Citi Field
By: Lucas H.
Have you ever heard of the baseball team The Mets? Maybe Citi Field? The mets are a New York baseball team that plays in Citi Field. Citi Field is the proud home of the mets.
The Mets have had two stadiums. One of them, the old one, was called Shea Stadium but most fans complained that they were “too far away from the action,” because it used to be the NY Jets football stadium as well. So they decided to close down the old one in 2009. So that’s when they made Citi Field, which opened on March 29, 2009. Fans were much happier now! In Citi they a huge stadium, which includes 5 decks for a ton of fans, 4 bases (1st, 2nd, 3rd, and home). 1st-2nd=90 ft, same with 2nd-3rd, 3rd-home, and home-1st, however home-2nd and 1st-3rd = 127 ft. Citi field can only hold up to 41,922 people - 3,078 less than Shea stadium! All of the seats are green to look like the Polo Grounds (for the New York Giants baseball team). And the outside looks like Ebbets Field (the Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team’s stadium).
In Citi they have two dugouts (1st base side and 3rd base side.) The Mets will always be on the 1st base side when they are at Citi Field. And the visitors will always be on the 3rd base side. They also have two bullpens where they warm up relief pitchers. And best of all they have “the big apple” which goes up and lights up whenever a Met hits a homer! Or when they win!
Do you know how many stands Citi has? They have 3 different types of stands. One is before you enter the stadium, the ticket stands, where they allow you go to your seats. While you are there, if you start to get hungry, simply go the food stand. And before you leave be sure to to check out the souvenir stand with lots and lots of great gifts you can even get custom Mets jerseys In Citi Field they have food stands mostly unhealthy, where you can get a snack in a pinch. The best time to go is in between innings. Or wait until the stadium workers come around with a basket of food and ask you if you want to have any of the food. If so, then you pay for your food and then you have tasty snack to eat while watching the game! If not, then you just keep watching the game (without a good snack to eat). One of the food stands is a Shake Shack, where they serve burgers! Now let's learn about how they built Citi Field.
Citi Field cost the Mets $850,000,000 to build. And Citibank pays the Mets $20,000,000 EVERY YEAR to have the name be Citi Field. They began to build Citi Field on November 13, 2006. Later they changed the height of the home run wall in front of the big apple from 16 feet to 8 feet.
Now let’s list here some of the special games played at Citi! 13, 2009 – In the first Mets game ever played at Citi Field, Jody Gerut of the San Diego Padres hit a home run off Mike Pelfrey as the first batter of the game, becoming the first player in Major League Baseball history to open a ballpark with a leadoff home run.
June 1, 2012 – Johan Santana threw the first no-hitter in Mets franchise history in a 8-0 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals, ending a 50-year drought, the longest in Major League Baseball.
October 12, 2015 – Citi Field hosted its first playoff game, with the Mets defeating the Los Angeles Dodgers 13-7 in Game 3 of the 2015 NLDS.
October 30, 2015 – Citi Field hosted its first World Series game, with the Mets defeating the Kansas City Royals 9-3 in Game 3 of the 2015 World Series.
October 5, 2016 - The San Francisco Giants defeated the Mets 3-0 in the 2016 National League Wild Card Game.
By: Lucas H.
Have you ever heard of the baseball team The Mets? Maybe Citi Field? The mets are a New York baseball team that plays in Citi Field. Citi Field is the proud home of the mets.
The Mets have had two stadiums. One of them, the old one, was called Shea Stadium but most fans complained that they were “too far away from the action,” because it used to be the NY Jets football stadium as well. So they decided to close down the old one in 2009. So that’s when they made Citi Field, which opened on March 29, 2009. Fans were much happier now! In Citi they a huge stadium, which includes 5 decks for a ton of fans, 4 bases (1st, 2nd, 3rd, and home). 1st-2nd=90 ft, same with 2nd-3rd, 3rd-home, and home-1st, however home-2nd and 1st-3rd = 127 ft. Citi field can only hold up to 41,922 people - 3,078 less than Shea stadium! All of the seats are green to look like the Polo Grounds (for the New York Giants baseball team). And the outside looks like Ebbets Field (the Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team’s stadium).
In Citi they have two dugouts (1st base side and 3rd base side.) The Mets will always be on the 1st base side when they are at Citi Field. And the visitors will always be on the 3rd base side. They also have two bullpens where they warm up relief pitchers. And best of all they have “the big apple” which goes up and lights up whenever a Met hits a homer! Or when they win!
Do you know how many stands Citi has? They have 3 different types of stands. One is before you enter the stadium, the ticket stands, where they allow you go to your seats. While you are there, if you start to get hungry, simply go the food stand. And before you leave be sure to to check out the souvenir stand with lots and lots of great gifts you can even get custom Mets jerseys In Citi Field they have food stands mostly unhealthy, where you can get a snack in a pinch. The best time to go is in between innings. Or wait until the stadium workers come around with a basket of food and ask you if you want to have any of the food. If so, then you pay for your food and then you have tasty snack to eat while watching the game! If not, then you just keep watching the game (without a good snack to eat). One of the food stands is a Shake Shack, where they serve burgers! Now let's learn about how they built Citi Field.
Citi Field cost the Mets $850,000,000 to build. And Citibank pays the Mets $20,000,000 EVERY YEAR to have the name be Citi Field. They began to build Citi Field on November 13, 2006. Later they changed the height of the home run wall in front of the big apple from 16 feet to 8 feet.
Now let’s list here some of the special games played at Citi! 13, 2009 – In the first Mets game ever played at Citi Field, Jody Gerut of the San Diego Padres hit a home run off Mike Pelfrey as the first batter of the game, becoming the first player in Major League Baseball history to open a ballpark with a leadoff home run.
June 1, 2012 – Johan Santana threw the first no-hitter in Mets franchise history in a 8-0 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals, ending a 50-year drought, the longest in Major League Baseball.
October 12, 2015 – Citi Field hosted its first playoff game, with the Mets defeating the Los Angeles Dodgers 13-7 in Game 3 of the 2015 NLDS.
October 30, 2015 – Citi Field hosted its first World Series game, with the Mets defeating the Kansas City Royals 9-3 in Game 3 of the 2015 World Series.
October 5, 2016 - The San Francisco Giants defeated the Mets 3-0 in the 2016 National League Wild Card Game.
The Winter Olympics
Anjali S, Arnav M, Abinaya M, & Afua A
This year, the Winter Olympics are coming up in February, and mostly everyone is talking about it. It is starting on February 8th and ending on February 25th. Pyeongchang is hosting the Olympics in the Pyeongchang Olympic Stadium. Pyeongchang is located eighty miles from the capital of South Korea, Seoul, and the city is hosting this year’s 2018 Summer Olympics as well as the Winter Olympics. Here are the top talks and facts about the upcoming event.
As you can see, the Winter Olympics are a big deal, and the whole world is talking about the competition, the teams, the competitors, and the countries participating. Who knows who will win, and who will be defeated? Watch the Winter Olympics to find out!
Anjali S, Arnav M, Abinaya M, & Afua A
This year, the Winter Olympics are coming up in February, and mostly everyone is talking about it. It is starting on February 8th and ending on February 25th. Pyeongchang is hosting the Olympics in the Pyeongchang Olympic Stadium. Pyeongchang is located eighty miles from the capital of South Korea, Seoul, and the city is hosting this year’s 2018 Summer Olympics as well as the Winter Olympics. Here are the top talks and facts about the upcoming event.
- GB (Great Britain) has a target to get at least 5 medals in the Olympics, but Chelsea Warr, the UK sports performance director, believes that they can get ten if all goes as planned for the team.
- Adam Rippon, a 28 year old athlete, has qualified for the Olympics. He will compete in figure skating. Though he did qualify, he did only barely, edging out Ross Miner, another figure skater who came in 2nd in the national championship in California. Nevertheless, he will compete with skaters Nathan Chen and Vincent Zhou, and will certainly make America proud.
- Two villages will be holding about 6000 to 7000 people from 94 different countries.
- North Korea will participate in the Olympics in South Korea, despite the bad relationship between the two countries. On January 9th, the two countries had a meeting in which North Korea said that it would bring a large team to the Olympics, and then they accepted South Korea’s offer of a joint parade at the Opening Ceremony of the Olympics.
- Russia has been banned from competing in the Olympics this year, because their teams were doping, or using drugs to be better. Doping is not illegal, but the Olympic committee thinks it is unethical, and for a good reason, they ban anyone who dopes. That way, the competition will be honest and fair, and the people who win are actually deserving to win.
- There are 102 events in 15 sport disciplines, including bobsledding, curling, figure skating, luge, snowboarding, ice hockey, cross-country skiing, skeleton, ski jumping, alpine skiing, biathlon, bobsleigh, cross‑country skiing, curling, figure skating and freestyle skiing.
- Norwegian athletes have won more medals than any other country at the Winter Olympics since its inception.
- The four indoor Winter Olympic sports are ice hockey, speed skating, figure skating and curling.
- A white tiger named Soohorang is the mascot of the Winter Olympics. The white tiger is considered a guardian in Korean history and culture .
As you can see, the Winter Olympics are a big deal, and the whole world is talking about the competition, the teams, the competitors, and the countries participating. Who knows who will win, and who will be defeated? Watch the Winter Olympics to find out!
World Series 2017
By Vikyath S.
When people think of baseball’s greats, they rather refer to Babe Ruth, or Lou Gehrig, but they don’t actually think about today’s modern greats. Two of them are already heading to the World Series this year. Their names are: Clayton Kershaw and Jose Altuve. Both of them had very rough starts before buying a ticket to the World Series. Clayton Kershaw is on the LA Dodgers, and Jose Altuve is on the Houston Astros. Let us see what is going to happen in this World Series, and what it will lead history to.
Game 1:
Game 1 opens in Dodger Stadium. Everybody looks excited to see the World Series. Fans are pouring into the stadium, trying to get a better seat than other people. What brought the fans even happier was the opener of the game. The very first person at bat, Chris Taylor, for the LA Dodgers, hit a homer into left center field. Everybody was going crazy, because the first pitch of the game was a home run for the Dodgers. The score was 1-0, Dodgers. The Astros just fought back. Alex Bregman hit a homerun in the fourth inning, with no outs. Score, 1-1, score tied at 1. This didn’t stop Kershaw. He struck out three straight people to end the inning. In the sixth, Justin Turner hit a two-run homer to take the lead, and win the game. Game 1 went to the Dodgers, 3-1. Now we are heading to Game 2, still in Dodger stadium.
Game 2:
When we think about the greatest comebacks in MLB, this Game 2 would fit inside, because of the leveled competitiveness from the Astros. In the third inning, Alex Bregman singled to center field, while Josh Reddick scored and Springer came to second. In the fifth inning, Joc Pederson tied the game up with a homer to right center field. In the sixth inning, Corey Seager hit a 2 run homer into left center field. In the eighth, however, Carlos Correa singled to center field as Alex Bregman scored. In the ninth, Marwin Gonzalez homered to center field. That brought extra innings to the game. In the tenth, Jose Altuve homered to center field. In that same inning, Carlos Correa homered to center field, but that didn’t stop the Dodgers. In that inning, still, Yasiel Puig hit a homer to left center field, and Enrique Hernandez singled to right center field while Logan Forsythe scored. In the eleventh inning, the Astros took the lead, though the Dodgers homered one more time. George Springer hit a 2-run homer to right center field for the winning run of the game. It was an amazing game, but let’s see the rest of the World Series.
The Rest of the World Series
In game 3, the Astros won 5-3, as Lance Mccullers Jr from the Astros took the mound against Yu Darvish from the Dodgers. In game 4, the Dodgers won 6-2, as they exploded in the ninth with three runs and one 3-run homer. In game 5, the Astros won 13-12, with the game going back and forth for either team, as Alex Bregman scored the winning run. In game 6, the Dodgers won in Dodger stadium 3-1, with a homerun included by Joc Pederson. In game 7, the Astros ended the World Series winning 5-1, and they also won the World Series. George Springer was named MVP because he set a record on a streak of homeruns for 4 straight games.
That’s your 2017 World Series, folks.
By Vikyath S.
When people think of baseball’s greats, they rather refer to Babe Ruth, or Lou Gehrig, but they don’t actually think about today’s modern greats. Two of them are already heading to the World Series this year. Their names are: Clayton Kershaw and Jose Altuve. Both of them had very rough starts before buying a ticket to the World Series. Clayton Kershaw is on the LA Dodgers, and Jose Altuve is on the Houston Astros. Let us see what is going to happen in this World Series, and what it will lead history to.
Game 1:
Game 1 opens in Dodger Stadium. Everybody looks excited to see the World Series. Fans are pouring into the stadium, trying to get a better seat than other people. What brought the fans even happier was the opener of the game. The very first person at bat, Chris Taylor, for the LA Dodgers, hit a homer into left center field. Everybody was going crazy, because the first pitch of the game was a home run for the Dodgers. The score was 1-0, Dodgers. The Astros just fought back. Alex Bregman hit a homerun in the fourth inning, with no outs. Score, 1-1, score tied at 1. This didn’t stop Kershaw. He struck out three straight people to end the inning. In the sixth, Justin Turner hit a two-run homer to take the lead, and win the game. Game 1 went to the Dodgers, 3-1. Now we are heading to Game 2, still in Dodger stadium.
Game 2:
When we think about the greatest comebacks in MLB, this Game 2 would fit inside, because of the leveled competitiveness from the Astros. In the third inning, Alex Bregman singled to center field, while Josh Reddick scored and Springer came to second. In the fifth inning, Joc Pederson tied the game up with a homer to right center field. In the sixth inning, Corey Seager hit a 2 run homer into left center field. In the eighth, however, Carlos Correa singled to center field as Alex Bregman scored. In the ninth, Marwin Gonzalez homered to center field. That brought extra innings to the game. In the tenth, Jose Altuve homered to center field. In that same inning, Carlos Correa homered to center field, but that didn’t stop the Dodgers. In that inning, still, Yasiel Puig hit a homer to left center field, and Enrique Hernandez singled to right center field while Logan Forsythe scored. In the eleventh inning, the Astros took the lead, though the Dodgers homered one more time. George Springer hit a 2-run homer to right center field for the winning run of the game. It was an amazing game, but let’s see the rest of the World Series.
The Rest of the World Series
In game 3, the Astros won 5-3, as Lance Mccullers Jr from the Astros took the mound against Yu Darvish from the Dodgers. In game 4, the Dodgers won 6-2, as they exploded in the ninth with three runs and one 3-run homer. In game 5, the Astros won 13-12, with the game going back and forth for either team, as Alex Bregman scored the winning run. In game 6, the Dodgers won in Dodger stadium 3-1, with a homerun included by Joc Pederson. In game 7, the Astros ended the World Series winning 5-1, and they also won the World Series. George Springer was named MVP because he set a record on a streak of homeruns for 4 straight games.
That’s your 2017 World Series, folks.
Kobe Bryant dunking during the Los Angeles Lakers game A slow-motion diagram image of a layup
Basketball: My favorite sport
By Abhinav A.
Everyone knows basketball as a common sport based on making a ball go in a hoop, but there is so much more to it! It is pretty hard to make a ball go in a hoop easily. There are different types of shots like layups, dunks, and jump shots. Basketball began in 1891 by a gym teacher named James Naismith. You should start playing now!
Layups
Layups are arguably the most popular shots in basketball. It is done by lifting one leg and throwing the ball at the backboard with the same hand. When you do a layup, it gives you two points in the game and also is the easiest shot to make for some people. That’s why when you run to the other side of the court and make a shot. You can rely on a layup!
Dunks
Dunks are probably the most well known shot in basketball. It is when you slam the ball into the hoop. Usually tall players do it ,so if you are smaller it may be difficult! First, take two steps and then use your dominant hand to dunk the ball in. Don't try to dunk with two hands as a beginner and it’s easier to always start with a smaller ball. While using a small ball, it will be much simpler to dunk with one hand rather than both hands.
Jump Shots
Jump shots are known as the hardest shots in basketball. Not only do you have to make a jump shot, but you also have to correctly aim to make it in. There are regular jump shots and swishes. Swishes happen when the ball perfectly falls into the hoop without hitting the backboard or the rim. They are harder than regular jump shots, which have to just go into the hoop while using the backboard and rim.
All of this information proves to us that there is more to basketball than you can imagine! The different shots can be more interesting than you think so start playing right now!
Klay Thompson shooting a jumpshot in the Golden State Warriors team.
Racket sports
By Sohum K.
Racket sports are the best. This includes 3 sports, badminton, tennis and ping pong.
These games have many similarities, for example they all include a bat. You have to just hit the ball or birdy to the other side with a bat. After I tell you, you will know what I am talking about.
By Sohum K.
Racket sports are the best. This includes 3 sports, badminton, tennis and ping pong.
These games have many similarities, for example they all include a bat. You have to just hit the ball or birdy to the other side with a bat. After I tell you, you will know what I am talking about.
This sport above is Badminton. Badminton is a Racket sport. To play Badminton you need a Badminton Racket and a birdy.
To start a Badminton game, you need to drop the birdy and hit it with the bat. Then on your next turn you hit the birdy with the bat on the direction of the birdy. Badminton came from europe and asia.The National Badminton games are until 21. Unlike tennis, you should only play badminton if it is not windy outside. To get a point you need to get the birdy to fall on the other person’s side. Don’t let it fall on your side!!!
Another racket sport is Tennis
To start a Badminton game, you need to drop the birdy and hit it with the bat. Then on your next turn you hit the birdy with the bat on the direction of the birdy. Badminton came from europe and asia.The National Badminton games are until 21. Unlike tennis, you should only play badminton if it is not windy outside. To get a point you need to get the birdy to fall on the other person’s side. Don’t let it fall on your side!!!
Another racket sport is Tennis
In tennis there is a ball and a bat. To start you need to throw the ball up and hit it. Then it needs to hit the other person’s square. If the
opponent does not get it then you get a point.
The picture above shows 2 people playing tennis. You can see that there is a net in the middle of the court. The ball has to hit over the net or it’s the other person’s point. Tennis came from Britain and now the sport is played everywhere now. If you want tennis practice there are boards which the ball comes back from, like this board below.
opponent does not get it then you get a point.
The picture above shows 2 people playing tennis. You can see that there is a net in the middle of the court. The ball has to hit over the net or it’s the other person’s point. Tennis came from Britain and now the sport is played everywhere now. If you want tennis practice there are boards which the ball comes back from, like this board below.
The white line on the board is the net. You hit the ball over the net and the ball will bounce back to you. Above the the board there is nothing , so if you hit it up there then it is a foul. The main purpose of this board is to give you good aim.
Very similar to Tennis, there is another sport. The sport is called ping pong. This sport’s other name is table tennis because it is tennis on a table. However this sport has different rules than tennis. It is way harder too. One rule which is different is that the ball has to bounce off your side then hit the other person’s side then hit out. You have to do all of that to get a point. In tennis you can’t hit your own side.
Very similar to Tennis, there is another sport. The sport is called ping pong. This sport’s other name is table tennis because it is tennis on a table. However this sport has different rules than tennis. It is way harder too. One rule which is different is that the ball has to bounce off your side then hit the other person’s side then hit out. You have to do all of that to get a point. In tennis you can’t hit your own side.
On the left side 2 people are playing table tennis. You can see that the white shirt guy has smashed the ping pong ball on his own side.
This board on the right is a table tennis board. You can practice on it to get better.
Those are the racket sports. Enjoy playing them in good weather. Have fun!!!!!!