1.  It was the hot ball or, more correctly, the long ball.

2.  No doubt there are marketing geniuses with voluminous studies about the hot colors, the hot ball caps, the hot T-shirts, the hot warm-up gear.

3.  Planets like Earth and Mars, which condensed as hot balls and lost most of their primeval atmospheres, have very different compositions.

4.  We have this hot ball of quarks and gluons.