Sentences with phrase «named after the football»

He says Audible was named after a football tactic where the quarterback calls a different play by giving audible commands right before the ball is snapped.

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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.

Thanksgiving is more about eating and football and Sunday is still named after the sun.

«But the sport that inspires true fervor - the one that compels people there to name their children after a popular coach and to heave bricks through the windows of an unpopular one - is college football.

Restaurateur John Sparks was looking for a name for his new restaurant concept when inspiration struck in 1964 in the form of a group of youngsters meeting after football practice.

Early along he did that uncool stuff — got into a bar fight, changed the pronunciation of his name from DOR - sett to Dor - SETT (which is how a buddy said they said it in France), told folks he'd be quitting football after five years to go into acting full time, had «TD» painted on the doors of his Lincoln Continental.

The football field is named after Carl Reyna who I had the privilege to know during my high school years before he passed away in 1998.

Harris was named the Academic Athletic Association's boys basketball Player of the Year for the second consecutive season just three months after winning the football award for a second consecutive time.

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After all this talk of England being the laughing stock of football (true to some extent), it has been decided that a big name is required to drag the FA out of the mud and here comes the name of Arsene Wenger who's contract is running out next summer.

With just one goal to his name in La Liga, he's struggled in domestic football in particular, and many jumped at the opportunity to mock him and suggest that «he's finished» after the Juanfran moment specifically.

Despite Leicester's poor form, it came as a surprise to the football world after the Italian was named as FIFA World Coach of the Year for his heroics with the Foxes last campaign.

We laughed when Tony Sparano buried a football after being named the interim in Oakland last year, but the Raiders almost won the week after that.

He continued it after he arrived at Oklahoma in 1998 and — a few months later — hired a hot defensive coordinator named Bob Stoops to run the football program.

Christian McCaffrey PARKER, COLO. > FOOTBALL Christian, a seventh - grader at St. Thomas More Parish School and a running back on the Parker Hawks youth team, was named the West's MVP after its 24 — 14 win over the East in the first FBU Youth All - American Bowl for middle schoolers.

I really like Howe, and he definitely has potential, but we need a big name manager in charge after Wenger, and someone with a different style of football.

He's our best ever manager, he revolutionised English football, he deserves the biggest statue of them all outside Emirates and a stand named after him....

If he doesn't open a football academy with that name after he retires, that's a huge missed opportunity

Wenger now knows that, after last season's unrest, he can not rest on his laurels and, without Champions League football, it will be tough to lure the really big names to the Emirates over the summer.

I would say that it looks pretty good for the name of Theo Walcott being at least in the matchday squad for that game on Saturday, because the England international forward was originally thought to be due back in action only a week or two after the international break finishes and the domestic football begins again.

After a parade through the town, in scenes more akin to a rock star than a footballer, the striker spent an hour with fans in a the back of a Rolls Royce and then had a street named afterAfter a parade through the town, in scenes more akin to a rock star than a footballer, the striker spent an hour with fans in a the back of a Rolls Royce and then had a street named afterafter him.

After his first season, in which he scored an incredible 19 touchdowns on 1,609 yards from scrimmage, The Sporting News and CBS Sports named Marcus the national college football freshman of the year.

The football field is named after Coach Ben Parks, as I remembered during my high school football & wrestling career at Capuchino - San Bruno.

TOGA was an inner circle of the football team, comprised of 10 of the 14 starters, named after John Belushi's call to party in Animal House.

The football stadium's named after the megabooster, a billionaire energy financier who once gave a national - record $ 165 million at once to OSU athletics, and that was just one gift.

However, the latest developments, as reported by El Diario, have come after the protected witness, named as «TP3» in the report, has alleged that she was forced into having a sexual encounter with two footballers.

The Premier League could have named our old friend Mike Dean as the man in the middle for the crucial title chasing clash with Leicester City, although after his shockingly bad and biased showing against Chelsea at Stamford Bridge, the football authorities had to overturn his decisions and were left looking a bit foolish.

The 29 - year - old is undoubtedly one of the biggest names in football now, after years of success with both Barcelona and the Spanish national team.

Bianchi was born in Nice and will have the «rue du Sapin», which runs by the Nice football stadium, named after him.

Since his conviction, the woman he raped has had to change her identity five times after the footballer's supporters tracked her down, abused and named her on the internet.

Just days after lifting a second successive FA Cup with Arsenal, playmaker Mesut Ozil has further reason to celebrate after being named as the winner of the 2015 German Football Ambassador Public Award.

Brendan Rodgers is the third most mentioned name and while I like Brendan and I his style of football, I just don't feel like he'll fix the defense and command the respect some of the other people mentioned, and his demise at Liverpool after Suarez was sold reminds me of what Wenger is doing now, and we've sold our best players before, but there's something about him that makes me want to give him a chance, especially after giving Wenger 10 more years than he deserves.

Sessegnon's performances this season has been rewarded after he was named the EFL Player of the Year at the London Football Awards.

A High School Football Player by the name of Appollos Hester gave a fantastic post-game speech after his team came back to win.

The other thing is the one that got Saban here in the first place, started a tailgate club of people named after Bear Bryant (and there are quite a few), and made Harvey Updyke commit crimes against foliage in the name of deranged football passion.

In the coaches office after the game, Custer's name came up and one of the coaches paid him the ultimate compliment, «He's a football player.»

Headed to Washington on a football scholarship, Scrempos was the Santa Clara Valley Athletic League's Most Outstanding Lineman and was named to the SportStars All - NorCal Defense after 55 tackles and seven sacks for the 12 - 1 Trojans.

Unlike the other six players, Nadiem Amiri isn't yet an established name but he is a really talented prospect whose stats will shoot right up after just one season on Football Manager 2017.

Former footballer turned sprinter, Adam is a two time Olympian who first made his name in 2012 after winning the World Junior Championships 100m after converting to the sport earlier that year.

Fifty - four clubs in the first eight levels of the football pyramid are named after birds, with 20 different species represented.

After writing his first book about his life as a vet, author Alf Wight couldn't find a suitable pseudonym under which to publish his memoirs until one night he was watching a game of football and was rather taken with the name of Hibernian's goalkeeper - Jim Herriot.

The north London football club's chief has come under fire after launching the blood sports service, My Outdoor TV, which shows «thousands of hunting, fishing and shooting episodes featuring the biggest names in outdoor TV...how - to videos and even wild game recipes.»

After impressing as a youth footballer in his hometown of Maceió in northeast Brazil, he moved south to lower league Tombense FC, before making his name at Florianópolis side Figueirense.

They are named after the South African football club that Leeds United club legend Lucas Radebe played at before coming to the UK and Leeds.

MEXICO CITY — Mexican football star Rafael Marquez is back with his club more than a month after the U.S. Treasury Department named him on a sanctions list for alleged drug trafficking ties.

But after getting over the scary scene of grown adults going mental at the football I stood in the North Bank nearly every match until (1980) and my education began and other older Arsenal fans would mention RAY KENNEDY's name with respect and a little dam (why did we sell em) if my faded memory is right.

After a summer of big name departures in an attempt to bring in funds, including Santi Cazorla to Arsenal for less than the club had paid Villareal for the player, the prospect of Champions League football at the Rosaleda had brightened the mood of the Málaga support.

The teacher, a lady in her 30s, was dividing her students into several groups and to my surprise, she named the groups after football clubs.

Beckham and Ronaldo are only two names that went onto become world class footballers at Manchester United after joining at a very young age.

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