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It’s the bottom of the ninth, two outs. Cleve-land is down 3-0. They know they will not win, but right now they just

want to get somebody on base. With just one more out to go, it almost certain Tigers pitcher Ar-mando Galarraga was headed for a perfect game, an achievement that is extremely rare in Major League Baseball. Jason Donald, the 27th and hopefully last bat-ter of the game, hit a ground ball that was fielded by the Ti-gers first baseman and tossed to Galarraga who was standing on 1st base. It was a simple play, no

doubt about it. Galarraga had a perfect game, or so he thought. The fans, players, and viewers alike all stared in dismay as the first base umpire held up his arms spread wide apart showing the runner was safe at first base. The crowd went wild, and not in a good way. A quick look on the instant replay camera showed that the runner was not even close to being safe, but rules are rules. Once an umpire makes a call about whether a runner is safe or not on a play, the call stands. Not even the MLB com-missioner, who agreed the call was bogus, could not change the

outcome. Galarraga had been stripped of one of the most impressive achieve-ments in baseball. The camera could show that the runner was out, so why base the call just on an umpire if the camera can prove he is wrong? Baseball currently has a strict policy on over-turning plays using instant replay, which has caused for many calls that were extremely important to re-verse. However, up until this date the only calls that can be overturned are whether home runs made it over the fence or not. As can be seen in the example, MLB base-ball needs to keep up with the times and fully integrate an instant replay system similar to that of the NFL. The opposition to this ar-gument will claim that more

instant replay will mean much longer games, but they are wrong in that aspect. It may seem like NFL games are longer because of instant replay review but sev-eral 2-3 minute breaks will not lengthen games by much at all as long as a commercial break does not take place during the review.

One of the major reasons the MLB needs to integrate in-stant replay is that the outcomes of many games will be changed due to the new system. Accord-ing to Bill Shaikin of the Los An-geles Times, on October 8, 2010 the Giants defeated the Braves

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1-0 because of a run scored by Giants player Buster Posey who, after instant replay footage was shown, was clearly tagged out while steal-ing to second. However, this situation could not be changed due to the strict rules about the calls on the base paths cannot be changed. This, along with the example from the introduction show that if a call is just plain wrong, then there should be a rule made to allow the call to change. Another upside to the MLB using in-stant replay is for to make the fans happier than if they watched a wrong call go down. Take this example from the ESPN documentary “Catching Hell”. In the documentary the Chi-cago Cubs are trying to break a curse that had kept them from getting to the World Series for many decades. Breaking the curse comes down to one game in which a fan (supporting the Cubs) blocks one of the players he is cheering for from catching a foul ball. The ball was ruled to be in the stands making it legal for the fan to go for it, which was an incorrect call altogeth-er. The fan ended up costing his team the game and keeping the record from being broken. This poor fan who had no idea what he did at the time and received multiple death threats. His life was altogether ruined. The problem was that certain instant replay angles could have proved that he was reaching over the rail mean-ing that the ball may have been ruled caught, saving his sense of security for evermore.

“After only one year of instant replay the Big 10 was in love with instant replay and has used it ever since.” The thing with instant replay is that the MLB would not be the front run-ners on this ingenious system. Multiple sports have already looked at the sys-tem and it has been rather perfected. “Before this year, college football’s fa-thers held to the belief that human error was part of the game. Now, the Big Ten can’t live without it -- on a one-year experimental ba-sis, of course. But who are we kidding? In-stant replay has infiltrated every nook and cranny of organized sports. This year it ger-

minates and takes hold in college football.”-“Instant Replay Finally Lands in College Football”, CBS Sports After only one year of instant replay the Big 10 was in love with instant replay and has used it ever since. The Big 10’s excuse for not having it before was the same as an ar-gument made about baseball. This example shows how instant replay has helped a sport already and that baseball can be the next sport in this new trend to modernize sports. To solve all of the problems currently facing Major League Baseball today there needs to be a systems of challenges and reviews put in place. As the NFL system is set up, each team’s head coach should be given a single challenge per game. If a coach challenges a call and wins the challenge (the play is reversed) then said coach can be awarded a second challenge. The challenges will be used on calls determining foul/ fair, fan obstruction and interference calls, and base running calls made by umpires. If you believe this is a great idea and you want it put in place, then do something about it! Write a letter or shoot an email to an MLB executive proposing this system so they can do some-thing other than sit around and apologize about incorrect calls that could not be overturned. ₪₪₪

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On an American baseball game, it is typical for the stadium to fill up almost all the seats. It was the same thing for the Olympics baseball games. In the baseball games, there would be hot dogs, nachos, hamburgers, sodas, and

lots more. However, since baseball was drop from the Olympics games, now the Stadiums will be empty and there will be no more fans the cheer them on. Now the only thing we can do is watch baseball in the US. We still might have a chance that baseball might come back for the Olympics in the future. I think that baseball should be voted back in the Olympics.

It was not good that the council for the Olympics took out baseball because its played the most in the US then other countries. Therefore, I think that it was a bad decision, and that the Olympics are going to be hurted.

Some things that my opponent might say about the topic is that baseball is a U.S. sport and that it has not reach at a international level sport. They might also say that there are other sports that are already international level but they are not in the Olympics so they might take out sports that are not

played worldwide. Those are some contracting points that they might say. Therefore, I am going to write about three supporting reasons that they should put baseball back.

This is the first reason they should put base-ball back in the Olympics. Baseball is mostly played in the U.S. However, other countries play baseball. Those countries are Canada, Mexico, Panama, Venezuela, the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Chile, Curacao, Italy, Ireland, the Netherlands, Australia, South Africa, Japan, South Korea, China and Taiwan. Based on the baseball news international. This means that baseball has gotten popular around the world since baseball was introduced into the Olympics in the 1904. The second reason that baseball should be put back in the Olympics is that there were people that would go and watch baseball in the stadium. On Tommy blog he said, This quote is the coach of the dodgers and the coach for the baseball team of the U.S.A that played in the Olympics in the year 2000. This show that baseball was being watched more since other countries started

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their own team to play in the Olympics. This is the third and last reason that I have why they should put back baseball in the Olympics and

as to why it was wrong to do. At the Sydney Games in 2000.”Baseball is played by all countries now and soft-ball, too. I think that is really going to hurt the Olympics. I don’t want to knock the other sports, but I think this is a big mistake, said Tommy on his blog. The Olympic com-mittee had not taken out a sport for the Olympics since the 19 century. This might hurt the Olympics maybe by making the Olympics council to vote again to get baseball back in.

So now, what ya will should do to get the base-ball back in the Olympics is to keep supporting the sport baseball. In addition, maybe start sending letters to the Olympics council to vote again to get baseball in the Olympics in the future. This time people should tell other people to support the sport baseball if they are interested in so the sport can get more popular around the world with the people.

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Why should an F-1 track be built in Aus-tin? The F-1 track should be build

The track shobecause it can bring income to the city. There are many small businesses in Austin and they would pros-per if there is more tourism. Many people say that it’s just a waste of money that nobody will go to it. Other people complain that the track will just cause a lot of traffic which is probably true but some people think that it’s worth it to get some income to help the economy. Between the two I chose that they should build the track because there are better reasons to build than to not. There are many reasons why the F1 track should be built. The following are the reasons that I think the track should be built

Many people think that it will not work; they think no one will go to it which is their best argument. According to the official website of F1, Austin is already a large tourist site because of its culture and area. F1 is bound to work be-cause there are many people that like racing and would visit the track while they are there. According to the race promoter Tavo Hellmund, the track will cost an estimate of $220 mil-lion to build. If successful, the track will bring around $200 million to $400 million every year to the city. The contract that Austin signed with F1 will last 10 years. That means that the track might bring up to $2 billion to $4 billion over the course of the contract. The track may be successful because F1 is already popular in many different places around the world. Many people also say that it will increase traffic. That is true but it’s not a reason that the project should be stopped.

One of the reasons that the track should be built is that it will bring more money to the city and small businesses in Aus-tin. According to the race promoter Tavo Hellmund, the track will cost an estimate of $220 million to build. The city estimates that the track can bring around $200 million to $400 million each year. The Circuit of the Americas (COTA) says that the track will generate $850,000 in sales and hotel tax that go to the city. Another reason the track should be built is that it will bring many jobs to Austin. According to the COTA, the track will make 2,000 jobs paying in $176.2 million in wages. Jobs will include motor sports marketing, race management, rac-ing team management, track operations, event management, administration, track management and many more differ-ent types of jobs. These jobs will help the economy get bet-ter and will help people economically which will lower the

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non-employment rate in the city. The last reason that I have is that the F1 Race Track will increase the culture of Austin. Austin is known by many things thanks to its culture. Some of the names include “The Live Music Capital of the World” and also known by “The Green-est City in Amer-ica” by the MSN. It is known as the “Live Music Capital of the World” because of its South by South West

Music Festival that happens every year. The F1 track that will be added to Austin will just in-crease the rich cultural diversity of Austin.

F1 racing is really popular all across the world. It’s a multibillion dollar business. Bring-ing the sport into Austin will help the city

in many different ways. Many people think that the track will just be a waste of money and that it will help the economy. Most of the money that Austin gets comes from the rich culture that it has. Adding something else to the culture will increase the money income by a lot.

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ix months ago, the fans looked forward to a great NBA season and wanted to

see who would make it to the playoffs this season. A month later a lockout was pronounced and stops all the commotion and began to grow the question of, ‘Is the season at jeopardy again.’ The last NBA lockout they came to an agreement to late and the season resulted shorter than a regular one.They should come to an agreement as quickly as pos-sible before it’s too late and it affects the normal sea-son as well as things that revolve around the NBA.The CEO’s of the 30 teams in the NBA has released in-formation saying that they will get what they want in the percentage of income between the players and owners. They also said that the fans an-ger will go towards the players and the CEO’s don’t care about what the fans want. The CEO’s will impose their will against the players and the fans will have no choice but to accept the outcome.By not coming to an agreement, the em-ployees that depend on their salaries from a normal season could get affected because they wouldn’t be getting their usual income. For example on July 20th Denver Nuggets point guard Ty Lawson asked his followers on Twitter Monday if he could file unemployment. Obviously Lawson was joking. But for many NBA’s team employees this lockout, which start-ed precisely at midnight EST July 1, is no laughing matter. Teams have begun cut-ting their costs by any means necessary,

and that means the lower-level employees are getting tossed to the street. According to NBC Sports, the NBA laid off 114 of its league office employees last week, which is about 11 percent of their total work-force. I believe that the percentage will increase in the next few months because the teams will want to save as much profit as they can for the rest for the season.

A n o t h e r c o n s e -q u e n c e of not ar-riving to an agree-m e n t s o o n could af-fect the e c o n o m y and small b u s i -n e s s e s

that revolve around the NBA season. For example they interview a town that re-volves around the NBA season. ‘’It is a big industry’’, says Scott Beck, who told ksl.com, president and CEO of Visit Salt Lake (formerly the Salt Lake Conven-tion and Visitor’s Bureau). ‘’Sports are a lot of fun, but professional sports are really big economic engine’’. Especially with restaurants, from fast food to the high end. “Having worked in the restau-rant industry for Gastronomy for 4 years, I can tell you that the restaurants will be affected by no Jazz season. It’s a very important part of that business cycle,” Beck says. “And secondly, and it’s cer-tainly not lost on us that every time the NBA comes here to broadcast a game, they show our beautiful mountains, they

show the destination, and that’s a real extension of our brand’’. I think that the taxpayers will deal with the missing in-come that the businesses fail to receive.Another consequence for the delay, play-ers going overseas to play for foreign teams as a substitution for the NBA lockout. Carl Berman told huffingspost.com, ‘With the NBA lockout in effect, several NBA play-ers are signing overseas contracts. Thus far, the players signing have been mar-ginal players, with the exception of Der-on Williams, but some NBA star players have floated comments about their will-ingness to play in Europe if the lockout drags into the fall’. By the looks of players going overseas, you could expect a high-er income than the players that stayed.The owners and players should approach the situation a good amount of time before the actual lockout arrives. The owners and players can have a percent-age in mine that can be reasonable and profitable for both of them. If they can succeed in all these steps they can save precious income, time, and employees.

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he has been playing Ultimate since college. She now teaches at Kealing middle school Magnet as a World Cultures teacher and coaches the Kealing Ultimate team. She was also the first in her family to play the

sport. Cara Crouch has played Competitive Ultimate since 2001 to 2005 when she entered college. She is a very successful person that gave a lot to one sport and achieved a lot of things in it. Cara has been playing sports ever since she was 4 years old. She played first division soccer from 4 to 16 years of age. She also played a little bit of swimming, basketball, volleyball, track, tennis, and cross country. “Now, during the season I mostly play Ultimate or train for Ultimate by weight lifting, running, and doing plyometric exercises. During the off season I mostly run longer distances and weight lift.”she said.

Her team, Melee, didn’t win a game in her first season and didn’t have hopes for qualifying for the USAU College Na-tional Championships. Cara trained more and more from the 3 days to all of the days of the week. “We steadily improved over

the next few years, qualifying for the College National Champi-onships for the first time in 2003, and again in 2004.” she said.

She was so passionate to to improve her skills that in 2004 she moved to Atlanta. “College players have 5 years of eligibility, and I wanted to use all 5 years of my eligibility, so I took a semester off college in the fall of 2004 and moved to At-lanta to work and play for one of the best women’s club teams in the country, Atlanta Ozone.” she said “I wanted to improve as a player so that I could help my college team hopefully win the National Championship in the spring of 2005.”

They became eligeble for the national championships in 2005 but did not win. The made it to the semifinals before they lost.Even though her team lost, she was awarded a tre-mendous award called the Callahan Award

“All female college players around the nation can vote for one player that they feel is the best representative of the sport of Ultimate, and I was voted #1” she explained “It’s a combination of an MVP award and spirit award.”

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In the fall of 2005 she returned to Atlanta to play with the Ozone team and develop her skills even further. They got 4th place in the nation at the USAU Club National Championships in 2005. Because they take the 4 best team from each nation, they were able to compete in the World Championships. “I competed there, and then came back and helped start the elite Texas women’s team, Showdown. We have done well over the years, placing from 12th place to 5th place at US Nationals, and qualifying for the World Championships in 2010 in Prague, Czech Republic, which we went to.” she said.

“In 2009, I was fortunate enough to be one of 5 women in the United States chosen to represent the USA in the World Games, a precursor to the Olympics for sports that are attempting to be accepted into the Summer Olym-pics.” she said.

The Olympics were held in Kaohsiung Taiwan were a multi-million dollar stadium was built just for the World Games “We won the gold, beating Japan in the finals after they had beaten us in pool play. That was definitely a highlight of my life, standing on the podium and receiving a gold medal for a sport that I had worked so incredibly hard to excel in and loved so deeply every moment of the way.” she said.

Cara has been playing sports ever since she was 4 years old. She played first division soccer from 4 to 16

years of age. She also played a little bit of swimming, basketball, volleyball, track, tennis, and cross country. “Now, during the season I mostly play Ultimate or train for Ultimate by weight lifting, running, and doing plyometric

exercises. During the off season I mostly run longer dis-tances and weight lift.” Ever since she began playing Ultimate, Cara’s fam-ily has always been supportive of her. Even though it cost a lot of money. “It is quite an expensive habit however, since I spend a good deal of money traveling around the country and world playing.” she said.

Cara now continues to play and captains in the elite Texas women’s club team called Showdown. “We just attended the annual USAU, USA Ultimate is the national governing body for the sport of Ultimate in the US, Nation-al Championships and we got 6th place.” she said.

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She played for San Diego, had a 4.0 GPA, never gave up without a challenge, and wanted to be a teacher ever since her ant inspired her. This person now teaches at Kealing

M.S., coaches boys and girls soccer, and is a mom of two little girls. Her name is Shannon Jones.

Shannon Jones has played almost every sport out there but in the end, she chooses soccer. Now she teaches at Kealing M.S. bringing her soccer experience and skills to the class.

‘’Every girl that plays a sport has something similar in general’’, says Shannon Jones.

Shannon Jones has played soccer since she was five years old. She has played almost every sport that is out there by the time she is in high school and who is responsible for this, her parents are. She thinks that every girl that plays a sport doesn’t have a good chance of going professional on the sport their playing, that’s why many women always look for an alternative job that they’re good at and enjoy doing.

‘’Every girl is special in her own way’’

Shannon has been playing sports since she could walk but what makes her special is her will to keep playing the sport. She has never given up on a sport without giving it her best. When people ask her if she is the big shot of the team or if she car-ries the team, her answer is always the same answer, her team makes her the girl she is.

‘’We are very organize, driven, and team oriented.’’

Shannon Jones has respected her teammates and they respect her. She always says that if there is no trust between the team-mates themselves then the team can never reach their full potential. Even when she transfers teams in different states, she tries her best to reach a level of trust between her and her team, even when the team does not take exchange students very kindly.

‘’When you are coming into a completely new school, you are not use to their traditions and they see you as the outsider.’’

When Shannon transferred to UT from San Diego she saw a new opportunity rise but what she did not see as an obstacle was trying to fit in with the whole team. The UT soccer team did not really accept students from out of the state because they did not know the tradition that has been going for decades. At the end, the team did not accept Shannon as one of them. Many people say that not accepting exchange students in many colleges is what stops the teams from reaching their full potential. This did not stop Shannon from becoming what she is today: a mom and a middle school teacher.

‘’I am happy for the parents I have and the family that I have now’’

When it comes to sports, many people are dedicated to the sport but other people have it as a option of a career. It takes dedica-tion and the will to master a sport. As for Shannon Jones, she now teaches at Kealing M.S. and is a mom of two little girls. She hopes to take her two little girl’s trough the same path her parents took her when she was young.₪₪₪

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He never knew what could happen going to his first game. On a normal Day Francisco took his kids to a soccer game. “I was im-pressed the way that the teams were play-ing,” said Francisco. That day was the life

change for him. As his daughter, him and his son felt in love with the sport.

This is how a person got interested in soc-cer by just going to a game. This is the story how he got involved into start a soccer team.

“I had never imaged that just for going to a game I would get a inserted in soc-cer”- Fransisco

Right after that game, Fransisco decided to start a soccer league. Fransisco had never seen him self as to be a coach for a soccer team. He did a little research as to how to start a team. Fransisco found out that he had to be with the reque center, before he could start a team and play.

Fransisco- “The basic things that you need to know before starting a soccer team is have respect and education so all the teammates can have respect each other as there are and for they can participated.”

Another reason for Fransisco that got him to start a team was that he wanted teach them how to play sport when they were little, that he had felt in love with, and for the reason that it help them with there physical.

“This will help them with there physical as they grow up and to have some intered in a kind of sport”- Fransisco

At the beginning of starting a team, the children chosed the name of the team.

Fransisco- “ The name of the team was called Aguilas de la America I have been coaching the team for the past three years.”

When fransisco started the team, he founded that it was a little bit easy and a little bit difficult. But it was also fun.

“ To be with the kids, but now that I got use to, its more calmly and even more fun than the begin-ning.”- Fransisco

Fransisco starts the practices with the team by having a talk with them as to what they are going to to in the practice of that day and as to what he expects from them on the game. After that He runs with them

around the Soccer field, to get warmed up and practicing some moves with the soccer ball.

“At the end they play a small game between each other.”- Fransisco The range of age that it is in Fransisco team is between 11 to 15 years old. After they reach the age of 15.

“They either play for there school our they go to a different team” - Fransisco

This how a normal person that had a job of painting and he got interested to to soccer. Know that time has past he has started to have another team for more younger players.

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Tucked away in North-west Austin, dwarfed by the looming Wal-mart nearby, lies a humble storefront. At first glance, the eternal loop forming an O sticks out immediately from the simple and blandly colored sign reading: Play It Again Sports. The windows are crowded with used lacrosse sticks and stickers of any color imag-inable. Upon entering, the simplicity of the storefront vanishes. A meager path shaped by worn treadmills leads into the depths of the store. There is something in every available spot of wall and floor.

Once the overwhelming sense while entering vanishes, order becomes clear. Bats over here, Frisbees over there, on and on and on. With some items it seems as though they have been through everything, some seem to not have been through enough. Some gleam and shine with newness that sticks out among the rows and rows of merchandise. The smell of worn leather and hard work pervades.

While Play It Again Sports is a large chain of stores, it has actually become a very local store chain due to an interesting business idea they have.

“Random people come in and sell or give us old stuff that we turn around and sell,”

says Brad, an employee at the Anderson Lane lo-cation. He plays disc golf and used to play baseball, but no longer. He loves working at Play It Again Sports as much as he likes getting stuff there.

“Oh its great. I get most- actually almost all- of my [sports equipment] here.”

Since the creation of the chain, Play It Again Sports has made a big business out of used sporting goods.

According to Brad, “We offer used things for a heck of a lot cheaper... I would totally go used myself. There is no reason to buy anything new anymore.Just the other day I looked in my Disc Golf bag and only 2 out of 12 discs were ones I bought new.”

When in need of new equipment, one can get whatever they would like at a fraction of the retail price thanks to a great deal Play It Again offers. Trading in old equipment can take up to 50-70% off the price of a brand new item, so even those who don’t want to buy used can get want they want for a lot less. Whether looking to get rid of old equipment, acquire new, or both, Play It Again Sports is a good local place to go for all your sporting needs, without paying the price.

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...To the wonderful world of Extra Innings. We set out in the fall of 11 to bring you a magazine. We enjoy sports of all kinds and we want you to aquire the same love for sports as we have. This magazine features many of our intersts in sports, and we hope you find them interesting as well. You are looking at the culmination of months of work on our part to bring you this masterpiece.

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BiographiesNoe Rosas is 14 years old and goes to LASA, he was orinally borned in Mexico but now lives in Austin, Texas. Noe likes playing video games when he has pare time. He plays soccer the most and plays with his friends every lunch period. He covers the news from football to basketball and in the occasion’s soc-cer. He likes to eat enchiladas and drinks Arizona. He also likes to own noobs in shooter games like COD.

Grayson goes to LASA and is 14 years old; he was originally born in Austin, Texas and has traveled all around United States but has not traveled out of the U.S. Grayson likes eating piña colada and getting caught in the rain. He plays baseball for the LBJ team. He likes watching MLB and the NFL whenever there is a good game.

Hernan was born in Austin, Texas. He likes watching MLS and his favorite team is Germany. He goes to LASA and likes playing video games. His favorite game is Call of Duty: Black Ops and he knows his weapons (beware do not start a conversation talking about guns). He likes playing soc-cer during lunch with his friends but is not that good at it. He has a reputation for being a noob at Call of Duty. His friends call him Pedro from Napoleon Dynamite.

Juan was born in Austin, Texas and likes eating. He likes watching the MLB and the NFL but does not play sports himself. He likes eating tamales and builds things with Lego’s. Juan is in the LBJ marching band and plays the trumpet. He likes playing Call of Duty: Black Ops but is not good at it. Every lunch Juan goes outside and prac-tices with his trumpet. Every occasionally he tries to fit into a locker but most of the time fails. Juan makes ev-eryone laugh at least once with his funny jokes.

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The Chicago Bulls has taken the spot of the number one basketball team in history. You must be asking yourself how they accomplished this position if they only average 98.6 points per game and is the placed as the 20th team in the NBA leaderboards for points. Not many people re-member the season during 1995-1996. .The Bulls became the first team to win 70 games in a season, they ended the season with 72-10. The Chicago Bulls also broke the record of most wins in a regular season ending with 87 wins out of 100 games including the playoffs. Let us not forget that Michael Jordan (Superman), Scottie Pippen (Batman), and Dennis Rodman (Rodman) were still play-ing at the time.

The Celtics has the highest winning home percentage in the whole NBA history (.976). Fifth-best overall winning percentage ever (.817).In the 1986 finals they posted a 40-1 record at Boston Garden. Let us not forget that the Celtics still had Larry Bird, Robert Parish, Kevin McHale, Dennis Johnson, Danny Ainge and a rejuvenated Bill Walton. These players take the credit for the achievements that the Celtics accom-plished during the 1986 season. It was Boston’s sec-ond championship in three years, the third and last of the Bird-Parish-McHale era and the franchise’s 16th overall.

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Lakers have had a long history but the 1971-72 seasons were the season that the Lakers broke some records. During this season Gail Goodrich, Jerry West, Wilt Chamberlain, Jim McMillian and Happy Hairston came together and got the Lakers first championship in their history. By accomplishing this act, they broke Philadelphia’s 1966-67 record for wins in a season but the Bulls broke the Lakers record in the 1995-96 season. Through all these, the Lakers at one point went on a 33 consecutive games. The Lakers won 16 consecutive road games, a record that still stands, the best road winning percentage in NBA history (.816).

The philadelpia 76ers have accomplished achiev-ments in the past that normal fans wouldn’t know about. During their 1966-67 season they had Wilt Chamberlain, Hal Greer, Chet Walker and Billy Cunningham. They started the season with 46-4 with the most victories at the time of the NBA history. In the end they ended with a 68-13, at the time the most vitories in the NBA history. During the NBA 35th anniversity celebration in 1980, the Philadelphia club was awarded the greastest team of all time.

Isiah Thomas, Bill Laimbeer, Joe Dumars, Mark Agu-irre, Vinnie Johnson and Dennis Rodman combined to make the heart of one of the strongest defensive teams of the modern era. The Pistons had a lacking center but this didnt stop them from winning the 1989 NBA finals against the Lakers. The defense kept rebounded and defended relentlessy against the Lakers. After Magic Johnson pulled his hamstring in game two of the finals, the certain loss to the Pistons was affirma-tive. Although the Lakers fought gamely, they jsut couldnt compete with the Pistons strength and depth.

the amOunt OF peOple in the u.s that play sOccer

18 Million Americans play soccer

78% of them are of age 18 and younger

Over 250 million people around the world play soccer

There is 12 professional teams in the U.S

There are at least 216 Pro players in the 12 professional teams

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