Sentences with phrase «up the leagues in»

If the league is serious about player safety and cleaning up the league in general, these are the types of plays they should start cracking down on.

And they have worked their way up the leagues in recent years.

As Brazil's art scene hits some sort of commercial maturity — with European and North American galleries eager to get in on the action — SP - Arte, has comfortably gone up a league in international art fair hierarchy.

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.

Audit, tax and consulting firm RSM has reached the top spot in the Q1 Experian league table of the most active M&A advisers in the UK, up from third position last year.

This week Fortune caught up with Jarred Kennedy, the co-head of esports at Riot Games, to discuss the world championship (the finals will take place Nov. 4 at the Bird's Nest National Stadium in Beijing) as well as the overall growth of the esports industry and Riot's plans, much like rival Activision Blizzard, to remodel its own esports league after major professional sports leagues like the NFL and NBA.

Both players have excelled as starters, putting up career years, and the Warriors» starting five has been the best five - man unit in the league based on net rating.

In fact, every team in the league has a Facebook, Twitter and Instagram account to provide fans with up - to - date news and engage them by highlighting specific fans, giving them a chance to win prizes like team memorabiliIn fact, every team in the league has a Facebook, Twitter and Instagram account to provide fans with up - to - date news and engage them by highlighting specific fans, giving them a chance to win prizes like team memorabiliin the league has a Facebook, Twitter and Instagram account to provide fans with up - to - date news and engage them by highlighting specific fans, giving them a chance to win prizes like team memorabilia.

When Cuban picked up the Dallas Mavericks, they had been voted the worst team in the league.

In the AFC title game, against the Jaguars» league - best passing defense, Brady took control of the game, carving up Jacksonville to erase a 10 - point fourth - quarter deficit in minuteIn the AFC title game, against the Jaguars» league - best passing defense, Brady took control of the game, carving up Jacksonville to erase a 10 - point fourth - quarter deficit in minutein minutes.

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.

Two, we would end up with a bunch of people that we don't know having an undefined involvement in the start of the league.

Washington is the third - worst pass defense in the league, giving up 288 yards through the air per game.

I finally gave up on the official procedure and found a way in (with camera) thanks to a friend at the United Nations, who put me in touch with an official of the Arab League, who put me in touch with a shady character who «facilitated» my entry in 2008 by crossing several palms with silver to procure a visa.

He was a college player who now keeps up his skills in two recreational leagues.

You lock up arms all the time in this league.»

While more and more young superstars rise up the charts of league leaders, James» name remains a constant — he's currently fourth in the NBA in points per game, second in assists per game, 17th in rebounds and 21st in steals.

Facing off against a Texans team that gives the fifth most points up to tight ends in the league, he's a good play this week as well.

In the past year, the Major League Soccer team the Seattle Sounders signed up to use Starfire as their practice facility, giving the nonprofit additional cachet and revenue.

For example, there's Robert Morris University's scholarship for «League of Legends» players, which awards up to $ 19,000 in room and board for highly skilled gamers, similar to how rising stars are currently recruited for baseball or football.

The up - and - coming ballplayers are the building blocks of any business's future and you've got to get and / or grow the best possible raw material for your team as cost - effectively as possible, which in the major leagues actually means as early as possible.

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

If it is to have any hope of playing in the same league, Twitter needs to up its game substantially, and the NFL helps it do that.

He hosts his own podcast on Yahoo's «The Vertical» and has taken up networking in other fields, inspired by advice from the league, the NBA Players Association, and his teammate Chris Paul's own «amazing» Rolodex.

Uber, on the other hand, has teamed up with a number of companies, which include United Airlines, Starbucks, Morgan Stanley and the National Football League in order to promote its ride - hailing service to as many mainstream consumers as possible.

Even more evidence has emerged in recent weeks that the owners fear Trump's ability to rile up the league's fan base.

However, those constraints DO make a difference when you're playing in the big leagues, so figure that you'll have to step up to the next category, before there really are NO practical limits to what you can do and how you can live.

Watch parties popped up in places far more varied than just craft breweries in Brooklyn, with fans gathering everywhere from Hermosa Beach in California to a library in Birmingham, Ala., to the Tulsa Drillers» minor league baseball stadium in Oklahoma.

Fantastic rewards rates of up to 5.2 % and good perks for frequent flyers put this card in a league of its own.

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Here you can see how your funds fared or how they rank against the competition, just as any sports fan does when looking up the league standings in the sports pages.

It was a value built from the ground floor up in this league long before I ever got involved in it, and I'm sort of carrying the mantle now.

Though the university never admitted discrimination by the school's then - dean and faculty, research by the Anti-Defamation League showed that 65 % of the Jewish students at that time either flunked out or were forced to repeat coursework - up to a year of it - in order to stay.

The first billboard was put up in New Jersey by the atheists at the entrance to the Lincoln tunnel and the Catholic League put the billboard up in NY at the other entrance of the tunnel.

Although not in the same league, another great man was tried, and convicted, on trumped - up charges.

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.

Almost two - thirds of the top 1,000 primary schools in the 2013 league tables were schools with a religious character, although they only make up about one - third of all English primary schools.

Say I am talking about baseball, and different leagues in different countries and I'm comparing and contrasting various types of equipment used in those leagues (aluminum bats in college, only wood in the pros, etc.) and the topic of baseball size comes up, and it's noted that the baseballs in Japan are smaller than the balls used in Major League Baseball.

I also ended up playing in national league volleyball, so I travelled every weekend throughout the country to play.

So, consider for a moment hypocrisy of the Jewish Anti-Deflamation League's refusal to take up the cause of defending the right of Moslems to build a mosque in New York City - and ask what may be motivating that them.

The league also pointed out another rule in its bylaws stipulating that if a team can not follow the playoff schedule, it is up to the school to remove itself from the playoffs.

I mean, you invested a whole $ 10 in this league so you have to spend the majority of your time over the next four months keeping up with every stat.

He said that he got into Yale only because they were «hard up for students,» but he went on to earn himself a respected academic place in this Ivy League school.

I looked up TT because i just saw him play in a minor league baseball game and recognized the name.

Founded in the late 1970s, the TAPPS league is made up of 220 schools.

We gave up the thousands of dollars and the years of bard work we had invested in our careers and «Ivy League» education.

My mother was one of the early members of La Leche League, a breastfeeding advocacy community, and so I grew up in a home that normalized breastfeeding and distrusted formula companies.

Though the university never admitted discrimination by the school's then - dean and faculty, research by the Anti-Defamation League showed that 65 % of the Jewish students at that time either flunked out or were forced to repeat coursework — up to a year of it — in order to stay.

And thank goodness for that because after getting beat down in my latest match up for my Fantasy football league, I needed a cool down.