Sentences with phrase «school and college games»

Passionate about the sport of Soccer and have participated since grade school as a player, then as an adult moved into coaching and officiating high school and college games.

He was an incredible yardage machine, having rushed for more than 100 yards in 25 of his 34 games at Florida, and in 70 out of 83 high school and college games combined.

Until Baltimore summoned him on Aug. 11, after Jamal Lewis tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee in training camp, Allen was unemployed and had figured on spending the fall watching high school and college games in and around his hometown of Commerce, Ga..

I arrogantly declined to attend the local high school and college games; and with eyes narrowed and brows aloft I flipped from the Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday TV battles to the public broadcasting channel for a film by Ingmar Bergman or a lecture from Chicago on recent trends in Bulgarian poetry.

Not exact matches

Pro football, far and away the most riveting of television sports events, is clearly superior to its college counterpart, which, excellent at its best, can fade to unutterable tedium when the game is the Utah School of Mines vs. the University of Southern North Dakota at Hoople.

As a former High School and college baseball umpire who volunteered many years as a Little League umpire and has been teaching new umpires in youth baseball now for twenty years AND a Roman Catholic I was thoroughly amused by Mr. Prothero's take on the Series game ending Obstruction call and his big picture analogy from the Vaticand college baseball umpire who volunteered many years as a Little League umpire and has been teaching new umpires in youth baseball now for twenty years AND a Roman Catholic I was thoroughly amused by Mr. Prothero's take on the Series game ending Obstruction call and his big picture analogy from the Vaticand has been teaching new umpires in youth baseball now for twenty years AND a Roman Catholic I was thoroughly amused by Mr. Prothero's take on the Series game ending Obstruction call and his big picture analogy from the VaticAND a Roman Catholic I was thoroughly amused by Mr. Prothero's take on the Series game ending Obstruction call and his big picture analogy from the Vaticand his big picture analogy from the Vatican.

I can't believe that Summer is almost over and Fall is just around the corner, but with school getting back in session, college football games starting this week and NFL regular season right around the corner, it seems the time is here.

Of the 1,700 - plus players to wear a catcher's mask in a major league game, of the thousands to do it professionally, of the tens of thousands to do it in high school and college, no catcher could hit baseballs better than he could.

«(Prolific Prep is a) good example of what I'll be doing in college — flying to games, balancing school and competing against top competition.

Paul Brown is 61, and there has been no banking of the fires that have burned within him since his first coaching job at Severn (Md.) Prep in 1930 and that have produced 299 wins and 15 ties in 400 high - school, college and pro games.

But more revealing was this: As the Auburn players walked off the field, they genuinely believed they had found their 2013 version of Newton — who like Marshall had left an SEC school (Florida), gone to junior college for a season (Blinn College in Brenham, Texas) and was the team's opening - game starter as a college for a season (Blinn College in Brenham, Texas) and was the team's opening - game starter as a College in Brenham, Texas) and was the team's opening - game starter as a junior.

I finished high school in Jackson, Mississippi, and we went to the Egg Bowl.5 The annual Ole Miss - Mississippi State game is called the Egg Bowl because â $ ¦ well, because itâ $ ™ s college football, basically.

I knew who the All - Americans were, I knew where all the top NFL players attended school, and my love for college football only grew when I began attending major (sometimes) college games at Missouri in the late 1990s.

Cosentino was a four - star recruit out of high school and has a strong arm — here he is throwing a football over a four - story building — but he doesn't quite seem up to the task of playing minutes in one of the biggest bowl games of the college football season.

Besides watching every game on film and fielding the complaints of outraged general managers, Kuharich assigns officials to games — there are 45 NFL officials of whom 35 are used every weekend — keeps tabs on other officials, college and high school, who would like to get into professional football and, of course, makes certain that the officials he has now are always in control of the game.

Last year, COF played home games at West Memphis» Mid-South Community College and a local Catholic high school, but scheduling at those venues didn't work out this season.

So in college / high school and adult games, the referee team are discouraged from shaking hands with the teams after the game because emotions are running high and it discourages post-match silliness.

Athletes learn from outstanding veteran college and high school coaches selected for their ability to coach and teach the game of football.

After winning section titles as a freshman and junior, the four - year varsity letter winner has his sights set on a third SJS crown to add to his high school accomplishments before he transitions his game and life to college and beyond.

For more than 13 years, the U.S. Army All - American Bowl has been the nation's premier high school football game, serving as the preeminent launching pad for America's future college and NFL stars.

PAYTON: You've got more people in high school and college who know what they're doing coaching the passing game.

Periodically you have what you saw with Aaron Rodgers behind Brett Favre, but we're much further along in the high school game, the college game and the pro game in taking a snap and throwing it to someone.

Williams graduated from Grambling in 1977 and has maintained close ties to the school and to its living icon, Eddie Robinson, who has won more games, 405, than any other college coach.

Wentz is looking like the next great QB and he is from a small school and has some similar measurables, but Wentz WAS accurate and he won almost every single college game he ever started, often carrying the team on his back.

Athletes at every level — from Pop Warner and Pee - Wee leagues to high school, college and professional teams — are gearing up to play a game notorious for causing serious neck and spine injuries.

Aspiring soccer players who participate in recreational, competitive, high school or college teams, and who are looking to improve their soccer game will be able to concentrate on their individual development by joining our small group sessions.

Like most Midwestern - born players, he participated in football and basketball in high school but decided to try lacrosse in college because he felt he was too small for the other sports and still wanted a game with contact.

However, in the tristate area of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, most Friday - night high school football games were called off, most Saturday small - college soccer games were scrapped.

Over that time US Lacrosse — which makes rules and policies for most levels of the game, helps develop the game at its grassroots and sanctions youth tournaments, the high school national championships and the college club championships — has increased what it spends to promote the sport from $ 1.1 million to $ 9 million.

So that's why players cut down the net, and how an obscure 1920s Indiana high school tradition became an essential part of college basketball's biggest game, all thanks to one coach who bridged the two.

The paradox of team golf creates a challenge for talented players as they make their way through high school and college as the best kids on the course are trained to strive to better their games for their own advancement.

He loves playing in high school and I'm sure he's going to be amazing when he gets there, to the college game.»

In 1956 when Fletcher was called in as head football coach, the school was called Northern Illinois State College, had an undergraduate enrollment of 3,676 students (a majority of them coeds) and a football team that had won six games and lost 29 in four seasons.

But this is what former mob bookie Jahoda means when he says of college students who gamble, «They are in an atmosphere where the games are important...» The green campus bettor is given to wagering on his own school, and the gambling lines in college towns are skewed to reflect this audience.

Brezovar, a senior guard at the Milwaukee School of Engineering, averaged 35.8 points a game for the Raiders and became the state's first college player to score 1,000 points in a season.

(Of the 20 or so kids who graduate every year, all but two or three go to Israel and study in a yeshiva for at least a year before starting college in the U.S.) On Tuesday morning the rabbis tell Katz they want the home game against Capital Christian, scheduled for 6:30 p.m. that day, to be moved up an hour, before school lets out, to keep the crowds smaller.

Rashad Jones - Jennings, Arkansas - Little Rock The Trojans» 6» 8», 232 - pound forward was the No. 2 rebounder in junior college basketball last season, and after transferring to a four - year school he is still one of the chairmen of the boards: He was the country's No. 3 rebounder with 11.7 a game (while averaging 13.0 points), and he set a Sun Belt record with 30 rebounds in a Dec. 13 win over Arkansas - Pine Bluff.

Girls drive this game — they outplay the guys almost 12 to 1 in high school and college — and that's not a bad thing.»

Our coaches are well trained and have taken the positive coaching alliance training and have played the game in high school and / or college.

I was really interested in hearing how exactly they proposed to do that, especially in terms of changing the macho culture of the sport and breaking the «code of silence» that continues to prompt players at every level of football, whether it be N.F.L., college, high school or youth - to hide concussion symptoms in order to stay in the game and avoid being perceived as somehow letting their coach, their teammates, or their parents down.

But while the sidelines of college and professional games are crowded with doctors and certified athletic trainers, few high schools and youth leagues have those resources.

Based on data showing that, while youth football players sustained concussions at about the same rate in practice and overall as high school and college athletes, they were injured at a rate 3 to 4 times higher than older players during games, the UPMC researchers predicted that Pop Warner's new rules «may not only have little effect on reducing on reducing concussions but may also actually increase the incidence of concussions in games via reduced time learning proper tackling in practice.»

«It becomes kind of a number game,» said another of the school's practice of listing the grade - point averages and SAT scores of those who were rejected or accepted to dozens of colleges on its Web site.

So for these young players their games have the same importance as they do for high school and college players.

«As a former high school and college athlete as well as a parent of a lacrosse player, I've seen many young competitors sit out of games because of concussions,» said Karen Rizzo, MD, president of the Pennsylvania Medical Society.

High school players suffer concussions at a rate of 11.2 concussions per 10,000 athletic exposures — a practice or a game — as opposed to 6.3 for college football players, according to a study released by the Institute of Medicine and the National Research Council.

The Oneida County Sports Authority will provide a first class baseball facility and host high school, college, American Legion and professional baseball games.

«As the director of the fourth and fifth grade choir at Kaegebein Elementary School, I couldn't be prouder of the singers who performed a traditional rendition of our national anthem at an event as exciting as a Canisius College basketball game.

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The state - financed «mobile tour» required acquiring a tractor trailer that traveled around the metro region «promoting the excitement of the Super Bowl experience» at 24 towns, parking at community events in New York and at high school and college football games.