Three pitchers, including Jason Isringhausen, at thirty-eight the senior member of the staff, were perched on training tables, their arms iced and swaddled in yards of Ace bandages.
The IRB rankings will determine which seeding band the countries find themselves in, with one-to-four in the rankings forming the top band, five-to-eight the second tier, and nine-to-12 the third.
And a shelter in Lafayette, an inland city heavy with oil workers, got 200 more calls in the eight weeks after the oil disaster started than it did in the eight weeks before.
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The row follows three small unions signing up to new welfare rules, which would reduce from 12 to eight the number of months artistic workers - who often work sporadically - can claim unemployment benefits in each year.
Stockmarkets obey a type of power law when the number of daily price-swings of 1% is, say, eight times the number of days seeing a 2% move, which is in turn eight times the number of 4% days.
Stoke now face West Ham twice in the space of eight days, firstly in the Premier League at Upton Park on Saturday and then in the last eight of the FA Cup at the Britannia Stadium the following Sunday.
The company is pledging that we'll see these "born electric" cars in production by 2013 and coyly specifies that three is not the smallest number nor eight the largest, meaning we should expect other models to fill that gap -- just like the company's current alphanumeric lineup.
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The "8City" project, so named because the development's eight districts will resemble the number eight when viewed from above, also plays to the Chinese tradition that eight is an auspicious number.
The highlight of James' career before gold in Beijing was a bronze in the eight at the 2007 World Championships.
Tops among the eight announcements the company will make about its Marketing Cloud, which is what it calls its online collection of five major ad and marketing products such as social, analytics, and targeting, is a new touch-enabled user interface.
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All told, Sharapova benefited from eight double-faults by the No. 29-seeded Vesnina, and erased eight of the nine break points she faced.
Germany has two teams in the final eight for the first time in 11 years.
Arsenal travels to Bradford to play in the last eight of the Capital One Cup.
Hadden was a relieved man after steering his side into the last eight at the World Cup.
Even last year, when Kansas reached the Elite Eight, the Jayhawks fell to an 11 seed (Virginia Commonwealth).
Meanwhile Raiders' 12-4 win against Widnes ensured their progress into the last eight of the Northern Rail Cup.
He will take on Stefan Koubek in the last eight after the Austrian thrashed Anthony Dupuis 6-1 6-2.
Reading also reached the last eight of the Cup last season, losing 4-2 to Aston Villa in round six.
Everyone left in the last eight of the FA Cup will think they are in with a great chance.
Krajicek will meet Jarrko Nieminen in the last eight after the Finn beat Anthony Dupuis of France 7-6 2-6 6-4.
They will also now travel to Premier League title rivals Manchester United in the last eight of the FA Cup.
That, along with low payrolls (both rank in the bottom eight in the big leagues), have them in the black.
He will now play Marin Cilic in the last eight after the Croatian beat Spain's Fernando Verdasco 4-6 6-1 6-4.
He will now play Jarkko Nieminen in the last eight after the Finn beat German qualifier Matthias Bachinger 6-3 5-7 6-3.
She will play Kaia Kanepi of Estonia in the last eight with the other quarterfinal between Bojana Jovanovski and Petra Martic.
Soon after, Crane got his second of the game, with another Leicester scrum and drive taking the number eight to the line.
Barnes is the only Irish boxer guaranteed a place at the Olympics after he reached the last eight at the recent World Championships.
If she fulfils her ranking Madeline will meet Dutchwoman Vanessa Atkinson in the last eight unless the latter were to crash out unexpectedly.
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Meanwhile, Zheng Jie became the first Chinese player to make the last eight of the Australian Open by beating Ukraine's Alona Bondarenko 7-6 6-4.
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