Sentences with phrase «league run for»

Distin to Liverpool / Aston Villa: Villa's need could be greater but then the allure of a Champions League run for the first time since 2001 may also be tempting the centre back.

The league runs for 9 weeks.

Not exact matches

His entrepreneurial success and expertise in running a web - only business makes Hardy an ideal «expert» for the new Fortune Fantasy Sports Executive League (Anyone can play, and scoring depends, in part, on how closely the player's picks match those of experts like Hardy.).

With Major League Baseball's All - Star Game and Home Run Derby officially in the books for this year, we have reached what baseball enthusiasts call the «dog days of summer.»

The event drew stars like Tampa Bay Lightning forward Steven Stamkos and Montreal Canadiens sharpshooter Mike Cammalleri, who, alongside a group of the league's most promising prospects, all paid for the opportunity to press iron, grunt through excruciating exercises and run skating drills on the storied ice surface at Toronto's St. Michael's College School Arena.

For much of its history, Major League Baseball has aligned the value of its players according to traditional stats, like batting average, home runs, stolen bases, earned run average and so on.

While quarterbacks often get blamed for a poor offense — and there are some mediocre quarterbacks starting around the league — poor offensive lines can create a domino effect on offense: less protection for the quarterback, shorter passes, shorter runs, fewer exciting big plays.

Google, Amazon and Marks & Spencer's remain the healthiest brands in the UK in the eyes of consumers for the third year running, according to the annual YouGov BrandIndex league table of brands today.

The Assistance League of St. Louis (ALSL), a nonprofit organization that is entirely volunteer - run, was looking for a strategic technology advisor that could support the group in achieving its mission of making a difference for families in the community.

In addition, thank you to all our league coordinators for all that they do throughout the year to facilitate the league and ensure everything runs smoothly.

Filmmaker Charlie Ebersol and former N.F.L. executive Bill Polian announced the league two months after WWE Chairman Vince McMahon unveiled plans to resurrect the XFL, which ran for one season in 2001.

Long - term: Over Skipper's five - year run, ESPN laid out billions of dollars for sports rights for leagues like the NBA, in an effort to solidify its status as the dominant sports network — and to freeze out would - be challenges from Rupert Murdoch's Fox and Comcast's NBC.

But several months after the controversy over the New York Islamic center has died down, the Anti-Defamation League has quietly emerged as a leading advocate for mosque construction projects that have run into local opposition across the country.

The same people are saying Chelsea will win the league for the second year running if they buy Stones.

Ed Olivares of Mayag √ ∫ ez, P.R., St. Louis Cardinal farm hand now playing third base for Winston - Salem, led the Class B Carolina League in home runs (35) and RBIs (125) with 136 of 140 games completed, was named the league's Player of theLeague in home runs (35) and RBIs (125) with 136 of 140 games completed, was named the league's Player of theleague's Player of the Year.

Despite his side's 10 point lead at the top of the league, at such a late stage of the season, Mourinho refused to rule any side out of the running for the title and said, «I don't care about other things.

With Giroud playing and scoring for France this week and Mustafi to bolster the back line, will Arsenal now go on a run that will lead to a proper assault on the Premier League summit?

Chadli, whose other goal in his impressive recent run came in last weekend's 3 - 1 win at Crystal Palace, can evidently finish, but is he good enough to be the main back - up striker for a club with Premier League title ambitions?

The Gunners have qualified for the Champions League every year for the last two decades, but are amidst their biggest battle of my memory to continue that run of consecutive entries.

If you wasn't tryin your best to be a knobhead «Buddie» which round my part of NW London [buddie] means your dick... You'd know that Jack Wilshire was in the champion league final against barcelona and at that time he was round 18 yrs old and ran their much acclaimed mid-field ragged and it was a catalyst for him as from then on he was counted among the most promising mid-fielders arsenal and england had ever produced.

Even our record in the PL is embarrassing, we should be running aways with the league now but instead we're trailing behind because the manager couldn't find a decent striker and a replacement for Coquelin and Cazorla during their injuries.

As well as the need for Arsenal to keep winning our Premier League game to stop Chelsea running away with the EPL title this season, there is a growing importance to Arsenal fans on the FA cup.

The dude produced 12 Goals in 47 appearances last year for Juventus; very impressive (please sense the sheer sarcasm), if you sign anyone for 35 million plus in this league, that person better hit the ground running.

Arsenal took on Besiktas in the 2nd leg of their Champions League playoff tie against Besiktas last night, needing an outright win to progress through to the group stages of the competition for the 17th year running.

I think it means we are in the running for a Champions league place next season.

There is nothing left for us to do but start cheering the Gunners as soon as they come out on the pitch and all the way to the end, when Tottenham's unbeaten run is left in tatters, and the ARSENAL are top of the League!

The Arsenal fans» fondness for Fabregas was sorely tested last summer though, when he chose to sign for a Premier League rival in Chelsea, especially as their manager Jose Mourinho had a long running feud with the manager he supposedly had so much respect for.

this kid had it all and could have been truly great but guess what, you can take the kid out of the hood but you can't always take the hood out of the kid, sterling hangs around with a bunch of idiots who think posting their mate online doing laughing gas is clever and there all living in London, bringing him in would be a huge mistake in my opinion and those of you suggesting to offer theo and money, Im so glad you don't run the club, theo is the best r winger in the league when fit, we also have Wellington silva coming back, not to mention ox to cover or Sanchez if we want to play Danny or mezut on the left, let city have Raheem and let their already volatile dressing room implode, let's get Cech, lacazette and a solid dm to compete with le coq, sell Chesney to inter for good money podolski could be used as make weight for Morgan or the like release flamini let arteta and Roz have there last season if they choose or let them go if they want more first team football, Rio to have one more loan Diaby pay as you play and last promote chuba who clearly is going to be an animal, with this I believe the title is ours and if the new 3 settle a real tilt at the cl is possible but please gooners get behind theo he is absolutely essential COYG

One of the signings of the summer, Alexis Sanchez has been excellent in the Premier League for Arsenal this season and could also be in the running if he ends the season well.

CL, elimination, lose points in the league but after this we go on some crazy run of games when we either have nothing much to play for or to get that top four spot.

It has never really been about how much you spend or how much of a genius you are, it takes sustained competitiveness at the highest level and / or that extra bit of luck to have a shot at it hence my [previous] happiness at being in the top four [lots of clubs would do almost anything to get in that league], however even that can get stale, to be realistic, I think progress would be aiming for the top two now, enough of these top four stories, it ran its course now we need to aim higher, when the top two is our priority, it becomes inevitable that whoever might be in front of us is bound to slip up on a few occasions ala Bayern and Dortmund, we should now set our sights on the top four of the champions league lol

It set the tone for a dominant run through the MVC, where the Ramblers went 15 - 3 and won the league outright by four games.

I say Lets focus on the young gun Reiss Nelson... scored a cracker for under - 23's tonight... get him in the 1st team squad and let him run riot in last 15 minutes if we are already winning plus europa league and League culeague and League cuLeague cup.....

Wenger has played him a couple of times, but is hardly going to start dropping Ramsey or Ozil for a league game we need to win after a run of draws.

The opposite can be said of Paul Lambert's Aston Villa side, who find themselves on a terrible run of form, losing six of their last seven and The Villa have the worst home record in the Premier League, worrying indeed for the Holte End faithful.

A run of eight games without a clean sheet is Cech's worse ever run in the league and I think despite remaining adamant he can play at the top for several more years to come, it could be argued that his level of play is slowly beginning to fall with age.

But for the sake of ending their wretched unbeaten run in the league, i hope they lose heavily.

Umtiti made 35 league appearances for Lyon last season, scoring once and assisting twice as they ran eventual champions Paris Saint - Germain close for the title.

He has a better feel for where the holes will appear as he runs behind a line that averages a league - high 329.5 pounds per man.

While Gattuso had his troubles early on, he has now guided Milan to a 10 - game unbeaten run in Serie A, winning their last five in a row and in turn dragging them back into the race for a Champions League qualification spot.

Arsenal are playing on Thursday tonight as a trial run for when we are a Europa League team because that's where we are headed with Wenger still our manager!

For whatever reason, Hazard just hasn't been the same as the dominating midfielder that led Chelsea to run away with the Premier League title.

I don't know about the title, but I can feel an unbeaten run coming for us in the league, I'm already feeling sorry for Bournemouth???

Rio Ferdinand, Paul Scholes and the rest of the united troupe all seem to put the nail in the coffin a little bit deeper to highlight the frailty's of arsenal but couldn't and can not explain with money and managers at there disposal why united have come up short missing champions league football for three years running or is it four...?

One of the features of the last few years has been Arsenal putting a brilliant run of results together and although it may be too late for a title challenge this time, we still need to secure a top four spot, as well as having the knockout rounds of the Champions League to think about — and the small matter of defending the FA cup trophy won in dramatic fashion last season to defend.

Isco showed exactly what he's all about for Los Blancos against the Old Lady in the Champions League, with the midfielder running the show for Zinedine Zidane's side for the entire match.

With his England place coming under increasing threat from Birmingham's in - form keeper Joe Hart and West Ham's Robert Green, James is desperate for a run of games in the Premier League.

Arsenal's start to the season finally got up and running third time lucky against Watford on Saturday, although it has been a relatively shakey start for the Gunners in the league.

What the report forgets to mention is that this dreadful run of results for Arsenal has come in the years when our financial shackles were really starting to chafe, while United were the most successful Premier League club.

Miguel Cabrera was 4 - for - 5 with his league - leading 44th home run and now has sole possession of the league lead in each triple crown category.