Peanuts and Crackerjacks

Boys Soccer coach Steve Thomas sent his players a guide to nutrition and hydration to help them prepare for an outstanding season.  With it being a slow news day and all, I thought I'd share it with you as well.  Check it out HERE

Do Your Part

The winter season brings new parent volunteer opportunities! The Freshman Class, in conjunction with Boosters, is responsible for operating the indoor concession booth for the basketball season (boys and girls) and an all-day wrestling tournament. Games begin this first week of December. All high school parents are welcome to help.

Click on this link to sign up:
www.SignUpGenius.com/go/10C0544ABAA2DA2F58-basketball/17506662

Questions? Send an email to the Freshman PAC Reps at class2018whs@gmail.com. Thank you!

Turkey Touch Football

Jason Gay's 26 (More) Rules of Thanksgiving Touch Football was sent to us by a super subscriber.   I'm not sure if I'm allowed to post it in it's entirety, so I'll give you a teaser.

7. Sure, you can call holding in Thanksgiving touch football. You can also skip Thanksgiving and go to the Bahamas. Both are hard to explain to your family.

Check out the other 25 rules from Jason Gay's Wall Street Journal's article HERE

Hey, wait a minute... what are you doing reading the Round Up today?  You're supposed to be out there on the garden-lined gridiron.

Know Your Competition

No, the rumors aren't true.  Despite the nearly perennial Wyoming wins, the CHL All Sports trophy isn't being renamed the Cowboy Cup.  Did you know that the other teams we compete against are real teams - they're aren't just local incarnations of the Washington Generals.  With the Fall sports season just a few weeks away, let's take a fake page from the Sesame Street playbook and learn about who are the people in our neighborhood... or more like the people in our surrounding neighborhoods.  The CHL website has a series of articles with information about the communities in the league.  Check it out HERE

Random Sports Fact

If you’re looking for a sport that combines using your strength as well as intelligence, then chess boxing is for you. The sport is a combination of boxing and chess with the different games alternating after each round. A match between two individuals lasts up to eleven rounds, starting with a four minute chess round and followed by two minutes of boxing.

The sport is governed by the World Chess Boxing Organization whose motto is: “Fighting is done in the ring and wars are waged on the board”

- This Random Sports Fact brought to you by Mrs. The Roundup

Random Sports Fact

A popular activity for children, toe wrestling is now a competitive sport. The World Toe Wrestling Competition first started at a pub in Derbyshire, UK in 1976. Locals thought it would be a great idea to hold a competition where individuals lock toes together and force their opponent’s foot to the ground. The organizers applied in 1997 to get the sport included in the Olympics, but unfortunately, it was not accepted.

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Random Sports Fact

You've probably heard people say, "It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye." Well that phrase comes from Ancient Rome. The only rule during Roman wrestling matches was, "No eye gouging." Biting, kicking and scratching were allowed but the only way to be disqualified was to poke someone's eye out.

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Random Sports Fact

Q: The national sport of Afghanistan is called buzkashi. What is the object of this game?
A: Buzkashi is a sport where teams score points for carrying a goat's carcass across a goal line, while riding on a horse.

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Random Sports Fact

The host team in an NFL football game must have 26 footballs inflated and ready to play with.

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Random Sports Fact

There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.

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Random Sports Fact

It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's supply of footballs.

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Random Sports Fact

Average life span of a major league baseball: seven pitches.

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Random Sports Fact

The Aztec and Maya Indians of Mexico and Central America played a complicated kind of ball game not unlike lacrosse. The game, played in a large stadium and witnessed by thousands of spectators, went on for several hours. When the game was finished, the captain of the losing team was slaughtered before the onlookers, his body torn limb from limb, and pieces of his heart passed among the crowd for members of the audience to nibble.

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Random Sports Fact

Before 1845, the bases on a Baseball field were arranged in U-shape. Posts or stakes were used instead of bases as we know them, runs were called "aces," and the first team to reach a score of 21 won the game. Even by 1860 Baseball was more a social event than a competitive sport. Tea was served during the many "intermissions," and the pitch, threw the ball where the batter asked him to. Bunting was considered a breach of taste.

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Random Sports Fact

The velocity of a pitched baseball is about 8 mph faster as it leaves the pitchers hand than when it reaches home plate.

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Random Sports Fact

"Fore!," the warning yelled by weekend duffers after hitting an errant golf shot, was originally an English military term.  Back when soldiers fired rifles in lines, the command "Beware before!" was a signal for the front line to kneel or risk getting their heads blown off.

- From That's A Fact Jack by Harry Bright and Jakob Anser

Random Sports Fact

The average lifespan of an NHL hockey puck is 7 minutes.  Those that don't fly into the stands are removed because they warm up from friction and bounce on the ice.  Game pucks - chilled to -10 degress Fahrenheit for maximum performance - are kept in a freezer in the penalty box.

- From That's A Fact Jack by Harry Bright and Jakob Anser

Random Sports Fact

Ice skaters skate on water, not ice.  At 32 degrees Fahrenheit, ice has a liquid surface measuging 40 billionths of a meter thick.  Below -31 degrees Fahrenheit, the liquid layer becomes so thin that a skater's blades would stick rather than glide across the ice.

- From That's A Fact Jack by Harry Bright and Jakob Anser

Random Sports Fact

The ideal knuckleball should complete less than a single rotation on its way to home plate.  Its erratic path is created by the difference in air molecules traveling over the baseball's seams and smooth surfaces.

- From That's A Fact Jack by Harry Bright and Jakob Anser