GETTING TO THE END ZONE

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GETTING TO THE END ZONE

• Translation of Sports Terminology
• Ulisses Wehby de Carvalho
• New York City, October 29th, 2009

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Agenda

• Test
• Why is it important?
• How does that affect me?
• Terminology from familiar sports
• Terminology from unfamiliar sports
• Q A

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Test

• Sports can help us better understand
• Geography
• History
• Economy
• Culture

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Test

• Denver Dolphins
• Boston 49ers
• New York Supersonics
• Philadelphia Mavericks
• Minnesota Heat
• Orlando Steelers
• Phoenix 76ers
• Los Angeles Brewers

• Miami Dolphins
• San Francisco 49ers
• Seattle Supersonics
• Dallas Mavericks
• Miami Heat
• Pittsburgh Steelers
• Philadelphia 76ers
• Milwaukee Brewers

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Why is it important?

• Sports terminology is used everywhere
• In English
• Used more often
• Not limited to informal situations
• Unfamiliar sports

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How does that affect me?

• Improve
• Listening skills
• Vocabulary
• Gain confidence
• Learn the language
• Have fun!

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Familiar Sports

• BY A NOSE
• The race this year is all over, everyone agrees
  on the morning after Iowa. Bush and Gore have the
  nominations. (My guess is Gore by a nose in
  November.) (Time)
• Horse racing
• Politics

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Familiar Sports

• RAISE THE BAR
• When owner Jeff Gramm opened Cayo Espanto in
  1999, he raised the bar on luxury accommodations
  in Belize, with a staff-to-guest ratio of
  one-to-one and amenities once available only on
  islands like St. Barts. (New York Times)
• Track Field
• Tourism

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Familiar Sports

• THROW IN THE TOWEL
• We thought that it would be an extreme survey
  this month with people throwing in the towel, but
  it hasnt happened, said David Bowers Merrills
  chief global investment strategist. There is no
  real sign of capitulation. (Financial Times)
• Boxing
• Finance

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Familiar Sports

• SAVED BY THE BELL
• JUMP THE GUN
• BEHIND THE EIGHT BALL
• NECK AND NECK
• SMOOTH SAILING
• LOW BLOW
• JOCKEY FOR POSITION
• DIVE (RIGHT) IN

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Familiar X Unfamiliar Sports

• Familiar
• Boxing
• Horse racing
• Track Field
• Sailing
• Basketball
• Tennis
• Pool
• Soccer

• Unfamiliar
• Baseball
• Football
• Golf

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Unfamiliar Sports

• BOTTOM OF THE NINTH
• Its the bottom of the ninth inning, and we have
  two outs and two strikes, says Oliver Ryder, a
  geneticist. And scientists are looking for a home
  run as they try to save the northern white rhinos
  from extinction. About 40 remain in the world.
  (CNN)
• Baseball
• Science

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Unfamiliar Sports

• BATTING A THOUSAND
• You guys are batting a thousand, a voice from
  Mission Control said, congratulating them on
  their journey. (CNN)
• Baseball
• Space Technology

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Unfamiliar Sports

• HUDDLE
• GOP Senate leaders see the Domenici offer on
  Medicare as a possible solution. They huddle in
  Doles office in the Capitol. (USA Today)
• Football
• Politics

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Baseball

• Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of
  America had better learn baseball, the rules and
  realities of the game.
• Jacques Barzun (b. 1907), U.S. scholar. Quoted
  in Michael Novak, The Joy of Sports, pt. 1
  (1976).

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The field
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Hardball or Softball?

• PLAY HARDBALL
• But the government agency isnt planning to play
  hardball. Authority officials, rather, say they
  recognize that Starwoods difficulty in getting
  construction financing isnt the companys fault.
  (The Wall Street Journal)
• Finance

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The playing field

• TAKE A RAIN CHECK
• So while Republican Mayor Rudy Giuliani takes
  pride in leading the nations oldest and largest
  St. Patricks Day parade, most Democrats take a
  rain check. (CBS News)
• Politics

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The playing field

• COVER ALL THE BASES
• She can do this by buying individual stocks, but
  frankly, with just 25,000 to invest, I think
  shes much better off in mutual funds. She can
  easily put together a portfolio of four to six
  funds that will cover all the bases. (CNN)
• Finance

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The playing field

• BALLPARK FIGURE
• Democrats think the total may be 200 billion.
  Id say 150 billion is a good ballpark figure,
  said economist Laurence Meyer, who has advised
  CBO. Other experts agree. (USA Today)
• Politics

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The playing field

• IN THE BALLPARK
• It wont be higher, said Craig Shniderman,
  executive director of Food Friends, the other
  charity involved in the AIDS ride. Its in the
  ballpark, but it has the potential to be somewhat
  lower. (The Washington Post)
• Business

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The game

• GET THE BALL ROLLING
• The Bank of East Asia, Hong Kongs third largest,
  got the ball rolling in late July. The first bank
  in the city to announce its results for the first
  half of the year, BEA registered a robust 39
  rise in net profits to 120.5 million.
  (Asiaweek.com)
• Finance

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The batter

• ONES TURN AT BAT
• The Republicans have found a recipe for success,
  only when they get their turn at bat what should
  they expect from the Democrats? My God, where are
  we going? (The Washington Post)
• Politics

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The batter

• STEP UP TO THE PLATE
• Sullivan also threw back at committee Chairman
  Fred D. Thompson (R-Tenn.) some of the phrases
  that Thompson used Tuesday when he called on
  President Clinton to step up to the plate and
  take responsibility for Democratic fund-raising
  abuses. This is your Senate, Sullivan said.
  This is your Republican Congress. (The
  Washington Post)
• Politics

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The batter

• KEEP ONE'S EYE ON THE BALL
• We have said, Lets keep our eye on the ball,
  one Arab diplomat said yesterday. Lets not let
  others distract us.... It would be nice if we
  could figure out what to do with the peace
  process in parallel. (The Washington Post)
• Diplomacy

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The strike zone

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Base hit

• RIGHT OFF THE BAT
• Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., who introduced the
  measure to the committee, said, Let me clarify
  right off the bat that no U.S. funds go to
  perform abortions abroad. (CBS News)
• Politics

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Base hit

• GET TO FIRST BASE
• Researchers hadnt done enough trials or testing
  of the vaccine and we never got to first base,
  Arndt said. (The Washington Post)
• Politics
• Also MAKE IT TO FIRST BASE and REACH FIRST BASE

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Base hit

• GET TO FIRST BASE
• Guys, go back to first base. Kiss more, because
  its more important to her. (USA Today)
• Foreign Affairs

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Foul ball

• HIT A FOUL BALL
• The president hit a foul ball instead of a home
  run, said Graham, who assumed the Judiciary
  Committee seat of the late Rep. Steven Schiff,
  R-N.M., earlier this year. (The Washington Post)
• Politics

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Fly ball and error

• DROP THE BALL
• A lot of the brokers facing claims today dont
  look shady. Theyre probably very nice people,
  but they dropped the ball. (Chicago Tribune)
• Insurance

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The strike

• THROW A CURVE (BALL)
• The events moderators threw conservative
  activist Gary Bauer somewhat of a curve ball on
  one his core-value issues, abortion. Williams
  asked Bauer if a loved one of his was raped and
  impregnated, and if that person decided to have
  an abortion, would he support that decision.
  (CNN)
• Politics

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The bases

• (WAY) OFF BASE (TO BE)
• The cagey and low-key Mr Daschle generally
  ignores the venom but expresses his
  disappointment about one attack or another.
  The rhetoric is way off base, and Im
  disappointed people are using it, is his formula
  response. (Financial Times)
• Politics

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The bases

• HOME FREE (TO BE)
• Patrick Davenport, managing general partner of
  Davenport Capital Ventures, said he wasnt under
  the impression that all 17 of the companies that
  presented at the Summit were home free. Some of
  them are happy just to be surviving and showing
  some progress, he said. (The Boston Globe)
• Finance

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Strike

• TWO STRIKES AGAINST
• Matalin, according to her critics, has two
  strikes against her. First, as some noted, Bush
  lost in 1992, and maybe bringing in his advisers
  isnt a great idea. (CNN)
• Politics

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Strike

• THREE STRIKES AND YOU'RE OUT!
• Now he makes sure his service-level agreements
  have a three-strikes-and-youre-out clause, and
  he checks his vendors references thoroughly.
  (Business Week)
• Business

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Strike

• STRIKE OUT (v.) / STRIKEOUT (n.)
• But as a former baseball exec, Bush knows the
  dangers of swinging for the fence A strikeout is
  much more likely than a home run. (Business Week)
• Politics

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Home run

• HIT A HOME RUN
• The potential is huge, and I love the category,
  but there will be plenty of early screwups and
  failures, just like in the handheld market before
  Palm hit a home run. (The Wall Street Journal)
• IT
• Also HIT A HOMER, HIT IT OUT OF THE BALLPARK

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Home run

• BATTING AVERAGE
• If one hospital performs fifty bypasses a year
  with forty-five of them successful, while a
  second hospital performs only ten, but all of
  them successful, who really has the better
  record? The second hospital has the better
  batting average, but the first clearly has more
  experience. (The Wall Street Journal)
• Medicine

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Home run

• TOUCH BASE WITH SOMEONE
• I think that what this means is that U.S.
  Secretary of State Colin Powell and other
  diplomats will have to, on a daily basis, talk
  and touch base with these countries to ensure
  that a coalition holds. (CNN)
• Diplomacy

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Pinch hit

• GO TO BAT FOR SOMEONE
• Mrs. Clinton goes to bat for the president. (CNN)
• Politics

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Pinch hit

• PINCH HIT
• We hired her as a consultant to run and pinch hit
  on workshops were really very small staffed
  so weve known her through that kind of
  connection. (Business Week)
• Business

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Designated hitter

• DESIGNATED DRIVER
• If you know youre going to consume an abundance
  of alcohol, you need to make plans ahead of time
  to either have a cab or a friend come pick you up
  or carry a designated driver. (CNN)
• Safety

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Designated hitter

• CLOUT
• In the past, equality issues have often been
  sidelined and responsibility handed to small
  policy teams full of enthusiasm and ideas, but no
  political clout. (The Guardian)
• Politics

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The left field

• COME OUT OF LEFT FIELD
• He said changes proposed to rules on double
  taxation came totally out of left field.
  (Financial Times)
• Politics

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The left field

• OUT IN LEFT FIELD
• This highlights the fact that those asking the
  questions are not all out in left field
  somewhere. (The Washington Post)
• Politics

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Seventh-inning stretch

• SEVENTH-INNING STRETCH
• As for a turnaround, ABC is nowhere near the
  seventh-inning stretch. Eisner has properly set a
  low target this year, telling analysts it will
  take more than a single season to put ABC back
  into serious contention. (Business Week)
• Business

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Miscellaneous

• OUT OF ONE'S LEAGUE (TO BE)
• Bush probably didnt convince many voters that he
  was an intellectual heavyweight, but he didnt
  seem out of his league either. (CNN)
• Politics

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Miscellaneous

• MAJOR LEAGUE
• Overall, to be a serious contender for the major
  league, it helps to have some of the following
  The name of a major business school on your
  résumé (Harvard is good, so is Stanford. In
  Europe, INSEAD, LBS or IMD are popular).
  (Business-minds.com)
• Business

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Miscellaneous

• COME OUT WINNERS
• Even if a cost-benefit analysis of going to war
  was to show a loss, specific sectors of the
  economy can still come out winners aerospace
  and military technology being the most obvious.
  (The Observer)
• Foreign Affairs

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