Careerexperience.com, a job-advice Web site, sent Michael Sickles, the winner of a dream-career-for-a-day contest it sponsored, to the NBC studio.
Their next warm-up game is a three-day contest against Otago starting on Thursday, to finish off preparations for the first Test, starting on 5 March.
Pakistan lost every match on tour - three Tests, five one-day internationals and a Twenty20 contest - in a visit which was dogged by reports of poor morale and in-fighting, and which saw captain Shahid Afridi banned for biting the ball.
The decision meant that, incredibly, the contest would go into a third day, having been called off at two sets all on Tuesday for the same reason.
He ended up playing four matches but only managed a half with Robert Karlsson in the day one foursomes contest against Phil Mickelson and Anthony Kim.
For Valentine's Day, Air New Zealand has launched a blind date contest called "Blind Gate" (get it?) to promote its new "sky couch, " a set of three seats that fold into a bed for two.
He'd won the book in an Arbor Day poster contest for schoolkids that had coincided with a citywide tree-planting program administered by the Department of Parks and Public Property.
"They are a good team and whenever Australia and South Africa have competed in the past 10 years or so, whether it be one-day or Test cricket, it's always been a great contest and I'm sure this will be the same, " Ponting added.
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If Christie decides to hold the Senate contest in 2014 with a hand-picked replacement serving 18 months by Election Day, it could invite legal action from New Jersey Democrats.
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Stan - Thanks to a contest at a local mall in upstate New York, this Father's Day will be my dad's first with cable television in quite a few years.
Do you think that this contest, by the way, do you think some day there's a chance that Michael Portillo's time could still come?
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Every contest turned into a potential Waterloo for the Clinton team as it lived to fight another day, only to find itself on the defensive in a new set of contests with equally massive odds and do-or-die stakes.
Billie Dunn pleaded no contest in June 2011 to making a false report to law enforcement and received a suspended 90-day jail term with probation.
Littler, captain for the day, enjoyed a fairytale ending to his Salford career with the winning try to round off a mistake-littered contest between two clubs who have endured miserable seasons.
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