The players are not objectified, the dancers are fully clothed, and besides the players, everyone in the arena is pushing 50.
Not a bad premise, but to care for people in a comedy, no matter how much you like or enjoy the actors, including a vulnerable and touching Steve Martin as a would-be new suitor, there has to be wit, besides what the players bring to the parts.
Originally, the Millers believed that any music or sound besides ambient noise would distract the player from the game and ruin the sense of reality; Myst, therefore, was to have no music at all.
Soon, however, cracks show in the young man's confidence, prompting the reader to wonder who else, besides the ball players he and his James Baldwin Academy teammates compete against, Drew sees as the enemy.
Even when the penalties for switching grew stiffer — besides losing a click, the players had to pay a cash fee — the students kept losing money by frantically keeping all their doors open.
There's an absence of meaningful counterpoint between two teams when one isn't anything, and the dearth of tension besides fear that one of the players on the opposing team might get very badly hurt.
Earlier in the week, Manfred said that he believed the players had other options besides a strike, even if they suspected that without an agreement the owners would declare an impasse in negotiations after the World Series and implement new work rules.
It gave the players the chance to rehydrate - and much more besides.
The Cleveland Browns selected Thomas third overall in the 2007 draft, and he was the only player besides Adrian Peterson to receive votes for Rookie of the Year that season.
Just two weeks earlier, in the United States Open at Pebble Beach, Irwin was the only player besides Tiger Woods to record two rounds in the 60's.
