Teaching The Sport
10 Letter Words
Four
Abstract Nouns
TV BEFORE & AFTER
100

Grip the ball with your index and middle fingers along the narrow part of the seams to throw this sinking, two-seam variety of this basic baseball pitch

A Fastball

100

The act of renouncing the throne

Abdication

100

The 4 "strokes" of a four-stroke engine are intake, compression, power & this one to expel waste gas

exhaust

100

Some people might take this "lap" to celebrate this, the successful ending of a struggle or contest

victory

100

Savant Doctor Shaun Murphy hangs up his white coat to become a Time Lord

The Good Doctor Who

200

To keep a football pass on target, throw it so it spins in a tight one of these 6-letter motions

A Spiral

200

Any substance known to produce cancer, like benzene or coal-tar pitch

Carcinogen

200

Invisibility is a key attribute of Sue Storm, a member of this group

The Fantastic Four

200

In baseball, it's an out that still advances a runner; in life, it's giving up something for something more important

sacrifice

200

Eric McCormack & Debra Messing pal around with new friend Lily Tomlin

Will & Grace and Frankie

300

If your basketball team is extra savvy, you can teach them this motion offense named for an Ivy League school & its Tigers

Princeton

300

Dive in to this, the tile on the wall behind a kitchen countertop

Backsplash

300

Of the 4 men carved on Mount Rushmore, he's the one not born in the original 13 Colonies

Lincoln

300

This study of past events taken as a whole has been defined as a set of lies that are mutually agreed upon

history

300

Sarah Manning & her sister clones enter sort of a techie "Twilight Zone" on a Netflix anthology show

Orphan Black Mirror

400

In a classic volleyball scoring sequence, this finishing hit follows "bump, set"

Spike

400

One who has left his or her native land; Americans living in, say, Ecuador form this "community"

Expatriate

400

The 4 forces of flight are thrust, weight, drag & this upward one

lift

400

Also a British name for Solitaire, it's a quality you need when caught in a traffic jam

Patience

400

Generations of Big Apple cops join forces as Det. Andy Sipowicz reports to police commissioner Tom Selleck

NYPD Blue Bloods

500

If your golf ball gets stuck in a bunker, reach for this club with a loft of around 54 to 56 degrees & an "S" on the head

the sand wedge


500

The Greek for "stomach" gives us this word for the science of good eating

Gastronomy

500

Credited to "The Beloved Physician", it's the longest of the 4 Gospels

The Book of Luke

500

Have this religious belief; per the King James version, it "without works is dead"

faith

500

Crockett & Tubbs vie with Gamby & Russell for a new school position

Miami Vice Principals