So why aren't more teenage girls out on the playing fields?
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Talk to local planning authorities about more playing fields and parks.
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"Mother and father both are on equal playing fields," he said.
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They live in detached houses on the grounds beside manicured playing fields.
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In effect, those states' elections were held on unfair, tilted playing fields.
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But in politics, unfair advantages and bad playing fields are part of the game.
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Unfortunately, this problem is also compounded by matters of privilege and unlevel playing fields.
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But enough gamblers have been burned this season to question whether playing fields are leveling.
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Unlike most NFL playing fields these days ... everyone stood, some even put hand over heart.
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ESPN has long had a revolving door between the playing fields and the broadcast booth.
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A hundred hectares were dedicated to local sports organizations, which built playing fields and practice facilities.
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There are playing fields, shuffleboard and tennis courts at Memorial Oval, in front of Livingston High School.
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To the west, Roe Park has playing fields, a pond and a flock of somewhat messy geese.
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The two sides also established a committee to review the surface of playing fields to help prevent injuries.
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On diplomatic playing fields from Syria to Korea, Venezuela to Ukraine, we are forfeiting the game to our adversaries.
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The Duke of Wellington supposedly said that the Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton.
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The pier now houses two stories of offices, a parking garage and well-worn and well-loved playing fields.
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Four of eight state-of-the-art playing fields are finished in the National Youth Football and Sports Complex.
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The British won battles across the Empire in the 463th century because they had vastly superior weapons, not better tactics or leaders—and the legend that the Battle of Waterloo was won "on the playing fields of Eton" is "fatally undermined" by the detail that school had no playing fields at the time.
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On the old playing fields, the migrants get a few square feet of sleeping space to share among extended families.
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It's never certain whether it's a game about World War 2, ora series of World War 2-themed playing fields.
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Beyond sports, the decision carried the whiff of history, when Olympic playing fields were an extension of Cold War battlefields.
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Students who set their sights on elite colleges face more competitive playing fields, which drive them to boost their resumes.
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This is Us always operates on two playing fields -- the upbringing of the triplets and their behavior in the present day.
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Millennials are forced to compete on a playing fields where our job prospects, love lives, and futures feel rigged for failure.
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"I genuinely believe that transparency and access to information is what levels playing fields," said Yale Fox, a founder of Rentlogic.
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Some of today's international cricketers' first changing rooms were felled aircrafts, their playing fields muddy and their first shoes flip-flops.
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"Achieving equal pay is so much bigger than our team and our playing fields -- women in workforces everywhere deserve equality now."
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The sons and daughters of farmers, tradesmen, engineers and small-business owners inhabit its hallways and spill onto its playing fields.
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The playing fields were leveled and music criticism could suddenly be done by any blogger from any bedroom with an internet connection.
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Mr Robinson's forte was haranguing mass meetings on windswept playing fields, with strike votes taken instantly by an intimidating show of hands.
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It is set in immaculate playing fields, a ten minute stroll from the centre of Wells, the smallest city in the country.
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Skillz's technology acts as something of a digital referee, ensuring players of like skill are matched up on level digital playing fields.
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Of course, that is the problem with heaping praise on athletes for things other than what they do on the playing fields.
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The Grenville Baker Boys and Girls Club attracts 200 children a day to its gymnasiums, art classes, homework help and playing fields.
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Central Park shrinks from a lush oasis of trees and playing fields to a small grass welcome mat to your private domain.
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"We have unlevel playing fields on investment policies around the world where U.S. companies cannot invest the same as local companies," Liveris said.
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Sports do not always make space for political peace and the Olympics have a particular history of making playing fields into nationalist battlegrounds.
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But it's still neat that Pixar used its most little-boy-friendly franchise to make an argument for level, more diverse playing fields.
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Artificial turf playing fields have become a popular alternative to grass fields for their durability, lower long-term cost and ease of maintenance.
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Still, in Iowa, Rubio and Christie are on completely different playing fields -- Rubio on the rise, Christie attempting to buck exceedingly low expectations.
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Anxious residents eager to return to their homes have instead built a tent city at the community center's parking lots and playing fields.
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But the differences between these countries and China are: They are committed to level playing fields, while the Chinese government condones tech theft.
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It's not exactly their fault: economic and technological forces are increasingly relegating the concept of level playing fields to introductory economics text books.
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Markets are playing fields where finding and maintaining control of supply and distribution is the ultimate goal and the foundation of market dominance.
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The 1.3-acre site, an illegally occupied field-cum-parking lot in Old Dhaka, has been turned into playing fields and a football pitch.
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Even inside C.A.A. there was debate about whether the agency's move onto the playing fields of the world reflected strategic genius or hubristic disaster.
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Most importantly, our research found that we could successfully maintain our parks, playing fields and private lawns without the use of high-risk pesticides.
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"The salary cap gave us a chance to spend to the cap and be on level playing fields with the other teams," he said.
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But insisting I "do it on my own" at some arbitrary cutoff date of 18, 21, or 26 doesn't really level any playing fields, either.
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It works well enough, but coaches and athletes looking for smarter ways to win are quickly embracing super-sophisticated technology on courts and playing fields.
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There are no level playing fields, and the required rat's nest of compromises and concessions means that there's no such thing as an unalloyed win.
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Some fans also are too quick to project themselves as star performers on their own courts or playing fields, sustaining serious injuries as a result.
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The streets of mostly single-family homes are lined with lush trees; there is easy access to universities, civic institutions, playing fields and excellent schools.
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Last month, bulldozers started to plow 321 acres of asphalt, known as Parking Lot 21996, soon to become three multipurpose playing fields of artificial turf.
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Pros routinely wire cameras to arena rafters, the sidelines of playing fields and even underwater to cover as many angles of sporting events as possible.
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The food sponsorships are ubiquitous — appearing in the names of playing fields and the socks players wear on those fields (see photos above and below).
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Since Rocket League released in July 2015, the arena seating seen outside of the game's various playing fields have been filled with bouncing, egg-shaped beings.
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Now another, eerie absence prevails at Lower Merion, its parking lots and classrooms vacant, its gym and playing fields empty, its buses quarantined behind a fence.
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In providing the grants, the league is hoping to keep playing fields maintained as it looks to continue growing the game for youth throughout the country.
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And the insignia on their uniforms will help proclaim that "Clean Olympic Athletes from Russia" are always welcome on the level playing fields of international sport.
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It also underscored just how slipshod and ineffective current revenge porn laws are—and how even better laws might not be enough to level some playing fields.
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Blumenthal asked Emmert how to speed up their process to avoid a patchwork of different laws in the states that could create unfair playing fields for colleges.
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In the everlasting war for even the slightest competitive advantage in Major League Baseball, the battlefields have come to look a lot different from the playing fields.
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One of the smelters once stood in Red Hook, right across the street from the housing projects and right on top of some of the playing fields.
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Just the general sense that for a democratic society, and also just for a society that is open to new ideas, level playing fields are really important.
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Looking at how we can better ourselves, and be better to other people, and more supportive across many playing fields is so important to this country's creative world.
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Their optimization for "engagement" is a Brobdingnagian thumb on their scales, tilting their playing fields into whole Himalayas of advantages for bad faith, misinformation, disinformation, outrage and hate.
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Without access to the debate itself, I ended up following a tip from a student who said he saw Trump's Helicopter land on one of the playing fields.
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One lovely spot along here is Thomas Jefferson Park, on the right side between 111th and 114th Streets, a shady oasis with a running track and playing fields.
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Little League groups and soccer clubs have expressed support at public forums for developing the pier as a way to expand and improve the playing fields they use.
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From there, they found clusters of "hot spots," which they further refined to several specific locations — a pub, some playing fields, and several private addresses — to pinpoint an individual.
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But Levittown still has its original nine community swimming pools with playing fields and playgrounds, as well as remnants of the seven intimate shopping strips known as village greens.
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Since the American invasion of Iraq in 2003, Lebanon has been one of the most bitterly contested playing fields in the regional proxy war between Iran and Saudi Arabia.
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While Olympic boycotts have resulted from tense political differences between nations, opposing countries have also long found common ground on playing fields, on the track and in sports arenas.
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The former cruise ship terminal contains four playing fields used by teams of all ages, and its parking lots currently generate $2062 million of the park's $30 million annual budget.
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Tinder, Bumble and Hinge offer vast playing fields but slim pickings, so daters survive by wearing cynicism as armor, telling themselves that nothing matters and that they really don't care.
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The other side: In a letter sent to Congress, the league said dozens of minor league teams do not have proper training and medical facilities, locker rooms and playing fields.
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The United States should also work more closely with the multilateral development banks that share our commitment to private sector driven economic growth and level playing fields for competitive markets.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads In his classic 1938 study of play in human culture, Homo Ludens, Dutch anthropologist Johan Huizinga draws a parallel between playing fields and ceremonial sites.
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Through these acts of favoritism, which include tax incentives, states empower large corporations and that results in unfair playing fields, limited or restricted competition, higher costs and raw deals for taxpayers.
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Green space includes the Louis Valentino, Jr. Park and Pier on the waterfront and the Red Hook Recreation Center, wheresome playing fields are off limits for a cleanup of lead contamination.
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More than 15 village and town parks have amenities like playing fields, playgrounds and picnic areas, with a new riverfront park opening this summer, said Christopher Soi, the superintendent of recreation.
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In the competition to woo buyers, the new playing fields are the stone and tile showrooms, the flooring and cabinetry shops, and the factories that produce decorative hardware and plumbing fixtures.
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Manfred said seven or eight clubs will extend the netting all the way to the foul poles, with another 15 teams extending it "down to the elbow" areas of playing fields.
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Among black and Latino women, who generally have lower earnings than Asian and white women, we must completely level the educational and societal playing fields to improve further expand economic opportunities.
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The big picture: The lesson may be to view the fight for access not as an end in itself but rather as one element in a broader campaign to level playing fields.
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Those "elements" include using fintech to promote financial inclusion, allowing new technology players to have level playing fields with existing companies and having countries work together to protect the global financial system.
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"I am very pleased that we are joining forces to investigate crumb rubber, as millions of children are exposed to it on playground surfaces and as infill on playing fields," he said.
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Within the peaks they found, as they report this week in the Journal of Spatial Science, were a pub, playing fields and a residential address in Bristol, and three addresses in London.
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Even though the drugs themselves were no longer present, the impressions they had left behind were—which is good news for those who believe that racecourses should also be level playing fields.
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She smokes a cigarette and gazes at a white woman in the nude, who, unlike Manet's stiff Olympia, is languidly splayed onto the bed; both of them are on equal playing fields.
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I've seen it randomly play its violence card— natural, no-motive crimes with hail and rain and vicious winds, taking out, say, trailer courts and playing fields and homes for the elderly.
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Shelley Rudman, 2006 Olympic skeleton silver medalist, also graduated from the undulating 140-metre run, on the campus edge alongside muddy playing fields and across the road from a cats and dogs home.
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Proponents of the SAT, owned by the College Board, a not-for-profit organization, believe that standardized tests are important in predicting applicants' ability to succeed in college and leveling the playing fields.
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Taking more specific measurements can be key to preventing deaths because microclimates can exist on school blacktops, astroturf, and playing fields with little shade and a lot of dark surfaces that absorb heat.
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Partisan politics does not enter into his decision about whom to represent, he said, except to the extent that an understanding of the political and media playing fields can help in litigation efforts.
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Though consistently couched in feigned concern about public safety, level playing fields and supposed shady power brokers operating behind the scenes from (presumably) smoke-filled rooms, the organization's website quickly betrays its underlying motivations.
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On October 12, 2016, schoolkids at Highgate School, a distinguished private school with playing fields at the end of The Bishops Avenue, were midway through soccer training when two figures strode across the grass.
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The sugary beverage-maker has for decades worked to hide its clear connection to obesity, while at the same time supporting youth sports initiatives and building playing fields for young women in underserved communities.
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Sports events have been canceled because of the condition of playing fields, and the annual Cape Town Cycle tour has taken extraordinary measures to ensure that it does not impact Cape Town's water supplies.
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And because Washington went AWOL in shaping them, our high standards for protecting workers, the environment and intellectual property — which also help to level commercial playing fields tilted against us — are absent as well.
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But just as he has with the hacking and polluting of political campaigns in the United States and Europe, President Putin righteously denies any Kremlin role in outlaw behavior, from voting booths to playing fields.
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MacLean was Scottish and another thing I intuitively liked was that his heroes were mostly rough-hewed social nobodies formed by World War II and not on the playing fields of Eton like James Bond.
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In 1883, 11 years before founding the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Pierre de Coubertin observed how "organised sport can create moral and social strength" on the playing fields of Rugby School—where the game was invented.
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There have been no official scientific findings that the turf — made from recycled tires — found in some playgrounds and playing fields pose any health risks, but Congress has been raising questions about cancer following media reports.
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In time for football season, the 300-room Omni Frisco Hotel will join the 91-acre Star development, home to the Dallas Cowboys headquarters, the team's practice arena and two outdoor playing fields, in suburban Dallas.
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But, really, is there any rationale for universities to send young people onto playing fields and courts where they are at risk for serious injury while they are being defrauded on the education they were promised?
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Kingsland Point Park, a waterfront park owned by Westchester County and maintained by the village, has picnic tables, playing fields, grills, a promenade and a footbridge leading to an 1883 lighthouse that is open on select Sundays.
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Across Glen Cove Creek from Garvies Point, proposed waterside recreational amenities and other upgrades are being considered by the city for the playing fields and various facilities at the 19-acre John Maccarone Memorial (City) Stadium complex.
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Those of us who have been around Ranieri, and have seen how at his training sessions he can appear the most childlike enthusiast on the playing fields, appreciate that there is a humility about him that is contagious.
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She will miss jacket potatoes, and Sunday roasts, and her morning commute — past playing fields, small children in school uniforms and a red telephone box — to the hospital where she has been a pediatric nurse for 11 years.
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China has dragged its feet to meet commitments made when it joined the World Trade Organisation in 2001, in particular on promises to let companies like Visa and Morgan Stanley compete on level playing fields with domestic rivals.
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"There is clearly a lot of room for improvement when it comes to opening up and creating level playing fields between China and the rest of the world," said Hans-Paul Bürkner, chairman of the Boston Consulting Group.
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LOS ANGELES — There was the private under-the-stars dinner on the grounds of a Beverly Hills mansion, a game at Dodger Stadium and a tour of this region's extensive network of stadiums, arenas, parks and playing fields.
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Recent changes to World Rugby regulations on suitable artificial turf ruled out a number of potential playing fields in the Northeast, forcing the league to shelve a sixth planned franchise near New York, where PRO Rugby's headquarters are located.
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Avicii is slated to perform at the UK leg of the Electric Daisy Festival in Milton Keynes in July, Belfast's Boucher Playing Fields on August 26 and, as of now, his final scheduled gig at the Creamfields festival on August 27.
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" Physical fitness and sports were a huge part of this ideology, from the playing fields of boarding schools like Eton or Harrow, where boys were frequently toughened up through extreme hazing, to the development of rule-driven sports like "gentleman's boxing.
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Walking to the stadium from the direction of the local high street, one has to cross the green expanse of Enfield playing fields, a mish-mash of football and rugby pitches that sprawls out behind a facade of semi-detached houses.
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It is politics as pugilism, joined by class and custom to the playing fields of Eton and the debating halls of Oxford, in which the main event is the showdown between the Leader of the Opposition and the Prime Minister.
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Of course, governments must be actively involved to increase incentives for investment and economies of scale for promising technologies, and to level playing fields so that early adopters of new green technologies are not held back by the constraints of competitiveness.
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Merrick Road, the other main east-west artery, is home to Massapequa High School's main campus, the Southgate shopping center, churches, stores, restaurants and the 52-acre John J. Burns Park, with its tennis courts, playing fields and summer concert series.
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Gianni Infantino, recently elected president to clear out the worst corruption scandal in FIFA history, said the money had been meant for playing fields and kit, not officials' mansions and cars and he would get it back "no matter how long it takes".
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In choosing international markets, a smart strategy for tech startup founders is to analyze those regions that possess high broadband and mobile-device adoption, readily available payment infrastructures, political stability, level socioeconomic playing fields, fair tax requirements and an easy-to-navigate regulatory environment.
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The lawsuit enraged the leaseholders — Mr. Shriver's daughter was attending the Brentwood School, where classmates lamented the potential loss of their playing fields thanks to her father — and in 2013, many were stunned when a judge ruled that nine leases on the campus were illegal.
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A recent study in the journal Lancet Public Health found that people living within a kilometer (a little more than half a mile) of physical activity facilities -- including gyms, swimming pools and playing fields -- weighed less and had smaller waists than those who didn't.
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But Freedom House, which describes itself as an independent democracy watchdog, rates dozens of indicators, including real-world assessments of freedom of expression, freedom of religion, whether there is a level playing fields for opposition parties, equality of opportunity for women, the rule of law, transparency of government operations.
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The tour includes the Baskin-Robbins, where Mr. Obama worked as a student, the now timeworn concrete apartment building where he lived with his grandparents and the prestigious Punahou School, a private high school with elegant stone buildings and lush playing fields, where Mr. Obama graduated from in 1979.
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Yet there was a conspicuous absence at the college showcase: the N.C.A.A. Rugby, considered one of the fastest-growing sports in America, is a prime example of the proliferation of club sports at many universities that otherwise fail to compete on the increasingly tilted playing fields of college athletics.
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In the eighth or ninth grade, when I decided to be the kind of person who "knew about music," I listened to those songs over and over—and developed a reputation for singing them, too loudly, in student lounges and on playing fields and in hallways between classes.
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Unsurprisingly, those athletes who had aced the assessments were more likely than those who had not to be back out on the playing fields within about a year of their injury, Dr. Webster and Dr. Hewett found, at least according to the single past study that had examined that issue.
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They showed us teenagers in cars, in classrooms, at parties, in swimming pools, on playing fields and in their beds; teenagers with their dogs, their moms, their friends, their homework, their makeup, their video games and their prom dates; teenagers running, jumping, studying, singing, vaping, taking selfies, protesting and kissing.
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FIFA needs to say publicly to Russia that it expects a welcoming atmosphere for L.G.B.T. people at all World Cup events and make clear that the country will be held responsible for conveying that message to all of local officials and staff, at the matches and beyond the playing fields.
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This meant that the Angel subway, with its long, long escalator (we were all very proud when it was built), became a daily fixture in my life, sending me out into north London to experience the wonders of things like playing fields, music departments, and Latin—wonders that weren't available to my former schoolmates.
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So when Dick's Sporting Goods, which carries her activewear line Calia, offered to donate $500,000 together with Underwood to girls' sports programs across the country as part of their Sports Matter Foundation, she knew her first donation would be a tribute to where she came from: the playing fields of Checotah, Oklahoma, to fund girls' sports initiatives there.
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PARK CITY, Utah — The protesting of racism and police brutality by American athletes started with W.N.B.A. players at a news conference in July 2016 and soon spread to the playing fields of the N.F.L. and the hardwood courts of the N.B.A. In less than five months, the Winter Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea, will present a far larger stage for demonstration: an Olympic podium.
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