In the forwards, Dylan Hartley, Courtney Lawes and Billy Vunipola offer arguably as much a ball-carrying threat as any three forwards in world rugby right now.
"Albert does so much for a ball club, so much for the opposing pitcher, that he never has to swing the bat and he makes this ball club that much better," said John Smoltz, who is now on the Cardinals' pitching staff.
It's not much of a ball if everyone is Cinderella.
Yet for some Conservative MPs, the Liberal Democrats are having too much of a ball, exerting excessive influence within the Coalition.
And the turnovers come not so much on a ball dribbled out of bounds, but on a steal (Latrell Sprewell, for one, had four steals Wednesday).
That does not apply so much to a ball gown, its skirt billowing over a cluster of roses, or Paco Rabanne's evergreen modernism in a riveted white leather dress from 1966.
Research by Dr. Callaghan and others have shown that people generally slump just as much on a ball as in a normal chair and that back pain is not reduced.
I wanted to rethink: What could the mythic drama be about today?" In "Antigone Sr.," which Mr. Harrell describes as "wild and messy, very much like a ball," he wonders about how far removed ancient Greek theater was from voguing.
In another, from 1800, she confides that she must have drunk too much at a ball the night before; she danced 9 of the 12 dances, she said, and "was merely prevented from dancing the rest by the want of a partner".
By measuring the acceleration of the racket as it recoiled from dropped balls, Cross could calculate the efficiency of the collisions; that is, how much momentum a ball would recover for its bounce.
I'm not much of a ball player—I'm a benchwarmer, in fact.
