For Tuck, it was how well San Francisco quarterback Alex Smith threw the ball.
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Rookie quarterback Colin Kaepernick distinguished himself when veteran starter Alex Smith was out with injury.
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Since then Thompson has dismissed Alex Smith, caretaker-coach Paul Hegarty and Ian McCall from the Tannadice hot-seat.
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If anything happens to Kaepernick, back-up quarterback, Alex Smith, will be ready to regain the starting position.
England also took two medals in the hammer with Alex Smith winning silver and Mike Floyd collecting bronze.
Coach Harbaugh made the decision to bench incumbent QB Alex Smith halfway through the year to start playing Kaepernick.
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San Francisco also confirmed the trade of backup quarterback Alex Smith to Kansas City, a deal that was known for weeks.
Calderwood suggested that Pressley would do well to heed the advice of director of football Alex Smith and coach Lee Bullen.
With his team riding high at 6-2, he benched star quarterback Alex Smith in favor of Colin Kaepernick, an untested and largely unknown second-year pro.
When the bacchanalia of Super Bowl media day began, Alex Smith was waiting for a Sirius XM radio producer to cue him for the start of an interview.
The playoff win was business-as-usual for Kaepernick, who formally became the 49ers starting quarterback in the middle of the 2012 NFL season after Alex Smith was sidelined with an injury.
"The chance of going back to the mid-80s glories, that will never happen, " said the chairman who has sacked Alex Smith, Paul Hegarty and Ian McCall since taking charge in 2002.
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This week's trades of Carson Palmer to the Arizona Cardinals and of Matt Flynn (pictured, far right) to the Oakland Raiders brought the total of projected starters acquired via trade to three this off-season, along with Kansas City's Alex Smith.
Newly acquired quarterback Alex Smith (first overall pick in 2005) is similarly eager to prove himself: A year after leading the 49ers to the NFC West division title in 2011, Smith lost the starting job last year to the unheralded (at the time) second-year player Colin Kaepernick.
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Ametetai is where Chadian troops said they killed top militant commander Abdelhamid Abou Zeid earlier this week, the BBC's Alex Duval Smith reports from the capital, Bamako.
"There is the Rangers connection, " said Gill, referring to Ferguson's career as a player with Rangers and Alex and Walter Smith go back a long way.
"The team has done excellently well under Walter Smith and Alex McLeish, " said Burley.
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Fast forward five-and-a-half years and the good work of ship-steadying by Walter Smith and then Alex McLeish has been ripped apart.
As the Gunners gained control, however, right-back Alex Scott and striker Kelly Smith both had goal-bound efforts cleared by central defender Lindsay Johnson.
Smith could give reserve Alex Ward a chance in Sunday's two dead rubbers, which are reduced to best of three sets, but hinted he was likely to stick with James Ward and Baker.
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There was no hope for Nottinghamshire at 73-7 and Smith finished with 6-29 when he bowled Alex Carter as the Outlaws were dismissed for 102, their last nine wickets having fallen for 35 runs in 9.1 overs.
St Johnstone began to push their hosts back and Smith got down to hold a Sandaza shot after the Spaniard had outmuscled Alex Keddie.
British number one Andy Murray has chosen to take a break from the Davis Cup while number two Alex Bogdanovic also opted not to take part in the tie, which is Leon Smith's first as captain.
United's chief executive David Gill preferred to concentrate on manager Sir Alex Ferguson's close links with the Scottish club and his friendship with Rangers boss Walter Smith, who was briefly assistant manager at Old Trafford in 2004.
Smith said he hoped to be involved in the near future even if United boss Sir Alex Ferguson decided against including him on the bench at the weekend.
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