Sentences with phrase «school games of the past»

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On every game day for approximately the past 10 seasons, members of the coaching staff have played pick - up basketball right after school.

As richly rewarding as hosting young stars of the game can be (many ruggers who've played at past KOTs have gone on to play for, and even Captain, our USA National teams), there's no greater joy than watching U-8s and U-10s blossom into feisty U-12s and eventually become skillful, competitive Middle Schoolers!

The VOL has won six of seven state title games in the past five years, including two in 2015, when perhaps the best team in Central Catholic history won the small - school open division game, and Sierra - Manteca took Division IV - A.

An underrated small - school superstar, Ekeler has played only 35.0 percent of the snaps over the past four games, but he's averaged 6.3 carries and three targets in those contests for an efficient 60.5 yards, three receptions, and one touchdown per game.

He was with Maryland for the past two school years, which means that he was a part of two Terrapin teams that reached the NCAA championship game, including winning the whole shebang in 2017.

In the past few months for instance, Reno has reported on a high school coach who allegedly gave his team the password to a porn site to create team camaraderie, a coach who allegedly pulled a gun on a parent after a game (not child abuse, but still pretty unsavory), and a youth cheer coach who stands accused of running a prostitution ring in her spare time.

Ron Crawford, a member and past chairman of the Park District Soccer Advisory Committee, said the district's 220 soccer teams play 125 games each week on school land because the Park District doesn't have enough fields for the program.

When I finally had a chance to speak, we were already running over the 2 1/2 hours allotted for the roundtable, so I was only able to briefly touch on two of my many message points: one, that the game can be and is being made safer, and two, that, based on my experience following a high school football team in Oklahoma this past season - which will be the subject of a MomsTEAM documentary to be released in early 2013 called The Smartest Team - I saw the use of hit sensors in football helmets as offering an exciting technological «end around» the problem of chronic under - reporting of concussions that continues to plague the sport and remains a major impediment, in my view, to keeping kids safe (the reasons: if an athlete is allowed to keep playing with a concussion, studies show that their recovery is likely to take longer, and they are at increased risk of long - term problems (e.g. early dementia, depression, more rapid aging of the brain, and in rare cases, chronic traumatic encephalopathy, and in extremely rare instances, catastrophic injury or death.)

Taking a trip back to the past, Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures is a love letter to old school gamers, while paying tribute to many of the elements that have haunted the Nerd over the years.

The old school charm of top - down games from the past is gone in a transition to a polygonal 3rd person view, but the added dimension gives an extra depth to the overall gameplay experience and character studies Nihon Falcom is known for.

Move past that basic set of elements, though, and you start to see the quirkiness that is quintessentially SEGA: old - school combat where you initiate enemy encounters with random punks on the street JRPG - style; mini games that involve cooking noodles to the correct hardness and following the rules of the road with passengers in your taxi; and best of all, a ton of missions that just come out of left field, like helping a student cram for his exams by answering questions about physics and grammar.

This past school year, the Moveable Game Jam was held at eight New York City locations, including the Museum of the Moving Image.

One of the best outcomes from playing the game, says Hawley Miles, is when a school district begins to think differently from how they had in the past, which is what happened in Memphis, Tenn., one of the first districts to test the game.

At interscholastic events such as high school football games, where schools of different communities come together, people feel great pride when the buses from their schools travel past.

We are a network of six schools that have demonstrated game - changing academic gains over the past three years.

Case in point: in the past few years, when new games of any import (according to the students) were released, many of them missed school because they attended the midnight release of the game (e.g. Skyrim, Assassin's Creed III, Black Ops and so on).1

The creation of high - quality, sustainable facilities in safe environments has been gradually building the foundations for a solid and promising future for our national game over the past 15 years, and with schools and students only set to continue to benefit, many may look to the future with optimism as long as this support for the grassroots continues.

The charter school movement, founded and nurtured by American educational visionaries in the 70's, 80's and 90's and which for the past two decades has been the single biggest game - changer in public education, is on the verge of forfeiting its basic principles in order to place a charter evangelist at the US Department of Education.

Speaking of Gamifi - ed — this past school year some higher ed educators and I combined our classrooms to study games.

While millions of basketball fans watched NCAA March Madness playoff games this past March, more than 7,900 schools and one million students from around the nation competed in the bracket - style «March Math Madness» (MX3) contest sponsored by Utah - based, EdTech company, Imagine Learning.

Following a successful launch on Steam, BAFL - Brakes Are For Losers will entice Nintendo Switch players to the party with an invitation to race through its state of the art party racer with old school art inspired by epic arcade games of the past.

The old - school controls and menus of past Final Fantasy games remain pretty much intact.

One of the biggest things for me was how the game opened, like past games who you play as is chosen by a series of general quiz questions, I am going to outright say this but the game is clearly targeted towards children based on the more school based questions.

It's one of those «blast - from - the - past» sort of games that combines 2D and 3D platforming blissfully into one neat little package, with a number of old - school levels to choose from.

For old - school fans, you'll appreciate how it pays homage to the Bomberman games of the past, at least in terms of modernizing the stories of characters like Buggler (Bagular in the old games) and the Dastardly Bombers.

If you are an old school game player you will notice many references to games of the past.

This gives an old school feel with it, seeing as how many games from the past had this type of graphics, especially in arcade shooters.

What made 3D Land so exciting to play was just how nicely it adapted all those old - school concepts onto the 3D handheld; each of the levels offered a small helping of various Mario - style challenges, and though they were a bit smaller than the stages in past 3D Mario titles, the game seemed to have the perfect pace for fans of portable games.

These range from the school uniforms of past Persona games to deeper references, like outfits based on Devil Summoner.

With the Thors Military Academy being the central hub of the game, The Legend of Heroes: Trails Of Cold Steel's progression system is slightly different from past entries in the series, with characters taking part, as already mentioned, in different school activitieof the game, The Legend of Heroes: Trails Of Cold Steel's progression system is slightly different from past entries in the series, with characters taking part, as already mentioned, in different school activitieof Heroes: Trails Of Cold Steel's progression system is slightly different from past entries in the series, with characters taking part, as already mentioned, in different school activitieOf Cold Steel's progression system is slightly different from past entries in the series, with characters taking part, as already mentioned, in different school activities.

The video game incident was one of several involving the future Parkland school shooter that were included in a release Thursday of Broward Sheriff's Office records of calls to police from three houses where Cruz lived over the past eight years.