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The sound of the bat hitting the ball. The term is used in baseball to mean "immediately, without hesitation". For example, a baserunner may start running "on the crack of the bat", as opposed to waiting to see where the ball goes. Outfielders often use the sound of bat-meeting-ball as a clue to how far a ball has been hit.
The National Football Conference (NFC) is a conference of the National Football League (NFL), the highest level of professional American football in the United States. The NFC and its counterpart, the American Football Conference (AFC), each have 16 teams organized into four divisions.
The first round saw no surprises in the AFC as the higher seeds won each matchup. The Houston Texans kicked off the wild card round with a dominant 32-12 win over the Los Angeles Chargers .
The AFC and NFC champions then compete in the Super Bowl to determine the league champion. The only other postseason event hosted by the NFL is the Pro Bowl , the league's all-star game . Since 2009, the Pro Bowl has been held the week before the Super Bowl ; in previous years, the game was held the week following the Super Bowl, but in an ...
[a] Since the 2020 season, seven teams are seeded from each conference (AFC and NFC), with only the top team from each conference getting a first-round "bye". The remaining six teams in each conference play against each other in the wild-card round. The lowest-seeded winner plays the lone "bye" team, and the other two winners play against each ...
Inside the Numbers dives into NFL statistics, streaks and trends each week. In a season when much of the NFL is clustered around break even, the AFC can boast a record number of winning teams ...
In professional sports leagues—such as the NFL and MLB—rings are also awarded to the team that lost the championship game (e.g., Super Bowl) or series (e.g., World Series), because that team is the champion of their conference (e.g., AFC or NFC in the NFL) or league (AL or NL in MLB).
HOOVER, Ala. — South Carolina baseball was awarded a 10th-inning run against LSU on Saturday in the SEC Tournament semifinals due to a simultaneous balk and catcher’s interference call, an SEC ...