Grammar
Elevating Your Game
Sports writing
SI:Sports in History
Miscellaneous
100

Juan ran across the street in an attempt to reach the ice cream truck, but instead got hit by a 2006 Nissan Altima.

This type of clause is italicized above?

What is Independent Clause?

100

When talking about the ELM tree of mastery, the acronym E.LM. stands for this.

What is Effort, Learning, and Mistakes?

100

What is a beat writer’s most important tool.

What is A Pen?

100

This sport thought to be upper class began as a method to settle disputes among underclass parties.

What is Boxing?

100

This ice cream treat was named the best fast food dessert on Mashed.

What is Wendy’s Frosty?

200

Delia ran down the hallway at light speed in an attempt to stop Paupack’s playful pooper from dropping his load in the hallway.

This grammer term describes the italicized phrases

What is preposition phrase?

200

Referring to the WAG learning approach, The acronym W.A.G. Stands for this.

What is Watch, Ask, Get Coaching?

200

This sport’s athletes are known to be the most “colorful” when it comes to sports writing.

What is Boxing?

200

These two colleges were involved in the first intercollegiate sporting event.

What is Yale and Harvard?

200

The name of the cocoa bean mascot in Hershey.

What is Cody Cocoa Bean?

300

The novel that I borrowed from the library is about the extinction of the most worthless and stupid bird, the dodo bird.

This type of grammar term is highlighted above


What is Adjective Clause

300

Leaders who make their teammates better, and make their teams more successful.

What are Triple Impact Competitors?

300

A beat writer for this sport is thought to have it the “hardest”.

What is Baseball?

300

This is the first sports book.

What is The Sports Companion?

300

This phrase is used to describe an illegal hit made in Spikeball when the ball hits the plastic ring around the net.

What is a Ringer?

400

As soon as Darren got his crack money from his Uncle Tony, he sped to Scranton to pick up some of his special sugar from the front of the Viewmont Mall.

This grammar term is italicized above

What is Adverb Clause?

400

The Foreword is written by which former NBA player.

Who is Shane Battier?

400

This analysis of baseball relies mainly on mathematics and statistics.

What is Sabermetrics?

400

The Protestant church created this association to add to the rise of sports.

What is The YMCA?

400

Mr.Doty was at this university from the years 1982-1986.

What is Penn State University?

500

Anthony was a copper stripper who went around to strangers houses and stripped all of their copper piping from their houses while they are sleeping.

This grammar term describes the Italicized phrase

 

What is Predicate Nominative

500

The R.O.O.T.S of honoring the game stands for this.

What is Rules, Opponent, Officials, Teammates, and Self?

500

This man said, in reference to beat writing, that you should open your vein and let your blood drip onto the paper.

Who is Red Smith?

500

This sport first initiated motion picture photography.

What is Horse Racing?

500

A particular horseshoe shaped railroad track is located in this Pennsylvania city.

What is Altoona?