1.  Greg Aiello, an NFL spokesman, said that while heating a bag of balls was a common practice, league rules prohibited heating of individual balls.

2.  The paradox here is that while home runs as a whole mean less, fans still delight in each individual long ball as it happens.

3.  You have to accept the concept of team ball, not individual ball.

4.  Yet somehow fans still delight in each individual long ball as it happens.

5.  Ekaterina Serebrianskaya of Ukraine won the individual ball title at the World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships on Saturday.

6.  Saturday will see the individual ball final and the second exercise in the team competition.