At his first press conference, he made, by his own admission, a rookie mistake.
That was quite a boost for a rookie tax blogger whose readership numbered in the scores.
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The Falcons' Matt Ryan is presumably happy a rookie pay scale wasn't in place last year.
Mr. Westbrook said he was the only bespectacled NBA player as a rookie in 2008.
Paulson Jr. is a shark on Wall Street but a rookie on Pennsylvania Avenue.
It turns out previous economists were making a rookie mistake in how they measured price.
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Political observers said they couldn't recall a rookie politician ascending the ranks so quickly.
Hibernian surprised many when they gave a rookie Mowbray his first managerial job in 2004.
Ruthven, a rookie, would join Holgersson in the center, while Lade and Brandon Barklage cover the flanks.
His breakout season came as a rookie when he tied for the NFL lead with nine interceptions.
The six-time All-Star also had 67 RBIs for his lowest total since he was a rookie in 2005.
Or a rookie choosing to come out who has yet to prove their competitive mettle to their veteran peers?
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Carson, the longest-tenured player on the roster entering her sixth season, was a rookie during that last playoff meeting.
Smith, 53, quit business school to join as a rookie in 1986.
That season Magic Johnson was a rookie and the Lakers were playing in the NBA Finals against the Philadelphia 76ers.
Patrick became the first woman to lead laps in the Indy 500 as a rookie, a race she finished fourth in.
"He's still a rookie that's trying to figure out this league and I like him from a defensive standpoint, " Woodson said.
But knowing which social-networking sites to join and how to take advantage of them can be daunting for a rookie entrepreneur.
His first call-up as a rookie in 1995 saw him post a robust 5.51 earned run average (ERA), leading to trade talk.
Jurvetson was a rookie venture capitalist fresh out of Stanford Business School.
When I later became a Wildland firefighter, I had the SA of a veteran, not a rookie, because of my sailing experience.
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McElroy's remarks were brushed aside as a violation of the code, the meaningless words of a rookie who didn't know his place.
"This season, I felt I almost started like a rookie, " she said.
It's a bit like being a rookie on the Ryder Cup team.
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Fung's assistant, said Scheck, was a rookie, and she committed rookie errors.
Then a rookie on the Philadelphia police force, DeCoatsworth had followed a group of men in a car, whose activities he found suspicious.
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It depicts the torrid attraction between a rookie driver, Elec, and Tamara, the widow of a beloved driver who died in a crash.
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But in 2011, the NFL introduced a rookie wage cap that reduced the pay for top-10 picks by tying salaries to a sliding scale.
In Miami, the ceremonial first pitch was thrown out by Norman Berman, the ballboy for the Brooklyn Dodgers the year Robinson was a rookie.
For his part, however, Mr. Lin has yet to ink any big deals, save for a Nike sponsorship signed when he was a rookie.
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