The object of the game: To bounce the ball off whatever surfaces you can manage, and then into the cup, which will light up and make noises.
Their team will be leading late in the game and, the next time they get a goal kick, they'll tarry, dilly-dally and linger to their heart's content: they'll bounce the ball, place it on the ground as gingerly as you would a newborn, wave their arms and adjust their hair, gloves and shorts.
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Soon after the interval, Malouda raced clear after Grounds misjudged the bounce of the ball, but the winger shot wide when he should have scored.
And in the dying minutes of the game Castleford created an overlap but the bounce of the ball was unkind and it trickled into touch rather than into the path of the advancing attack.
Then there's the vertical bounce of the ball which is affected by the stiffness of the surface.
The friction of the court affects the horizontal bounce of the ball.
Beckford smashed the ball against the bar from a central position, only for the ball to bounce down and clear of the goal without having been ruled to have gone over the line.
But it's not just the bounce and speed of the ball off the clay surface that sets it apart from other courts, and makes the French Open an elusive tournament for some players.
West Indies were bowled out in only the 38th over on a pitch which offered a little bounce with the new ball, but nothing else.
Soon after making that save Neuer had a fortunate escape when he misjudged Nani's looping cross, allowing the ball to bounce off the bar.
The reason: All four of the top American hopes possess serves and groundstrokes which are strong enough to be weapons on any surface, and the slow, high bounce on clay brings the ball into their hitting zone with sufficient time for them to set up their shots.
His job was to catch the ball on the bounce as quickly as he could and call "Stop!"
Arthur Numan misjudged the ball's bounce inside the Dundee half and the Spaniard was able to hare away from him before by-passing Lorenzo Amoruso on his way to goal but an ambitious lofted effort floated over the bar.
The Dons defence allowed a high ball to bounce without clearing and McCarthy muscled Andrew Considine off the ball to steer it past Langfield.
All the work comes down to one game and the bounce of a ball or two.
"You have to have the ball bounce your way at times and that happened for us, " added Brown.
That's what happens when you see the ball bounce really high at Roland Garros during a top spin rally.
The traditional process, says Dr Brady, is necessary to give the ball sufficient bounce.
Minutes later, Buffon pushed out a Jerome Boateng cross and was relieved to see the loose ball bounce off his own defender, Andrea Barzagli, and behind for a corner.
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On this spring afternoon, in 1930, they were playing Piggy on a Bounce -- one guy with a bat, everyone else in the field, and one guy would hit till someone caught the ball, or caught it on one bounce, and then the batter had to take the field.
Kamran Akmal (30) was the spinner's first victim of the day when Haddin claimed the stumping as the batsman advanced down the pitch, and next ball Mohammad Aamer was surprised by the bounce and gloved to Simon Katich at short leg.
But the part-time off spinner, Marcus North, made the ball turn and bounce.
The English conditions suit McGrath, who can fire the ball on a good length with sharp pace and bounce, letting the pitch or a rash stroke from the batsman do the rest.
The ball broke again, but Ali Crawford was beaten by the bounce.
"Our approach from the first ball was purposeful and that was the way we needed to bounce back, " he said.
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