On Thursday night, Ahmed thanked team-mates from Melbourne University Cricket Club and Pakistani friends from his mosque at a party to celebrate his call-up to the Australia A tour of Britain, where the 31-year-old leg-spinner is expected to vie for a place in next month's Ashes series.
Walton, 39, was in his third season with the Lakers, who were expected to vie for a playoff spot after signing LeBron James, a four-time N.B.A. most valuable player, to a four-year, $154 million contract last July.
George Weah, a former footballer, was expected to vie with Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, a former World Bank and UN official, for the lead.Provisional results of a general election in the breakaway state of Somaliland, still technically part of anarchic Somalia, suggested that the two main opposition parties had scored well against the president's ruling one.
Expected to vie for Burns' position in the lineup are freshman Marcus Brown, freshman Mike Salmon and sophomore Zuri Hector.
Also expected to vie for the handful of tenants that could take a penthouse is a downtown building, the 72-story Four World Trade Center, which is set to be completed in 2013.
Mozgov is expected to vie for playing time at center with the newly acquired Ronny Turiaf and Anthony Randolph, and a healthy Eddy Curry.
Another new musical, "Kinky Boots," is expected to vie with "Matilda" for the Tonys for best musical and best actor; one of the stars of "Kinky Boots," Billy Porter, took the Drama Desk Award for outstanding actor in a musical.
You can compete in the East with a mediocre center, but your 2-guard needs to have some dazzle if you expect to vie for a playoff spot.
Directed by Hamilton Clancy, who says he sees parallels between Shakespeare's angry Roman commoners and the Occupy movements, this open-air "Coriolanus" must expect to vie with not only the elements but also cars in search of a berth, giving special resonance to the idea of "traffic of the stage".
Even after back-to-back finals, Ní Chatháin says they never expected to be vying for a third title on the bounce.
