Links--March 4, 2021

All links are to English language sites, unless otherwise specifically stated.  All links are Youtube unless otherwise specifically stated.

Today's Gems

Theatre

Stratford Festival  (Startford, Ontario, Canada) (free streaming available for 36 hours)--Subscription info available at the site).

Electronic Music

ARTE Concert (France/Germany) Electronic Music 

Sports

In the history of cricket, until yesterday, only 4 top rank cricket batsman had hit every pitch in an over (4, 6, or 8 deliveries from the same bowler--like baseball pitches--6 in modern times)  for cricket's "home run" (a ball hit over the boundary on the fly--an automatic SIX runs--they don't trot them like in baseball, they just get ready to face the next delivery). They were (links are to videos of the achievement) Gary Sobers, Herschel Gibbs, Yuvraj Singh, and (note the analyst on the commentary of Yuvraj's achievement--Ravi Shastri--I couldn't find video of his 6 sixes). Note: the link to Yuvraj's achievement was incorrect. It has been corrected.

Now there are 5. Keiron Pollard, in the first T20 match of a series against Sri Lanka (20 overs--120 "pitches" per side), hit 6 SIXES off Akila Dananjaya (who later got him out as one of 3 wickets [outs] in 3 deliveries [cricket's "hat trick", another extremely rare feat in the sport]).


Note that of all 5 times only Sobers' came in a traditional (long form, or Test--4 or 5 day) cricket match. The others came in shortened forms of the game (1 day or 3 hours) where the risk of popping up trying to hit a home run can be worth the reward (it never is in traditional cricket). Sobers was the best all around player in the history of the game. In addition to his fantastic hitting, (averaged almost 58 runs scored per "at bat"--9th highest since 1877), he bowled (pitched) 3 different styles (left arm "fast-medium" and left arm "spin"--slow bowling, both wrist and finger). No one in cricket today has more than one style. His highest score in an "at bat" was 365 in 1958, a record which stood for 36 years. He had 26 100's in 160 "at bats", 9th highest percentage in history.  He was a great close in fielder (where most of cricket's outs are made--a bowler can only bowl 6 balls at once; when another bowler is bowling the next 6, the first bowler plays in the field--there are no substitutions--except for concussion--in the game). 109 Test Match catches in 93 matches (More than one catch per match by a non-wicket keeper--catcher--is a rare achievement. He was also Captain of the West Indies team (a player manager) for 10 years.

"Pollard's Match"


Full match audio (Many sports fans think cricket is a long, slow, and boring sport. Listen to a little of this and judge for yourself .)  :) :)

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Aljazeera English

Bright Side


CBC News (Canada)

Charlie Berens

Chris Sumo

Comrade Dobler
The  First Super Bowl: Cleveland Browns (4 time defending AAFC Champion "taken into" the NFL in 1950) v Philadelphia Eagles (2 time defending NFL Champions), Saturday, September 16, 1950, in front of 85,000 (or 72,000 depending on the source) at Philadelphia, still the largest crowd in Eagles history. Bert Bell (ex-Eagles owner and NFL Commissioner), wanted teach Paul Brown a lesson about NFL superiority. He scheduled this game to lead off the season



Democracy at Work (Harriet Fraad and Juliana Forlano)



Deutsche Grammophon - DG

DW (Deutsche Welle) Documentary




Euronews in English




George L. Mosse Program
Steven Aschheim and Raphael Gross, "George L. Mosse: The Man and the Legacy," Keynote discussion ("Mosse's Europe: New Perspectives in the History of German Judaism, Fascism, and Sexuality", Berlin, June 6-9, 2019) 

The Home of (Team) Handball (Team Handball) (Ninh explains)


KHL Kontinental Hockey League (Russia) 




Nature Bats Last (Guy McPherson)



New York Mets
Spring Training Home Opener (brief highlights)


NHL (Ice Hockey)


National Rugby League (Australia) (Rugby League v Rugby Union) (Ninh exlains)


Phenia Films the MLB archives Original Broadcasts
Vince Lloyd's guest on today's pre-game show is John F. Kennedy. Kennedy's first pitch is caught by the Sox' Jim Rivera

St Louis CARDINALS at Chicago CUBS 5/15/60 Original WGN Broadcast (partial) (last 2 innings of Don Cardwell's no-hit game against the Cardinals. First no-hitter I remember.

Premier Lacrosse League (Field Lacrosse) (Ninh explains)








WFTDA: Women's Flat Track Derby Association (Roller Derby) (Ninh explains)

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