Latest News for: hurley (stick)

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County to consider cannabis control code

Silver City Daily Press 11 Aug 2021
On the other end of the spectrum, incorporated communities don’t have to adopt a local control ordinance at all — although elected officials in Silver City, Bayard, Hurley and Santa Clara have all signaled their desire to adopt one. One of several potential sticking points with ...
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Butte's Wolfe Tones hurling club gears up for fundraising concert, tournament

Missoulian 04 Aug 2021
ANDROMEDA TALLMAN. Butte’s Wolfe Tones Hurling Club will hold a fundraising concert at the Original Mine Yard on Friday, Aug ... Butte’s Irish folk band Dublin Gulch will play from 7 to 9 p.m. Doors open at 6.30 p.m ... The objective of the game is to use hands and a stick called a “hurley” to get a ball called a “sliotar” between the opponent’s goalposts ... .
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Ant McPartlin braves the iffy London weather as he walks twin Maltipoos Milo and Bumble ...

The Daily Mail 02 Aug 2021
He didn't seem fazed by the wet weather, throwing a stick for Hurley, with Bumble and Milo looking a tad bedraggled ... Fetch! He was also with beloved Labrador Hurley, and cut a casual figure in a black sweater and baseball cap and khaki shorts.
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Dubai’s fake rain offers hope that we can innovate our way out of the climate crisis

The Independent 22 Jul 2021
When it comes to tackling the climate crisis, there are, broadly speaking, two opposing views ... My colleague Bevan Hurley explains. “The project tries to get the water drops to merge and stick when they receive an electrical pulse, ‘like dry hair to a comb’.” Professor Maarten Ambaum, who has been working on cloud seeding, told the BBC ... We were warned.
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Dom Amore: Tyler Polley, Isaiah Whaley send careers into overtime to complete their UConn experience

Hartford Courant 15 Jul 2021
Each had different conversations with coach Dan Hurley ... No one could have imagined, not even Hurley, with his stick-to-script manner of program building, that he would have Polley and Whaley, both Kevin Ollie recruits, here for 2021-22, but the Huskies now have a glut of experience to go with the incoming freshman.
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You’ll Not See a Better Score in Any Sport Than This From an Irish Hurling Game

The Daily Telegraph Australia 30 Jun 2021
A player of one of Ireland’s traditional sports, hurling, overcame cramp to dive through the air to catch a ball before scoring, from a kneeling position, in what was described as “the score of the game, of the week, month, and year” on June 29 ... Hurling is played with a stick, called a hurley, and a ball, called a sliotar ... Credit.
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Nicky English: Making goals worth five points could work wonders for hurling

The Irish Times 19 Jun 2021
The hurley is also likely to be of consistent quality. You’ll have three or four hurleys of the same weight and same size - something that was un-achievable in my time. You’d have one good stick that you would have mended in about 45 different ways and at 45 different times ... Their hurleys more resembled hockey sticks and were typically a lot longer.
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Camogie round-up: Down and Wexford claim titles

RTE 19 Jun 2021
... all shot outstanding scores for Antrim, and they led by two when Caitrin Dobbin’s point off the stick was augmented by O’Neill’s conversion of a free ... McCormick stuck up her hurley among a phalanx of other sticks, killed the sliotar and dropped it into her hand.
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Hurling management teams avail of rule change

Irish Independent 19 May 2021
Hurley carriers are only permitted to enter the pitch to offer a replacement stick and Tipp and Cork are not the only ones to use this rule change to their benefit with selector Martin Comerford carrying out the role for Brian Cody’s Kilkenny side in their opening league games.
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Bamboo bats remain 'illegal' for now

RTE 11 May 2021
The use of bamboo in cricket bats has been termed "illegal" under current laws by the MCC, which nevertheless welcomed the exploration of alternatives to the willow blade ... However, the MCC added ... An increasing number of hurlers have adopted alternatives to traditional ash sticks in recent years, including bamboo hurleys. .
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Boston bomber’s life sentence reduced, bid to move to Massachusetts backed

Boston Herald 07 May 2021
Boston Officer Jeremiah Hurley, a married father of four, was killed that late October day and his partner, Officer Francis Foley, was seriously injured and would never work again. They were both victims of a remote-controlled bomb “containing two or three sticks of dynamite,” Lelling wrote.
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All the way from Ireland comes the fastest game on grass: Hurling

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette 22 Mar 2021
I am furiously hacking away at a ball on the ground with this stick-like thing as another fella, whose name ... The stick, whose curved end looks sort of like a comma, is called a hurley and I'm trying my best to use it to send the ball, called a sliotar, into a net not too far away.
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After ash - alternative hurleys of future (and present)

RTE 21 Mar 2021
Reidy used the bamboo hurley for the rest of his games for Clare and Éire Óg in 2020 and only broke one, compared to three or four ash sticks in a normal year - "It's probably a bit more expensive initially but in the long run you're definitely saving money." ... of the stick.
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Dan Barry: I brought my mother home to Ireland

The Salt Lake Tribune 19 Mar 2021
The stonemason sent word from the west of Ireland that he could do the job, but it would be tight ... I’ll get back to you, I said ... Here was a marker topped with the engraved image of crossed hurleys — the wooden sticks used in the thrilling Irish game of hurling — in honor of a man “Who Helped GALWAY Win Their First Hurling ALL-IRELAND 1923.” ... USA.
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2B Volleyball: Cinderella story — Winlock beats Adna in five to reach semis

TDN 18 Mar 2021
“We definitely had some bright spots and never rolled over,” Wahkiakum coach Kayli Hurley said ... Jordyn Watson earned praise from Hurley for a solid all-around performance but it was the team’s stable of reserves that got the biggest carrot from their coach ... “As a coach, I say goodbye to officially coaching nine seniors tonight,” Hurley explained.
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