Sports - 26 July 2007

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2007-07-26 12:06:44 · 7 answers · asked by Myrtle Block 3 in Football (American)

i am working out getting back in shape because i love the game. i was varsity catcher my sophomore year and pitcher on varsity junior year. I quit my senior year cause i was mad at people.

2007-07-26 12:06:18 · 8 answers · asked by betafishj 1 in Baseball

What's the deal. he still hasn't been proven guilty. I herd one question saying What his punishment should be and they were talking about letting pit bulls kill him and shooting him and a bunch of stupid unrealistic stuff. Am i the only one cuttin vick slack. his family often takes advantage of his generousity.

2007-07-26 11:59:46 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Football (American)

I want the one that you really don't need set the hook but it just gets itself set/hooked in the fishes mouth as you reel in the slack with little effort. Also, do they come in sizes such as 10-1?

2007-07-26 11:58:39 · 5 answers · asked by tk 2 in Fishing

the catogory was power lifting

2007-07-26 11:52:27 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Olympics

2007-07-26 11:42:04 · 38 answers · asked by wiwixyz 4 in Italian Football

i thought i lost my golf ball and hit another, after i hit it i found my original ball, i then played it and made a par. the playing partner said i couldnt do that . i dont know the rule oln that, maybe you could help?

2007-07-26 11:39:47 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Golf

If a pitcher himself makes an error why doesnt it count against his ERA if runs score because of it. How many think that it should. Example todays Mets vs Pirates game. Oliver Perez gave up 5 runs in the 6th inning but none of them were earned because of an error in the field that he himself made.

2007-07-26 11:37:51 · 13 answers · asked by Robert B 2 in Baseball

I mean I dont care if anyone hates Bonds I mean its thier choice. WHY do they try and convice everyone they are so great and get mad if anyone hates on them?

2007-07-26 11:10:08 · 19 answers · asked by SF Giants 5 in Baseball

Big Ben used to be good for 15 rebounds and 3-4 blocks every game. He's not really old and hasn't been injured recently, but his stats are much lower now. What's up?

2007-07-26 11:06:49 · 7 answers · asked by UTmtnman 2 in Basketball

I want to become a Sports Information Director, so what should I major in in college?

2007-07-26 11:02:30 · 1 answers · asked by krisdibam 1 in Other - Sports

i hav good balance but i cant streach out my legs are they any videos that show me steps how to do it

2007-07-26 11:01:48 · 5 answers · asked by bestgurl111 1 in Olympics

I live in MA and have just been catching dog fish does anyone know a good rig or bait or good place to go to help catch some cod besides dog fish everytime? Tips or tricks?

2007-07-26 10:59:36 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Fishing

Why can't yankee haters have some imagination? They are like a bunch of parrots copying each other. Right now they like to talk about the cupcake schedule against teams like kansas city. Well last week those awful royals took took 2 out of 3 from the red sox. And why is it always the "cupcake schedule" can't you call it anything else use your brains if you have any!

2007-07-26 10:58:23 · 19 answers · asked by kevin8 3 in Baseball

how wet do you get on a jet ski?

2007-07-26 10:54:25 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Water Sports

( sorry some fans here call some cricketers "god")
i disagree thoroughly, though
please follow these guide lines....

*Real winner for his Cricketing Nation
*Devoted & spirited cricketer,
*Selfless appproach in international Matches
*Down to earth atitude,
*Great Entertainer,
*All round contribution,
*Devotion to humanitarian campaigns,
*As a cricketer who accept his faults
*Powerful ,breath taking shot maker,
*Inventer of some good for Game of Cricket,
* Finaly as a man who shows his Real face,

2007-07-26 10:51:56 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Cricket

One Current and one old player

2007-07-26 10:51:29 · 31 answers · asked by Anonymous in Baseball

Tell me how you did.

I went yesterday, (Wed) , with my kids & wife. (They swam & played in the lake while I fished from shore.) I caught 4 dink Bass, and two 2LBer's. Also, caught some "Sunny's" & my teenage daughter caught a nice 3 LB Bass on a little bitty 1/16 oz black maribou "crappie" Jig! (Another example of a "tiny" bait catching decent fish!)

It was a nice "family" day. I waded around the lake and got a leech on me! Yuck! (lol) My 4 yr old was fascinated,(Does it hurt Daddy? Is it a bug Daddy? Will it fly on me Daddy?) lol The leech was "the hit of the day" in her mind!

2007-07-26 10:46:54 · 11 answers · asked by Swamp Zombie 7 in Fishing

I think it could be god for the Oilers. Penner scored 29 goals in his second NHL seas which is not bad. Hopefully he can do the same next year. Maybe a bit pricey though. $4.25 million a season for 5 years. What are your thoughts

2007-07-26 10:45:50 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Hockey

2007-07-26 10:44:36 · 17 answers · asked by the baller of the 913 3 in Baseball

1.Do you think priest holmes will just be a pawn to save carl a couple million dollars and to get LJ to go to training camp?
2. Royals: 5th or 4th place in the AL Central?
3. Who will be the starter QB?makes me wonder lolz
4. If dotel gets traded before the end of the season do you see greinke or soria at closer?why?
5. Will scott elarton come back in the royals pipeline or will he go to another team?

2007-07-26 10:43:57 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Football (American)

Ranked 1-8 SEEDS. Consists of four of each occupation. (athletes, movie stars, etc) vs TNA/WWE. Ill tallie votes later on.

(8)Mark Cuban vs (1)Vince McMahon
(7)John Cena vs (2)Terrell Owens
(6)AJ Styles vs (3)Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson
(5)OJ Simpson vs (4)Samoa Joe

2007-07-26 10:24:12 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Wrestling

Bassmaster993,

If you are out there, Pheasant Tail asked me to add this to my answer of your question about which line to use for bass fishing.

I was away from my computer fly fishing for Coho salmon at Tofino, British Columbia. Your question closed so I couldn’t add it to my answer.

I thought if you are reviewing these questions you may run into this one.

Hope you have a great bass fishing trip.

Larry

How to set up a fly rod--------------

Can you go to a person who knows what they are doing to get help? If so, I would strongly recommend it. Otherwise, give this a try. You need to learn it anyway.

Did you buy a package deal, that gave you a rod, reel, backing, line, leader and flies?

Or, did you buy separate pieces.

If you bought the package deal, then everything should match up, however I have seen some all-in-one outfits that were not fit to be called fly rods.

If you bought separate pieces, then I hope someone guided you through the purchases. Like is the fly rod the size (as in the weight of the rod, not the actual weight (yes, here is where you start scratching your head trying to figure out what I am saying) but the indicated weight of the rod. Like is it a 5 weight or a 6 weight, or did you buy a specialty rod, like a 2 or 3 weight or a 8 or 9 weight?

What kind of fish you are going for, is the determining factor in what size rod to buy.

Then your reel has to match up fairly close to the rod. Reels are sold with designators indicating that they are for a 5 or 6 weight or a 7 to 8 weight or a 2 to 3 weight rod. This is important. You can not use a 2/3 weight reel on a 6 weight rod. The line will totally fill the reel and there will be no room for backing or anything else. Also, the reel helps balance the rod while you are casting. So, if you have an ultra light reel on a heavy rod, the balance of the reel is going to be way up the rod somewhere, not down at the cork handle you are holding on to. That means you will have a hard time casting and wear yourself out faster than you should.

So, let's hope the reel matches the rod.

Eric is right, use the Arbor knot to tie on the backing to the center spool of your reel. But first, do you want to reel this in with your right hand, thus holding the rod with your left hand, or do you want to reel it in with your left hand holding the rod with your right hand? I am going to assume you are right handed, if not the question simply needs to be reversed.

With small fish you can get away with casting with your strong hand and then switching the rod over to your other hand to reel in the line when you have a fish on. However, if you are going after big fish, then it is best to hold the rod with your strong hand and reel with your other hand, since it is your strong hand that has to hold the rod during the fight. Your muscles and mind-hand coordination are better with your strong hand.

Stop right here: You want to have at least one guide to put your backing through before you tie you it to the reel, so make sure you thread the backing and later the line through a guide. Some rods require you to put two pieces together to get a guide to use.

The line has to come off the bottom of the reel. Let's say you are right handed and decided to reel in with your left hand (best choice). Tie the backing on so the line comes onto the reel from the bottom front and wraps up behind the reel then back out the top front, tie your arbor knot.

Reel in all of your backing if it is a complete outfit, otherwise you will have to play around with finding the right amount of backing. The papers that came with your reel should tell you how much backing in 20 pound Dacron or 30 pound Dacron your reel will take, but how are you to know how much you have reeled on? (I usually take my reel to my local fly shop and have them load it for me).

The backing serves two purposes. First, it helps fill the reel with line so your fly line does not have to be wound up in such small circles (that really causes a problem with the line). Also, if you hook into a big one or hook a tree or rock then you have some extra line to play with to get to shore or back up to where you snagged up the line. Fly lines are expensive and you do not want to be loosing those.

Eric is right, the nail knot is an excellent knot to use to tie the backing onto the fly line. In fact, once you learn to tie the knots, then you can tie two nail knots in a row onto your fly line. If the first nail knot should fail, the second one should hold.

Below are some websites you can go to in order to learn to tie the knots you need to learn. Practice with some string, two different colored ones if you can, and learn how to tie the knots we mention.

You now have the backing tied onto your line. Usually there is a little tag that mentions which end should be tied to the backing. If not, then if you are using a weight forward line, the backing gets tied to the end that has the really long and slender line. The other end has a very short slender line then very quickly thickens up, then slowly thins back down. That is the end you tie your leader onto.

So, tie your backing onto your fly line and now you need to reel it in. I prefer to take a small long box and punch a pencil or small 1/4 inch dowel through one side, push on your lines plastic holder then push the pencil out the other side. Now your line will come off the spool nice and straight and not twist on you.

Once you have reeled in all the line, now you will find out if you used too much backing because your line will not fit smoothly onto the reel. Best bet, strip your line out, and then take off some backing, cut it and tie the line back onto the backing and reel it in again.

Now you come to your leader. It has a loop on it you said. That makes it handy, but then you have to have a loop on the line or you can not use it. Some lines being made now have loops built into them. If you do not have one of those, then the best thing you can do is tie a short piece of mono onto your fly line then tie in a loop at the other end.

For now, use the nail knot to tie the mono to your line. The thicker the leader, the fewer the wraps you need to form a nail knot, but the rule of thumb is 4 or 5 turns. You can buy a nail knot tool, I would strongly recommend it, and it makes tying nail knots super easy with just a little practice. The key to any nail knot is to pull the tag end of the leader quickly and smoothly. If you go slow you end up with a horrible looking knot. If you practice ahead of time, you will tie a good looking nail knot.

For a short piece of mono I have often just cut off a foot of my leader, the thick end, and tied it to my line, then tied in a small loop using a Perfection Loop knot. If the leader came with a loop, then you have a built in loop, but you will then have to tie a Perfection Knot loop back into your leader.

It is important that this short, 4 to 5 inch piece of leader be just about as thick as the line, you can not use a real limp and small size piece of mono. If you do you will not be able to transfer the power of the cast into your leader.

If you are going to tie on a tippet to the other end of the leader I suggest learning the Blood Knot or the Improved Surgeon's Knot. The blood knot may be the best one to use.

When putting the rod together, line up the guides and push the pieces together with an equal amount of pressure from both hands. The guides have to line up for proper casting. After an hour or so of casting, make sure you test the sections to keep them from slowly coming apart.

Now tie on a small piece of yarn and learn how to cast.

Here are three sites you can go to and learn about knot tying for fly fishing. I really love the Animated Knots by Grog site, the first one listed.

Good luck.

Larry

http://www.animatedknots.com/indexfishing.php?LogoImage=LogoGrog.jpg&Website=www.animatedknots.com

http://globalflyfisher.com/fishbetter/knots/table.php

http://www.flyfisherman.com/skills/lkknots/index.html

2007-07-26 10:15:39 · 4 answers · asked by Sagefisher 4 in Fishing

ok i plan to go shark hunting.What do i do if it bites me?

2007-07-26 10:07:46 · 9 answers · asked by kyle 2 in Fishing

2007-07-26 10:07:10 · 5 answers · asked by Book of Wrestling 6 in Wrestling

Do you lose power on long uphills when you ride a full suspension? I ride an old Specialized Rockhopper (hardtail) and I've talked to some die-hard hardtailers who say that you can lose a lot of power on long uphills because of a bit of wasted energy with a full suspension.

2007-07-26 10:04:59 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Cycling

2007-07-26 10:01:14 · 8 answers · asked by annasdad 3 in Golf

Baseball
Cricket
Croquet
Lacrosse
Golf
Pelote Basque
Polo
Power Boat Racing
Rugby
Softball
Tug of War

Demonstration sports
Bowling
Boules
Korfball
Rink-Hockey (Roller Hockey)
Water Skiing

Diciplines- Cross Country, Underwater Swimming

2007-07-26 10:00:29 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Olympics

I ordered tickets online and I have to pick them up from there.

2007-07-26 10:00:09 · 3 answers · asked by rez410 2 in Baseball

I am going into high school and am very serious about baseball, i heard that the cape cod league is the place to be for HS baseball players. How do u get selected to play there, serious answers plz!

2007-07-26 09:55:48 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Baseball