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After last years unsatisfying fare, day one at the WACA was the cricket equivalent of a big juicy steak - or for vegans, an especially succulent mushroom. The ball flew off Matthew Pages pitch with bounce and pace, batsmen were startled onto the back foot where often they press forward, and a healthy crowd of 12,382 oohd and ahhd in obvious enjoyment.Australia, in search of a win to set the tone for the summer, were delighted by the carry for Mitchell Starc in the very first over of the morning. Peter Nevill was taking the ball up around shoulder height, and Stephen Cook fell off the fourth ball when he was unable to ride the bounce, like so many visiting batsmen of yore.Mitchell Marsh flew through the air at gully for the catch, and in an instant, numerous years of beige cricket on this ground were cancelled out. Memories harked instantly back to Dennis Lillee and Jeff Thomson, Malcolm Marshall and Curtly Ambrose. Had he seen bounce like that last year, Mitchell Johnson might still be playing now.It was all a reminder of how much the pitch is as much a character in the drama of Test cricket as the cricketers themselves, dictating the style of play, the interest of spectators and the urgency of the players. The match was being played at a pace the Australians love, redolent of southern summers under blue skies and raucous crowds.For a while, the hosts were dictating play to a domineering extent, scything through South Africas top order with an eye on batting not too long after lunch. An overpowering first-up performance with the ball has often been the cornerstone of Australian success, setting up the scoreboard and also opening up mental scars to be exploited later, even if subsequent pitches are not as slippery as Perth or, more often, Brisbane.The pre-lunch run of wickets was not sustained, as Temba Bavuma and Quinton de Kock led a fine rearguard, not dissimilar to that performed by Faf du Plessis from another ordinary South African start on this ground in 2012. This is something else about Australian-style cricket with which the hosts are well familiar. As hard as it can be to start against the new ball, the Kookaburra eases up as a projectile after an hour or two, while the evenness of pace and bounce allows batsmen - or bowlers with bat in hand - to get into a rhythm.The captain Steven Smith had noted this on match eve. That is one thing we have done well in Australia over the last couple of years, everyones contributed with the bat, he said. Ideally you want the batters to score some runs at the top of the order and in the middle order but when they havent, the guys at six, seven, eight, nine and ten have all contributed and been able to get us a big total. You want everyone working on their batting and hopefully getting us as big a total as possible. Knowledge of this scenario is important, as ring fields and steadier bowling replace the more hyper-aggressive stuff seen early on. Well though de Kock and Bavuma played, Smiths men knew that the opportunity had been opened to prevent a major first innings. Thanks to Starc, Hazlewood, Peter Siddle and Nathan Lyon, South Africas 242 left the visitors little margin for error with the ball.That opened things up for David Warner, who remains very much a batting pugilist no matter how beatific his mien appears to be away from the crease. He and Dale Steyn had traded prognostications in the lead-up to day one, the South Africans assertion about how the snake can die if you cut off the head answered by Warners hope that South Africa would get too excited by bounce and send down a series of spectacular but useless short balls. It was the second prediction the proved more correct.Warner has flayed plenty of visiting attacks in these parts, most notably India in January 2012 and New Zealand last summer, albeit on a far less hell-for-leather kind of pitch. This time around, he prospered from thick edges as much as deliveries striking the middle, at one point seeming to indicate to Steyn that he did not mean to send an upper-cut flying over the slips cordon.But the pace on the ball ensured that Warner would get value for shots snicked as well as struck, and a later upper-cut was more deliberate, resulting in a ball that cleared the boundary rope even as Warner was left, quite literally, on the seat of his pants. Pressure, relieved slightly on South Africa by their lower order flourish, was quickly transferred back as runs flowed at comfortably better than five per over. Vernon Philanders no-ball on a very adjacent LBW appeal grew increasingly costly with each passing minute.There is still plenty of cricket to be played in this match - the surface will likely quicken further on the second morning, offering the possibility of quick wickets to open up an Australian middle order lacking anyone of de Kocks class. Even so, Smiths Australians packed up for the evening confident in the knowledge that away defeats have not dulled their innate sense of how to play at home, particularly on red-blooded days like these. Compliments to the chef. Sacramento Kings Pro Shop . Once again Jordan Cieciwa (@FitCityJordan) and I (@LynchOnSports) go head to head in our picks. Last weekend at UFC Fight Night 32 my #TeamLynch got the best of #TeamJC by a score of 9-6. 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RENTON, Wash. -- Seattle Seahawks defensive end Michael Bennett and left tackle Bradley Sowell got into a heated dust-up Sunday that resulted in both players getting pulled from practice.Seahawks coach Pete Carroll said the fight was the result of Sowell shoving defensive end Josh Shirley to the ground earlier in a one-on-one drill. When Bennett got a turn to face Sowell, the two players mixed it up and ended up on the ground before they were separated.Hes just fighting for his own a little bit, Carroll said of Bennett. One of the young guys got knocked around, and he was standing up for him. Hes got a lot of pride. Hes an incredible competitor, but hes got to make sure he stays poised so he doesnt get himself in trouble. So we had a good illustration of that today.After the two players were initially separated, and it appeared the situation had calmed down, Bennett charged Sowell a second time. When teammates broke them up, Bennett tossed his helmet.At one point, Doug Baldwin tried to approach Bennett and calm him down, but Bennett then went after the wide receiver.Bennett and Sowell spent the remainder of practice on the sidelines. Afterward, they walked off the field together and appeared to be on good terms.Bennett got kicked out of a practice earlier in training camp. He said at the time that he understood the message Carroll was sending to the team.Theres a lot riding on this season for our whole football team, Carroll said. And we have to deal with that. We have really high expectations, and that can heighten the passion and intensity and all of that. Thats kind of something were kind of used to out here.ddddddddddddI think everything about everything is more intense than its been. It just seems like the focus has been there to get prepared for this season, and I cant say that we dont like it. We just have to manage it well and perform well. So far we need to do better in games. Were getting too many penalties, and we need to make sure that were doing right. I dont know if thats part of that or not, but were working on it to make sure that it isnt.Were very connected, Carroll said. Theres a respect that is here about competing and battling and that youre working to take it as far as you can and still respect the people across from you. And sometimes that line gets crossed a little bit. Its a very competitive world were in and a very competitive game we play. And these guys care with all their heart. So we have to learn how to deal with that and how to manage that well.Offensive line coach Tom Cable said the intensity can be a positive as long as it doesnt go too far.Theres parts of it that are good, but ultimately you dont want either one of them fighting or doing that, Cable said. And theyve got to learn how to manage that because that stuffs going to happen in the game. And if you do it in the game, youre going to get thrown out, and theyre going to take your money. So a good lesson for both [Sowell] and Mike. Both guys are wrong, and theyve got to learn to do right. And theyll do that. ' ' '