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He played ball, went to law school, prepared for life after football.

Cuban "liked the way I played ball, how I marketed myself," says Rodman.

I went to Pasadena High School and I played ball while I was there.

After offensive coordinator Pep Hamilton was unceremoniously let go, the Colts played ball control.

No. Through high school I played ball and things leveled out a little bit.

I was working with Manny, a friend who'd played ball at this other high school.

Trump has played ball in the diplomatic celebrations and seemed to be in good spirits.

Mark loved football, graduated from high school and played ball for a year at junior college.

When other kids played ball and rode bicycles, he hung out in cemeteries and wax museums.

"I lost an uncle, I lost a neighbor, I lost guys I played ball with," Manchin says.

He played ball in his first game with the Brooklyn Dodgers on April 15, 1947, at Ebbets Field.

And he favored four-pocket guayabera shirts like the ones popular in the Caribbean countries where he once played ball.

He increased his workouts, pushed heavier weights, and played ball against the guys at the local YMCA in Las Vegas.

Even if the Milners had played ball ... Carol says they made major renovations 10 years ago, which included the basement.

He attended P.S. 39 in Brooklyn, played ball at Prospect Park and graduated from the Berkeley Carroll School in 2003.

Some might even benefit from the situation, as Yandex did in Russia, which effectively 'played ball' with the Putin-controlled Kremlin.

He's always just played ball but if people want to add a little extra, he'll add a little extra right back.

Oz says he played ball for his high school and even balled up a bit during his college days at Harvard.

Sometimes, he said, a fan will recognize him from the old days and ask him a question: You played ball, Dick!

Ottavino played ball at the Youth Service League in Brooklyn and graduated from Berkeley Carroll School in Park Slope in 2003.

He says he played ball in high school, admittedly not very well ... but thinks he's got enough skills to take down Jimmy.

Fun Fact: Kenyon Martin's son also hoops at S.C. and it's also where the country's #1 high school player, Marvin Bagley, played ball.

Klay Thompson and Kevin Love have played ball at the same time and place before—and not just during last year's NBA Finals.

She recently played ball with her kids on the beach in a neon two-piece and bounced on a trampoline in a yellow bikini.

And Gardner and Chase Headley have taken their young boys out on the field at Yankee Stadium after afternoon games and played ball with them.

Before the court was built around the corner, neighborhood kids played ball in the street with a bottomed-out milk crate duct-taped to a pole.

Players like Yulieski Gourriel, whose father Lourdes played ball for Cuba in the '80s and '90s, were able to try their hand in bigger leagues abroad.

Like Brill's comments suggest, it's crazy to think this all could have been avoided if the ad industry would have just played ball with Do Not Track.

Jim Justice is a Democrat but has a close relationship with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), and might have played ball on a conservative replacement.

None of Trump's attacks on abortion access follow the laws of reason; why did we even bother with "making sense" when we could have simply played ball?

Even LinkedIn, which played ball with Chinese censors two years ago in order to get into the country, has had trouble getting traction with a local audience.

Swift played ball a bit more with the rollout of "Look" in regard to streaming services by allowing all of her songs to be appear on other platforms that Apple.

Some rumors have it that Mansour had become dispensable to the Pakistanis precisely because he'd not played ball on the peace track -- and we all know what happened to him.

But so far, the Chinese haven't played ball: Trade between China and North Korea actually increased in the first quarter of 2017, allowing the Kim regime to continue puttering along.

We're told the piece is made of 7 carat VVS diamonds and 18k gold and features the years he played ball in high school, college and the NFL on the back.

T.O.'s 45-years-old now and hasn't played ball in years -- but the guy's obviously been keepin' himself in shape ... check out the pics he posted in front of his Christmas tree!!!

After overcoming a rare seizure disorder as a baby, die-hard Warriors devotee Brandon Kelman got his "only wish" granted when Steph Curry paid him a visit — and played ball with the young fan.

Outdoors on its 18,110-square-foot lot is the film's memorable landscaping and driveway basketball court – with the original hoop where Martin and Kimberly Williams-Paisley played ball on the eve of her character's wedding.

ANTANANARIVO (Reuters) - Two months ago, giggles floated through the home of fisherman Dada as his four-year-old son played ball outside with his two younger cousins on one of Madagascar's famed sun soaked beaches.

"The platforms played ball and made a commitment on the pledge, all the countries taking part too, the remaining question today is whether the US will join us, which would be a great success," he added.

Conservatives picture her as a future running mate to Mike Pence or as a presidential candidate in her own right — someone who played ball with Trump without compromising her conservative credentials — who can reshape the party whenever the Trump era ends.

The idea is no longer taboo and even being looked at as a solution by some US publishers, who have long played ball with the tech giants but are desperate to find some way to roll back their growing power.

"While the economy generally played ball, the weather did not and a very wet start to the year across many parts of the country meant that spending on items for outdoor projects was down considerably," said Neil Saunders, managing director at GlobalData Retail.

"I had a guy I played ball with, golfed with, from another town, he said that the same thing happened with his group of friends—one of his friends died, and another friend ended up marrying his wife in their group," Don said.

And though it had a fraught relationship with the legislation Clinton ultimately signed, in 1993, the NRA played ball and supported a portion of the law that contained a precursor to today's instant background check system -- an unthinkable compromise in the current environment.

Schultz talks affectionately about his father in his book, "Pour Your Heart Into It: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time, " saying that Fred was an honest man who worked hard, played ball with his kids on the weekend and loved the Yankees.

By late Wednesday back in Tijuana, children in dirt-smeared shirts played ball in a cramped courtyard in one of the shelters as others bedded down on the hard floor inside, covering up under blankets or whatever extra clothes they had on hand as the temperature dropped.

When Robert, who loves playing soccer and wants to compete one day on his favorite show, American Ninja Warrior, arrived at his new foster home, "he came in and ate a whole tray of cookies we had baked for him, before heading into the backyard where we played ball," says Lowe.

" On Tuesday, Biden told MSNBC's Chris Matthews that the point he was trying to make was that "people didn't act like this in the locker room like he (Trump) talks about," adding that the Republican nominee is "insulting everybody in the neighborhoods I come from and the people who played ball.

But these sorts of incidents were few and far between, and the truth is, the problem is, that we, those of us inside the cities, because we'd grown up with droids as part of our home, because we sat with them and ate with them and played ball and hung out, because they were part of the city, like everybody else, we lacked the imagination to foresee "Humans First" spray-painted on smashed-in storefronts in Washington and Chicago and New York.

18 November 1992. Sports section. Page 84. He also played ball performing brilliantly as an infielder.

His brother Geoffrey, also played ball for Dunsink YC, but an achilles tendon injury put him out of the game.

She was born in a family that appreciates sports. Her father was a competitive boxer and mother played ball-badminton.

My mother wanted me to be a talk- show radio broadcaster or go into physical education as a gym teacher, Álvarez said. She had me like a little doll. I didn’t know about that. I just played ball.

Tyson was born in Phillipsburg, Pennsylvania and he attended Penn State University. As a young man, he played ball and acted in nearby Tyrone, Pennsylvania. While acting in a play, he met another young man from Tyrone, Fred Waring. The two became fast friends.

His wife, Marjorie, whom he married in 1936, died in 1976. Williams worked after his Negro League playing days with the Edgar Thomson Steel Works of U.S. Steel in Braddock, Pennsylvania, where he played ball. He is an honorary member of the Negro League Hall of Fame.

According to the current Rules of Hockey 2019 issued by the FIH there are only two criteria for a dangerously played ball. The first is legitimate evasive action by an opponent (what constitutes legitimate evasive action is an umpiring judgment). The second is specific to the rule concerning a shot at goal at a penalty corner but is generally, if somewhat inconsistently, applied throughout the game and in all parts of the pitch: it is that a ball lifted above knee height and at an opponent who is within 5m of the ball is certainly dangerous. The velocity of the ball is not mentioned in the rules concerning a dangerously played ball.

Sandford was born in Bowdoinham, Maine, the tenth child of a farming family. As a young man Frank was a natural leader. An early companion recalled that he was always the one who "drove the horse and steered the boat"; if they played ball, "he was always a captain."Nelson, 30.

William Miller Vinton (1865–1893), was a pitcher in Major League Baseball. Vinton was the star pitcher and captain of the Andover baseball team in the early 1880s. He then attended Yale University and played ball there before turning professional."Fred H. Harrison. Athletics for All." pa59ers.com. Retrieved 2010-10-22.

Adrian Walton is an American basketball player. Initially a streetball player known as "Hollywood", he was considered to be one of the last great streetball players. Walton attended Graphic Arts High School and later Milford Academy. He played ball at Rucker Park and declined an offer to play basketball at Miami University of Florida.

He hit no home runs in 71 game for the Padres and only drove in thirteen runs, making his last career start on October 3, 1993. He then spent the 1994 season playing for the Padres Triple AAA team. He then retired from baseball altogether after the season and has not played ball since.

Before the 1960s, in the early 1800s women romped, skated, played ball games and some even boxed. It wasn't until the late 1900s when women started participating in organized sports. After the civil war wealthy women started playing country club sports such as golf. Over the last fifty years, women's sports have developed substantially and made significant progress.

Jo had been playing softball since the age of 10 and loved hardball. In fact, whenever she could, she played ball with the boys. She was 20 years old when she got the position of second base for the South Bend Blue Sox. She learned about the AAGPBL recruiting from an article she read in her local Rochester newspaper.

Humphrey, Roman Circuses, p. 558. An adjacent area where people played ball and hoop games and wrestled was the site of temporary wooden stadia built by Julius Caesar and Augustus and finally the permanent Stadium of Domitian. Trigarium became a generic word for an equestrian training ground, as evidenced by inscriptions.Palmer, Studies of the Northern Campus Martius, p. 29.

The family now rents out small houses to tourists visiting Bonavista. In addition to ice hockey, Pardy played ball hockey while a junior. He was named the most valuable defenceman at the 2003 junior nationals by the Canadian Ball Hockey Association. He won a bronze medal with the Canadian team at the 2004 World Ball Hockey Championships in Slovakia.

He was on the Blue Jays during their 1991 American League Eastern Division and 1992 and 1993 World Series wins. He also helped the Astros win the 1997 and 1999 National League Central Division. During the Australian summer of 1989-90, Knorr played ball for the Melbourne Monarchs and the Williamstown Wolves. In 11 seasons, Knorr played in 253 games and compiled a .

In March 1898, the baseball fields were finally completed. On April 16, 1898, the first baseball game between Georgia and Georgia Tech, then known as the Georgia School of Technology, was played. From 1902 until 1904, the Atlanta Crackers, the city's original professional baseball team played ball on the fields of Piedmont Park before moving to a stadium on Ponce de Leon Avenue.

" Cobb said, "My gosh, you can hardly walk." Cobb sent him in, and Fothergill hit a line drive into the right-field corner that should have been a double, but Fothergill fell about two-thirds of the way to first base. "He crawled the rest of the way and got a single. Just barely.... But that's the way we played ball back there and then.

In 1994, then-part owner of SkyDome Labatt considered purchasing a National Football League and a Major League Soccer team to play at the stadium. In January 2007, Rogers Centre played host to the first International Bowl, an NCAA college football game between the Western Michigan University Broncos and the University of Cincinnati Bearcats. In 2008, Rutgers played Ball State in the second International Bowl.

According to an important Nahua source, the Leyenda de los Soles, the Toltec king Huemac played ball against the Tlalocs, with precious stones and quetzal feathers at stake. Huemac won the game. When instead of precious stones and feathers, the rain deities offered Huemac their young maize ears and maize leaves, Huemac refused. As a consequence of this vanity, the Toltecs suffered a four-year drought.

Reinert was born in Tokyo. He went to high school in Fort Worth, Texas and attended West Point for a year before dropping out with the aim of playing professional baseball. On a scholarship to Texas A&M;, Reinert played ball and studied geology. When the lure of pro sports subsided, he turned his attention to student government, winning the college's student body presidency.

While at home from Kansas City, Bob played ball with a local club in Sidney, Ohio. On October 10, 1901, the Cincinnati Reds arrived in Sidney after going through local Ohio teams looking to find some competition with the Sidney semi-pro team. As the Reds warmed up, they could not have anticipated what they were about to see. The visitors were up to bat first.

Grant-Mentis was born July 15, 1998, in Brampton, Ontario. She is the daughter of Sandra Grant-Mentis and James Mentis. Her father played ball hockey with Team Canada and Team West Indies, and remains active with the Brampton Express of the Greater Toronto Ball Hockey League. She has two siblings, Marquis and Tre. Grant-Mentis holds a bachelor’s degree in criminology from Merrimack College.

As a stepping stone to professional baseball, in the early 1950s Demeter played ball for the American Legion's Mosier's Tiremen of Oklahoma City. After signing with the Dodgers, Don was assigned to the Minor League Class D Sooner State League Shawnee Hawks. For his first season of professional baseball, he was paid a salary of $150 a month. In 104 games for the Hawks, Don had a .

From 1932 to 1936, the Rens had a remarkable 497–58 record. "Our basketball heroes were the New York Rens and I used to see them play," Gates said. "I'd sneak in or get 50 cents to watch them play." He also had seen them practice because the Harlem YMCA, where Gates played ball as a youngster, was a practice site for the Rens.

Robert Jackson Coulson (June 17, 1887 – September 11, 1953) is a former Major League Baseball and Federal League outfielder. He played ball in four seasons, which spanned 7 years. In the Majors, he played for the Cincinnati Reds and Brooklyn Superbas. In his one season in the Federal League, 1914, he played for the Pittsburgh Rebels. Coulson threw and batted right-handed, weighed 175 pounds, and was tall.

He attended his first tryout with the CSKA Moscow hockey school at the age of six, despite his limited skating ability. Until that point, Bure had only played ball hockey on the streets.Banks 1999, pp. 7-11. After Bure failed to impress in his first tryout, his father told him that if he did not show significant improvement within two months, he would withdraw him from the hockey school.

Matthew Michael Macri (born May 29, 1982 in Des Moines, Iowa) is a Major League Baseball player who plays third base. Macri graduated from Dowling Catholic High School in 2001 and went to the University of Notre Dame. He played ball there briefly his Freshman year before undergoing Tommy John surgery. In 2003, he played collegiate summer baseball with the Brewster Whitecaps of the Cape Cod Baseball League.

214 and the Robins released him in August, ending his major league career. Mowrey then worked in a steel plant and played ball for Lebanon in the Steel League alongside many other former major league players. In 1920 and 1921, Mowrey played for and managed the Hagerstown Hubs. He led Hagerstown to the championship of the Blue Ridge League in 1920, but the team finished last in 1921.

The 1961 Eastern Michigan Hurons football team represented Eastern Michigan University in the Interstate Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (IIAC) during the 1961 NCAA College Division football season. In their 10th season under head coach Fred Trosko, the Hurons compiled a 0–8–1 record (0–6 against IIAC opponents) and were outscored by their opponents, 171 to 49. The team played Ball State to a scoreless tie. Norm Jacobs and Don Drinkham were the team captains.

Michael John Antonini (born August 6, 1985) is a professional baseball pitcher who is a free agent. He played ball at Cardinal O'Hara High School, Georgia College & State University and Gloucester County College. He was originally drafted by the Philadelphia Phillies in the 41st round of the 2006 MLB Draft but did not sign and was then drafted by the New York Mets in the 18th round of the 2007 MLB Draft.

Billy (William Charles Gorman) was born on 31 March 1889. His younger brother Eddie (Edward Aloysius Gorman) was born 27 June 1892. They were the sons of William E. Gorman, an Irish immigrant who worked as a stationary engineer, and Mary E. [O'Halloran] Gorman, a piano salesperson, originally from Canada. While still in the early stages of his entertainment career, Billy played ball for the Decatur Three-I League baseball team, the Commodores.

Con due tauole, l'vna de' capitoli, l'altra delle cose piu notabili, che in esso si contengonoHistòria del "jeu de paume". The ancient Greeks played ball but it is documented that they used balls wind but it seems likely. At time of the Roman Empire had balls wind, with the larger balls called "follis" and the smaller balls called "follicis." The air chamber was made of animal bladders, preferably that of a pig.

Born in Buffalo, New York, he attended and played ball for the same high school as Warren Spahn, South Park High School in South Buffalo. He was one of the "Four Joes" of the 1939 New York Yankees, along with Joe DiMaggio, Joe McCarthy, and Joe Gordon. His career ended after missing the entire 1941–1945 seasons due to military service. He later coached collegiately, for both the Stephen F. Austin and Rice baseball teams.

From 1924 to 2014, the Sycamores played Ball State (Ind.) University 65 times; the series stands at 38–24–1 in favor of Ball State. In 1940, the respective Blue Key chapters sponsored a trophy presentation, the 'Victory Bell' to reward the winner of the annual game between Indiana State and Ball State. The Sycamores currently hold the Victory Bell, having won the last match 27–20 on the road in 2014.

While growing up in a farm, Wingrove accustomed to play baseball with her two brothers and sister and father. Every Sunday the neighbors congregated at our farm; the kids played ball in the pasture, the men played horseshoes in the laneway and the ladies picked fruit from our garden, she recalled in an interview. At age nine, she joined the girl's adult team.The Women of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League: A Biographical Dictionary – W. C. Madden.

Garagiola was sent to the Philippines in 1945, where he played ball for Kirby Higbe's Manila Dodgers. He was discharged from service in early 1946, and he was just 20 years old when he joined the Cardinals. Garagiola made his major league debut in . As a rookie in 1946, in his only World Series appearance, Garagiola batted 6-for-19 in five games, including a Game 4 where he went 4-for-5 with three RBIs.

Jean-Pierre raised multiple animals while living in Ruanda-Burundi, near the border of the Congo. He trained a lion, played ball with a rhino, and watched the courtship of his rhino and elephant. His extensive menagerie allowed him an insight into animal behaviour that is further explored in Animal Kitabu. During 1960, due to the increasing ethnic conflicts in the area, he was forced to take drastic measures on behalf of his beloved animals when he escaped to Kenya.

Jones played ball in high school at Mountain View High School in Orem, Utah, and was drafted by the Texas Rangers in and the Baltimore Orioles in and . He set a school record at Utah Valley State College (now Utah Valley University) with 41 career homers in two years, then transferred to Arizona State University. His senior year at Arizona State University he posted a .787 slugging percentage with 27 home runs (a single-season ASU record) and 92 RBI.

Nesbitt played ball ever since elementary school. At age 12 she hurled in a fast-pitch softball league in her hometown, and later played for some championship teams in Illinois and Florida, as well as for a men's team in Chattanooga, Tennessee, where baseball scout Jimmy Hamilton was impressed with her talent. He decided to inviting the young pitcher to an All-American Girls Professional Baseball League tryout. The AAGPBL was a circuit that began to operate in 1943 in cities located on or near Lake Michigan.

As Richard L. Gilmore recounts in a history of the team, the Crawfords began as an interracial team of local Hill District youth who played ball together in neighborhood sandlots. As the Hill District teams became more competitive and professionalized, lines of color were drawn. The teams became formalized initially through the efforts of Bill Harris (originally of Calhoun, Alabama) and Teenie Harris (no relation) who managed teams that emerged from local Hill schools. Bill played with a team, which he later managed, from McKelvey High School, while Teenie's team formed from the Watt School.

He often played ball at the nearby Snake Hill, the same place Lou Gehrig played during his childhood. Despite living just a short distance from Yankee Stadium, Ramirez rooted for the Toronto Blue Jays, who had his Dominican heroes George Bell and Tony Fernández on its roster; he attended games when the Blue Jays were in town. Ramirez attended George Washington High School from 1987 to 1991, leaving at the age of 19 without graduating. During his time on the team, GWHS was seeing a large increase in the number of immigrants.

Kōyō played ball for the Terao Dolphins as a fifth-grader in primary school, and went on to pitch for Namamugi Junior High. He became the ace pitcher of Kawasaki Kikoka High School in Kanagawa, but his team never made it to anynational tournaments. He entered Teikyo University where he was a regular starter in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area University Baseball League. Despite having undergone right elbow surgery in his third year, he pitched spectacularly the following year where he led the league in wins (6), and was awarded Best Nine.

Hunahpu and Xbalanque played ball in the same court that their father and his brother had played in long before them. When One Hunahpu and his brother had played, the noise had disturbed the Lords of Xibalba, rulers of the Maya Underworld. The Xibalbans summoned them to play ball in their own court. When the twins began to play ball in the court, once again the Lords of Xibalba were disturbed by the racket, and sent summons to the boys to come to Xibalba and play in their court.

The film scenes in Monterrey, which is the leading industrial center, one of the largest Mexican cities for over 100 years and a major center for science and research in Mexico, depicted the city as a two-burro village where the children played ball in the dirt choked streets with pigs and chickens serving as bases. The border between Mexico and Texas was portrayed as an out-in-the- middle-of-nowhere border crossing along a dirt road, instead of a bridge border-crossing over the Rio Grande. The digital work to recreate the separate looks for the United States and Monterrey in 1957 was done by Post Logic Studios.

White pitched right-handed, but he was a switch hitter. Despite refusing to pitch on Sundays, White led the Red Stockings to their first pennant in 1882.("Cincinnati's only pennant back in '82 was largely won through the efforts of a pitcher who never played ball on Sunday – Whoopla Will White.") In 1883, White compiled a 43–22 record and led the league with 43 wins, a 2.09 ERA and six shutouts. White also ranked among the American Association's leaders with a 9.1 WAR rating (2nd), 1.000 Walks plus hits per inning pitched (WHIP) rating (3rd), 65 games played as pitcher (2nd), 577 innings pitched (2nd), 64 games started (2nd), and 64 complete games (2nd).

In his 2002 book, The Era, 1947–1957, author Roger Kahn wrote that Walker admitted to starting the Dodgers' player petition in 1947, in which the signers opposed the integration of baseball. In an interview with Kahn, Walker stated, "I organized that petition in 1947, not because I had anything against Robinson personally or against Negroes generally. I had a wholesale business in Birmingham and people told me I’d lose my business if I played ball with a black man." According to Kahn, Walker referred to the petition as "the stupidest thing he’d ever done" and asked Kahn that, if he had the opportunity, he would write that Walker was sorry and apologized for his actions.

Hernandez set a record for game-winning RBIs in 1985 with 24, a statistic that was only official from 1980–1988 (the previous record was 22 by the Chicago White Sox's Harold Baines in 1983). His career total is 129, which is also a record. Hernandez credits his father, who played ball with Stan Musial when they were both in the Navy during World War II, for helping him out of a batting slump in 1985. His father would observe his at-bats on TV and note that when Keith was hitting well, he could see both the "1" and the "7" on his uniform on his back as he began to stride into the pitch.

I have always held that > Dave Orr was the strongest and best hitter that ever played ball." Pitcher Silver King broke his wrist when he was struck with a ball hit by Orr. He later recalled: "Dave could crack 'em at you like a shot, and the one I stopped had all of Dave's 200-pound avoirdupois good and hard up against it." In 1898, the editor of Sporting Life recalled Orr once hitting a ball over the fence (400 feet from home plate) and wrote: "Dave Orr, that broad chested, good-natured big chap, who once held down a place on the Brooklyn team, in his day was the hardest hitting batsman in League or Association.

The Times quoted him as saying: The Eisenhower Foundation biography includes that "he may or may have not played semi- professional baseball" upon a summer return to Abilene after his sophomore term in 1913. Eisenhower never made it clear what years he played ball and for what teams. His naval aide's wartime diary, My Three Years with Eisenhower: The Personal Diary of Captain Harry C. Butcher, USNR (Simon & Schuster, 1946), mentions that during the war General Eisenhower told his staff and colleagues stories about playing semi-pro baseball. Eisenhower's early biographer, Kenneth S. Davis (Soldier of Democracy, Doubleday, 1945), relates that it was common for temporary "town teams" to be organized to play teams from other towns and that players would split up the gate money at the end of the game.

The Magnavox Odyssey 300, Magnavox's 1975 Odyssey model The Magnavox Odyssey never caught on with the public, due largely to the limited functionality of its primitive technology. By the middle of the 1970s, however, the ball-and-paddle craze in the arcade had ignited public interest in video games and continuing advances in integrated circuits had resulted in large-scale integration (LSI) microchips cheap enough to be incorporated into a consumer product. In 1975, Magnavox reduced the part count of the Odyssey using a three-chip set created by Texas Instruments and released two new systems that only played ball-and-paddle games, the Magnavox Odyssey 100 and Magnavox Odyssey 200. Atari, meanwhile, entered the consumer market that same year with the single-chip Home Pong system designed by Harold Lee.

The head of the camp returns to being a doctor and denies having taken part in the tortures and excesses he ordered, while the tortured co-worker that accused Joe of conspiracy is given a government job. This ex-coworker makes a number of empty promises to get Joe out of the camp as soon as the "political climate" settles, but says that his confession to helping murder Maximilian makes him a sensitive case. For having destroyed the old government, but also never having 'played ball' with the new one, Joe is stuck in limbo, in a prison cell until the end of time. Twelve years later, we find Joe writing his memoirs in a white cell resembling that of a prison's or an asylum's, seemingly oblivious even to his daughter's visits.

There are references to bikinis in ancient literature as well. Ovid, the writer ranked alongside Virgil and Horace as one of the three canonical poets of Latin literature, suggests the breastband or long strip of cloth wrapped around the breasts and tucked in the ends, is a good place to hide love-letters. Martial, a Latin poet from Hispania who published between AD 86 and 103, satirized a female athlete he named Philaenis, who played ball in a bikini-like garb quite bluntly, making her drink, gorge and vomit in abundance and hinting at her lesbianism.Louis Crompton, Homosexuality & Civilization, page 98, Harvard University Press, 2006, In an epigram on Chione, Martial strangely mentions a sex worker who went to the bathhouse in a bikini, while it was more natural to go unclothed.

Gore (Sr.)'s eldest son, Frank Gore (Jr.), was born in 2002 while Gore Sr. was in college at the University of Miami. Gore Jr. followed in his father's footsteps and plays running back. Gore Sr. did not plan for his son to end up playing football, remarking: > "Whatever he wants to do, he’s going to do it; not because I played ball, he > has to play ball. Me seeing him when he was a little kid playing outside > with his bigger cousins, I knew he was going to play football. But if he > doesn’t want to play, as long as he gets his grades and does something > positive with his life, I’m okay with it." Due to his NFL career, Frank Gore Sr. was unable to see his son play in local football games past the age of 5 until his return to Miami 13 years later when he signed with the Miami Dolphins.