The phrase "athlete talent" is not correct in standard written English.
It may be intended to refer to the talent possessed by an athlete, but it lacks clarity and proper structure.
Example: "The athlete talent displayed during the competition was truly remarkable."
Alternatives: "athletic ability" or "sports talent".
Simmons's book is an attempt to evaluate (and re-evaluate) great players and great teams and debunk myths through the prism of rules changes, evolving body types, improved training, the rise of the black athlete, talent gluts, expansion, competition from the A.B.A., the influx of foreign players and coaching innovations.
Still, be all of this as it may, those institutions competing with the U of Texas for athlete talent will almost certainly use the school's campus concealed carry law against the U of T. Parents who have lived with the tragedy of gun violence in their residential communities are not likely to send their sons and daughters to an armed campus if they have a choice.
Whether CEOs, investment managers, actors, musicians, artists, or athletes, talent no longer treated capital with the utmost deference and respect — but rather increasingly went toe to toe with capital with tactics such as strikes and aggressive gain-sharing structures.
She reminded me of those kinds of clumsy, bumbling kids who worship athletes but have no athletic talent, so they become the equipment manager for the high-school baseball team.
Her coach, Toni Minichiello, describes her as "the toughest competitor I know" and an athlete whose talent is outstripped only by her determination to win.
Here is a player on fire, an athlete whose talent was spotted playing street soccer in Cayenne, in French Guiana, and taken to Châteauroux in France when he was 16.
"We're sad to lose any athlete with talent, but it's his decision and we respect that," said performance director Gary Hall.
By Ian Crouch March 30, 2011 This morning, Macy pointed to an article at Slate by baseball's great statistician, Bill James, which argues that we need to dedicate the same principles we use to develop athletes — identifying talent early, staging competition among kids, rewarding potential with attention and money — to nurturing writers and other artists.
Just like recruiting athletes, the talent search in supply chain is creeping ever farther back into youth.
Traditionally, sporting TI programmes have, through a mix of subjective and objective tests, sought to identify young athletes with "talent," using this identification as a prediction of adult performance.
"Individuals, athletes and talent are their own brands," Tuchman said.
