Sentences with phrase «as an amateur player»

She carried a deep sense of injustice from her days as an amateur player, when she was forced to get by on $ 100 a week as a playground instructor and college student at the same time that she was making the Wimbledon finals.

Not exact matches

The games stem from the company's new streaming rights deals with outfits such as The Spring League, an independent professional football league comprised of former NFL and Division I college players, as well as USA Football, an NFL - partnered amateur football non-profit.

A game is played, a picture is painted, or a garden is cultivated, and each activity is regarded by the amateur as a complete experience, rounded out within minutes, hours, or months, as the case may be, while for the worker — in the parallel cases of professional player, artist, or farmer — these achievements are but incidents within a continuous career.

That's how she was packaged and sold — not as a player who had been good enough at 16 to become the youngest winner of the U.S. Women's Amateur and good enough at 17 to earn a living on the pro tour.

Grimm is an amateur poker player — which means he plays poker for money but not for a living — and an amateur would have as much chance in the big poker game at the Horseshoe as Cadillac Jack would have of bringing in a wildcat oil well through the floor of the First National Bank building in Abilene, Texas, where the Grimm Oil Company is located.

Either way, one simpler potential solution than having universities pay players directly would be to allow players to cash in on the open market, as has long already been the case in non-NCAA amateur sports.

The owners want a draft as a way to control the costs of a burgeoning international landscape, while the players association can use international amateurs as a bargaining chip to negotiate for other things in the CBA that might help current MLBPA members, the players on 40 - man major league rosters.

The Masters will always hold the amateur player in high regard, as a nod to its founder, Bobby Jones, the greatest amateur of all time.

At 18 he was regarded as the nation's best amateur player.

Not as a basketball player, and not because he made me realize my severe limitations as an amateur talent scout (dude was so promising for a while, I swear), but because he was a huge part of an NBA trade in 2013.

It's not a question that we've ever considered before, but after this vicious elbow from a referee in a Dutch amateur game left a player with a broken nose, we'd like to know, as this was worthy!

There's other advantages different players may have such as when some come in later and physically more mature than the 1 - and - dones or some come from pro leagues rather than «amateur «NCAA and then some have simply been playing basketball longer than others.

Eighty - one juniors are paired with 81 champions tour players and 162 amateurs as they compete for the pro-junior title at Pebble Beach Golf Links and Poppy Hills Golf Course.

As a senior at Wichita State in 1993, playing in his hometown, at the school where his father, John, was and still is a professor of history, Darren went 11 - 1 with a 2.48 ERA and, as the Shockers» DH, batted.327 with 22 homers and 66 RBIs; his accomplishments won him the Golden Spikes Award as baseball's top amateur playeAs a senior at Wichita State in 1993, playing in his hometown, at the school where his father, John, was and still is a professor of history, Darren went 11 - 1 with a 2.48 ERA and, as the Shockers» DH, batted.327 with 22 homers and 66 RBIs; his accomplishments won him the Golden Spikes Award as baseball's top amateur playeas the Shockers» DH, batted.327 with 22 homers and 66 RBIs; his accomplishments won him the Golden Spikes Award as baseball's top amateur playeas baseball's top amateur player.

The former No. 1 player, who moved up to 88th in the official world golf rankings after the Masters, has competed in the event at the Southampton, New York, venue twice before — as an amateur in 1995, though a sprained left wrist forced him to withdraw, in what may be among the first WDs of the injury - plagued superstar career, after rounds of 74 and 85, and in 2004, when he finished T17 at 10 - over.

The fake salary cap put in place by the new collective bargaining agreement negotiated at the end of 2016 is to blame, but that mostly just suggests that what we're seeing is a form of legal collusion, where the owners managed to put one over the Players Union by making it seem as if the savings from the international and amateur markets would come back to veteran MLB pPlayers Union by making it seem as if the savings from the international and amateur markets would come back to veteran MLB playersplayers.

Magazine editors, however, are less likely to be thus inhibited, particularly when the girls begin to gather for an event such as the 59th USGA Women's Amateur Championship, which will begin next week at the Congressional Country Club in Washington, D.C. To honor those who will staunchly reaffirm the rightness of women's presence on the links, a gallery of pretty and highly competent girl players has been assembled on the following color pages.

My father was an accomplished amateur player for a club side in Edinburgh and, along with being a junior school headmaster, he was also the master in charge of a schoolboys» 1st XI - a job he clearly loved just as much as being headmaster.

Amateur astronomers, long major players in ascertaining the exact orbits of asteroids, are likely to play less and less of a role as professionals turn their powerful telescopes to the objects once considered too mundane for academics to study at all.

Just as an amateur tennis players can watch and be inspired by a Wimbledon champion, so can a yogi watch and be inspired by the athleticism and grace of a yoga champion.

He's not above cheating to get ahead, and also a semi-savior for the game, as he pulls out a deal to take it from an amateur pastime to a professional juggernaut by getting the most talented college player, a war hero named Carter Rutherford (Krasinski, License to Wed), to join the team.

About Blog Bert Larsimont, administrator of this website, is a basketball amateur who has been involved in basketball for almost forty years (first as a player and scout in his historic Belgian club of CEP Fleurus and later on as an international basketball writer and correspondent).

About Blog Bert Larsimont, administrator of this website, is a basketball amateur who has been involved in basketball for almost forty years (first as a player and scout in his historic Belgian club of CEP Fleurus and later on as an international basketball writer and correspondent).

Within the last couple of years, the fighting game genre has been privy to a revitalization and has gone on to see a significant surge in interest from both experienced fighting game players as well as amateurs eager to learn more.

Instead of just being a simplistic career mode in which you control one player, just like other EA Sports games from previous years, the developers took their time to come up with a nice little introductory story revolving around you picking up an injury in college that nearly made you quit basketball, as well as a small prologue chapter with you and your childhood friend playing amateur basketball in some of the United States» most famous street courts.

Truth be told, Golf Story is more a role - playing adventure than a dedicated golfing game, as you attempt to elevate an amateur player to pro status.

Touch KO is a boxing game that puts players in the gloves of an amateur boxer as you fight your way up the ranks towards a title belt.

Not - very - good amateur chess players such as me do the same thing.

Previous litigation suggests the CHL's players should be considered employees and not student amateurs as claimed by the league, Barrett said Wednesday.

«As you know, we believe the players are not employees but amateur athletes and that the player experience and benefits offered by our league and teams, which were developed with the input of players and hockey families, far exceed the employment standards benefits sought in the claim.»

About Blog Bert Larsimont, administrator of this website, is a basketball amateur who has been involved in basketball for almost forty years (first as a player and scout in his historic Belgian club of CEP Fleurus and later on as an international basketball writer and correspondent).