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Argentine Veteran Talks Frustrations Of Defeat Ahead Of 2025 Debut

By E. Spencer Kyte • Jan. 8, 2025

In the stick and ball sports, athletes get a myriad of opportunities to have success, both within an individual game and over the course of a season.

Baseball players get three at-bats per game and their teams play 162 regular season games a year. In basketball and hockey, the season is upwards of 80 games, plus playoffs, and the best of the best can be on the ice for 25-percent of the game, if not more. Football is a much more condensed schedule, 17 games without counting the playoffs, but everyone on the field gets numerous chances to succeed each game, and the opportunity to do it all over again a week later, no matter the outcome.