Sentence examples for instance of a player from inspiring English sources

Neither could specifically cite an instance of a player being ejected for a helmet-to-helmet hit in recent years.

3) In the first Test at the ground, Andrew Jones of New Zealand and Asankha Gurusinha of Sri Lanka each scored hundreds in both innings, only the second instance of a player from either side doing so in the same match.

CARL PAVANO, 2005 4 years, $39.95 million The dollar figure was not particularly high for the Yankees, but for the money, the team got a 9-8 record, a 5.00 earned run average and possibly the first instance of a player's being shelved indefinitely with a bruised buttocks.

Is that the first instance of a player refusing to celebrate against an old club he never actually played a game for?

There's only been one instance of a player earning MVP honors from the losing team, which happened all the way back in 1971 when linebacker Chuck Howley was named Super Bowl V's MVP despite his Dallas Cowboys falling short to the Baltimore Colts.

Broadis was also Carlisle's manager at the time, and this is the first instance of a player transferring himself to another club.

That was the last instance of a player-manager, a position once fairly common.

Since Yastrzemski's feat, there have been 47 instances of a player leading his league in two of the triple crown statistics.

"Are there any other instances of a player scoring past his namesake?" As Scott Walden emails to point out, in 2012-13 GlouCityer City had the pleasing combination at the back of goalkeeper Mike Green and central defender Mike Green.

The N.F.L.'s study, which collected data over the six seasons between 1996 through 2001, reported 61 instances of a player's being rendered unconscious; only 9 returned to play that day, 2 of them before the next snap.

Of the 145 instances of a player shooting at least 90percentt from the line while attempting 100 free throws in a single season, Allen is responsible for 6.9percentt of them.