Sentences with phrase «at national league»

The mayor was later headed to Washington, D.C. to give a speech at a National League of Cities event.

As Mr. de Blasio was in Washington, D.C., on Monday to deliver remarks at the National League of Cities, Mr. Cuomo came to the city and had a lot to criticize.

At noon, de Blasio will participate in a panel discussion at the National League of Cities, Philadelphia City Hall, 1401 John F. Kennedy Blvd.

Previously, she worked at the National League of Cities and managed communications for their Institute for Youth, Education, and Families.

In an effort to continue learning the lessons from Baxter's development over the past year, Chelsea have also sent Jared Thompson out into the men's game before even properly establishing himself in Under - 23 football, securing a season - long stay at National League South side Chippenham Town.

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.

Of the six Canadian teams in the National Hockey League, only the Ottawa Senators reported that they did not sell 100 per cent of their tickets for the 2009 - 10 season — and the Senators were at 98.8 per cent.

(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.)

For example, during the summer months, the National Football League cuts its employees loose at 2 p.m. on Fridays to lessen its employees» time spent at the office.

Before Chrysler debuted its «Born of Fire» commercial at last year's Super Bowl, the auto company had to gain approval from the National Football League.

Some of the biggest cracks so far have shown up at ESPN, the multi-billion dollar broadcasting behemoth controlling access to a huge swath of programming from almost every major sports franchise from the National Football League to Major League Baseball.

Their study (also in Southern Economic Journal) looked at how per capita income was affected by work stoppages in the National Football League and Major League Baseball over a nearly three - decade span.

With the Super Bowl only a few weeks away, an unusual coalition comprised of the National Football League, Bell Media, Canadian advertisers, and an actors» union have launched a full lobbying blitz aimed at overturning a 2015 ruling that will allow Canadians to view both the U.S. and Canadian feeds of the game.

Cornell and his wife were among 120 Canadians who gathered prior to the National Hockey League game to explore opportunities north of the border at a networking event for tech expats sponsored by GoNorthCanada.ca.

Over the next decade, Cohn used his mob connections to smooth the younger Trump's relations with construction unions; inked a stingy prenuptial agreement with Trump's first wife, Ivana; leaned on city politicians to favor Trump deals; traded favors in Atlantic City's notoriously corrupt casino industry; and tried to strong - arm the National Football League into a merger that would give Trump a first - tier team at a fraction of the going rate.

Suggesting that taking a knee at the national anthem is «harming» the team or the league isn't merely nonsensical, it reduces the role of the players to that of the analogy: criminals and derelicts.

A leading critic of the Articles of Confederation, the feckless league under which Americans were governed for much of the 1780s, Madison was among the first to contemplate a more far - reaching union, one that would attend more energetically to national needs while offering a measure of security to those who had suffered at the hands of local majorities.

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.

«We recognise the traditions of gun ownership that passed on from generation to generation, that hunting and shooting are part of a cherished national heritage,» said Obama during remarks made at a National Urban League Conference in New national heritage,» said Obama during remarks made at a National Urban League Conference in New National Urban League Conference in New Orleans.

That at least is the claim of Abraham Foxman, national director, and Rabbi Leon Klenicki, director of interfaith affairs, of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL).

The sign earned national media attention and stirred so much controversy that it prompted the conservative Catholic League for Religious and Civil rights to respond with a pro-Christmas billboard at the New York end of the Lincoln Tunnel.

Their group - created strategy included these actions: establishing cooperative links with other churches and groups committed to ecology; developing a Center of Ecology Information and a paperback book table at the church; devising methods to reach decision - makers in the community; exploring the development of a coordinating council of all ecology groups active in that community — Sierra Club, Friends of the Earth, Zero Population Growth, League of Conservation Voters, Wilderness Society, National Wildlife Federation, National Audubon Society, World Population, GASP (Group Against Smog Pollution), Planned Parenthood, etc..

In between, he made appearances at several National Football League games and on ESPN radio, and conducted numerous tastings and bottle signings.

The Brooklyn Burger is also available at New York and New Jersey sports venues which include Yankee Stadium and Citi Field, the home of Major League Baseball's New York Mets; and the Nassau Coliseum, home of the New York Islanders of the National Hockey League.

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.

OBIT Sirs: Now that the American League has so thoroughly humiliated the National League champs in the abbreviated 1966 World Series, let it spell an end to the hard - sell promotion of National League play at the expense of the AL..

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.

It is not just that he is 26, in his fifth pro season, won a Heisman Trophy and national championship at Auburn, was the league's No. 1 pick and Rookie of the Year in 2011 and likely will be named the NFL most valuable player this year.

BRAD LIDGE had just sandblasted the Cardinals, throwing two shutout innings to save the Astros» 5 — 2 Game 3 victory in the National League Championship Series last Saturday at Minute Maid Park, when Houston pitching coach Jim Hickey was asked about Lidge's availability for the next day.

LOST CAUSE Sirs: Every time I look at the National Basketball Association standings I have to laugh at the people who decided that the league was ready for expansion.

BASEBALL — AMERICAN LEAGUE ALL - STARS evened the score in 1959 All - Star competition by beating National League 5 to 3, at Los AnLEAGUE ALL - STARS evened the score in 1959 All - Star competition by beating National League 5 to 3, at Los AnLeague 5 to 3, at Los Angeles.

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.

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.

The National League Wild Card game will be played at Chase Field in Phoenix on Wednesday, Oct. 4, and will be televised by TBS.

Seager came up and demolished National League pitching at the end of last season, which is understandably making folks optimistic about him.

India Manager Wim Koevermans believes any player who plays for the National side should be attached to an I - League club, at least temporarily.

However Wenger is confident he can convince Remy to join fellow national team colleagues Laurent Koscielny, Olivier Giroud, Bacary Sagna and Abou Diaby at the North London club, with the carrot of Champions League football, if secured, perhaps a likely motivating factor.

Alderson had peddled reserve outfielder Felix (the Other) Jose, who had been filling in for the injured Henderson, and two more minor leaguers to St. Louis for centerfielder McGee, whose.335 average with the Cardinals may well be good enough to win the National League batting race — at just about the time McGee swings into the American League Championship Series.

The St. Louis Cardinals and San Francisco Giants will face one another in the National League Championship Series that will begin on Sunday, Oct. 14 at 8:15 p.m. ET at AT&T Park in San Francisco.

Finally on Friday he was able to show on a national stage what Nets fans have seen all year: At 6» 7 with his athleticism, he's one of the best backup point guards in the league and a capable starter.

At week's end San Francisco, which finished last in the National League West in 1995 and»96 and whose Opening Day starting lineup included four newcomers, was in first place with a 27 - 20 record.

In fact it would be hard to find winning teams in any big national league or in European competitions that don't use this formula, or at least use the whole team to defend.

Though Detroit just won the National League championship after a bruising 70 - game season, the top four (of six) eastern professional teams have been whacking away at each other all over again to decide who wins the real championship.

Furious pennant races used to be the exclusive property of the National League, but last week the action was in the American, five teams whaling away at one another, each with reason to believe it could be first in September.

Though he has yet to be untested at the highest level, he has helped Basel win three league titles as well as collecting a hatful of international cpas with the Egyptian national side.

The National League vote for the 2015 MLB All - Star Game was updated for the second time, and somehow, no Royals players are leading at any position.

At week's end he was third in the National League in home runs (nine) and RBIs (27) and fifth in batting average -LRB-.387), helping Atlanta maintain its perch atop the East.

The National League player of the week was Chicago Cub reliever Jim Bullinger, who saved four games last week and hit a home run in his first big league aLeague player of the week was Chicago Cub reliever Jim Bullinger, who saved four games last week and hit a home run in his first big league aleague at bat.

This source claims a summer move for the attacker is more likely than a January one and Hulk may well jump at the chance of a move to the Premier League side, not least as he would join fellow national team colleagues David Luiz, Ramires and Oscar at the West London club.