Today's Current Links--March 12, 2021

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Today's Gem

Film

National Film Board of Canada Documentary, new release with Cree subtitiles.

nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up (Cree Version) (English with Cree subtitles) (2019, directed by Tasha Hubbard) (1 hour 38 minutes)
Context: More information about Tasha Hubbard (University of Alberta Native Studies Department)

This film won the best Canadian feature documentary award at the 2019 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, as well as the Discovery Award from the 2019 Director's Guild of Canada.

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Agence France Press

ARTE (France/Germany)
Joan Baez : How Sweet the Sound (French with some English)

Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) News:

CBC News (Canada)

Chris Sumo (Sumo Wrestling) (NHK Basics of Sumo)
Context: More information on Grand Champion Yokozuna Hakuho
44 Emporers Cup Titles, 12 more than anyone else. Most undefeated Tournament Championships (15-0)--15, 7 more than anyone else. Most consecutive Tournament Championships (6 per year)--7. Most Yokozuna career wins: 1,170, 143 more than anyone else. Most wins in a calendar year (of 90). 86, twice. Oldest Yokozuna: 36 years old.

Euronews (in English)


Context: More information about Mary Robinson (The Elders)

FIE (Federation International d'Escrime) (International Fencing Federation) (Fencing) (Ninh explains)
Eight different preliminary rounds from Day 1-2 are available at the video section of the site. Piste means color of the combat surface


Info Garazi Officiel (Commentary is in Basque, scores are called out in Basque and French)
Basque Pelota
FFPB Championnat de France par Equipes (pairs Main Nue--naked hand) begins: (March 12-May 9)

Condensed Full Match video of N-h v A-C (Pilota Ttiki Youtube) Selected scores scroll across the screen. No commentary).


Condensed Full match video of E-I v E-S E (Pilota Ttiki Youtube). Selected scores scroll across the screen. No commentary).
Context:  FFPB Brochure (players, schedule, etc.)

Jai Alai Channel

NCAA Championships


New York Mets

NZC (New Zealand Cricket) (Ninh explains)

Now that the two short form Domestic competitions (20--120 pitches per side and 50--300 pitches per side) have ended, the long form (4 day) season (Plunket Shield) has returned for it's final 2 rounds. NZ Cricket is providing full match video coverage of all 3 matches each week. It is not commercial quality (some lacks sound) but it is good enough. New fans can watch live or on demand and begin to understand the rhythm of the traditional game.

Full coverage of this week's three matches: Central Districts Stags v Wellington Firebirds; Northern Districts v Auckland Aces, and Canterbury v Otago Volts

Matches are labelled by Day
Context: Table (ESPN Cricinfo)

PSA Squash TV (Squash Rackets)

Context: PSA World Tour. The Tournament runs from March 12-25. First week is Womens Tournament.

Rabbitholebd--Gtv (Gazi Satellite Television) (Cricket) (Ninh Explains)

Highlights:


Cricket for the baseball fan.

State of the match at "stumps" (end of play) on the third day (of a maximum 5 day match).

Innings 1: Afghanistan 545/4 declared Innings over--see below (160.4 overs--964 legal deliveries--pitches) Zimbabwe 287 (91.3 overs--549 legal deliveries) 

1st Innings: 14 wickets (outs) and 1,514 deliveries. Runs per wicket: 59.4. (Afghanistan: 136.25; Zimbabwe 28.7). Afghanistan leads by 258 runs after the 1st Innings.

Innings 2: Zimbabwe (following on--in International Tests, if one team has a lead of more than 199 runs at the end of an Innings in which it batted 1st, that team can "invite" the trailing team to "follow on"--bat again. Changing the order of teams batting is a tactic used to try to A) give the leading team as much time as possible to dismiss the trailing team again; B) a bit of "in your face" psychological warfare. Z must score 258 runs in their 2nd Innings in order to make A  bat again. Otherwise they lose by "an innings" and n runs; i.e. A will score more runs in one Innings than Z will score in two.

Z 24 for 0 outs (13 overs--78 legal deliveries). Afganistan leads by 242 runs. Number of legal deliveries  on Day 3: 86.3 overs--519. Total through 3 days: 264.1 overs (1,585 legal deliveries--a little more than 6 MLB baseball games by number of pitches). A=964 (batting), Z=627 (batting--everything regarding "pitch counts" in cricket is relative to the batting team--same thing for the names of fielding positions--but that is another story). It's beginning to look like a big Afghanistan victory. They have 1,080 deliveries over the last 2 days to get 10 wickets (outs). Z has basically no chance to win, but they can "save" the match (a "draw"--and win the 2 match series, as they won the 1st match) by batting long enough to "run out the clock" before A can get the 10 outs, or get the number of runs they would need to equal Z's total. Possible outcomes: Afghanistan win: 98%; Draw: 1.9%; Zimbabwe win: 0.1% (my estimate).


Afghanistan  545 for 4 outs--declared innings over--160.4 overs in their innings (964 legal deliveries) Top Scorer: Hashmatulla Shahidi: 200 runs (not out); 443 balls faced, 590 minutes (9 hours 50 minutes), 21 FOURS, 1 SIX, highest score in history of Afghanistan Test cricket. Ran 110 runs (batters do not run boundaries) off his own batting. Equivalent of 18 times around a baseball diamond. He also ran all the non boundary runs of his three partners. One of those, Asghar Afghan, scored 164 runs, of which 68 came on boundaries. So Hashmatulla had to run 96 of Afghan's runs as well. So a partial total of 206 times he had to run up and down the pitch. So that would make 34 times around the bases, not counting his other two partners.  Quite an at-bat.

Zimbabwe 1st innings 50 for 0 outs. 17 overs. 87.4 overs on the day. Total through 2 days. 177.4 overs (1,066 legal deliveries through 2 days)

Afghanistan wins the toss and bats: 307 for 3 outs. 90 overs (540 legal deliveries--see the Current Links "Today's Gems" for March 9, 2021.

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

Windiescricket.com (Cricket) (Ninh Explains)
Highlights | West Indies vs Sri Lanka | Tense Finish to End the Series! | 2nd CG Insurance ODI 2021  Played at Sir Vivian Richards Stadium, North Sound, Antigua. 


Final:

Sri Lanka 273/8 (wickets-outs) v West Indies (274/5--49.4 overs) West Indies win by 5 wickets with 2 balls to play). West Indies leads the 3 match series 2-0.

Highlights | West Indies vs Sri Lanka | Brilliant Hope Hundred Earns Win! | 1st CG Insurance One Day International (50 overs--300 pitches per side, about the the length of a baseball doubleheader. Played at Sir Vivian Richards Stadium, North Sound, Antigua. 


Final: 

Sri Lanka 232 (all 10 out 49 overs) v West Indies (236/2 wickets--outs--47 overs)
West Indies win by 8 wickets with 18 balls to play. West Indies leads the 3 match series 1-0.


Women's Tennis Association (WTA)
Context: WTA Dubai Tournament information

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