Sentences with phrase «ball ricocheting»

He is now a tenured professor at Brown University whose most important work has taken place in the field of dynamics, which studies the long - run behavior of iterative processes, like a billiard ball ricocheting on a frictionless table.

Even hitting the player can have positive effect if the ball ricochets back to an OU player.

During Friday's play at Augusta, Woods hit his third shot to the green at the par - 5 15th and the ball ricocheted off the flagstick into the water fronting the green.

Facing a 4 — 4 Indiana team a week after escaping from East Lansing with a last - play win (the Hawkeyes beat Michigan State on Stanzi's seven - yard TD connection to McNutt as time expired), Iowa needed that pair of clutch bombs from its quarterback, a slew of favorable calls from the officials and — with the Hoosiers leading 21 — 7 and lining up two yards from another touchdown in the third quarter — a miraculous interception in which the ball ricocheted four times among three players before landing in the hands of Iowa safety Tyler Sash, who dashed 86 yards for a touchdown.

As Willis attempted a risky recovery, his ball ricocheted off the root and went backward, rattling between his legs and feet.

Aurora equalised five minutes after half time when the ball ricocheted around the box before falling to Aquilino Villalba.

Juve took full advantage of a fortunate bounce when the ball ricocheted into the path of Douglas Costa, who unleashed a rocket off his left foot into the top - right corner of the net.

Ramsey's bad luck continued, as the ball ricocheted chest and fell to the feet of Maniatis who happily scored the equalizer.

But the ball ricocheted upwards perfectly for an on - running Gareth Bale to head home and give Real Madrid the lead.

Not exact matches

Theo does not yet have the instinct of a striker, he can not sense where a ball will ricochet for a simple tap in like the likes of Shearer and Lineker.

Bama tight end Hale Hentges came inches away from making one of the plays of the year and catching the ball on a ricochet, and the officials on the field initially ruled that he'd done just that.

The ball took several deflections and ricochets after a corner, but it ended up at the feet of the big man who swung a hopeful foot at it and blasted it into the back of the net.

When that group of guys came diving in, when it ricocheted backwards, he tried to turn and get after the ball,» Rivera said to Pro Football Talk Live.

But for that flagstick ricochet and ball - drop fiasco at the Masters, Woods and LaCava could well have put Tiger's 15th major in the books.

Clattenburg adjudged that Raheem Sterling had hand balled the ball when replays show the ball struck his back first and then ricocheted up off his elbow.

Was unlucky as he got a foot to the ball when Odion Ighalo had turned him but it ricocheted back to the Nigerian to allow him to place the ball past Lonergan.

Atalanta didn't have a shot on target and I can really only remember him touching the ball with his hands once when he picked up a harmless ricochet.

Arsenal definitely benefitted from the vague handball rule as Koscielny obviously didn't intent to use his arm in that situation, but the ball would never had gone in had it not ricocheted off the forearm.

A ricochet off a corner put the ball perfectly for Pierre, and he did what he does best.

They scored one shortly before the break when, after the ball had ricocheted around the penalty area, Souza poked home, but despite a couple of good chances after the break for Robin Van Persie, that was as good as it got.

With Javier Hernandez poised to pounce, Moya pushed the ball against Savic and it ricocheted in.

Poor communication between Skrtel and Toure leads to the centre backs attempting to win the same ball and the ricochet falls kindly into the path of the unmarked Dummet for a tap in.

This effect tends to freeze the ball at the rim and greatly increases the chance that it will tip into the basket rather than ricochet off.

In a nutshell, it allows you to get far too close to the lane marking — even crossing it at times — before correcting, and even then the ricochet angle is steep enough that you end up ping - ponging down the road like a bowling ball hitting the bumpers.

In this entrancing game of skill and spatial awareness, it is your job to destroy all the bricks by using the walls and the paddle below to ricochet the ball against the bricks and knock down them.

However, there wasn't a whole lot of items and characters jumping out the screen at you in 3D which would have been cool, perhaps when you yarn balls fly across the screen and strike their target, they could have ricocheted back towards you in 3D for added yarn glory.

This collection of mini-games uses the Touch controllers to grab and basketballs for a three - point shootout, a buzzer beater game where you have to make as many shots as possible before time runs out, and a game where you have to ricochet the ball off various targets to sink the ball.

By using the walls and the paddle below, try your best to ricochet the ball against the bricks and knock down them to extinction.

In the game, players fire a metallic silver ball from the top of the screen, relying on gravity to propel the ball downwards while it ricochets off orange and blue «pegs».

The background of the pinball game becomes the canvas as the ball pings and ricochets across the board.

Cubes of blue cue chalk sit on the edge of the billiard table, and in the mind's eye one could imagine cannoning billiard balls from one object to another, finding meaning in the geometry of each shot and ricochet.

The art they produce is derived from a dialogue that ricochets around within a pin - ball matrix constructed of coordinates lying between the historical and the contemporary, including high and low influences, fine art and graffiti studies, scholarly and street pursuits, intellectual and visceral marks.

President Trump's angry comments about a caravan of migrants ricochet around like a soccer ball in the dusty athletic complex in southern Mexico where the 1,000 or so Central Americans have camped since the weekend, leaving them confused and befuddled.