Sentences with phrase «of national game»

Pupils took part in a Q&A session, where John said: «It is vital for the future of our national game that grassroots players, just like these pupils at Twickenham Academy, have access to high - quality 3G playing surfaces.»

The central headquarters of English football has streamlined the focus of the national game into one 350 - acre plot, with the best coaches and elite players from all age groups rubbing shoulders with one another on a daily basis.

The FA's Head of National Game, Kelly Simmons, realises the importance of turning women's football into a professional sport.

Appointed baseball's first commissioner in the wake of the 1919 Black Sox scandal, Landis was granted extraordinary power to «safeguard the interests of the national game of baseball.»

Not exact matches

As part of the $ 5.2 billion, 12 - year agreement announced today, Rogers obtains the national rights on all platforms to every NHL game through the 2025 - 26 campaign — including all playoff games and the Stanley Cup Final.

Several members of the Patriots heeded his advice, with more than a dozen kneeling or locking arms during the national anthem before their game against the Houston Texans.

In a working paper at the National Bureau of Economic Research, researchers Mara Faccio and John McConnell estimated that the total amount of property and equipment damage caused by Pokemon Go players in the nearly 150 days after the game's release amounted to $ 2 billion to $ 7.3 billion.

Lion Sands is located in the Sabi Sands Game Reserve, adjacent to Kruger National Park and one of the world's best places for heading out on safari in a jeep.

In his paper «Mega-Events: The effect of the world's biggest sporting events on local, regional, and national economies,» he writes: «A local resident who goes to an All - Star Game when it is in town is spending money at the game that likely would have been spent locally elsewhere in the absence of the gGame when it is in town is spending money at the game that likely would have been spent locally elsewhere in the absence of the ggame that likely would have been spent locally elsewhere in the absence of the gamegame.

Startups that focus on quality assurance and smooth transactions are the name of the game, says Flynn, whose Shasta Ventures invested in Turo, a national peer - to - peer car - rental platform.

«Verizon's portfolio of premium digital and mobile media properties, including Yahoo Sports, will stream in - market and national games, including national pre-season, regular season, playoff games, and the Super Bowl nationwide to sports fans — regardless of mobile network,» Verizon, the no. 1 U.S. wireless carrier, said in a statement.

The country's National Center for Incident Readiness and Strategy for Cybersecurity (NISC) told users of the mobile game not to use their real names and warned them about the risks of heat stroke in the muggy Japanese summer.

One player to make an impact so far is 14 - year - old Guan Tianlang, who qualified for the prestigious Masters at Augusta National in Georgia, U.S, this year and was heaped with praise by some of the game's veterans.

Twitter's foray into live streaming of National Football League games and its presence in news gathering could interest media companies such as Disney, which owns sports channel ESPN.

This week, millions of people worldwide will have watched the 87th Major League Baseball (MLB) All - Star Game, showcasing 70 top players from the American and National Leagues.

In the month leading up to Notre Dame's first trip to the national championship game in more than two decades, Irish faithful have created a series of T - shirts bashing their opponent, Alabama.

The poll, the work of the Kaiser Family Foundation, the Harvard School of Public Health, and National Public Radio, asked 1,704 adults for their reactions to the reform proposals put out by Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton (still in the game!)

The letter also cited Bennett's in - game «disrespect» of the national anthem as something the NFL «condones.»

«If you take time to recharge and pay attention to fitness and your diet, for example, after work or on weekends, you'll set the stage for great life habits that put you at the top of your game at the office,» says Lynn Taylor, a national workplace expert and author of «Tame Your Terrible Office Tyrant: How to Manage Childish Boss Behavior and Thrive in Your Job.»

That kind of stimulation can be anything from reading to crossword puzzles or attending lectures and playing memory - based games, according to the National Institute on Aging.

Twitter said on Wednesday it would carry instant - replay footage from National Football League games as part of a new advertising partnership that could boost the social media company's revenue before its highly anticipated initial public offering.

Twitter plans to carry instant - replay footage from National Football League games as part of a new advertising partnership that could boost the social media company's revenue.

I had some inroads with people I had met on my first trip, so we proposed a goodwill game of basketball with North Korea's national team.

Major League Baseball and the National Football League have lucrative contracts with the television networks and closely guard the airing of their games.

David S. Gallant of Brampton, Ont., was fired from his Canada Revenue Agency call centre job in January after National Revenue Minister Gail Shea read about a video game he'd developed.

It's popular, as the first major esports game and practically the national sport of South Korea in the 2000s.

The bid to host this year's games, first initiated by the regional Gangwon Province government, was successful after three attempts of bidding in part due to the involvement of the national government and chaebols.

«I left today's Colts game because @POTUS and I will not dignify any event that disrespects our soldiers, our Flag, or our National Anthem,» Pence tweeted before releasing an official statement and a photo of himself and the second lady standing at the game for the anthem.

Via its Laser Ignition Fusion Energy (LIFE) project, the National Ignition Facility (NIF) in the United States has a unique double mandate: not only must it prove fusion power can be a viable source of energy — and become a game - changer for the world's energy supply — but it must also plan to commercialize the energy source even before practical fusion energy is a reality.

Before sharing with you a few thoughts about the global economy, let me invoke the spirit of hockey, Canada's national game.

It's a crowded game, with Redstone's daughter Shari in for a position that gives her great control over his trust and holdings in National Amusements, which owns 80 percent of Viacom and CBS.

Covering an area of 30,000 square meters, Creativity Avenue is a national science park and games and animation industry hub.

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.

I could air, in public, questions that will probably be tried in courts of law later, and make spotting the contradictions a national parlour game.

[14:18] Rules of the game to succeed, but not for fulfillment [14:40] God loves diversity; same is true with people — different sources of fulfillment [14:55] Success without fulfillment is the ultimate failure [16:53] We all have something different as our inner desire, you need to find what fulfills you [17:05] A cautionary tale: Robin Williams, the loss of a national treasure [18:42] He lit everybody up, except himself [19:15] Most of us live a life where we succeed but we're not truly fulfilled [20:10] Richard: Tony, what is your method for happiness?

Chief Executive Officer Jack Dorsey, who also runs mobile payments platform Square Inc., has focused on making Twitter more useful, including streaming programming such as National Football League highlights and recaps of series like «Game of Thrones.»

It means, he hopes, that the big free - to - air networks will be enticed to take a package of NBL games along with the rights to telecast what will be the biggest basketball matches in Australia for years, between the Boomers led by international names such as Philadelphia 76ers star Ben Simmons and fellow National Basketball Association players such as Patty Mills and Joe Ingles against a US team that could include the biggest names in the sport.

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.

The National Institutes of Health, for example, spent $ 1,552,145 of your money to develop a video game that teaches parents how to feed their kids vegetables.

Test veteran Justin Langer will replace Darren Lehmann as coach of Australian men's cricket, leading the national teams in all three formats of the game.

SPANAWAY — In sports, there are a few undefeated streaks that have stood the test of time, such as the 35 - game win streak by the 1979 - 1980 Philadelphia Flyers in the National Hockey League.

-- ROBTV (forerunner to BNN) «He's (Derek Foster) playing his very own game, which he's winning...» — National Post ``... and he did it by turning the whole concept of what it means to save for retirement on its head.»

The IOC did make a possible allowance for certain athletes with a history of «rigorous drug testing» to petition to be allowed to compete, but they would have to do so in a neutral uniform and, should they win, their national anthem would not play and their medal would not considered part of Russia's overall medal total, which will stay at zero for the length of the 2018 games.

Fans of Tebow may remember when he wrote «John 3:16» on his face (in his eyeblack) during the national championship game when he played college football at Florida.

I can only think of one other story that gained national recognition and that was the pewee football game shooting.

In 1940 the entire possibility looked like breaking the game rules of national life.

On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your male or female servant, except that they should fetch your beer from the fridge and make thy snacks for the game, nor any foreigner residing in your towns, except for the National Football League players and the coaches and the trainers and the referees and the ticket takers and the purveyors of hot dogs and beer and the color commentators and the play by play commentors and the cameramen and the... skip a bit Brother Maynard 11 For in six days the coaches trained the players with drills and films, but they contest on the gridiron on the seventh day.

CNN: Mormon linebacker helps lead Catholic Notre Dame to national championship game It was a goal - line stand in the fourth quarter that sealed the University of Notre Dame football team's Saturday victory over the University of Southern California — and earned the No. 1 - ranked team a trip to the national championship game.

The University of Notre Dame remains the prestige Catholic brand in the United States, and in its home football games it has a sports media property comparable to Augusta National's.

Last night, the NBA All - Star Game saw one of the strangest national anthem renditions ever at a sporting event, when Fergie took to the microphone and offered up a sultry, sensual, slow - jam version of «The Star - Spangled Banner.»