FN: a person who is an active member of a competitionAt Indiana State University and during his early NBA career , Bird gulled fans , opposing players , and the media .I : Not much , but when I have nothing better to do I enjoy watching the players .but you do n't know that and but he 's lost he was an outstanding football playerOn the talk shows , the players testified that Bradley is `` intelligent , `` `` knowledgeable , `` `` well-rounded , `` `` compassionate , `` `` concerned , `` `` wonderful , `` `` a great leader , `` `` a great listener , `` and `` a good person . ``Barshefsky ) , kicking tennis player Anna Kournikova when she 's down .Piazza was the Dodgers ' best player on the field , it s most popular with the fans , and it s most expensive to keep .uh it 's it 's hard to uh name him with some of the very top players i think sometimes but i 'm glad he 's playing in the in the pros yeah he 's ain his type offense he was looking for youth and for uh uh uh to rebuild a new team and i think that was the reason why he cut all the playersand it was weird it was like they were trying if you were good boy let 's do n't have you on our team you know but um this year they had all good players except for the quarterbackThis has produced a mad scramble for players over a period of hours rather than weeks , with stars hopping from one team to the next .it is so much fun to see these players you see on TV to and to hear that ball go whizzing byplayers now days compared with the old players it seems like most the players today arecourse we have Duke University that was the national champions last year so i 'm kind of hoping that they 'll repeat again this year they have a lot of the same players backand you know uh you know i used to think that that one one player really does n't make the clubThese players are much better than the low-stakes players and take my money in a hurry .it really only takes one player to really give any team a bad rap you know one thatThe Secretary of duhFENSE may be introduced at the annual Army- Navy game , while the crowd is shouting to the players on the field , `` DEE-fense , DEE -fense ! ``And , while this sounds like a cliché , it 's undoubtedly true : Parcells makes his players believe they can win , so they do .Here are Shafer 's instructions to the players :In New England , nine of his assistant coaches were former Giants assistants ; at the Jets , he has enlisted former Giants players to coach his running backs , kickers , and tight ends .Statisticians insist there is no such thing as a `` hot hand `` in basketball , that accurate shots distribute themselves in random patterns , that just the fact that a player has made several shots in a row does not increase the likelihood that he will make the next one .they need players and and they need a front office that that can judge players we 've traded away so many good players in the past five years and got nothing for themMLB has no salary cap , and attempts to impose one sparked the 1994 - 1995 strike by the players union , resulting in the first cancellation of a World Series in 90 years .2 . `` On Saturday night , at an event called Columbine Surprise Party , players from the Denver Broncos and the Colorado Rockies mingled with students and family .you know Channel X gives you the best coverage you know we were on the scene with our team players you knowthey 've got i mean they 've got some excellent players uhwell i mean as far as the the top players you know like the ones they have this year you knowThe NYT runs the indictments story inside , adding that a nationwide survey of Division I basketball and football players showed that 4 percent said they had gambled on a game they had played in .Winning players wo n't accept the kind of bullying Parcells dishes out .i like to watch the Oakland A 's play they have a lot of good players too but i have n't watched them for a while so i do n't know how they 're doing too well this seasonScalia , notes the Times , went on to claim that the decision does not abrogate all `` genuine but innocuous differences in the ways men and women routinely interact with members of the same sex and of the opposite sex , `` and all the papers give his example : a football coach slapping a player 's rear on the way to the field would be lawful , while the same gesture directed at the coach 's ( female or male ) secretary might not be .and the best players play and the ones that are just barely new sit on the bench most of the time they play a little bit just like what you just saidThe NYT has a classic obit to show off today , about the best polo player ever , Cecil Smith ; the piece , by Frank Litsky , effortlessly takes the reader back to the days when the sport was played by the likes of Walt Disney and Will Rogers , and tens of thousands watched games .yeah it does hopefully some of their players will come through and they got Tim Raines a veteran and they got Carlton Fisk he 's you know still pretty solid a lot of experiencei am a player but certainly not a good player uh the highlight of my season is probably the four times i get under a hundredHunter S. Thompson once said of Circus Circus , the casino where craps players and flying trapeze artists mingle beneath a billowing canopy , that it was what hepcats all over the world would be doing on Saturday night if the Germans had won World War II .If the ESPN report is true , players , tutors , and administrators will be subject to punishment under the school 's honor code and NCAA guidelines .It seems to be the tasteful name for some kind of high-roller area , `` the ultimate club for Keno , Slot , Bingo and Table Game players . ``do you have any players that you like watchingThe resulting collective consciousness is captured in Nike ads that depict the players doing everything together .This summer 's World Cup will distract fans and remove the league 's best players for two months in the middle of the season .Checkers masters stared down their Armageddon a few years ago , when a powerful computer program named Chinook forged a tie with the second - best checkers player in the world , Don Lafferty .that 's that 's in uh Texas stadium where the football players playso i i think that 's kind of the Mavericks problem they have okay players but sometimes the strongness of the team is n't togetherbut if uh Jerry Jones continues to pay these guys what you know they say they 're paying them i do n't know you know i think it depends on you end up you know the best players will come there if they 're going to be paid the most soToo many players are looking for special treatment and loopholes and are focusing on legal form rather than economic substance .He sees all the players as serving a very narrowly defined self-interest .yeah oh and library went well today yes Harold Reynolds who 's a Mariner baseball player uh came to school today and they had lunch in the library of all thingsTo commemorate Robinson 's shattering of the color barrier in sports 50 years ago , no player will ever again be assigned the number 42 .uh playersyeah i do i 'm a player i i 'm kind of embarrassed i 'm talking to a man cause i 'm sure that you are you play a lot more than i do oh reallyGE97 , in addition to polls , rundowns of the players , backgrounders on salient issues , events calendars , chat groups , and a wrap up of current betting odds , allows you to build your own `` party manifesto . ``He tacked inspirational quotes to players ' doors , emphasized what each player did right , and provided an `` imaging `` tape for each player , consisting of her best moves set to her favorite music .Typically assumed to be a high-roller card game , baccarat ( bah - cah - rah ) is similar to blackjack , though it 's played with stricter rules , higher limits , and less player interaction .That they were the incarnation of the dreams of 1968 seems a stretch , to say the least , even if some of the important players came out of the original cast .In a 1995 tape of an NFL Players Association meeting obtained by the New York Times , an association official boasts of having secretly convinced the NFL to overlook 16 positive drug tests .The story says that as a Knick , he routinely held on to an opposing player 's shorts and even garners a quote from the man 26 years later : `` He was one of the dirtiest players I ever played against . ``He apologized , but his main goal was image repair : he was accompanied , says the Post , by his agent , his accountant , his tax man , his teammates , the president of the players ' union , several other advisors , and .Despite the general consensus that DiMaggio was exactly the kind of quiet , workmanlike player that is practically gone from today 's courts and fields , a sort of anti - Rodman , if you will , it 's useful to note , as the WSJ does , that in 1938 DiMaggio held out for more money ( he wanted at least $ 40,000 and the Yankees were offering $ 25,000 . )uh-huh and Anderson Hunt all their uh their best players i think are graduatingParcells runs his training camps and practices with a drill sergeant 's discipline : He abuses and needles players to inspire them .Lottery players , by and large , must be risk - lovers -- otherwise they 'd buy Treasury bonds instead of lottery tickets .i ca n't you know i 'm not going to decide i do n't like them just because they 're having a few bad years i mean i think they 'll pull out of it and you know they 'll they 'll wind up being good again they 've got some lot of really good young players that are going toHe tacked inspirational quotes to players ' doors , emphasized what each player did right , and provided an `` imaging `` tape for each player , consisting of her best moves set to her favorite music .Set in a quaint olde Irish seacoast village , it tells the story of an elderly lottery player , Jackie O'Shea ( Ian Bannen ) , who learns that one of his fifty - odd neighbors holds the winning ticket to a 7 million pound drawing .Baseball has always been about money , but even more so since the 1975 repeal of the `` reserve clause . `` The reserve clause bound players to teams ( or the teams they were traded to ) for life .The ANC won more than 60 percent of the vote and the National Party won 20 percent , making Mandela president and de Klerk only a secondary player .The greatest tribute to Bird is that his players now play as he used to .RINGO is the ring game for ages 5 to 105 that challenges players to use a swinging motion to catch the hook on the ring .We goad baseball player Albert Belle so much that All - Star - game manager Joe Torre must confine him to the dugout .The maximum player salary will be capped at $ 14 million , with a maximum annual increase of 12 percent , and the players ' total share of league revenues will be capped at 55 percent after three years .Sportswriters were happy for 1 ) Florida State receiver Peter Warrick , the undisputed star of the game , who `` redeemed `` himself after last year 's arrest and suspension for theft ; 2 ) Florida State coach Bobby Bowden , who got his first undefeated season and second national championship in 40 years of coaching ; and 3 ) the Virginia Tech players , who `` put season - long criticism of their toughness to rest `` with a valiant comeback attempt .Girls play this game in Mexico also , with a boy as the center player , which Inez Cardozo-Freeman interprets as a portrayal of betrayal and abandonment preparing little girls for marriage .At USA Today , the Iraq combat is on the front below the fold , Cambodia is nowhere in sight and the lead is the real possibility that the NBA season will be canceled combined with a warning from the head of the players ' union that if so , the players might start their own league .Pokémon demands that players learn to care for their charges , educate and `` evolve `` them , and take them to the Pokémon hospital when they are hurt .In the daytime the temple ( open 8 am - 6 pm ) attracts worshipers , and its park attracts strollers and mahjong players .In an effort to provide yet one more thing to bet on , players are imported from Spain to take part in this lightning - fast Basque ball game .