Word: off-season
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What challenges might arise are likely to come in the early fall, when both basketball teams and both volleyball teams are vying for the same court space. Ridolfi said that his team—which would be in off-season training then—could be flexible in its time assignments and added that any potential overcrowding could be mitigated by scheduling compromise among the teams...
...served a legitimate purpose at one time, but these days do pitchers and catchers really need six weeks, and the position players five weeks or so, to get into shape? No way. First, if they're truly earning their millions, players will be lifting weights and whacking balls all off-season. "These guys don't sell suits in the winter anymore," notes Joe Sheehan, a senior writer at Baseball Prospectus. Plus, why should, say, the NBA have only a month-long preseason, while baseball stretches it out another half month? Basketball is without a doubt a more physically grueling game...
...baseball's training requirements don't even compare to pro football's. The NFL's summer sessions also last some six weeks, and teams also run mini-camps throughout the off-season. But football playbooks are like physics texts, so it's a wonder players don't need a whole semester to learn their schemes...
...this trick where you throw a card up in the air when a fan is blowing and you try to catch it," Tomlinson, the San Diego Chargers running back, explains in his Texas drawl. The man is not fooling around. He does the trick twice a week during the off-season, snatching dozens of high-speed aces bouncing off the blades, in order to tune the quick reflexes a great running back requires...
While she was clearly one of the best freshmen on last year’s squad, Brine has stepped into a more senior role on the team this year after some off-season training, combined with the experience of playing a year at this level...