Sentence examples for strapped team from inspiring English sources

Torre said he was sad to watch M.L.B. take over the strapped team.

It was just the Nets, the strapped team that had introduced itself to the N.B.A. by selling the contract of Dr. J, Julius Erving, to the Philadelphia 76ers.

Paul DePodesta, Oakland's assistant general manager, often said that "for guys to be available to us, there usually has to be something wrong with them," and it wasn't hard to see what was wrong with Mags, to discern the defect that made him available to a strapped team like Oakland.

The fact is that financially strapped teams never did have "a level playing field," and can't.

In most cases he pulled it off without new, revenue-driving stadiums that have strapped other teams, like the Redskins and Lions, with huge debt.

For most of his career, Fleury has been more suited to a complementary role than to being the player who straps the team to his back and carries it somewhere it would otherwise not have reached.

But the more the Rangers' fortunes have fallen, the more Messier has tried to strap the team to his back, much like Brian Leetch attempted to do the three previous seasons.

While Thomas will try to charm a player into taking a chance on a team strapped by the salary cap, he might be stuck with the team he has for the foreseeable future.

With a subject inside the scanner, Lindstedt's team strapped the box to his or her leg.

In August of 2007, she and her team strapped geolocator backpacks to 14 wood thrushes and 20 purple martins.

To test this idea, the team strapped pupil-tracking machines to 25 faux foodies reading a menu as if ready to order.