It is a sign of the concerns over injuries that the crowd applauded with relief each player that departed for tactical reasons.
To the Knicks' relief, both players should return early next week.
So instead of moving forcefully on foreclosure relief, the players in the mortgage chain — lenders, servicers and investors — have spent months parsing whether the incentives are adequate.
After the self-obsession and volatility of both Poyet and Paolo di Canio, this much more measured, reassuring approach has come as a welcome relief to players and club officials.
RW One man's symbolic presence may have changed the future of the league The fact we had an opening weekend at all was a great relief to players and owners alike.
During the N.F.L. scouting combine, one team executive after another stepped to a microphone to declare that his team would not use the franchise tag, probably providing relief to players who fear being hit with the contractual tool one agent calls "a weapon of mass destruction for the teams".
For my money, certainly for the cost of a Mets' gold-date ticket, I'd have preferred the peculiar Romance language called Stengelese to the bland Art of Howe, a seat in the old Polo Grounds to a view of the Shea Stadium parking lot, comic relief from players nicknamed (out of necessity) Righty Bob and Lefty Bob Miller to the terminal dullness of the modern Mets.
Walsh was watching from the bench as her team-mates struggled to make much headway in the first half, and it came as a huge relief to players and fans alike when Ball swept home from a Chloe Rogers cross two minutes before the interval.
"Those two clubs, along with others, have been consistently arguing that they need more revenue-sharing relief, and that player spending is out of control".
The vast majority of people in line were there specifically for Jeter, though there are consolation prizes: the occasional relief pitcher, utility player or recent draft pick who will stop and sign.
