Sentence examples for fill roster from inspiring English sources

One or two eye-catching plays can be enough to prompt a phone call from a team looking to fill roster holes constantly being opened by injury.

Bobcats to Fill Roster The Charlotte Bobcats, to begin next season as the league's 30th franchise, will hold their expansion draft on Tuesday.

Everybody is going to be scrambling to fill roster spots, and then they find out two weeks from now, as the veteran free-agent market stabilizes, that they can get a really good tight end.

It merely confirms what we've known all along, which is that the purpose of college basketball is not to create college graduates but to fill roster spots for the N.B.A.

He entered the league just as the American League became a major league, so teams were scrambling for players to fill rosters.

While club teams that promote positive qualities and develop talent do exist, many others are trying to fill rosters to raise profits.

This, of course, is one of the ramifications of the end of the NBA Trading Deadline: since teams can no longer make straight trades they have to be a bit creative in filling roster needs.

The Los Angeles Lakers -- they of the three championships in the previous four years, they of the future Hall-of-Fame-filled roster, they of the fate-changing buzzer beaters -- looked like the underdogs.

They fill their roster with 3-4 personnel, but they run plays based on situations and matchups.

He acknowledged, however, that it was increasingly difficult to fill his roster with effective volunteers.

Once James made his choice official, at 9 27 p.m. Thursday, Walsh rushed to fill the roster.