Sentences with phrase «old rookie who»

Last year as most on this board were warning that we were wasting «the John Wall years», doyou think John was OK with 19 year old rookie who was still in college as we came within 1 quarter of getting to the ECF?

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The 28 - year - old, who became the oldest U.S. figure - skating Olympic rookie since 1936, did just that.

In fact, even though Asano was just 21 - years old and had won the «Rookie of the Year» award in the J - League with Sanfrecce Hiroshima, a lot of us felt that he could well be another Park Chu - Young, the South Korean international star who spent three years on the books with Arsenal but only made a single Premier League appearance.

like who really expects not just a rookie, but a 19 year old rookie with only a dozen professional games under his belt, to just come into the playoffs against a veteran and physical team like the Heat and play really well?

This year Bunning and rookie congressman Tom McMillen, the Maryland Democrat who played 11 years in the NBA, (page 70) joined representatives Jack Kemp (Buffalo Bills) and Mo Udall (the old ABL Denver Nuggets) and Senator Bill Bradley (New York Knicks) in the Jock Caucus, as Udall has come to call the collective of five former pro athletes now serving in Congress.

Maaaaybe these are just the ramblings of an old man who's had one too many nips from the nostalgia flask, but there was nothing like cracking open a pack of wood - paneled 1987 Topps and watching the rookie cards fall out: Will Clark, Ruben Sierra, Cory Snyder, Barry Larkin, Rafael Palmeiro, Bobby Bonilla, Benito Santiago, Kal Daniels, Andres Galarraga, Kevin Seitzer, Kelly Gruber, Wally Joyner, Danny Tartabull, Pete Incaviglia, Jose Canseco, Mark McGwire, Barry Bonds... my god, it's beautiful.

Ginobili is one of this season's most anticipated rookies, a 25 - year - old slasher who led Argentina to its upset of the U.S. at the world championships this summer.

The fact that someone would question the top - 10 ranking of a now - gimpy 31 - year - old guard, who's been hobbled by two bad knees... who posted the lowest scoring average of his career since his rookie year... who posted his lowest free - throw shooting percentage of his entire career... who really struggled in the playoffs... isn't that crazy, really.

Mathis, a 21 - year - old who played from South Carolina, had five goals and 10 assists as a Galaxy rookie this year.

Early in the 1992 - 93 season, when Alexei Kovalev was a 19 - year - old Rangers rookie who had recently arrived from Moscow, he got lost for several hours driving in New York City.

On the surface, the Pelicans took a once - in - a-generation talent who was used to carrying his team and physically breaking down, and surrounded him with the league's most divisive big - name player, an old and divisive point guard who was cast aside by one of the worst teams in the league, a power forward who lost his place in his previous team to a rookie, and a guard whose talent was apparent, but seemed like he was stagnating.

Bourque, a first - team All - Star as a rookie, is a player whose greatness is not that he is a 35 - year - old who looks 18, but that he was once an 18 - year - old who played like 35.

He was a 26 - year - old rookie with the kind of athleticism you would expect from someone who wasn't drafted.

Nowadays 20 - year - old Byron and 24 - year - old Wallace, who will vie for Rookie of the Year honors this season, are as known as some of the veterans they'll be racing against on a weekly basis.

Last week we showed you Robert Gil, the 29 - year - old Arizona Cardinals rookie, who ran on a treadmill at 25 MPH.

Robert Gil, the 29 - year - old Arizona Cardinals rookie wide receiver who has a viral video of him running 25 MPH on a...

Last year in the Tap City an outfielder who spent nine years in the farm systems of three other teams wound up second in the National League Rookie of the Year vote (Scott Podsednik); a 29 - year - old reliever released by the Rangers in March 2003 became a lights - out closer (Danny Kolb); and a journeyman discarded by Texas in April and then Toronto in July became one of the league's most effective starters over the final two months (Doug Davis).

It's been a Lazarus - like resurrection for Wright, who seven years ago won three postseason games for the Cleveland Indians as a 21 - year - old rookie and became the second - youngest Game 7 starter in World Series history.

After hitting his first home - run of the season during the bottom of the sixth inning, the 21 - year - old Hernandez, who is the favorite to win the N.L. Rookie of the Year award, trotted around first and second base and then proceeded to spit on third.

Hrudey, who wears a samurai headband on the ice, struggled so terribly in midseason that he was replaced first with a rookie, Robb Stauber, and then, more embarrassing, with a 33 - year - old minor league journeyman, Rick Knickle, who had never before played in an NHL game.

The same disclaimer about power goes for 22 - year - old Carlos Gonzalez, who hit.242 /.273 /.361 with the A's over 302 at - bats in his rookie season.

I'd like to think that it's a safe bet to forecast a 23 - year - old, 6 ’10 forward who averaged 13 points, six rebounds, and two assists per game en route to All - Rookie first - team honors as one of the league's top 100 players in four years.

Of all the Rookie Teams this Summer and there are many, these guys jump off the page a bit because many of them have older brothers who have been through the rigors of All Sports Series before.

When Jaromir Jagr, who didn't know enough English as an 18 - year - old Penguin rookie last season to carry on a simple conversation with his coach, was told at the Czechoslovakian team's training camp in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, of Johnson's plight, he broke down and cried.

Stroman's 2014 numbers don't jump off the page — he had a 104 ERA +, which is good (especially for a 23 - year - old rookie), but you don't expect someone who is a tick above - average to lead a playoff - caliber rotation.

For rookie parents who are desperate to go to the movies, rest assured small babies will be no problem at these showings as any of their complaining will not be heard over the exclamations of three - year olds in the audience who have no problem talking back to the screen (and their parents).

Hi Dawn, I think we imagined it for 0 month olds, but we are expanding our ideas to include newish rookie moms who want to take on these challenges with the bambino.

I'm very excited to share this guest post by Ann, a rookie mom, who started the blog Busy Little Baby when her son was 6 months old and she was looking for an easier way to find things to do with her baby.

-LSB-...] other rookie moms who took this challenge: Kristin in San Diego, Rachel and 3 month - old Evie, and Olivia in New York.

In that long - ago summer of 2006, George W. Bush was President, the Republicans controlled Congress, YouTube was a year old, «social networking» meant MySpace, and Barack Obama was a rookie U.S. Senator who gave a good speech.

After a rookie Cleveland patrolman fatally shot a 12 - year - old boy who was holding a pellet gun in November, Ohio Gov. John Kasich created a panel to develop the state's first - ever standards for police use of deadly force.

But just as he's about to put his old ways behind him, one last job puts him face - to - face with a rookie cop (Bradley Cooper) who's out for blood to prove himself as the poster boy of his corrupt department.

Run the words of the title together and you get a not - terribly - clever yet not - entirely - awful summary of what the film is getting at when it's not busy being a retarded high - concept buddy cop flick pairing your typical crusty old vet with an earnest rookie who happens to be an alien with a spotted pate instead of a hilarious racial minority.

As a new rookie, he is handed over to Roy (Jeff Bridges), an Old Wild West marshal who has been protecting the streets of Boston from the undead for decades.

Denzel Washington stars as Frank, an older guy in the train business who's been recently partnered with Will (Chris Pine), a rookie with the right last name to get ahead.

The 28 - year - old now owns two businesses that revolve around the sport and its enviable lifestyle: a DIY surfboard - shaping shop called Blank Surf Shack and his rental service, Marty Surf Delivery which hires out boards to travelers and rookies who aren't quite ready to commit to their own surfboard.

We can all learn something from the story of a Cleveland Indians fan giving Japanese star rookie Shohei Ohtani's first home run ball to a 9 - year - old Angels fan, who then gave the ball back to Ohtani.