Sentences with phrase «setting up leagues»

Online play also offers up daily, weekly and monthly challenges and has the option for setting up leagues as well.

It set up a League with the Landgrave of Hesse, the Dukes of Brunswick and Luneberg, the prince of Anhalt, the Counts of Mansfeld, and the representatives of eleven «cities of Upper Germany, Saxony and the Sea», Strassburg, Ulm, Constance, Reutlingen, Memmingen, Lindau, Bibrach, Isny, Lubeck, Magdeburg and Bremen.

Houston went the distance — 18 innings, to be exact — to bounce the Braves and set up a League Championship Series rematch with the mighty Cardinals

Ross explained that he originally set up the league to showcase the talents of his fellow team mates:

Setting up the league gives us and other university clubs a chance to compete, as well as networking and getting some fantastic opportunity to work together.»

Then take the recent Arsenal game, Chelsea were denied two penalties during the game that left little to be argued, a draw for Chelsea was enough to set up the league at Crystal palace but Chelsea were denied two points that on other occasions could be decisive.

And set up a League of some sort?

Recently the BBC set up some league tables to monitor how various independent weather forecasters performed against the MET office.

Not exact matches

Today Soriano is CEO of Manchester City football club in the U.K.'s Premier League, where he helped set up City Football Group, or CFG, a company jointly owned by Abu Dhabi and China.

Vigorate — which has revenues in the $ 4 to 8 million range and ranked 255th on the 2013 PROFIT 500 — opened a Chicago sales office a few years ago to make further inroads with professional sports teams in the U.S. And in 2012, it set up a similar sales hub in Barcelona, reckoning, as Grieve explains, that the sprawling European soccer industry would also be receptive to the sort of digital marketing the company provides to North American leagues.

It was set up in 1964 by Tim Horton, a former National Hockey League legend in Canada.

«I just suspected that there were higher barriers for something to treat women, a lot higher than were set up for the male drugs,» said Sally Greenberg, executive director of the National Consumers League, which campaigned for the drug.

For example, in the purchase of a boat for recreational purposes, set aside a sum up to the price of the boat to give to the food bank or an organization such as the Urban League.

The Catholic Women's League did much to set up Catholic Soldier's Huts both at home and near the Front — a refuge for Catholic soldiers where they would find accommodation, refreshments, Catholic literature and occasionally Mass..

Former Chelsea striker Didier Drogba, 36, says his Ivory Coast team - mate Serge Aurier, 21, who set up his country's two goals in the win over Japan, has the capacity to step up seamlessly to the Premier League if he leaves Toulouse — Guardian

I am not sure if Arsene Wenger is ready to take too many risks when he sets his Arsenal team up to face Borussia Dortmund in the Champions League, but as usual the Frenchman's tactical options are a little restricted because of the injury situation.

Rodgers is an MVP candidate after throwing for 4,381 yards with 38 touchdowns and five interceptions, and he insists that he is ready to go on Sunday which will set up an intriguing battle between two of the best signal - callers in the league.

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Nothing you could ever do to Giroud would ever make him come good just nothing.Its not a formation set up that gets a player to dribble, score, be world class, be dependable, wow the crowd and the like.Its the players» own ability that makes him do that.Once you don't have it ya ain't gat it brother.Read my lips!!!!! Once ya don't have it ya ain't gat it.As simple as ABC.So I expect this to be another de ja vu case and waste of time if Giroud and Alexis are paired.I'm even shocked it's coming from Henry.He should rather be giving us more reasons why we need a new striker and why we would fail if we don't get the new striker.Forget Giroud's stats for a moment and judge him by how he plays when you are watching him.You would realize that given the same chances at Arsenal strikers who are not even world class can do better.I want a new striker even if not world class and to be honest its not necessarily a world class striker that wins you a league but just increases the chances of winning it.Peace!!!!

Walker has provided five assists in 12 Premier League and Champions League matches this term, while Trippier has set up six strikes in 10 games.

The Premier League runners - up are in need of some serious strengthening in the middle of the park after a disappointing season, and now look set to go ahead with a stunning # 85m move to sign Juventus» Paul Pogba.

Tello starred as Barcelona came back from a 2 - 1 down to beat Spartak Moscow 3 - 2 at the Camp Nou in their opening group game of the Champions League, scoring the first goal before setting up Lionel Messi for his team's second.

Either way: Surely we can agree that the Sixers were able to engage in a strategy of team - building that no other team was willing to embrace to nearly a similar extent, and that while they eventually got pressure from the league to reform, by that point they had successfully pulled off the Process and set themselves up marvelously for the future.

It has never really been about how much you spend or how much of a genius you are, it takes sustained competitiveness at the highest level and / or that extra bit of luck to have a shot at it hence my [previous] happiness at being in the top four [lots of clubs would do almost anything to get in that league], however even that can get stale, to be realistic, I think progress would be aiming for the top two now, enough of these top four stories, it ran its course now we need to aim higher, when the top two is our priority, it becomes inevitable that whoever might be in front of us is bound to slip up on a few occasions ala Bayern and Dortmund, we should now set our sights on the top four of the champions league lol

For me though, the biggest thing about this match was that the manager was able to rest his key players like Alexis Sanchez and Ozil and pretty much all of the starting line - up that will take on Sunderland in the Premier League on Saturday and Arsenal still got the confidence boosting victory to set us back on track.

Yaya Toure, 31, is set to lead a group of up to 13 Manchester City players leaving the Premier League champions this summer (Guardian)

The Swiss international looks a great buy, but he comes into replace Mathieu Flamini and Mikel Arteta, and should do extremely well in our set - up, but much more is needed if we are to challenge for the Premier League title.

A role of the dice is what's needed, if only to give some genuine hope to a very patient set of fans, we could drop out of top 4, absolutely... We could end up winning the league, but at least we would be making a statement by saying that this isn't acceptable anymore!

So judging by the fact that it was the French central midfield star Francis Coquelin sat next to the boss today ahead of the Champions League match at home to Ludogorets Razgrad, I assume that Le Coq is set for his first Arsenal start since picking up a knee injury in the Premier League win over Chelsea.

With Clyne looking like going to Liverpool, Manchester United are sure to up their interest in Barcelona right - back Dani Alves, who looks set to leave the club at the end of the season, which culminates with their Champions League final against Juventus on the 6th of June.

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As we enter the crucial run in to the end of the season, which is the time that we traditionally up our game to reach the Champions League positions, we also have another big advantage in that all of the five teams above us are still in the Champions League and Man United, City, Tottenham and Chelsea are also still in the FA Cup, and are set to face some very tough games in the coming weeks, or maybe months if they do well.

The home side will be without the on - loan midfielder Renato Sanches for the match - up, although he has hardly set the Premier League alight since arriving from Bayern Munich, while our team will be boosted by the return of Olivier Giroud.

Meanwhile, the paper say that Paul Pogba is set to be sidelined for at least six weeks following a hamstring injury he picked up during the club's 2 - 0 Champions League win over Basel.

In our last set of Rankings the Men's League went first, so it's Co-Ed up first this week!

Mason came through the ranks at White Hart Lane, joining the club's youth set - up in 1999, and went on to make 53 Premier League appearances for the club before joining Hull last summer.

Both City and Guardiola's Bayern Munich side were dumped out of the Champions League in the semi-finals this week, with Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid setting up a Madrid derby in the final for the second time in the last three years.

The Citizens have been immensely impressive this season, going on an absurd record - setting run of wins, and look to have all - but wrapped up the Premier League title at this early point in the term.

Premier League runners - up Spurs are set to do battle in the race to try and keep a hold of England star Danny Rose, following the left - back attracting interest from Man United and Inter Milan, as per the Mirror.

Many believe Game 6 was one of the games former referee Tim Donaghy was referring to when he alleged improper officiating during his trial in 2008, although a review set up by the league couldn't find evidence the game was actually fixed.

Sakho's clever flick set up the Frenchman, named Premier League Player of the Year at the London Football Awards on Thursday night, for a crucial goal in West Ham's Champions League pursuit.

That result may have brought us back to challenge at the top of table, but it also means that Tottenham are still unbeaten after the first 7 League games and are setting themselves up to go for gold themselves this season.

During his time with both Arsenal and Barcelona, the 29 - year - old managed to clock up a total of 48 appearances in the Champions League, a total that definitely sets him apart from his Man United teammates in terms of experience.

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Valdes is a proven talent who spent 12 seasons in the Nou Camp first team set - up, racking 535 appearances for the Catalan giants and winning numerous major honours including six La Liga titles and three Champions League crowns.

It seems so long ago that Boozer was a two - time All - Star with the Utah Jazz, set up with an elite point guard (Deron Williams) and an offensive system (Jerry Sloan's) that helped make him one of the best power forwards in the league.

The team line - ups have been confirmed for tonight's UEFA Europa League group stage clash between Everton and Vfl Wolfsburg at Goodison Park, with both managers fielding full strength teams for what is set up to be a cracking tie.

i like the idea of doing one - offs rather than a «full season» because it suits my inconsistency... that being said if someone set up a official league that ran over a series of events then i would be more diligent to follow closely, i thought i had the time to do so but alas i don't the UFC Fantasy page is pretty slick and would probably suit our purposes.

This team is great now and is set - up for the future better than just about any other team in the league, because of Sam.

The League One Apprentice of the Year is just the latest from a youth set up at Crewe that has delivered many exciting prospects.