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Hardball (comic)
Hardball, in English, more specifically American English, generally refers to baseball (as opposed to its variant softball), especially when played very competitively. Metaphorically, it refers to uncompromising and ruthless methods or dealings, especially in politics. Computers * ''Hardball'', a computer game made for the Palm OS and similar to ''Breakout'' * ''HardBall!'', a series of computer games about baseball Films * ''Hardball'' (film), a 2001 film with Keanu Reeves and Diane Lane ** ''Hardball'' (soundtrack), a soundtrack album from the film * ''Hardball'', a 1997 film with Tony Curtis Food * Hardball, a sugar stage in the making of candy and other confectionery Literature * ''Hardball — How Politics is Played Told By One Who Knows the Game'', a book by Chris Matthews, a political talk-show host * Hardball (comics), a superhero in the ''Avengers: The Initiative'' series from Marvel Comics * ''Hardball'', a comic book series written by Chuck Austen * ''Hardball'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baseball
Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play generally beginning when a player on the fielding team, called the pitcher, throws a ball that a player on the batting team, called the batter, tries to hit with a bat. The objective of the offensive team (batting team) is to hit the ball into the field of play, away from the other team's players, allowing its players to run the bases, having them advance counter-clockwise around four bases to score what are called " runs". The objective of the defensive team (referred to as the fielding team) is to prevent batters from becoming runners, and to prevent runners' advance around the bases. A run is scored when a runner legally advances around the bases in order and touches home plate (the place where the player started as a batter). The principal objective of the batting team is to have a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hardball Squash
Hardball squash is a format of the indoor racquet sport squash which was first developed in North America in the late 19th century and early 20th century. It is sometimes referred to as being the "American version" of the sport. Compared to the "British version" of the game—which today is usually referred to as being the "international" version, or "softball" squash—the hardball game is played using a harder rubber ball which plays faster, and usually on a smaller court for singles play, or a much larger court for the doubles game. Records of squash being played in Canada go back to the early 1880s. There it was found that the softer squash balls being used in Britain were not ideally suited to playing in the extremely cold conditions of the Canadian winter, and so a harder rubber ball was developed. It was quickly discovered that this ball was better suited to playing on slightly narrower courts than were used in the British version of the game. As the popularity of the game sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hardball (company)
Hardball is a Norwegian investment company founded in 2004 to finance player transfers for the association football team SK Brann from Bergen, Norway. Former news editor at Norwegian TV 2 and managing director of software company Vizrt, Bjarne Berg, fronted Hardball and was one of several members of the investors group until his death in 2010. Eivind Kåre Lunde is the company's Managing Director. When a Hardball financed player is sold, Hardball is to have their investment back after expenses are withdrawn. Any profit Profit may refer to: Business and law * Profit (accounting), the difference between the purchase price and the costs of bringing to market * Profit (economics), normal profit and economic profit * Profit (real property), a nonpossessory intere ...s are to be divided 50-50 between Hardball and Brann. Hardball has no ownership in Brann, and the power to sell or trade players stays with the club. The investors are predominantly local businessmen from Bergen an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fire From Heaven (comics)
"Fire From Heaven" was a company-wide comics crossover event story arc published by American company WildStorm in 1996. The story ran across at least one issue of most WildStorm titles at the time and several independent one-shots. The story tied into many events happening in the WildStorm universe and, unlike many major crossovers of the time, Fire From Heaven had a lasting impact on many of the characters involved. History The crossover was one of the biggest ever in comics, but had its share of problems; for example, delayed issues caused the planned reading order to change almost monthly, so much that the finalé, planned to take place in ''Fire from Heaven'' #2, had to take place in '' Deathblow'' #28. Also, mandated participation in the crossover meant that many writers had to stop their own storylines to follow the storyline of the crossover. This had the side effect that none of the issues involved were self-contained and readers had to buy the whole crossover to understan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gen¹³
''Gen¹³'' is a superhero team and comic book series originally written by Jim Lee and Brandon Choi and illustrated by J. Scott Campbell. It was published by WildStorm under the Image Comics banner, which went on to become an imprint (trade name), imprint for DC Comics, who continued publishing the ''Gen¹³'' title. The comic features a loosely organized team of super-powered beings composed of five adolescence, teens and their mentor. Publication history The series takes place in Jim Lee's Wildstorm Universe, and ''Gen¹³''s stories and history intertwine with those from his own works, such as ''Wildcats (comics), Wildcats'' and ''Team 7'' (in fact, each of the main characters in ''Gen¹³'' is the child of a Team 7 member). The setup of the series is that a group of teens are invited to take part in a government project, which is in actuality a prison-like testing ground on "gen-active" teens. The teens make their escape, but not before they manifest superhuman powers, and a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ore Oduba
Ore Oduba (born 17 November 1986) is a British television and radio presenter who has also worked as an actor. He is best known for winning the fourteenth series of BBC One's ''Strictly Come Dancing'' in 2016. He presented the CBBC news programme ''Newsround'' from 2008 until 2013. In 2018 he hosted the game show '' And They're Off!'' in aid of Sport Relief. In 2019 he began his musical theatre career, starring in the UK tour of '' Grease''. He also appeared alongside Jason Manford in '' Curtains the Musical''. Oduba made his West End debut in January 2020. Early life and education Oduba was born on 17 November 1986 in London, to Nigerian parents and was brought up in Dorset, in southwest England, with his brother and two sisters. He often travelled between the UK and Nigeria, where his father is a leading lawyer. . He was educated at Dumpton School, then Canford School, a co-educational independent school for both boarding and day pupils in the village of Canford Magna, near ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hardball (2019 TV Series)
''Hardball'' is an Australian children's television series set to screen on ABC Me. The series is produced by Northern Pictures with Screen Australia in association with Create NSW and the Australian Children's Television Foundation (ACTF). It was released to stream on the ABC Me app on April 1, 2019, and aired on April 22, 2019 the second season came out in 2021. The series is filmed at La Perouse Public School in La Perouse, NSW, Australia Plot Mikey moves to Western Sydney, where he meets Jerry and Salwa, who want to help him win at handball. The elected school principal is Ms. Crapper and Tiffany's dads are Steele and Stone. Cast * Semisi Cheekam as Mikey * Reannah Hamdan as Salwa * Holly Simon as Prisha * Logan Reberger as Jerry * Erin Choy as Tiffany * Helen Dallimore as Ms. Crapper * Daya Sao-Mafiti as Daddy * Maria Walker as Auntie *Sam Everinghamas Viktor * Ella Holowell as Ivanka * Jack Scott as Kevin *Nicholas Cradock as Lance * Tilly Jefferson as Lily * Taylan Gogan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hardball (1994 TV Series)
''Hardball'' is an American baseball sitcom that aired Sunday nights at 8:30 pm on Fox from September 4, 1994 to November 4, 1994. The series premiered in the middle of the 1994–95 Major League Baseball strike and was canceled around the time that the year's World Series would have been played. Premise The series focused on the players and staff of the Pioneers, a fictional American League baseball team. Among those shown were pitcher Dave Logan, who has been largely overlooked by MLB, catcher Mike Widmer, who is past his prime, team owner Mitzi Balzer, who is sharp-tongued and trying to get her team out of last place, public relations girl Lee Emory, who has her hands full with Mitzi and the team, center fielder Frank Valente, whose cocky high-priced "superstar" ways put him at odds with Dave. The first episode showed Mitzi firing the manager and replacing him with a timid man named Ernest "Happy" Talbot, who is unsure how to get the Pioneers working as a team. Cast * Bruce Gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hardball (1989 TV Series)
''Hardball'' is an American crime drama television series that ran on NBC from September 21, 1989 to June 29, 1990, during the 1989–90 television schedule. Synopsis ''Hardball'' is a variation of the buddy cop genre that focused on two plainclothes L.A. cops, Charlie "C.B." Battles (John Ashton) and Joe "Kaz" Kaczierowski (Richard Tyson). Battles is a 45-year-old hard-nosed veteran officer who is forced to take a desk job or retire. Battles is soon assigned a new partner, the 25-year-old hotshot Kaczierowski who follows his own set of rules when dealing with criminals. The pair are soon at odds over their respective methods of law enforcement. NBC President Brandon Tartikoff saw this series as inspired by the ''Lethal Weapon'' films and Battles was patterned after Pete Rose. Cast *John Ashton as Charlie "C.B." Battles * Richard Tyson as Joe "Kaz" Kaczierowski * John Pappas as Pappas * Barney McFadden as Ballantine Production notes The series was created by Robert Palm and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hard Ball
"Hard Ball" (also known as "Negotiation") is the fifteenth episode of NBC's first season of ''30 Rock''. It was written by one of the season's co-producers, Matt Hubbard, and directed by one of the season's supervising producers, Don Scardino. It aired on February 22, 2007 in the United States. Guest stars who appeared in the episode were David Alan Basche, Gregg Bello, Katrina Bowden, Kevin Brown, Grizz Chapman, Rachel Dratch, Keith Powell, Lonny Ross and Gregory Wooddell. Tucker Carlson and Chris Matthews also appear as themselves in the episode. The episode focuses on Jenna Maroney (Jane Krakowski) trying to clear her name after being misquoted in an interview for ''Maxim Magazine''. Jack Donaghy (Alec Baldwin) begins negotiations to Josh Girard's (Lonny Ross) new contract. Kenneth Parcell (Jack McBrayer) becomes the newest member of Tracy Jordan's (Tracy Morgan) entourage. Plot When Josh's contract is due for renewal, Jack is looking to save money with the negotiation, so Li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hardball With Chris Matthews
''Hardball with Chris Matthews'' was an American television talk show that was hosted by Chris Matthews. The program premiered on the now-defunct America's Talking network in 1994 (as ''Politics with Chris Matthews'') before moving on CNBC, and then to MSNBC, where it remained until its end in 2020. The show took its name from Matthews' 1988 book: ''Hardball: How Politics Is Played Told by One Who Knows the Game''. The program primarily featured coverage of political issues and headlines, along with discussion from a panel of analysts and political figures. History ''Hardball'' was originally broadcast on CNBC from 1997 until 1999, after which the program was moved to MSNBC. On March 2, 2020, Matthews announced that he had left the program, effective immediately, stating that the "younger generation" was "ready to take the reins", but that he would still "continue to write and talk about politics and cheer on my producers and crew here in Washington in New York and my MSNBC coll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BB Gun
A BB gun is a type of air gun designed to shoot metallic spherical projectiles called BBs (not to be confused with similar-looking bearing balls), which are approximately the same size as BB-size lead birdshot used on shotguns ( in diameter). Modern BB guns usually have a smoothbore barrel with a caliber, and use steel balls that measure in diameter and in weight, usually zinc- or copper-plated for corrosion resistance. Some manufacturers still make the slightly larger traditional lead balls that weigh around , which are generally intended for use in rifled barrels (due to lead having better malleability and exerting less wear on riflings). The term "BB gun" is frequently used incorrectly to describe airsoft guns, which shoot plastic pellets (also often referred to as "BBs") that are larger (usually in diameter) but much less dense than metal BBs, and have significantly lower ballistic performance. The term is also sometimes used to describe a pellet gun, which sho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
