User:Sparky2910
Sparky2910 is a soon to be college graduate in the spring of 2012. He is creating a wikipedia account to complete an assignment for one of his classes. He enjoys baseball and any other activities that involve movement.
School
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Cal Poly Pomona is a state college that is located in Pomona, CA. CPP is academically known for having two of the top programs in the state of California in the areas of Engineering and Hospitality. The school is considered by the NCAA as a division II level. They currently have sports teams that compete in the fields of baseball, basketball, soccer, track & cross country, and volleyball. In 2010, the Cal Poly Pomona men's basketball team won the national championship.
Hobbies
[edit]Baseball is America's favorite past time. In North America, professional Major League Baseball (MLB) teams are divided into the National League (NL) and American League (AL), each with three divisions: East, West, and Central. The major league champion is determined by playoffs that culminate in the World Series. Five teams make the playoffs from each league: the three regular season division winners, plus two wild card teams. Baseball is the leading team sport in both Japan and Cuba, and the top level of play is similarly split between two leagues: Japan's Central League and Pacific League; Cuba's West League and East League. In the National and Central leagues, the pitcher is required to bat, per the traditional rules. In the American, Pacific, and both Cuban leagues, there is a tenth player, a designated hitter, who bats for the pitcher. Each top-level team has a farm system of one or more minor league teams.
Music
[edit]Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s.[1] It takes its roots from Western cowboy and southeastern American folk music. Country music often consists of ballads and dance tunes with generally simple forms and harmonies accompanied by mostly string instruments such as banjoes, electric and acoustic guitars, fiddles such as violins, and harmonicas.[2][3][4]
The term country music gained popularity in the 1940s in preference to the earlier term hillbilly music. The term country music is used today to describe many styles and subgenres. In 2009 Country music was the most listened to rush hour radio genre during the evening commute, and second most popular in the morning commute.[5]
Sports
[edit]Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players (or golfers) use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes.
It is one of the few ball games that does not require a standardized playing area. Instead, the game is played on golf "courses", each of which features a unique design, although courses typically consist of either nine or 18 holes. Golf is defined, in the rules of golf, as "playing a ball with a club from the teeing ground into the hole by a stroke or successive strokes in accordance with the Rules."
Golf competition is generally played for the lowest number of strokes by an individual, known simply as stroke play, or the lowest score on the most individual holes during a complete round by an individual or team, known as match play. Sparky2910 (talk) 20:09, 29 March 2012 (UTC)
References
[edit]- ^ Peterson, Richard A. (1999). Creating Country Music: Fabricating Authenticity, p. 9. ISBN 0-226-66285-3.
- ^ "Country music - Definition". Dictionary.com. Retrieved 2011-10-30.
- ^ "Country music - Definition". Oxford Dictionaries. Retrieved 2011-10-30.
- ^ Country music - Definition from WordWeb http://wordweb.info/free/
- ^ ARRP Bulletin. Vol. 53 No 1. "50 Minutes on the Road. Betsy Tower. page 50. citing Communting in America III and Abritron.