After expressing support for a resurrection of the Manchin-Toomey bill, and suggesting that other items should be added to it, he also knocked down an effort by Steve Scalise, the Republican congressman from Louisiana who was shot, in June, during a congressional softball practice, to bring up a concealed-carry bill that has passed the House and is one of the N.R.A.'s legislative priorities.
The last two weekends alone, my daughter was in three performances of the school musical, had softball practice, a state solo ensemble competition (that ended at 12 30 p.m., a 40-minute drive from the musical, which started at 2 p.m). and a forensics tournament.
Just look at the water!" Nearby, the coach from Trevor Day asked Jan Ryan, who coordinates field use for the 20 private schools, whether her players could use an empty field for softball practice.
On the day of the softball practice, she ingested a small portion of a package of heroin that she and Schildt had just bought, figuring that she'd be able to keep it together at the field; she had promised her daughter that she'd be there.
Today, a Wednesday in early spring, is a fairly ordinary day: Smythe's oldest daughter, a 9-year-old bound for softball practice, is searching frantically for her cleats.
Me and the guys, we stop off for a quick one the other night after softball practice, and there's absolutely nothing worth watching so they put on Obama and we watch Obama.
Problem No. 1: What if your children need hot popcorn -- Now, Mom! -- on the way home from softball practice?
And she often takes work in her car, so she can tend to it while watching their 14-year-old daughter, Lauren, at softball practice.
Angel Holt, the mother who'd overdosed at the softball practice, told me that she and her boyfriend had stayed clean since that day, and she was hoping to regain custody of her children.
He hit the sand with the American women's beach volleyball team, dropped in on softball practice and took his own ride through the Olympic mountain biking course — all before attending his first event, the American women's basketball game versus the Czech Republic on Saturday night.
