Sentence examples for starters late from inspiring English sources

This is, after all, the franchise whose success has driven the leaguewide debate about resting starters late in the season.

The Colts were criticized for not trying for a perfect record when they rested their starters late in the regular season.

(The concept is similar to "social ideation" startup Ahhha, though the execution is pretty different — for starters, Late Labs is specifically focused on recruiting coders, while Ahhha is trying to crowdsource the entire product development process).

Jeter called Manning with congratulations when he was named the starter late in the 2004 season, and the two talked about life in New York.

Manning's counterpart, Kurt Warner of the Cardinals, is the man Manning replaced as the Giants' starter late in the 2004 season, Manning's rookie year.

Niemi, a 26-year-old Finn, supplanted the veteran Cristobal Huet as the Blackhawks' starter late in the regular season and has been up to the challenge of the playoffs.

He became a starter late in his rookie season but was dogged by criticism that he made poor decisions, was a weak leader, was not a big-time player.

After so many bullpen battles, could this be a rare game in which two starters duel late into the night?

Two particularly striking starters of late were a salad of watercress, sheep's cheese, and lamb's tongue sliced so thin that its texture seemed almost mushroomy and an adventurous cold almond soup.

EXTRA POINTS The N.F.L. is so intent on preventing teams from resting their starters in late-season games that it plans to schedule only division games in Week 17, Commissioner Roger Goodell said.

But the controversy caught fire when Commissioner Roger Goodell weighed in, suggesting that the league would look at ways — perhaps by awarding draft picks — to encourage teams to play their starters in late-season games.