Sports profile and Red Sox Straight Lede

Yulia lipnitskaia is a sixteen year old Russian Figure Skating Phenomenon. She hit the start of her skating peak this season when attending the 2014 Sochi olympics when she was only fifteen. With extreme flexibility and agility, she basically floats over ice when she's skating. She won the gold in the team ladies short program, and gold in the team ladies free skating program. The talent and grace she has inside of her little 5"2 body is impeccable. With minor mistakes, she has an amazing start to her first olympic season, and many more to go. Yulia has an impressive history of winning championships and competitions previous to the olympics. She started training at the age of four, after her mother convinced Elena Levkovets to accept her as a student. Yulia can mesmerize like no else. She is a true talent and belongs on the ice.

 On May 22nd The Blue Jays Beat the sox at 2-7. Edwin Encarnacion is in the midst of a torrid stretch and the Boston Red Sox are finding themselves on the wrong end of it. The Toronto Blue Jays hope Encarnacion's power surge continues as they try to wrap up their third series sweep at Fenway Park since the start of 2012 on Thursday. Encarnacion has homered seven times in his last six games and twice in each of first two of this series after connecting for his 12th and 13th home runs in Wednesday's 6-4 victory. He's the first player to record four two-homer games in a month since Troy Tulowitzki in September 2010. The third baseman hit two homers in his first 32 contests but has 11 and 21 RBIs in his past 15. He's also driven in 14 runs in his last 13 matchups with Boston, with 10 extra-base hits. "He's a dangerous hitter with tremendous power," Red Sox manager John Farrell said. "You make mistakes, he makes you pay."

The Blue Jays (25-22) may not need another big game from Encarnacion with Mark Buehrle(7-1, 2.11 ERA) on the mound, though Boston is responsible for his lone loss this season. The left-hander will take aim at a major league-leading eighth win -- Los Angeles' Zack Greinke will also go for his eighth victory Thursday -- a mark Buehrle didn't reach last year until Aug. 10 in his 24th start. Buehrle has been especially dominant away from home, going 4-0 in five outings. He yielded two runs over 6 2/3 innings in a 4-2 win at Texas on Saturday, not getting the decision. Boston, however, reached him for a season-worst six earned runs and 12 hits in 5 1/3 innings of an 8-1 win April 25. Buehrle has gone 8-10 with a 4.53 ERA in 24 career starts against Boston. The Red Sox (20-25) have scored 14 runs during a six-game slide -- their longest since dropping eight in a row to end the 2013 season. A loss Thursday would leave them with their first winless homestand of at least six games since going 0-6 from June 10-15, 1994.

Boston's starting pitchers have also played a major role in the losing streak, failing to complete more than six innings in any game. Lester (4-5, 2.67) supplied the best performance in that stretch, allowing a run and four hits over five innings of a 1-0 loss to Detroit on Friday. The Red Sox managed three hits. The right-hander was limited to a season-low 94 pitches, largely due to a 47-minute rain delay in the fourth inning. Lester yielded four runs over seven innings of a 7-1 loss at Toronto on April 27. He was 4-0 with a 2.55 ERA in six starts against the Blue Jays last season. Jose Bautista is 11 for 57 (.193) with 12 strikeouts against Lester, though four of those hits were homers. Dustin Pedroia is 14 for 36 (.389) against Buehrle.

       

Prefontaine questions

1) Pre was a very laid-back person who will do whatever it takes to win. Pre is full of himself which makes him a great match for competitions.
2)Pre was a likable person, very laid back as a friend. personally I would not like to compete against him, knowing how cocky and over-confident he is.
3)Pre shows off his victory and rubs it in everybodies faces by taking a lap after the event he had just won.
4) You must have a winning mentality to win.
5)The controversy is whether athletes should make money or not. it shows pre begging for food stamps.
6)Pre wanted to make it to Munich and win gold in the mile
7)The living conditions were horrid, but nothing much has changed. Athletes have always had low budgets for their living space while competing.
8)Israel had athletes at the games that were taken and killed during the night by an arab terrorist group

A League of their Own

The AAGPBL did not succeed, along with many other women's sports because they were not popular enough. Just because this league was in the 40's does not have anything to do with the downfall of the league. Many Professional  teams are created throughout the country and world, and few succeed. the AAGPBL failed most likely because of a loss of fans over time, not because of the time period. Basketball and Soft-ball are more well-favored and therefore that is why their still around now a days. These teams are able to survive because they have the fan-base, and profits coming in to do so.

Is Dance a Sport?

 First off, I would like to start with the defenition of a sport. Sport /spôrt/: (noun) an activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others. Dance is a form of expression, art, and physical exertion. Dance can push you to the extremes." Dance competition teams practice up to 20+ hours a week in order to perfect and synchronize their movements."(teenlife.blogs.pressdemocrat.com Dance) Competitive dancers are also judged to every last detail in their routines. Dance is not considered a sport to many people but what they don't realize is that there is a competitive dance world, and how extreme it is.

 "No doubt gymnastics is an extremely difficult sport, which is why it is presented along with many other sports in the Olympics. The scores of the competitors are solely determined on the scores that the panel of judges gives them. There is a strict set of guidelines, which the judges follow in order to determine their scores. The same rules apply in the Dance world, so why would one qualify and not the other?" (teenlife.blogs.pressdemocrat.com Dance) "Competitive dance most definitely is a sport. It fits every criterion of the definition of the word. Although you may not see dancers in helmets tackling each other, they are certainly athletes."(teenlife.blogs.pressdemocrat.com Dance)

 Competitive dancers can do anything any other athlete can do and more. I doubt any of you that are considered athletes could throw on a pair of pointe shoes, and balance all of your body weight on a two inch surface for minutes to hours at a time. Dancers train for their whole lives just for that one moment on stage. Dance is harder than most sports because it requires synchronization, flexibility, strength, agility, stamina, passion, and emotion. We have to keep ourselves together and somehow express all of these things at the same time, while a huge crowd of hundreds of people are watching your every move. 

Dance takes not only physical skill and ability, but it takes much more to become a truly amazing dancer. Dance is the only sport that you can lose yourself and find yourself at the same time. Dance requires soul, and passion. When on stage everything must be perfect. You must maintain posture, have pointed feet, perfect hands, straight arms, clean turns, straight legs, turned out legs, and much more and on top of all that you have to execute and remember a dance at the same exact time. Dance is no joke, and people need to realize that. Dance is an extreme sport and very competitive. There is ALWAYS somebody that's going to be there to push you, make you want more and to be better for yourself and that's what sporting should be all about. Dance takes much more than most sports and i wholeheartedly believe that dancing is a sport.

Transgender MMA fighter Fallon Fox

The transgender MMA fighter should be treated equally as anybody else should be treated. Yes she does have an advantage, but it is similar to the advantage of being extremely tall and a basketball player. The only part where she wronged was not telling the company about her transgender sooner. She said that that was her personal information, and this is true but if something that big is hidden it is not okay. There should be some type of penalty for her lies. It is not fair to other athletes to not know exactly who they are fighting against. Going into the match with some type of technique, because they know that their opponent is transgender would make it more fair.

     If i was an athlete and a transgender opponent were to be against me it would motivate me more than anything has in my entire life. Obviously with MMA fighting the transgender has an advantage so that would make more women take their jobs seriously, and aspire to be better athletes all around. Transgenders in sports is a very good thing. All it's going to do or ever will do is motivate others do better.

     This should be handled by letting the transgendered people live their lives and not interfering. We are all equal underneath our skin and that's how we should be treated. You put me in the feet of the opponent, but how would you feel if you were that transgendered person being forced out of a sport that they love? it was not their choice to be transgender, Fox even said she tried to hide it but you cannot hide the person you actually are on the inside. As long as the fact that you are a transgender is known you should be able to do as you please.

Sports

      A sport is a sport if there is friendly competition. Sports should always have some type of competition to try and make the athletes try harder every day to improve. Sports should require physical strength. Something that requires almost absolutely no talent should not be considered a sport. Sports should not be easy, but they should make you want to be better. What is used in the sport, such as a ball or bat should not matter. For example: Dance requires strength, passion, and determination. Instead of using a ball and reacting quickly to things that happen we have a planned out dance and sometimes props. Every sport is unique in their own way.

     Anything that is a sport has some type of fan base. What is a sport without the supporting fans? The fans can also push the athletes to become better. They cheer them on and inspire them to become better for themselves. Sports should be competitive. some sports compete with other teams on a daily basis but anything that is a sport should have some type of championship, or Nationals where they can go to compete farther with better teams. this is also a good way to push yourself to get better. Seeing more people and having more experiences can only help.

     Sports should have passion. If you don't have passion for something you are doing on a daily basis, why even bother? Passion takes a big factor in dance. Dancing is a sport because it is extremely competitive. There are so many dancers that are amazing in this world that just push you to be better. In sports i feel like you should always have something to push you further. That is why every sport requires a coach to do so.

1972 Olympics U.S. Basketball streak over

Soviet Union Basketball wins over U.S. in 1972 olympics. The US Men’s Basketball team had won every single game between 1936 and the 1972 final. Had it not been for a referee adding three seconds back on the clock, the US would have beaten Russia on this day as well. To date, the US team refuses to accept their Silver Medal from the ‘72 games and gave rise to the creation of US Olympic Basketball “Dream Teams."

The Soviet Union should not have won the gold medal for the 1972 olympics. The rules of basketball, or ANY sport should not be changed at the last minute for any reason. The referee that day added three more seconds back onto the clock, and those three seconds led the Soviets to a falsely claimed victory. This was just a push for the Americans though. This inspired them to do better things like make the US Olympic Basketball "Dream Teams." In a way, the Soviets made them better, since you can only learn from losing. The following year, U.S. Won the gold medal, with the Soviets taking the bronze.