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• Understanding the proper mechanics is essential to throwing a football correctly
• Elements of the throw include proper grip, throwing position, and motion
• Twisting the torso while throwing can add to the velocity of a throw

Where should a school draw the line between fund raising and commercial enterprise? What place do corporate sponsors have on public and private campuses? And what role should our government take in setting limits in these areas? These and similar questions are the subject on an ongoing series of surveys being conducted at Scoreboards Company.

• The flag football positions used by a team depend on the number of players and on the team’s flag football strategy
• The offensive team must have a center and a quarterback
• Flag football tips for defensive positions begin with the offensive formation used by the opponent
• Flag football drills can help players learn their positions

Before the Lisa Leslie WNBA years began, Leslie had remarkable high school and college careers in Los Angeles. Once she became pro, she was the first person to dunk in the WNBA. The Lisa Leslie dunk crystalized her place as the face of the new league and one of its most successful players. Her WNBA years will end after the 2009 season, Leslie recently announced.

• Mistakes in production cause rare baseball cards to increase in price
• Baseball cards were originally distributed with tobacco products
• A Honus Wagner baseball card was auctioned off for over $1 million

• The North American Football League (NAFL) is an amateur football league that was founded in 1999 by Robert Licopoli
• The league is intended to create some unity among the previously fragmented world of amateur football in the United States
• About 100 teams are members of the NAFL, which operates through a franchise model

• The “age of steroids” sees another all-star fall from grace and a 50-game suspension to boot
• Jose Conseco’s bestseller “Juiced” brings baseball and steroids into the open
• The Mitchell Report names baseball players on steroids

• Basketball dribbling exercises are a great way for young players to develop into great ball handlers
• Learning how to become a great ball handler takes hours of practicing the most basic of dribbling exercises

• Good sources for flag football tactics on the Internet include Dr. G’s flag football blog at flagfootballplays.blogspot.com, (2) footballbabble.com, and (3) usaflagfootball.com
• Dr. G points out that documenting plays can help get all of the players on the same page
• Fumbles are a low risk proposition, while interceptions are high risk

• The 1991 World Series was an all-out war between the Minnesota Twins and the Atlanta Braves
• The heroics of the Twins Kirby Puckett in Game 6 became one of the best World Series baseball games of all time
• The pitchers duel between John Smoltz and Jack Morris in Game 7 is one for the ages