Sentences with phrase «than professional players»

It seems that children playing baseball are injured more than any other age group, more so than professional players.

The program plays a larger range of hands than professional players do, making bets with weak hands that professional players tend to fold.

Casumo reckons that «with 2,501 professional footballers in the Premier League and English Football League, and 661 of those playing in League 2, incredibly it means that the top FIFA gamers are earning 25 % more than all professional players.»

Not exact matches

Mike Caro, an author, casino executive and professional poker player, once said, «Aces are larger than life and greater than mountains.»

Tanking is obviously an inexact science, and has much more to do with lineup construction and the allocation of playing time than anything else — players are professional athletes, and convincing them to lose on purpose to bring younger, cheaper new talent to their franchise isn't exactly a great sell.

The National Hockey League (NHL ®), founded in 1917, consists of 30 Member Clubs, with players from more than 20 countries represented across team rosters, competing for the most revered trophy in professional sports — the Stanley Cup ®.

«Most individuals should not try to compete against talented professional investors any more than most weekend tennis players should try to play matches against world - ranked professional tennis players.

Greater joy than being a professional NBA basketball player all - star.»

Yes there has been problems with Alexis of late and I hope it's not on purpose to force a transfer with one season remaining, he's in a great position move and contract wise so I'd hate to think a player of his talents would act anything other than professional.

Maybe it's that they feel more comfortable evaluating players with professional experience rather than pretending they have the resources or desire to properly vet international free agents and players hitting with aluminum bats.

Far far more talented players than jack receive harsher treatment than he does.He has weak ankles and opponents know this and make a beeline for them.Weak ankles are not a good asset if your a professional footballer.His only hope is a withdrawn role and even then he will have joined a long list of injury prone players.

These are professional players, go watch Ramsay out of position, rather than box - to - box; on one goal has was not even looking.

The last 16 years have seen the creation of the MLS professional league, an expansion of the game's United States fan base to more than 90 million and now a roster of four million registered youth players.

It means only nine players in history have more professional majors than Faldo: Jack Nicklaus with 18, Walter Hagen with 11, Ben Hogan and Gary Player with nine, Tom Watson and Palmer with eight and Bobby Jones, Gene Sarazen and Harry Vardon with seven.

It's been more than three decades since Tony Trabert, who won five Grand Slam singles titles, slipped on sneakers and whacked a ball across the net in his last professional match, but just because he's no longer a tennis player doesn't mean he's no longer a player in tennis.

Ozil had more than a month off after the world cup so i do not think that the number of matches he has played so far this season is too much to run a professional player aground.

do nt talk as if you knew more than professional fitness coaches and players..

The league's current structure for signing international amateurs — players born outside the United States ages 16 - 22 and with less than five years of experience in a professional league recognized by MLB — involves allotted signing bonus values for teams, with more money available the worse a team's record the previous year, very much like a draft.

Let's get real here.It is very unlikely that ANY professional player will ever say anything derogatory about a teammate that has just left the club.If Jack had said about Coq - «Grew up playing with him in the Youth Team and have fond memories of a player they though he had very limited ability he always gave his all.Very surprised and disappointed the club never invested in a World Class defensive midfielder that we have quite obviously been lacking for a number of seasons and would no doubt have improved the defensive weakness we have shown over a number of seasons» we would have echoed his thoughts entirely.If he had said about Theo - «A player who should have been so much better than he ended up being.He had everything needed to be a prolific player for our club but I can understand the fans frustrations with his continued lack - lustre performances and total lack of a football brain.I think this is best explained by the managers preference to play a player of such limited ability as Alex Iwobi in front of Theo pretty much says it all» we again would have all nodded our agreement.Although Jack never mentioned Alexis Sanchez I would imagine something along the lines of «If the Manager had not persisted with players with such limited ability such as Francis and Theo and instead bought the world class players needed into the club then Sanchez would still most likely be here.The fans must wonder what the hell goes on at the club as they pay fortunes for the privalage of following our club but it seems the millions generated ends up purchasing a new Texas Ranch for the Owner or in a yearly renumeration of # 9million pounds to our manager».

Because they cater to professional players, their line moves are much sharper than other offshore sportsbooks.

Unfortunately I regard them as no more than ok squad players and would swop them all for a true professional like Lemar or Draxler.

These are so called professional players, Most of them earn more money in a week than the average joe could earn in ten years!

That becomes likelier if the playoff involves more than two players, and it's just about the peak of drama in professional golf if it happens.

It's part of a larger pattern of mismanaging player - assets so conspicuously that you're forced to offload them for less than market value — at the end of the day, a professional team is a group of assets, and a huge part of managing a team is doing what you can to increase the market valuation of those assets — and that's where I call this «vendetta» and not «style,» because even a disciplinarian could offer little carrots like, y ’ know, an absolutely deserved All - Star nod (at ZERO cost to himself or the club) but instead chose to publicly flip his most gifted player the bird.

They play it much harder in the tall trade, says Halberstam, because, while we may think of our sports stars as heroes, «the new American athlete, particularly the modern American professional basketball player... was rarely confident about anything save his own sport... he was more often than not black, often came from pathetic economic and psychological circumstances, was a basketball player out of desperation....

There are more than 2000 professional football teams in the world, some players are bound to be unknown.

In fact, because of the compact playing area, mobility is prized, and the players tend to be cute little devils, much smaller than most professional athletes.

If you think you can scout a player better than Arsenals professional scouting network, then how about you apply for a job?

I've had enough of this crap, look I honesty do think giroud is a good striker and he is a fairly consistant goal scorer, and every time he played for arsenal he gave 100 percent and I think we all appreciated the way he was, a true professional, but to say we as fans were too critical of him or that he didn't have enough of a chance at arsenal is just absolute bullshit, first of all he has scored more headed goals than any other player in the prem since he arrived in 2012 so we did play to his strengths and he was our main striker for four long years and every pundit on sky and motd has at one point said Giroud is not enough for arsenal to win the title ect, but, now we have sold him he is apparently the best thing since sliced bread and the best buy of the transfer window blah blah fuc * # * g blah.

All players should give 100 % in every game and if that means running non stop for 90 minutes plus or taking the ball in the face to stop a goal bound effort from the opposition then so be it, us fans should expect nothing less weather or not we are fans of Arsenal, Leicester or whoever, the players get paid thousands to do what i did for fun growing up only i ran for longer than these so called professionals.

If there was a touch from Bellerin it was not enough to knock over a domino never mind a professional athlete, and the dive from Moses in the FA cup final was even more blatant, so maybe Conte needs to work on his players and get them to stop cheating rather than moaning about the consequences.

Since 2014, these tryouts have resulted directly in more than 50 players signing professional contracts and over 30 players have moved up from the Pacific Association to higher affiliated and independent leagues.

Frank Borghi, who played in goal when the USA beat England 1 - 0 in the 1950 World Cup Finals, began life as a professional baseball player and always preferred to the throw the ball out rather than kick it.

It's been more than a quarter - century since the hit movie «A League of Their Own» brought the All - American Girls Professional Baseball League back to life, and since then, the players from that league have used the platform to create more awareness about girls and women playing baseball.

When Anthony Caceres was growing up and dreaming of being a professional footballer, there was one player he admired more than any other, a player he...

The academics also observed: «Interestingly, most interviewees felt that a high proportion of players who ultimately gained professional contracts compensated for technical, tactical or physical limitations through being mentally tough, and thus mental toughness, rather than technical skill, was a better indicator of who would progress.»

When Anthony Caceres was growing up and dreaming of being a professional footballer, there was one player he admired more than...

A study by igaming company Casumo has found that the average salary for a League 2 professional football player of # 47,372, is almost # 10,000 less than the average of # 56,870 in total tournament prizes for the Top 10 FIFA gamers last year.

Professional players dedicate many hours each week shopping for the best price, and will often spend more time in this endeavor than handicapping.

Those red - and - black stripes still mean something, and Milan's legacy hasn't faded beyond recognition, but as players even younger than Donnaruma start to cycle into the professional ranks, the club's successes aren't far from becoming «a thing my parents told me about.»

He is now the player who has committed the second most fouls in the Premier League after Kevin Davies and has eight yellow cards, most of them professional fouls committed out of desperation whilst chasing back, rather than a result of a desire to enforce himself physically in the middle of the pitch.

That ruling was quashed, clearing Sakho to return to football as a professional player rather than a pariah, but after picking up an Achilles injury he is not expected to be back until September.

Pele played against semi professional players for more than half of his career with a squad full of stars

We actually have several professional prop players that will take a contrarian view on our props and bet almost any one that moves more than 20 cents (betting towards the original price).

Since 2012, more than 100 professional hockey players and athletes representing 20 NCAA organizations have joined in supporting gay teammates, a step that itself signifies the possibility of a sea change in professional sport.

The risk of brain injuries in professional football has gotten enormous attention thanks to more than 4,200 former players suing the National Football League, alleging the league withheld information about the long - term dangers of concussions.

After you do, I'm confident you will realize your success rate is much higher than you thin; k and also a professional baseball or basketball player.

French researchers used clinical examinations and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) studies to determine whether retired professional rugby players experience more serious symptoms of cervical spine degeneration than people in the general population.

As a professional player, it would be short - sighted to say StarCraft is more difficult than chess.

Baseball caused more eye injuries among amateur and professional players in the US than any other sport in 1991, accounting for 18 per cent of the total.