The growing popularity of football or soccer known as here in the U.S., is on display every week on this pitch.

VOA: standard.2010.06.15

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi made a final pitch for the bill, saying the president's economic agenda is at stake.

VOA: standard.2010.03.22

The last stadium, in the eastern city of Nelspruit, is to be handed over as soon as a new pitch is finished.

VOA: standard.2010.01.22

"I think it will be a great fight, gladiator fight on the pitch, but not on the streets,"

VOA: standard.2009.05.26

But officials here are making no secret of their unease about his reported plan to pitch his trademark Bedouin tent at the New Jersey residence of Libya's U.N.mission chief during his stay.

VOA: standard.2009.08.24

President Barack Obama, a White Sox fan, who chatted with the pitcher in the clubhouse of the All Star game last week before throwing out the first pitch, is left handed like Buehrle.

VOA: standard.2009.07.24

A report in Newsweek magazine this week says Mr.Gadhafi decided to put up the tent at the Libyan residence in Englewood,New Jersey after having been denied permission to pitch the elaborate tent in New York's Central Park.

VOA: standard.2009.08.24