Sentences with phrase «national little league»

Basically, the premise involves three adult men that, for reasons that aren't really made clear, play baseball against young children in some sort of national little league, and they become heroes for all of the kids that are outcasts, dorks or mentally deficient.

Not exact matches

Sounding only a little bit like a man whistling past a graveyard, seven of the National League's finest teams spent a happy springtime assuring themselves and a nodding assortment of itinerant experts what a whale of a pennant race this was going to be.

For several years, Mitchell had been an ardent media supporter of the players, coaches and parents of Jackie Robinson West, well before the Little League on the city's predominantly black South Side burst into the national zeitgeist.

His formal complaint to Little League International in Williamsport, Pa., eventually caused the vaunted South Side team to be stripped of its much - heralded 2014 Little League national title.

But, after the South Side team became a national news story with its exciting Little League victory over favored Las Vegas, the evidence against JRW was not hard to amass.

Clyne has been a virtual ever present and has thrived in the Premier League having served his apprenticeship in the Championship and is now on the fringes of the full England national team set - up and is a player that cost the South - Coast club very little and could go on to be a player who either serves them well in the future of perhaps yields a good fee if the club opt to consider offers for a player who has excelled at right - back this term.

The legal petition does not seek monetary damages or the reinstatement of the national title, but simply asks for additional information from, and communication with, Little League officials.

And now along comes Janes, a white guy from mostly white Evergreen Park, a suburb just a few miles to the west, trying to tear down these inspirational Little League victors in their moment of national glory.

And last year, not only was Jackie Robinson West stripped of its national title, but the Georgia state championship team from Peachtree was ruled ineligible to compete in the Southeast regional after Little League officials discovered some teams in the league included too many 12 - year -League officials discovered some teams in the league included too many 12 - year -league included too many 12 - year - olds.

Chris Janes has had plenty of unwelcome attention after playing a role in Jackie Robinson West being stripped of the Little League national title.

I think Arsene Wenger would probably have preferred it if the Arsenal right back Hector Bellerin had been given a little rest by his national manager, especially after the hard running 21 - year old is yet to miss a minute of football in the Premier League or Champions League campaigns this season.

The oddest pennant race in National League history is always exciting but sometimes it gets just a little sloppy

In professional sports, I've always pulled for the Oakland A's in the American League (my first Little League team circa 1990 when the «Bash Brothers» reigned) and the Atlanta Braves in the National League (on every night via Turner Broadcasting, and for much of my childhood the only true «Southern» baseball squad to pull for).

It's a mid-July evening in Pleasanton, and while a handful of Intermediate Little League teams go over their travel itinerary for their trip to the Western Regional Tournament in Irvine «'' the last step to reaching the World Seires «'' a baker's dozen worth of 13 - year - olds from Pleasanton National hold another practice.

of soccer leagues, teams had the option of recognizing the international break and taking a little time off this week while their players represented their national teams, or not.

If your child is playing for another baseball or softball national organization you may want to check with them, as this rule pertains only to Little League Baseball ® and Little League Softball ®.

In announcing the new pitch count rule in 2006, the first by a national youth baseball organization, Little League's president and CEO, Stephen D. Keener, called «upon all youth baseball organizations, including travel leagues, to implement their own pitch count programs in the interest of protecting young pitching arms.»

In 1976, Engh held a conference with national organizations like Little League Baseball to talk about problems in youth sports.

«I've nursed everywhere from the South Lawn of the White House to the National Cathedral to airplanes and Little League dug outs and no one has said anything!»

By Rich Mancuso / Sports Editor Little League Baseball gets exposure in mid August with a national televised event known as their World Series.

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Is it any wonder that high school student athletes beat one another with objects in lineups when the same thing was done by the New Orleans Saints football team — with very little action taken by the National Football League.

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While the 2007 major league baseball season is just getting started, it's already clear that a few teams are winners in terms of making the national pastime a little bit greener.