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the referees can call passive play (since about xxxx, the referee gives a passive warning some time before the actual call by holding one hand up in the air, signalling that the attacking team should release a shot soon), turning control over to the other team. A shot on goal or an infringement leading to a yellow card or two-minute penalty will mark the start of a new attack, causing the hand to be taken down; but a shot blocked by the defense or a normal free throw will not. If it were not for this rule, it would be easy for an attacking team to stall the game indefinitely, as it is difficult to intercept a pass without at the same time conceding dangerous openings towards the goal.[citation needed]The usual formations of the defense are 6-0, when all the defense players line up between the 6-meter and 9-meter lines to form a wall; the 5-1, when one of the players cruises outside the 9-meter perimeter, usually targeting the center forwards while the other 5 line up on the 6-meter line; and the less common 4-2 when there are two such defenders out front. Very fast teams will also try a 3-3 formation which is close to a switching man-to-man style. The formations vary greatly from country to country, and reflect each country's style of play. 6-0 is sometimes known as "flat defense", and all other formations are usually called "offensive defense".[citation needed]With more than two players, each player has a place in the order. In some versions this order is enacted down the wall with each player having their own square. As the ball bounces off the wall from the previous player, the next player must reach it and make a legal shot. That player would either return the ball (the same way) back to the server or another player down the line. The line consists of 2 to 20 players, with the first player being the "Ace". The second player is the "King" and the third is the "Queen". The final player in line is known as an "Ace Killer" because of his opportune position to take out the "Ace". In some versions a player may continue to hit the ball in his own box as long as he desires. This leads to set up shots where smaller and smaller bounces produce a difficult 'baby' shot that is sent to the next box. Alternatively, low, long strokes develop a hard to return power shot to another box, or 'Baltimore Chops' a high bouncing shot. Some local rules may vary such as an 'Ace' knocked out of the lead box does not get a letter.Any player failing to eventually return a ball from his box into another box receives a letter ('K', then 'I', then 'N', when he has the previous letter) and goes to the end of the line. At each change of position there is normally a shout out of each player from the 'Ace' stating his letters. In some yards, when a player has all the letters that spell 'KINGS' the game is over and the losing player must face the penalty known as 'asses up' which consists of the losing player bending over with his head against the wall and his buttocks up while each of the other players take turns having three throws of the ball from across the street at the loser's buttocks, any hit on the buttocks (legs and back do not count as a hit) gives everyone another turn of three throws. Not a game for the fainthearted.Ace Rule: When more than 2 players are left in the game, if the ace or server, gets out, they move to the end of the line. This rule no longer applies with 2 people remaining. Again, different calls depend on where you play but mean the same thing. A "Drop Shot" is a very powerful shot where the player makes a fist and positions himself/herself down very low to the ground and hits the ball with great force to make the ball skim once on the pavement and to the wall in such a way where there is no return bounce and play is decidedly over until the next serve. The terms "Ace's Rule" and "Drop Shot" was known to be used in Long Island's New Hyde Park in NY State in the xxxxs but, the exact physical location where the terms first originated remain undetermined.Carries: A two-player version of the game popular on Long Island where a player may place a set for themselves before making their shot. The player may not catch the ball, but may pop it up into the air with a quick lifting motion before hitting it. This form of play typically involves a combination of burns (very low, fast shots which almost skip along the ground) and blasts (hard, far shots) to catch the player out of position. Games are played until 11 or 21 points. A player gains a point and the next serve when the opposing player does one of the following: 1. Fails to return the ball back to the wall while first causing the ball to bounce once and only once. Hitting it directly into the wall is called 'head-on' and forfeits that point. 2. Fails to hit the ball before the first player's ball takes its second bounce after hitting the wall.The Australian version of the game has enough variation to be considered on its own merits. Historically, as the wall version was mainly introduced through primary and secondary schools, despite its incredible popularity from the xxxxs to xxxxs in countries like Australia and New Zealand, it has experienced a gradual demise in many sections of these and certain other countries since those times. This 'trend' seemed to be more the result of a changing policy by education itself rather than a conscious decision made by young people, to "update" and build new and alter existing schools to include narrow paths and garden beds of various kinds around the perimeters of the school walls. Thus this newer policy prevented the playing of this game against the wall in many instances.Nevertheless, with such a great number of different games and activities now being referred to as "handball" and with the advent of the quite different Olympic game of same name, in order to reduce confusion, the wall handball game in Australia (previously also called "downball" - which also carries other versions) is currently under some consideration for a name change to "Rebound Handball" by one of the game's former associations in Australia, the Victorian Downball-Veeball Association, though this has not yet come to full fruition at this stage. See Australian HandballThe name "Chinese" handball is American in origin, and derives from the common misconception that if one tunneled through the Earth one would arrive in China, and that everything would appear to be an upside-down version of the place one had left. Because the ball hitting the ground followed by the wall is the reverse of American handball (where the ball hits the wall and then the ground) the game came to be called Chinese handball. In fact only portions of South America are antipodal to ChinaThe Bundesliga was installed with the xxxx/67 season and initially operated with two regional sections, North and South. Since xxxx the Bundesliga has operated with a single section first division, currently composed of eighteen clubs. In xxxx a 2.Bundesliga was installed as a new second division, supplanting the Regionalliga which became the third tier. The 2.Bundesliga used to consist of two (resp. three in the first two years after the German reunification) sections north and south for thirty years. Starting with the xxxx/12 season the 2.Bundesliga is run in a single section consisting of twenty teams.Ghanada is a middle-aged, tall and thin fictional character, who first appears in the short story Mosha, which was published in the Puja issue of Alpana (?????) from Deb Sahitya Kutir publishers in xxxx (???? in Bengali calendar). In the following Puja issues of several magazines, Nuri (xxxx), Poka (xxxx), Ghori (xxxx), Chhori (xxxx), Machh (xxxx) etc. were published. Mou-Ka-Sa-Bi-Saw Bonam Ghanada is the last story written in xxxx and published in the Puja issue of Kishor Jnan Bijnan in that year. In xxxx, some Ghanada-fans founded the Ghanada Club at Mitra's residence at Kalighat, Kolkata. Siddhartha Ghosh (the writer of Jhantumama) suggested this club in Kishor Jnan Bijnan in xxxx. Some other members of this club were Rabin Bal and Kinnar Roy.Most of the short stories and novel featuring Ghanada take place at the all-male mess on No. 72, Banamali Naskar Lane in Kolkata, West Bengal where the four young members of the mess Shibu, Shishir, Gour and Sudhir (the narrator) try to trick or please the middle-aged Ghanada in a variety of ingenious ways to force out his stock of unique stories that range from science-fiction, action/adventure to historical conspiracies. In most of his stories, Ghanada himself is the wonderfully wise and wily hero who travels all-round the globe to tackle sinister bad-guys and international conspiracies. Apart from these four, there are two minor recurring characters, Rambhuj the cook and Banowari the all-purpose butler of the mess; also sometimes, a few temporary members has come, such as: Bapi Datta, Sushil Chaki and Dhanu Choudhury . As in Feluda and Tenida, female characters are generally missing in these storiesBut besides the stories taking place in No. 72 Banamali Naskar Lane, Ghanada also features in a number of novels and stories set in regular evening meetings of elderly gentlemen on the side of the Kolkata Lake. In these Ghanada is referred to as GhanashyamBabu (the suffix Babu in Bengali is similar in usage to the honorific "Mr." in English). The four listeners are: HarisadhanBabu,ShibapadaBabu, RamsharanBabu and BhabataranBabu. The author's style and approach loses the casual sense and gains a more polished, serious and sarcastically formal aura. In these episodes Ghanada never takes on the mantle of a hero himself (as he does in No. 72 Banamali naskar lane), but instead he fashions his narratives on any one of his illustrious, swash-buckling ancestors. Ghanada's ancestors are shown (except one story) to have influenced highly important historical events like the fall of the Inca Empire or Shivaji's remarkable escape from Agra in Medieval India. Unlike the mess-time stories, these stories feature heroines and mature scenes while the latters do not. The Lake-side episodes of Ghanada were targeted at an adult reader-base and all these tales are included in Ghanada Samagra 3.Players on the batting team take turns hitting against the pitcher of the fielding team, which tries to prevent runs by getting hitters out in any of several ways. A player on the batting team can stop at any of the bases and later advance on a teammate's hit or other means. The teams switch between batting and fielding whenever the fielding team records three outs. One turn at bat for both teams, beginning with the visiting team, constitutes an inning, and nine innings a game. The team with the greater number of runs at the end of the game wins.Evolving from older bat-and-ball games, an early form of baseball was being played in England by the mid-18th century. This game was brought by immigrants to North America, where the modern version developed. By the late 19th century, baseball was widely recognized as the national sport of the United States. Baseball is now popular in North America and parts of Central and South America and the Caribbean, East Asia and EuropeThe evolution of baseball from older bat-and-ball games is difficult to trace with precision. A French manuscript from xxxx contains an illustration of clerics playing a game, possibly la soule, with similarities to baseball.[1] Other old French games such as thèque, la balle au bâton, and la balle empoisonnée also appear to be related.[2] Consensus once held that today's baseball is a North American development from the older game rounders, popular in Great Britain and Ireland. Baseball Before We Knew It: A Search for the Roots of the Game (xxxx), by David Block, suggests that the game originated in England; recently uncovered historical evidence supports this position. Block argues that rounders and early baseball were actually regional variants of each other, and that the game's most direct antecedents are the English games of stoolball and "tut-ball".[3] It has long been believed that cricket also descended from such games, though evidence uncovered in early xxxx suggests that the sport may have been imported to England from Flanders.[4]The earliest known reference to baseball is in a xxxx British publication, A Little Pretty Pocket-Book, by John Newbery. It contains a rhymed description of "base-ball" and a woodcut that shows a field set-up somewhat similar to the modern game?though in a triangular rather than diamond configuration, and with posts instead of ground-level bases.[5] David Block discovered that the first recorded game of "Bass-Ball" took place in xxxx in Surrey, and featured the Prince of Wales as a player.[6] William Bray, an English lawyer, recorded a game of baseball on Easter Monday xxxx in Guildford, Surrey.[7] This early form of the game was apparently brought to North America by English immigrants. Rounders was also brought to the continent by both British and Irish immigrants. The first known American reference to baseball appears in a xxxx Pittsfield, Massachusetts, town bylaw prohibiting the playing of the game near the town's new meeting house.[8] By xxxx, a version of the game was well-known enough to earn a mention in a German scholar's book on popular pastimes. As described by Johann Gutsmuths, "englische Base-ball" involved a contest between two teams, in which "the batter has three attempts to hit the ball while at the home plate." Only one out was required to retire a side.[9]By the early xxxxs, there were reports of a variety of uncodified bat-and-ball games recognizable as early forms of baseball being played around North America. These games were often referred to locally as "town ball", though other names such as "round-ball" and "base-ball" were also used.[10] Among the earliest examples to receive a detailed description?albeit five decades after the fact, in a letter from an attendee to Sporting Life magazine?took place in Beachville, Ontario, in xxxx. There were many similarities to modern baseball, and some crucial differences: five bases (or byes); first bye just 18 feet (5.5 m) from the home bye; batter out if a hit ball was caught after the first bounce.[11] The once widely accepted story that Abner Doubleday invented baseball in Cooperstown, New York, in xxxx has been conclusively debunked by sports historians.[12]In xxxx, Alexander Cartwright, a member of New York City's Knickerbockers club, led the codification of the so-called Knickerbocker Rules.[13] The practice, common to bat-and-ball games of the day, of "soaking" or "plugging"?effecting a putout by hitting a runner with a thrown ball?was barred. The rules thus facilitated the use of a smaller, harder ball than had been common. Several other rules also brought the Knickerbockers' game close to the modern one, though a ball caught on the first bounce was, again, an out and only underhand pitching was allowed.[14] While there are reports that the New York Knickerbockers played games in xxxx, the contest now recognized as the first officially recorded baseball game in U.S. history took place on June 19, xxxx, in Hoboken, New Jersey: the "New York Nine" defeated the Knickerbockers, 23?1, in four innings.[15] With the Knickerbocker code as the basis, the rules of modern baseball continued to evolve over the next half-century.[16]In the mid-xxxxs, a baseball craze hit the New York metropolitan area.[17] By xxxx, local journals were referring to baseball as the "national pastime" or "national game".[18] A year later, sixteen area clubs formed the sport's first governing body, the National Association of Base Ball Players. In xxxx in Corona, Queens New York, at the Fashion Race Course, the first games of baseball to charge admission took place. The games, which took place between the all stars of Brooklyn, including players from the Brooklyn Atlantics, Excelsior of Brooklyn, Putnams and Eckford of Brooklyn, and the All Stars of New York (Manhattan), including players from the New York Knickerbockers, Gothams (predecessors of the San Francisco Giants), Eagles and Empire, are commonly believed to be the first all-star baseball games.[19][20][21] In xxxx, the organization disallowed putouts made by catching a fair ball on the first bounce. Four years later, it barred participation by African Americans.[22] The game's commercial potential was developing: in xxxx the first fully professional baseball club, the Cincinnati Red Stockings, was formed and went undefeated against a schedule of semipro and amateur teams.[23] The first professional league, the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players, lasted from xxxx to xxxx; scholars dispute its status as a major league.[24]The more formally structured National League was founded in xxxx. As the oldest surviving major league, the National League is sometimes referred to as the "senior circuit".[25] Several other major leagues formed and failed. In xxxx, African American Moses Walker (and, briefly, his brother Welday) played in one of these, the American Association.[26] An injury ended Walker's major league career, and by the early xxxxs, a gentlemen's agreement in the form of the baseball color line effectively barred black players from the white-owned professional leagues, major and minor.[27] Professional Negro leagues formed, but quickly folded. Several independent African American teams succeeded as barnstormers.[28] Also in xxxx, overhand pitching was legalized.[29] In xxxx, softball, under the name of indoor baseball or indoor-outdoor, was invented as a winter version of the parent game.[30] Virtually all of the modern baseball rules were in place by xxxx; the last major change?counting foul balls as strikes?was instituted in xxxx.[29] The National League's first successful counterpart, the American League, which evolved from the minor Western League, was established that year.[31] The two leagues, each with eight teams, were rivals that fought for the best players, often disregarding each other's contracts and engaging in bitter legal disputes.[32]A modicum of peace was eventually established, leading to the National Agreement of xxxx. The pact formalized relations both between the two major leagues and between them and the National Association of Professional Base Ball Leagues, representing most of the country's minor professional leagues.[33] The World Series, pitting the two major league champions against each other, was inaugurated that fall, albeit without express major league sanction: The Boston Americans of the American League defeated the Pittsburgh Pirates of the National League.[34] The next year, the series was not held, as the National League champion New York Giants, under manager John McGraw, refused to recognize the major league status of the American League and its champion.[35] In xxxx, the Giants were National League champions again and team management relented, leading to the establishment of the World Series as the major leagues' annual championship event.
Organization and governanceU.S. Soccer is governed by a Board of Directors, led by President Sunil Gulati and Executive Vice President Mike Edwards.[2] Dan Flynn is the CEO and Secretary General. The Board administers the affairs of U.S. Soccer.U.S. Soccer is a member of international soccer bodies FIFA and CONCACAF, and also has a relationship with the U.S. Olympic Committee and the International Olympic Committee.[3]HistoryUnited States Soccer Federation headquarters building, known as U.S. Soccer House, on Prairie Avenue in ChicagoU.S. Soccer was originally known as the United States Football Association. It formed on April 5, xxxx[4] and on August 15 of that year was accepted as one of the earliest member organizations of FIFA and the first from North and Central America. The affiliation was temporary and at the following year's FIFA Congress in xxxx, the USFA, as it was abbreviated at the time, was accepted as a full FIFA member.[5] The governing body of the sport in the United States added the word soccer to its name in xxxx, when it became the United States Soccer Football Association. It dropped the word football from its name in xxxx to become known as the United States Soccer Federation.[6]U.S. Soccer has hosted several global soccer tournaments, including the xxxx FIFA World Cup, the FIFA Women's World Cup in xxxx and xxxx, and the Summer Olympics in xxxx and xxxx.The most popular professional soccer team to start in the U.S. was known as the New York Cosmos of the North American Soccer League (NASL), with teams in the United States and Canada that operated from xxxx to xxxx. The legendary Pelé was credited for starting major interest in the league after coming out of semi-retirement to sign with the New York Cosmos of the North American Soccer League (NASL). Pelé single handedly was credited for the sudden world wide popularity & public awareness in soccer in the United States. The New York Cosmos were the first professional soccer team that was televised in the United States on ABC's Wide World of Sports. Pelé led the Cosmos to the xxxx NASL championship, in his third and final season with the club.National teamsU.S. men's national teamMain article: United States men's national soccer teamThe men's national team was invited to the inaugural World Cup in xxxx and qualified for the World Cup in xxxx, finishing a respectable Third Place in xxxx out of 13 teams participating. In xxxx the United States scored one of its most surprising victories with a 1?0 win over heavily favored England, who were amongst the world's best sides at the time.The United States failed to reach another World Cup until an upstart team qualified for the xxxx FIFA World Cup with the "goal heard around the world" scored by Paul Caligiuri against Trinidad and Tobago, which started the modern era of soccer in the United States. The xxxx men's national team was quickly disposed of at the World Cup, but nonetheless had qualified for its first World Cup in 40 years.The United States hosted the xxxx FIFA World Cup, setting total and average attendance records that still stand, including drawing 94,194 fans to the xxxx FIFA World Cup Final. The United States made a surprising run to the second round with a shocking victory over Colombia which saw Andrés Escobar, the player responsible for the United States' first goal (an own goal), later shot to death in his homeland.xxxx saw another disappointing addition to the history of the men's national team as it finished 32nd out of the 32 teams that qualified for the World Cup. This embarrassment, which included a total collapse of team chemistry and leadership, led to the firing of manager Steve Sampson.The U.S. team hired Bruce Arena, who had won the first two MLS Cups in Major League Soccer history, and who went on to become the most successful United States men's national team manager in history. In xxxx Bruce Arena led a mix of veterans and MLS-seasoned youth to a quarterfinal appearance, dispatching contenders Portugal in group play and archrivals Mexico in the Round of 16, before losing a closely fought game with eventual Runners-Up Germany in the quarterfinal.The team looked to match or surpass that feat in xxxx; the U.S. was drawn into a group with Italy, the Czech Republic and Ghana. The United States lost to the Czech Republic 3?0 in their opening game, drew Italy 1?1 in their second game (a match that saw two U.S. players and an Italian player red carded), and lost to Ghana 2?1. The United States did not advance out of the group, but were the only team to face eventual winners Italy without losing. In the wake of the team's disappointing performance, Arena's contract was not renewed.Bob Bradley, Chivas USA manager and Arena's assistant manager with the men's national team, eventually succeeded Arena in xxxx. The U.S. qualified for the xxxx FIFA World Cup in South Africa,[7] winning the CONCACAF qualifying tournament. At the World Cup, the Americans tied England 1-1, tied Slovenia 2-2. and then won their group by defeating Algeria 1-0 on a stoppage time goal by Landon Donovan. In the Round of 16, the United States played Ghana, and fell 2-1 in extra time.U.S. women's national teamMain article: United States women's national soccer teamThe women's national team has won two Women's World Cups in xxxx and xxxx (placing third in xxxx, xxxx, and xxxx); the Olympic Gold Medal in xxxx, xxxx, xxxx, and xxxx; and seven Algarve Cups and six CONCACAF Women's Gold Cups.The FIFA Women's World Cup was inaugurated in xxxx, and the women's national team became the first team to win the prize after beating Norway in the final. That tournament helped demonstrate the high caliber of play in women's soccer. In xxxx, the United States hosted the FIFA Women's World Cup for the first time. During their tournament run, the women's national team established a new level of popularity for the women's game, culminating in a final against China that drew 90,185 fans, an all-time attendance record for a women's sports event, to a sold-out Rose Bowl. After neither team scored in regulation or extra time, the final went to a penalty shootout, which the United States won 5?4. The celebration by Brandi Chastain after she converted the winning penalty, in which she took off her shirt, revealing her sports bra in the process, is one of the more famous images in U.S. women's sports.