Sentence examples for draft hours from inspiring English sources

Last Sunday morning, Cashman watched Day 2 of the N.F.L. draft, hours before the Yankees played the Red Sox.

Now consider the programming time that ESPN devotes to the draft: 12 hours of games featuring potential top draft picks ran on ESPN Classic last Saturday; 12 hours of draft-oriented programming will have been shown between Monday and tonight; 17 hours of draft coverage on ESPN and ESPN2; and 8 hours of coverage (talking heads you can't see, delivering the pick-by-pick) on ESPN Radio.

While fans consider that the end of the draft, several hours of scrambling follow in which teams sign undrafted free agents.

The Jets already had receivers Jerricho Cotchery and Braylon Edwards before acquiring Holmes from the Pittsburgh Steelers for a fifth-round draft choice hours after he was suspended.

With the NBA Draft just hours away, The Huffington Post caught up with Markieff Morris -- 6'10" forward out of Kansas -- for the 2nd annual Sean John Pre-Draft gifting suite.

Even with the 2013 NBA Draft just hours away, there was no clear-cut choice at the top spot and trade rumors swirled around many of the teams with lottery selections.

I arrived at last year's draft an hour early and sat on a park bench in downtown Red Bank, N.J., with my friend Sean Roane, a managing editor at The Tribune-Democrat in Johnstown, Pa.

From X's descriptions of his teaching — rallying his students' spirits, charming them into discarding low expectations of themselves, editing drafts for hours with the group — I began to suspect that his work was more valuable than his repeated self-deprecations suggested, even if none of his students ever hand in an A paper, a standard he likens to "an essay by David Foster Wallace".

But according to the suits drafted within hours of the deal's announcement, management could and should–have gotten more.

In total, the draft lasted 15 hours 1 minute, the fastest since 1998 and a quicksilver pace compared to last year, when it dragged on for an interminable 17 hours 30 minutes.

U.S. officials, who had announced agreement on a draft text just hours before Karzai's speech, must now gauge whether he was grandstanding or angling for more concessions.