Phew, here it is: The NFL scouting combine in Indianapolis, an annual, ultra-commodified ritual in which the league puts its incoming class through an elaborate, televised entrance exam.
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It's a billion-dollar business, but most of it goes to the major-league-affiliated teams (Class A, AA and AAA), which break even only by dint of help from their major league parents.
Likewise, the team says that Henry, who won a World Cup with France and scored 175 goals for Arsenal in the English Premier League, has a world-class pedigree that has helped sell tickets, attract new players and bring both the club and the league a level of credibility that few other players on the planet could provide.
They allow the team to stay put in tiny Green Bay as an emblem of the league's working-class roots.
Rays DH Luke Scott (strained right calf) is expected to start a minor league rehab assignment Tuesday at Class-A Charlotte.
Even then, it is likely that they are tracking ether a Major Leaguer whose rehabilitation assignment sends him through the Class A minor league or the development of an up-and-coming ballplayer.
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The basis of this platform will be efficient talent scouting and development process culminating in the development of an elite world class professional domestic league which will showcase the best available Indian and international talent.
Tampa Bay and Arizona were clearly the class of the league in terms of payroll efficiency, with extra kudos to the Rays for their dramatic comeback against the Yankees on Wednesday night (where they trailed by 7 runs in the 8th) and against Boston for the wild-card throughout the month of September.
The lack of world-class competition diminishes the league's appeal and the pay is uncompetitive.
The Class A South Atlantic League has a team in Charleston, and the rookie Appalachian League has teams in Bluefield and Princeton.
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It is inhabited by one second class financial citizen of major league baseball- the Texas Rangers.
In 1859, the first political party dedicated to the working class, the Political Labour League of Victoria, was founded in Melbourne.
The Guinness Premiership leaders were taking on the Magners League basement side and the gulf in class was evident from the start.
Sky has paid ever higher prices for the League's content because its own business is closely linked to the fortunes of the sport in the U.K. Higher broadcast deals helps translate to successful performances by clubs on European-level championships, and allow clubs to pay exorbitant amounts for world-class players (the Premier League distributes the money it makes from domestic broadcast rights to all 20 clubs).
The Class A New York-Penn League announced Tuesday it plans to relocate an undisclosed franchise to Morgantown in 2015.
Rosenthal -- whose Miami-based firm represents 137 other players and their families who've filed a class-action suit against the league -- said Turner has likely suffered from undiagnosed concussions.
Their two goals were extremely well-fashioned, with Flynn's goal in particular - a neat turn and 18-yard strike into the top-corner - a class above the club's League Two status.
Cardiff boss Dave Jones was clearly the happier, as new boy Bellamy inspired the Welsh club to a comprehensive victory with a master-class that will leave some Premier League managers wishing the Wales captain had joined them.
The Bundesliga may lack the catalog of international stars England's Premier League has, and the artistry of Spain's top teams, but if the measure of a league is its ability to produce world-class teams and intense weekly competition, the Bundesliga can't be topped.
That should have brought a strong response from the home side but they have not won a Champions League game for seven years and their lack of class told.
To many, the single season home run record in Major League Baseball was once held by a gentleman of honor, class and dignity.
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At Jug's Bowling Center in a heavily Catholic, mostly working-class section of Toledo, Ohio, Wednesday nights are league nights.
Fernandez, who has never pitched above Class A, was the youngest pitcher on a big league roster on opening day, STATS said.
In that stretch, league officials canceled the All-Star Game, the annual outdoor Winter Class game and hundreds of regular season games.
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The league table showed 49 points separating the sides, and that gulf in class was apparent as the Tigers scored two tries in the opening 10 minutes.
And Google has already faced legal threats in Europe over copyright law, including a class-action lawsuit brought by England's Football Association Premier League and supported by the Switzerland-based Association of Professional Football Leagues and France's tennis and soccer leagues.
When you look at OverRun, which is our competitive class-based multiplayer mode, it actually has influences from MOBA games like League of Legends and Dota, where you have a map and there are three lanes on those games.
The clock is ticking for Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter to decide his future involvement with the NBA. The rapper, entertainer and budding sports agent has a minority stake in the Nets, but if he wants to represent the NBA's next rookie class, he would have to divest his share of the team, per league rules.
That at least could mean that players are tempted away from the 50-over league, contested by clubs that are the financial backbone of the domestic game, and into first-class cricket, where few of them regularly play at the moment.
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