Sentences with phrase «old field player»

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In those days, the early»40s, stoop ball was as popular as stick ball or punch ball, but I suspect it is now dying out; there are fewer stoops — the old brownstones that bore them are being torn down — and more cars are crossing the field of play, impeding the game and endangering the players.

The perfect example is Ajax — you see all the old players working for the club, on the field, in the office — the door is always open for them — but Arsenal don't do it and I don't know why,»

Seventeen - year - old Tracy Austin isn't just your normal student - body president, straight - A student, accomplished pianist, soccer player, track and field athlete and placekicker on the varsity football team.

He was a 31 - year - old veteran safety and special teams player whose violent, reckless charges down the field on punts and kickoffs suggested a man willing to die for his emperor.

nice to see you crawl out of your hole just in time to offer your 2 cents worth once again... unlike yourself I started following this team long before Wenger arrived on the scene and will continue to do so long after he's gone... in his earlier years I admired the cerebral elements he brought to the EPL, which at that point was more brutish than beautiful, and I respected the seemingly tireless efforts of Arsene, Dein & staff to uncover and develop talent without sacrificing the product on the field... likewise I appreciated that such a youthful manager wasn't afraid to bring strong personalities and / or world - class players into the fold without being fearful of how said players would potentially undermine and / or dilute his authority... unfortunately this all changed about 10 years ago and culminated in the removal of all our greatest players, both young and old, without any real replacements coming in... from Henry to RVP to Fabergas and Nasri, it was easy to see that this club was no longer interested in competing at the highest levels... instead of being honest, minus the ridiculous claims regarding the new stadium, Wenger chose to side with management and in doing so became the «front man» for this corporation pretending to be a world - class soccer club... without the «front man» this organization would have been exposed numerous years earlier, so his presence was imperative if the facade was to continue... it's for this reason and more that I despise what this once great man and Kroenke has done to my beloved club... the gutless, shameful and manipulative way they have treated the fans, like myself, is largely indefensible and this is why I felt it necessary to start offering my opinion in a public format... trust me, I resisted the temptation for many years but as long as the same shit continues to exist I will voice my opinions and if you don't like it maybe you should look for a different team to pretend to follow

Fans will be watching the Texans in the NFL's new crown jewel of fields, Reliant Stadium — a two - million - square - foot mammoth that dwarfs even its next - door neighbor, the Astrodome — and the team that opens at home against the long - hated Cowboys will be nothing if not young (the Texans selected no players older than 30 in the expansion draft) and hungry.

Suspended Two T - ball coaches, for their part in an Aug. 28 brawl in which nearly two dozen adults stormed the field during a Miami Friends Baseball Association game and began fighting over an umpire's call as the four - and five - year - old players watched.

As always, Angell is mainly concerned with major league players, but there are some rewarding side trips, notably to the playing fields of Yale in the company of Smokey Joe Wood, the 91 - year - old former Yale coach who won 34 games as a Red Sox pitcher in 1912, and to the big league locker rooms (or the corridors just outside them) with several bright female reporters who were trying to breach that journalistic barrier in 1979.

Barrett was two years younger than the oldest players in the field, and he was still by far the tournament's biggest star.

The 50 - year - old native Cheesehead was forced to work for his spot in the 156 - player field when the USGA refused to honor his request for a special exemption into the event being staged in his native Wisconsin.

The 21 year - old has signed a five year contract with the Ligue 1 club, and he was quoted on the Monaco official website as saying: «I'm very happy to join Monaco, a club with a very ambitious sporting project who field a lot of young players.

The 23 - year - old gives the Dodgers a true center fielder, one with the potential to be an all - star player someday.

We can expect rotational fouling, badgering of the referee, the soundtrack of «Same old Arsenal always cheating» accompanying Colin Lewin onto the field as he tries to patch up a prone player who has been assaulted by a less talented but more aggressive opponent.

This is van der Wiel the person, rather than van der Wiel the soccer player: A tattooed 29 - year - old individual who still seeks ways of connecting his passions with his on - field duties, which sometimes aren't appreciated by his employers.

After all, he is the oldest player on the field for the Quakes, and his ability to connect within the offensive flow has been suspect at times this season.

The papers and media had had a field day praising this 21 year old player from the swamp.

The 22 players expected to take the field at Old Trafford are worth over # 670m in transfer fees.

Despite Real fielding the world's two costliest players, Zinédine Zidane and Luís Figo, it was their 22 - year - old midfielder Esteban Cambiasso who proved Feyenoord's nemesis on his European debut.

Injuries to their midfield, exacerbated by another unpunished, reckless tackle by a home player on an away player at Old Toilet mean that our opponents will be fielding a much depleted midfield.

«Having an AED in all schools not only protects athletes on our campus, but it can also save their life on other campuses when they are traveling for away games,» says high school soccer coach, Rob Sweeten, who was instrumental in getting two donated AEDs placed at Boca Raton High School after a 17 - year old soccer player died of SCA from a congenital heart defect warming up on the field before a game.

Soccer has a higher injury rate than many contact / collision sports such as field hockey, rugby, basketball, and football, with players younger than age 15 at higher relative injury risk compared with older players, concludes a clinical report in the journal Pediatrics.

The death last week of Damon Janes, the 16 - year - old Brocton high school football player who suffered a devastating on - field head injury, has raised more questions than answers.

One study at the Auckland University of Technology hoped to look at 600 former athletes, 35 to 55 years old, from several sports popular in New Zealand: 200 former top - level rugby players, 200 former recreational rugby players and 200 former cricket and field hockey players.

Really I could go on for quite a while with all the new digital players in the field that came out at Comic Con, but I think the point is that we are looking at a crossroads where we will see the old and the new come together for the digitization of tradition.

Connectivity Wi - Fi (802.11 a / b / g / n), Wi - Fi Direct, DNLA Built - in mobile hotspot functionality Next - generation Bluetooth 4.0 backward compatible with older Bluetooth - enabled peripherals and includes stereo audio streaming Near Field Communication (NFC) for sharing contacts, web pages, directions, and more to compatible phones as well as payments GPS for navigation and location services Integrated Google Maps with turn - by - turn navigation, street and satellite views Communications & Internet Full messaging capabilities including SMS text, MMS picture / video and IM instant messaging Full HTML browser with Adobe Flash Support Personal and corporate e-mail access with support for Exchange ActiveSync as well as mobile e-mail accounts (Google push, Yahoo!, POP3, IMAP) Hardware Dual - core 1.5 GHz processor capable of opening web pages twice as fast as most other smartphones 4.8 - inch HD Super AMOLED multi-touch screen (1280 x 720 pixels) MicroUSB port 3.5 mm headphone jack Memory 16 GB internal memory (non-expandable) microSD card slot with support for optional cards up to 64 GB 2 GB RAM for improved multitasking Camera 8 - megapixel camera with continuous auto focus, zero shutter lag, face detection, high dynamic range mode, burst mode, and more Full HD 1080p video capture (30 fps) Front - facing 1.9 - megapixel camera for HD video chats and self portraits Multimedia Music player compatible with MP3, WMA, AAC / AAC +, eAAC +, MIDI amd WAV Video player compatible with MPEG4, H. 264, H. 263and DivX

- 18 years old - used to work at a lodging house in a port city, run by her parents - used to look at the sea and think about what she really wanted to do and to achieve - she stayed like this until a merchant ship appeared on the horizon - her ability in the field is to buy items from NPC - this allows the player to acquire rare items that aren't sold in stores - in combat, she can spend money to summon mercenaries to fight on her behalf - she can share BP with her companions, and cure her own HP and SP

However, some of the older, bigger players aren't having it and have figured out that they can use their own real estate contracts to level the field with Whole Foods.