Sentences with phrase «as national league»

North Carolina, United States About Youtuber The College of Nursing serves as a National League for Nursing Center of Excellence for leadership in nursing, professional nursing education, research, service, and faculty practice within a multicultural, underserved, and rural region.

For all of his historic accomplishments, Lincecum won the Players» Choice Award as the National League Outstanding Pitcher this season, along with the National League Pitcher of the Year Award from Sporting News.

Sandlot baseball, over - or underage, is as much «real» baseball as the National League West.

The Giants» Matt Williams, regarded as the National League's best third baseman last season, has had a miserable year.

Not exact matches

This week Fortune caught up with Jarred Kennedy, the co-head of esports at Riot Games, to discuss the world championship (the finals will take place Nov. 4 at the Bird's Nest National Stadium in Beijing) as well as the overall growth of the esports industry and Riot's plans, much like rival Activision Blizzard, to remodel its own esports league after major professional sports leagues like the NFL and NBA.

Noto previously served as the CFO of the National Football League and was instrumental to the new partnership between the two entities.

Soon enough, he abandoned his dream of playing in the National Hockey League and set his sights on making it as a ref instead.

For example, as evidence of the growth of e-sports, many people use data from different sources to claim that the annual championship of Riot Games's League of Legends is watched by more viewers than the National Basketball Association finals.

(Upshot currently is aligned with FiveThirtyEight puts; the blog says Clinton is about as likely to lose as a kicker in the National Football League is to miss an attempt at a field goal.)

Twitter's foray into live streaming of National Football League games and its presence in news gathering could interest media companies such as Disney, which owns sports channel ESPN.

That information — augmented by advocacy efforts from such Addyi supporters as the National Organization for Women and National Consumers League — turned the tide, and the FDA's joint meeting of the Bone, Reproductive and Urologic Drugs Advisory Committee voted 18 to 6 to support approval for HSDD treatment, contingent on Sprout consenting to risk - mitigation measures like warnings and restrictions to prevent misuse.

National Hockey League ticket sales have plummeted on the secondary market as the league approaches another lockout, according to data compiled by SeatGeek for CanadianBusinesLeague ticket sales have plummeted on the secondary market as the league approaches another lockout, according to data compiled by SeatGeek for CanadianBusinesleague approaches another lockout, according to data compiled by SeatGeek for CanadianBusiness.com.

Twitter said on Wednesday it would carry instant - replay footage from National Football League games as part of a new advertising partnership that could boost the social media company's revenue before its highly anticipated initial public offering.

The USFL, as chronicled in an excellent installment of ESPN's 30 for 30 series, was envisioned by founder David Dixon as a complement to the National Football League that would play in the spring, leaving fall to the NFL.

Few owners in the National Football League have been as successful as New England Patriots Owner Robert Kraft in the past two decades.

It's no surprise that National Hockey League players are eyeing Europe as their league edges closer to another labour stoLeague players are eyeing Europe as their league edges closer to another labour stoleague edges closer to another labour stoppage.

Twitter plans to carry instant - replay footage from National Football League games as part of a new advertising partnership that could boost the social media company's revenue.

As pizza chain Papa John's undergoes a time of reckoning, choosing a new CEO and severing ties with the National Football League, Cramer wanted to cut through the confusion.

And having organizations sprout up such as Black Lives Matter, Campaign Zero, and the youth organizations of the NAACP, and the Urban League, and The National Action Network is very encouraging.

Also in the list of goals is implementing a standard that's similar to something known as the Rooney Rule, named after Dan Rooney, the owner of the Pittsburgh Steelers and chairman of the National Football League's diversity committee.

Uber, on the other hand, has teamed up with a number of companies, which include United Airlines, Starbucks, Morgan Stanley and the National Football League in order to promote its ride - hailing service to as many mainstream consumers as possible.

Chief Executive Officer Jack Dorsey, who also runs mobile payments platform Square Inc., has focused on making Twitter more useful, including streaming programming such as National Football League highlights and recaps of series like «Game of Thrones.»

The decision to open up its online Sportsnet comes as the Toronto Blue Jays begin a promising season, but also as Rogers's revenue is suffering from the fact that no Canadian team has qualified for the National Hockey League playoffs.

Does it take fear of a refugee crisis for Mr. Trump to make the disaster as much of a front burner issue as a perceived lack of patriotism by some of the 1,700 or so players in the National Football League?

Curtis Dickson had a hat trick and added five assists as the Calgary Roughnecks beat the Vancouver Stealth 13 - 9 on Saturday in National Lacrosse League action.

SPANAWAY — In sports, there are a few undefeated streaks that have stood the test of time, such as the 35 - game win streak by the 1979 - 1980 Philadelphia Flyers in the National Hockey League.

So much confusion has been caused by our football team wearing the same name as the Boston National League baseball club... that a change appeared to be absolutely necessary.

Jews have been elected to Congress and appointed to high positions in government in numbers far exceeding their percentage of the population; Jews are arguably America's most affluent ethnic group; Jews have served as commissioners of Major League Baseball, the National Basketball Association, and the National Hockey League, as well as presidents of Princeton, Yale, Harvard, and Columbia; and, as the wedding notices in the Sunday New York Times indicate, Jews have not been reluctant to marry Gentiles, or vice versa.

Planned Parenthood and the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League stated that the general anesthesia given the mother killed the fetus so that there is no such thing as a partial - birth abortion.

In the end, the failure to sell the war as a necessary response to the real national and economic threat foreshadowed Wilson's difficulty in selling the idea of the league at home.

Much of that small but heroic generation of women who entered their national parliaments or were sent as delegates to the League of Nations in the 1920s and «30s were members of the Women's International League.

Since then, the company has served as the vendor of choice for the San Francisco 49ers and the Arizona Cardinals of the National Football League, as well.

That is not the case with Bob Baumhower, who had a 10 - year career as a nose tackle for the Miami Dolphins of the National Football League (NFL) from 1977 to 1986.

We will be sharing information and ideas with League members at regional and national gatherings throughout the country, as well as on this section of the web site.

I'm pretty comfortable believing the pitchers who appeared in the Pacific League from 1992 to 2000 are, at the very least, as talented as the pitchers who appeared in the National League from 1963 to 1971.

Or, to put it another way, Ichiro would have had at least as many hits in his early 20s if he's facing the 1960s National League pitching.

Buckner had annoyed Oakland fans earlier in the week by comparing the A's unfavorably with such National League also - rans as the Pirates and the Reds.

Sirs: Either the Orioles are the greatest team in the history of baseball or the National League simply is not as good as some people would have us believe.

The Cubs will have the National League ERA - leader pitching, and they'll have a Cy Young candidate available in relief for as long as it takes.

As I'm sure most of you will be aware, Arsenal have been drawn against National League side Sutton United in the 5th round of the FA Cup.

Kyle Hendricks will start Game 3, almost like an afterthought, as if it's no big deal that he won the ERA title in the National League.

1955 looks like the Year of the Slugger in the National League as the Dodgers shoot for an all - time homer record

The lesser fans of lesser teams will say it was because the Vikings got the game at home (as if the NFL knew back in 2014 when they gave the game to Minneapolis that the 2017 Vikings were going to be really good), but really it's because Mike Zimmer and Rick Spielman have built the best defense in the National Football League over the course of the last four seasons since Zimmer's arrival.

The proper analog would be 1968, when the entire National League had a collective 2.99 ERA, which was boring as heck and followed by Major League Baseball lowering the height of the pitcher's mound.

Jackson martinez is still playing in the portuguese league at 28 and couldn't displace an out of form falcao from the national side, in fact I think he's third choice behind bacca as well.

St. Louis» Stan Musial, as reliable as an old shoe, hammered first 1958 home run and single against Chicago Cubs (April 17) to break National League record for total bases, added 3 homers.

It is as if the National Football League were to encourage and promote face - mask tackling.

The race, a 50 - yard dash for «The Lead - Foot Trophy,» was between the rival catchers, Del Rice of the Cardinals and Rube Walker of the Dodgers, who enjoy a joint reputation as the slowest men in the National League.

The National Hockey League announced Monday that regular - season games through Dec. 30 have been canceled, as the Players Association and the league have yet to come to terms on a new Collective Bargaining AgreLeague announced Monday that regular - season games through Dec. 30 have been canceled, as the Players Association and the league have yet to come to terms on a new Collective Bargaining Agreleague have yet to come to terms on a new Collective Bargaining Agreement.

It's easy to blame Hodgson but England as a nation have a bunch of useless players who can't be relied upon, they are so over rated and constantly fail in major tournaments, we love the premier league but the England national team suck!