand, a swinging volley, or a drop shot.
IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT CHRISTOPHER HEDGES, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. BARACK OBAMA, individually and as representative of the United States of America, et al., Defendants. On Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, Case No. 12-cv-331