Sentences with phrase «star games»

Needless to say, all - star games across all sports are becoming somewhat of a joke.

Today, high school football all - star games still exist at the local level.

# 7 Joe Medwick CARTERET Football star at Carteret High; National League MVP in 1937; played in nine All - Star games.

It can only be assumed that other all - star games that are surviving are doing so because someone like Coach Schneider is putting in the necessary work «'' everything from selling ads, coordinating coaches and rosters and working with insurance brokers «'' that such an event demands.

A look ahead at next year's crop with most of the early - entry list known and the high school all - star games behind us.

The logical extension of Gallo's night: All - Star games, awards, walk - off homers, more awards, and, sure, championships.

In an event seen only in All - Star games, LeBron James drove the lane, flipped the ball off the glass and slammed home two points.

(In the four years with two All - Star games, 1959 to» 62, the first game was used as the dividing line.)

One of the benefits of declaring early is you don't have to play in any all star games.

Dave Sime, unheralded Duke sophomore, showed heels to unsuspecting veteran field in sprints at Washington (D.C.) Star games, stepping off 100 yards in 0:09.5 for new U.S. indoor record, also tied mark of 7 seconds flat for 70 yards (Jan. 21).

The Los Angeles Angels joined Major League Baseball as an expansion team in 1961 and have since gone on to win 10 American League Western Division Championships, host three All - Star games and capture the 2002 World Series Championship.

Dallas native Jessie Armstead had a decade - long career in the NFL as a linebacker and played in five Pro Bowl all - star games.

Just before the NBA All - Star Game is played in Los Angeles on February 18, Adidas will be hosting a two - day festival that King said has been a year in the making.

The deal — the largest of its kind in NHL history — also includes the NHL Centre Ice and NHL Game Centre Live properties, as well as rights to the All - Star Game and the NHL Draft.

We were awarded the All - Star Game last season and it was the first All - Star event in Portland's history.

Through a series of YouTube videos, viewers will see players like Minnesota Wild defenseman Ryan Suter and Edmonton Oilers forward Ryan Nugent - Hopkins use the credit card company's payment system as they go through a skills competition, which is a fun variation to the NHL All - Star Game's annual skills competition.

He's amassed all kinds of trophies and records over the years, including two Olympic gold medals and four NBA All - Star Game MVPs.

In his paper «Mega-Events: The effect of the world's biggest sporting events on local, regional, and national economies,» he writes: «A local resident who goes to an All - Star Game when it is in town is spending money at the game that likely would have been spent locally elsewhere in the absence of the game.

With the NBA All - Star Game being held in Canada for the first time this year, the president and general manager of the Toronto Raptors talks about leadership on the court and off, the «Drake Effect» and when to drop the F - bomb:

With Major League Baseball's All - Star Game and Home Run Derby officially in the books for this year, we have reached what baseball enthusiasts call the «dog days of summer.»

With the All - Star Game in the rearview mirror, the NBA is set to begin the final push of the regular season.

We're doing the same thing at the NBA All - Star Game next weekend - they're going to use our tech in the slam dunk contest and the game itself.

The average 26 - year - old player in this year's All - Star game likely has been playing baseball since age 5 and has been on a pro scout's radar since his late teens.

This week, millions of people worldwide will have watched the 87th Major League Baseball (MLB) All - Star Game, showcasing 70 top players from the American and National Leagues.

LeBron James and Dwyane Wade celebrate their 141 - 139 victory over the Western Conference during the 2010 NBA All - Star Game.

The basement was like the All - Star game locker room: all around me, six or seven hundred pounds» worth, carefully iced and waiting their turn, were the Lebron Jameses and Kevin Durants of the fish world.

SAN DIEGO, CA - JULY 12: American League All - Star Josh Donaldson # 20 of the Toronto Blue Jays looks on during batting practice prior to the 87th MLB All - Star Game at PETCO Park

Major League Baseball has partnered with tech giant Intel to bring some big surprises to this year's Home Run Derby and MLB All - Star Game.

Also, for the first time, NIKE will become a marketing partner of the NBA Development League (NBA D - League), engaging in seasonlong marketing activities with a major presence during the NBA D - League All - Star Game presented by Kumho Tire and the NBA D - League Showcase presented by Samsung.

An on - stage conversation between Malcolm Gladwell and Bill Gurley became the South by Southwest version of a championship fight on Sunday, or perhaps an all - star game.

Following the birth of the child, the couple went public again — they were photographed together this year at the Super Bowl, Grammys and NBA All - Star Game, and they are expected to be at the Oscars on Sunday, too, Page Six notes.

Not two days after the Braves game, last Monday, the guys and I were attending the WNBA All - Star Game here in Orlando.

We are deeply concerned that this discriminatory law runs counter to our guiding principles of equality and mutual respect and do not yet know what impact it will have on our ability to successfully host the 2017 All - Star Game in Charlotte.

I think they all feel very strongly that this is a core principle of our league, and that where we choose to celebrate something like an All - Star Game, that those values should be honored.

If you're looking for a display of uncorked athleticism, there's no better show than the NBA All - Star Game.

Last night, the NBA All - Star Game saw one of the strangest national anthem renditions ever at a sporting event, when Fergie took to the microphone and offered up a sultry, sensual, slow - jam version of «The Star - Spangled Banner.»

After he wasn't named to the NBA All - Star game last year, Jordan processed his disappointment for the Cauldron.

The AEG owned and operated arena continues to distinguish itself as the host of major, high - profile events of national and international distinction including the 2004 & 2011 NBA All - Star Games, 2002 NHL All - Star Game, 2000 Democratic National Convention, 2009 World Figure Skating Championships and 15 of the last 16 GRAMMY Awards shows.

From hosting events including the NCAA Men's and Women's Final Four, Super Bowl and NBA All - Star Game to actually housing our local NFL and NBA teams that we are so proud of, there's no place like New Orleans to be a sports fan — and no place like Windsor Court Hotel to provide home - field advantage during a stay in The Big Easy.

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We're watching the All - Star Game and eating beer brauts... The cobbler recipe was the perfect dessert for our very American date night.

When the great unwashed masses stumble onto the internet to vote for the players they want to appear in the All - Star Game, this is what they see:

no, the coaches kept Simmons out of the All - Star game.

There was the monstrous home run that Roy Hobbs had nothing on, the one that hit the rightfield light standard in Tiger Stadium in the»71 All - Star Game.

The night before the All - Star Game in Baltimore, there's Reggie playing in the celebrity home run contest.

It belongs to Ahmad Rashad, whom Reggie is calling to find out if he will be present for the celebrity home run contest that Reggie will host at the 1993 All - Star Game.

Heck, if he misses every game until the All - Star Game, he's my pick.

I would rather be wrong about him deserving an All - Star Game than be wrong about him not deserving one.

He made one more All - Star Game appearance in 1991 with the Washington Bullets, but ended up just playing 32 more games afterwards before hanging up the threads.

He and Amber weremarried in June 2003, and a month later, as CC was en route to his firstAll - Star Game, Margie called to say that Corky, on a visit back to Vallejo, hadbeen found to have terminal stomach cancer.