Sentences with phrase «leagues of»

Growing up in Southern California, Watson played in the Say No Classic, one of the top college basketball summer leagues of its time.

According to stats from WhoScored, Morata's fifth headed goal of the campaign is now more than any other player in Europe's big five leagues of England, Spain, Germany, Italy and France.

Wish there was a way to compare performances across the major leagues of European football?

The Championship returns to your screens this weekend with eleven games taking place on Saturday and you are all - but guaranteed entertainment in one of the most frantic and competitive leagues of them all.

Furthermore, a manager without a strong personality won't survive enough in one of the most fierce leagues of the world.

Endorphin Farms has helped Sam & Oliver bring our recipes into the big leagues of professional hot sauce products.

One successful player in the Valley said recently that he wants the church to compete in the big leagues of cyberspace with the «Yahoos» of the world.

There were also Catholic leagues of policemen, firemen, and sanitary workers.

I am a paid player, after all, in the big leagues of «value - free» intellectual inquiry.

They have joined leagues of other young people fighting for what seems like common sense: safety in schools.

Miller Lite has also aligned with community partners that focus on entrepreneurship and technical resources, including the United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, Milwaukee Urban League, Chicago Urban League, Urban League of Greater Dallas and North Central Texas, the Florida State Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and the National Association for Asian American Professionals.

«League of Legends» players compete at the Championship Series at Riot Games in Santa Monica, Calif..

For now, they will focus on covering League of Legends, Dota 2, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Heroes of the Storm, and Street Fighter V, with additional video game titles added over time, according to Yahoo.

The company signed a Chinese distribution deal for League of Legends in November 2008 and made an initial investment in Riot Games in 2009.

Activision's investment in eSports comes at a time where PC games like Riot Games» League of Legends, Valve's Dota 2 and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, and Blizzard's Heroes of the Storm and StarCraft II dominate the scene.

«With EEDAR estimating current League of Legends revenues to be more than $ 1 billion per year, this means that the value of Riot is significantly higher than $ 1 billion and Tencent would have paid a lot of money for the remaining 7 % of the company's shares,» Walker says.

Chinese gamers love League of Legends.

That's where League of Legends resembles a pro sport, so investors, players, and team owners want ways to make pro sports money — and debates over how to do that have heated up online.

Honor of Kings is essentially a reworking for the Chinese market of League of Legends, originally developed by U.S. gaming firm Riot Games.

«This has been my favourite post in the history of League of Legends,» wrote Reddit user Acroblade.

Why model Riot Games» North American League of Legends Championship Series league after major professional sports leagues with revenue - sharing and a players association?

However, as the League of Nations fell apart in the 1930s and was then replaced by the United Nations, the ruling on the status of Hans Island carries little to no weight.

For a long time, their game was so clunky and tedious that the staff would reward themselves by playing DotA after play - testing League of Legends.

Amazon helped back Tencent's investment in Essential's new phone, for example, and Tencent - backed «League of Legends» is a popular attraction on Amazon's gaming platform, Twitch.

«Whenever I get the reports with the [League of Legends viewership] numbers, I almost do a double - take.

«If you go back to some of the threads from year one or year two of League of Legends and all the Riot [online] forums,» says Steve Arhancet, a former pro gamer and now co-CEO of LoL team Team Liquid, «you had your developers, your executives, all chiming in to the conversation, listening to the community, making adjustments based on forum threads.

At League of Legends.

«If he's so concerned about the financial health of his players,» wrote Merrill, «maybe he should spend more of the millions he has made / makes from League of Legends on paying them instead of investing in other e-sports where he is losing money.»

League of Legends provided a juggernaut of a counterexample.

Mobalytics» open beta, which launched in September, is focused on one game: the wildly popular League of Legends.

To find a credit union that will accept your company, call your state's league of credit unions.

When you have a teenager who prioritizes League of Legends over sleep, this is a must.

They wanted to play League of Legends again.

Welcome to League of Legends, a team - based online game, and the raging, addicted, electrifying, vain, oddly beautiful, absurdly lucrative, and often bewildering world that swirls around it.

HBO is in a league of its own.

World Atlas notes that the island was decided to be Danish territory by the Permanent Court of International Justice of the League of Nations in 1933.

That level of production for just a three - month period puts Netflix in a league of its own.

Facebook's banning of Britain First follows in the footsteps of Twitter Inc., which late last year pulled accounts linked to Britain First, alongside U.S. white supremacist organizations like the League of the South and American Renaissance.

Hillary's fiery commencement speech, the first ever by a Wellesley student, won her national attention — a spot in Life Magazine's feature on the class of 1969 and a speaking invitation to the League of Women Voters.

«Everybody's getting paid, but Raheem still can't read,» Vivian Cox Fraser, president of the Urban League of Essex County in New Jersey, told the magazine.

just over here wishing i was in pj's watching home alone and drinking hot cocoa, but prepping for tonight's workshop with the jr. league of austin isn't a bad alternative.

The U.K. tops the league of workers expecting to have to work into their retirement in HSBC's «Future of Retirement» survey, with one in five Britons believing that they will never be able to stop working.

But TV ratings and digital broadcasts are measured in totally different ways, and when Next Level Media broke the numbers apart, it concluded that at least four times as many people watched an NBA Finals game on average as tuned in for League of Legends finals.

«In a league of specialized big men — rim protectors and stretch - 4s, elbow facilitators and designated rebounders — Davis embodies virtually every archetype.

Much like the Scottish actor, Connery's site hasn't done anything new since The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen hit theaters in 2003.

«In conversations with the NFL over the last two days, the Vikings advised the League of the team's decision to revisit the situation,» according to a statement early Wednesday from the team owners Zygi and Mark Wilf.

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.

Each room has a League of Legends theme — like Corki, which references a bombardier character and sports airplane - inspired metallic furniture.

It released the widely popular game League of Legends nearly a decade ago, but more than 100 million gamers still play it every month.

«It's hard to throw a rock without hitting a wetland,» said Ryan Billingham, spokesman for the Wisconsin League of Conservation Voters.