Sentence examples for players at major from inspiring English sources

I've seen great, great players at major tournaments and in European Cup finals down tools and not take them.

Duke players also tend to be better students than most National Collegiate Athletic Association basketball players at major programs and — though it is difficult to generalize about such things — more likely to come from stable, middle-class backgrounds.

The graduation rate for men's basketball players at major colleges dropped from 42percentto40percentcenthethe second-lowest rate since 1984, according to the latest National Collegiate Athletic Association survey.

In the spring of 1996, players at major league clubhouses around the spring training circuit were visited by a man who had been a center fielder with the Detroit Tigers, the Kansas City Athletics and the Minnesota Twins in an 11-year career during the 1950's and 1960's.

The BWF said it is a drive to improve the presentation of players at major tournaments.

The clothes, and even the hat, that top professional players wear at major championships are usually scripted for them a year in advance, but what they slip their feet into is often less synchronized.

Whether they would be first-year players at the major league level or play at Triple-A, we didn't know, but if you look around our diamond, we had people we were pretty comfortable with in place".

"Clubs offset the big salaries with more young players, so you need someone who can teach the position players at the major league level," La Russa said, adding that the bench coach had the luxury of stepping back to assess a player's performance.

But player boredom at major tournaments is not a new phenomenon.

Yet while baseball has long been regarded as the most developed sport in analytical terms, James said there is still significant work remaining — especially when trying to project the performance of untested players at the major-league level.

"Inderal is like Viagra," a woodwind player at a major orchestra said.