Last Sunday, the Colts beat a sturdy Jacksonville team.
Central Connecticut, a sturdy defensive team that held opponents to a 37.6 field-goal percentage this season, will try to stifle Fizer.
His strongest album in more than a decade, it features a band he first assembled in 2010, with the astonishingly fluent guitarist Julian Lage and a sturdy rhythm team made up of the bassist Scott Colley and the drummer Antonio Sanchez.
His band for the night featured the trumpeter Eddie Henderson, another Keystone Korner alumnus, along with a sturdy rhythm team: the veteran drummer Victor Lewis, the attentive percussionist Steve Berrios and the soulful young bassist Dezron Douglas.
In addition to a sturdy bullpen, Girardi said a team needed to be capable of scoring runs in multiple ways and needed to be selfless.
They are a sturdy, strong-minded and unspectacular team that is attempting to do what has rarely or arguably never been done: win the N.B.A. championship without a certified leaguewide acknowledged star.
Still, don't worry too much about your pick: the best thing about the fan-switch free pass for the playoffs is that you won't have much time to build a sturdy allegiance: if your new team falls, you can quickly and quietly pick a new one.
Then again, as tricky as it is to find reliable bullpen arms, perhaps those three, and Luis Ayala, could team with Dave Robertson as a sturdy bridge to closer Mariano Rivera.
