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.